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Two Cents & A Footlong Featured, Reviews Film Threat

SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! No matter how hard we fight it, human beings are social creatures. We need human contact in one form or another. In Kanin Guntzelman’s short film, Two Cents & A Footlong, Lenny (Saul…

Youth (Spring) Featured, Reviews Film Threat

“Made in China” A simple phrase we see stamped on the bottom of plastic toys, welded into heavy machinery, and, of course, adorning the tags of our clothing. The phrase might get a rise out of a politician or an…

Piero Messina Wastes Gael García Bernal & Renate Reinsve In Apathetic Sci-Fi [Berlinale]

Sal (Gael García Bernal) exists in a limbo — not the religious notion of a space between life and death, but a nonspace. He lives in a large apartment but appears to have no job or vocation. The sprawling metropolis…

Cobweb Featured, Reviews Film Threat

I suppose it is the very nature of a web of intrigue that it can be hard to follow. So it is with Kim Jee-woon’s Cobweb, an intricate black comedy set in Seoul in the 1970s, about the troubled production…

Bleeding Love Review: An Important Albeit Somewhat Uneven Film

Bleeding Love, the much-anticipated drama that promised a heartfelt dive into the complexities of addiction and familial bonds, emerges as a commendable yet imperfect film. Marking Emma Westenberg‘s directorial debut in feature-length cinema, the film ambitiously aims to thread together…

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill Reviews Film Threat

Directed and edited by Judy Irving, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill follows the adventures of a hippie birdkeeper named Mark Bittner, who cares for the local parrots. An unemployed musician, our friend Mark lives rent-free in the San Francisco…

Cillian Murphy Anchors Chillingly Effective Religious Drama [Berlinale]

Something eerie is afoot in the small Irish town of Wexford, where coal merchant Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) raises five young daughters alongside his wife, Eileen (Eileen Walsh). It’s Christmastime 1985, the busiest time of the year for the Furlong…

Books & Drinks Featured, Reviews Film Threat

SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! A young romantic uncovers the past he never knew he had in Geoffrey Cowper’s romance, Books & Drinks. Written by Josep Ciutat, our hero is David (Jackson Rathbone), the owner of a failing…

Underground Comics of Atlanta Featured, Reviews Film Threat

Showcasing a myriad of comedic talent, Underground Comics of Atlanta remains a fantastic platform for burgeoning comedians of all types — and exists as a collection of stand-alone episodes, creating the “first season” of this creative piece of new media.…

A Still Small Voice Featured, Reviews Film Threat

A Still Small Voice is a painful film about a nurse’s struggles to comfort her dying patients. Directed by Luke Lorentzen, it follows Margaret “Mati” Engel as she completes her residency in spiritual care at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital.…

Double Blind Review: Ambitious And Bold But Not Without Flaws

Double Blind, directed by Ian Hunt Duffy and written by Darach McGarrigle, emerges into the crowded field of horror with a tantalizing premise that mingles scientific hubris with the primal fear of sleep, something both unavoidable and ordinarily restorative. Starring…

The Full Moon Fathers Featured, Reviews Film Threat

A dark secret turns members of an outlaw biker gang on one another in Sean Craston’s horror thriller, The Full Moon Fathers. Our tale opens in 1979 with an APB on the biker gang, The Full Moon Fathers. Led by…

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