‘True Detective’ Season 4 Finale Recap — “Nobody Ever Really Leaves”
Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for the True Detective: Night Country finale. The Big Picture Episode 6 of True Detective: Night Country features beautifully shot scenes and a touching, but deceivingly sad, conclusion to Navarro's journey of self-discovery. The…
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A Swan’s Song Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Jen Hogue and Rob Underhill’s short film, A Swan’s Song, brings awareness to how bipolar disorder can affect our lives and those we love. Our tale opens with Julie (Jen Hogue) unable to get out of bed. Her sister, Katie…
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Panadrilo Featured, Reviews Film Threat
SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! Marcela Heilbron’s fantasy short, Panadrilo, is an odd story of the faith of one’s family to one day reunite…no matter what. Our tale opens at a public zoo, where patrons watch a crocodile…
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One Love Featured, Reviews Film Threat
NOW IN THEATERS! The face that has spilled a thousand bongs finally hits the big screen in director Reinaldo Marcus Green’s crowd-pleaser Bob Marley: One Love. It opened in Jamaica in 1976. Bob Marley (Kingsley Ben-Adir) is planning a giant…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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