Category: Reviews
Dammi Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Dammi Featured, Reviews Film Threat

LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! Director and co-writer Yann Demange’s Dammi is a short film that presents a dramatized yet intensely personal autobiographical account. Riz Ahmed stars as Mounir, a Frenchman with Algerian ethnicity and heritage, who revisits Paris to…

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Yorgos Lanthimos Deliciously Funny & Fantastic Epic Is One Of The Year’s Very Best [Venice]
Yorgos Lanthimos Deliciously Funny & Fantastic Epic Is One Of The Year’s Very Best [Venice]

A parent’s desire to trap their offspring in perpetual childhood is not a foreign concept to Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, whose 2009 psychological drama “Dogtooth” chronicled the dysfunctional routine of a wealthy businessman, his meek wife, and their severely infantilized…

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Guns And Gulaabs Review: Raj & DK Redefine The Small-Town Crime Thriller
Guns And Gulaabs Review: Raj & DK Redefine The Small-Town Crime Thriller

Raj & DK are two of Bollywood’s most innovative storytellers. The writing/directing duo has given us many memorable movies and shows already. But now they bring their talents to Netflix with the immensely enjoyable Guns And Gulaabs. Raj & DK’s…

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Welcome to Redville Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Welcome to Redville Featured, Reviews Film Threat

NOW IN THEATERS AND VOD! We have finally arrived in the world of tomorrow where Chris Elliott is now a superstar in director Isaac H. Eaton’s weird outlaw couple feature Welcome to Redville. Written by Eaton, based on Daniel Devoto’s…

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Wes Anderson & Roald Dahl Are A Match Made In Cinema Heaven [Venice]
Wes Anderson & Roald Dahl Are A Match Made In Cinema Heaven [Venice]

British author Roald Dahl has long been referred to as one of the best storytellers for children of the 20th century, a seemingly flattering but objectively flawed observation. Dahl is, after all, not just one of the best storytellers for…

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Pink Flamingos Everywhere Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Pink Flamingos Everywhere Featured, Reviews Film Threat

Jordan Vescio’s short film, Pink Flamingos Everywhere, shows the angry break-up of a family through the eyes of a child. The film opens with a 7-year-old Charlie (Lily Jane) peering in on her mother’s (Elaine Alexander) nightly cam girl session.…

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Barry Keoghan’s Posh Big Boy Summer Is Wild
Barry Keoghan’s Posh Big Boy Summer Is Wild

TELLURIDE – Let the record show that Emerald Fennell is an utterly fearless filmmaker. I mean, we already knew that to an extent after her audacious debut, “Promising Young Woman,” but to say she’s taken that to another level with…

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Angelo Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Angelo Featured, Reviews Film Threat

LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! An experimental character study through filmmaking, Angelo is Alex Plumb’s exhibition of several cinematic detailing and techniques. The film features an exquisite focus on the characters’ facial features, expressive eyes, and body movements. There is…

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‘All Of Us Strangers’ Telluride Review: Andrew Scott Is Superb
‘All Of Us Strangers’ Telluride Review: Andrew Scott Is Superb

TELLURIDE – There is quiet tension bubbling underneath Andrew Haigh’s latest endeavor. An often sublime drama that features a unique reunion between a son and his parents and a transformative, passionate romance. Both events are unexpected and both have an…

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Shear Disturbance Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Shear Disturbance Featured, Reviews Film Threat

I imagine it a difficult task to convey the feeling of anxiety without coming off as overly sentimental. I imagine it similarly difficult to meld such a topic with the backdrop of socioeconomics. However, writer-director Nate Reynolds has respectably accomplished…

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Halloween Horror Nights 2023 Maze Review
Halloween Horror Nights 2023 Maze Review

Another year, another Halloween Horror Nights and this incredible fall event brings new IP mazes and 5 original scare mazes to really whet the appetite of horror fans across the globe. Let’s dive right in with our Halloween Horror Nights…

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Same Page Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Same Page Featured, Reviews Film Threat

We’d do anything for love, right? In Stephen Bond and Emanuel Ramirez’s short film, Same Page, love is put to the test. Jason (Emanuel Ramirez) is in love with Jennifer (Elise Wilkes), who is way out of his league, but she…

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