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‘Welcome to Wrexham’ Season 2 Review

When news first broke about actors Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds buying a Welsh soccer team, it was so random that it felt like a prank. Then, when FX came out with Welcome to Wrexham after the roaring success of…

What’s My Name Again? Featured, Reviews Film Threat

In Spencer Zender’s film, What’s My Name Again? We are brought back to the mid-1980s to Southern California’s beach bum hippie culture, where Bo (Ryan Winn) finds out he needs to make a life-defining choice as he turns 18. This…

Woody Allen’s Clumsy But Passable Dramedy Is More Mediocrity From His Waning Late-Stage Period [Venice]

I remember reading years ago that whenever the time comes for Woody Allen to make a new film, he opens a drawer in his desk and picks at random from the piles of scripts he has written over the years.…

An Egypt Affair Featured, Reviews Film Threat

Marlin Darrah’s An Egypt Affair has all the sense and aesthetic of a bygone adventure novel. And despite an expected overindulgence in melodrama and contrived plotting, the film is still quite amusing. However, what tilts the story from so-bad-it’s-good to…

Tülin Özen‘s Striking Performance Drives Selman Nacar’s Gripping 24-Hour Moral/Legal Drama [Venice]

You don’t need to know much about the criminal justice system to understand its broken, biased, and grim nightmare— unfair, unjust, unforgiving, a bureaucratic Kafka-esque hellscape you never want to be trapped within. Turkish filmmaker Selman Nacar (“Between Two Dawns”)…

Ghost Town Featured, Reviews Film Threat

The Western film has long been a Hollywood staple genre since the days when real cowboys would congregate at the corner of Sunset and Gower (Known as Gower Gulch) in Los Angeles to get a day’s work as an extra.…

Riz Ahmed & Jessie Buckley Test Their Love Connection [Telluride]

TELLURIDE – We’re just gonna get the bad news out of the way first. There is perhaps no movie more personally – and emphasis on “personally” – disappointing at the 2023 Telluride Film Festival for this critic than Christos Nikou’s…

A Boat for My Brother Featured, Reviews Film Threat

A Boat for My Brother carries a lot of emotional weight. I mean this in both the sense of poignancy as well as baggage. One would not be surprised by the film’s poignancy. After all, it is a documentary about…

William Friedkin’s Deceptively Simple Swansong Is Another Morbid Excavation Of Human Weakness & Cruelty [Venice]

A quote by William Friedkin himself opens “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial,” describing the film, as well as all the filmmaker’s other works, as being about “the thin line between good and evil.” This line is all the thinner here, in…

The Teen Comedy Genre Gets A Much-Needed Kick In The Ass

Summary Bottoms is a violent and riotous teen comedy that brings back the anything goes feeling missing from high school comedies and movies as a whole. The film features Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri as PJ and Josie, two Rockbridge…

Perpetrator Review: A Promising Premise That Falls Short

Perpetrator, directed by Jennifer Reeder, is a film that attempts to blend elements of supernatural transformation with a mystery surrounding a series of teen girls’ disappearances. While it offers an intriguing premise and a few commendable performances, it ultimately falls…

‘The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon’ Review

This review was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the series being covered here wouldn't exist.You know what would make a good zombie story? One where a…

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