The Hottest Summer (L’estate Più Calda) Featured, Reviews Film Threat
AMAZON ORIGINAL REVIEW! In director Matteo Pilati’s romantic comedy, The Hottest Summer (L’estate Più Calda), the summer heat ignites passions and melts a few brain cells against the romantic Italian landscape. A small village along the southern coast of Sicily is experiencing…
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Confessions of a Good Samaritan Featured, Reviews Film Threat
OAK CLIFF FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! Documentarian Penny Lane steps out from behind the camera and becomes her next subject in Confessions of a Good Samaritan. We know Lane from documentaries like Our Nixon, Hail Satan!, and Listening to Kenny G. Yet, during the…
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Babak Jalali Paints a Delicate Portrait of Immigrant Life
Fremont is a hard movie to pin down. On the one hand, Babak Jalali's latest feature is uneventful, demanding audiences be patient if they want to understand the delicate portrait the filmmaker is painting. At the same time, Fremont overflows…
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Sublime Featured, Reviews Film Threat
I can recognize as readily as the next person the need for all subsets of society to have the proper representation in cinema. I also fear that representation itself is being used as a crutch for many filmmakers in an…
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Asteroid City Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Named for a fictional town from an imaginary play, Asteroid City marks writer-director Wes Anderson’s first film of 2023, with a second to be released on Netflix in the fall. The movie features an all-star cast featuring new and familiar faces to…
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Love Triangles and Family Drama
Who doesn't love a good soapy teen drama? If you liked Dawson's Creek, One Tree Hill, or even The OC, it's probably because you were embroiled in the complicated and dramatic lives of these people living in a beautiful beach…
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Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning IMAX Review
Part 1 of this double-header sees Ethan Hunt (Tom Cuirse) in a battle vs The Entity, an artificial intelligence that has gone sentient that can guess his every move as Hunt travels the world to locate this supercomputer and destroy…
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Farewelling Featured, Reviews Film Threat
DANCES WITH FILMS 2023 REVIEW! Director Rodes Phire and writer Sarah McMaster take the viewer on a journey through a tangled web of love, loss, trauma, and how to cope with it all in their 2023 feature film Farewelling. Jenna…
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Only in Theaters Featured, Reviews Film Threat
NOW ON DVD! Director Raphael Sbarge’s documentary Only in Theaters gives us the history of Laemmle theaters while following Greg Laemmle and his family as they try to keep their historic movie palaces afloat in modern times. The rise of streaming,…
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Eliška Křenková Shatters in Period Drama
Period movies are often restrained by factuality, with directors and scriptwriters bending under the weight of history. There's also the case of movies that drastically revise history, imagining the worlds that could have been. Director Matěj Chlupáček's We Have Never…
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Kiddo Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Written and directed by Paul Taylor, Kiddo is a clever piece of filmmaking. While it appears to be a typical drama, the short quickly and craftily rubs elbows with suspense, horror, and absurd comedy. The film wields these disparate genres with competence…
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Netflix Spin-off Surpasses the Original in Every Sense
In 2018, Netflix’s Bird Box adapted the novel of the same name by Josh Malerman about a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by strange creatures who drive mad anyone who looks at them. Despite an exciting concept, the movie failed to impress…
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