Justina Machado Kills in Comedy Horror Series
Even if you didn’t know that The Horror of Dolores Roach was one of those series with its roots in the world of podcasting when you sat down to watch it, this history would soon become abundantly apparent. This is…
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Raylan Givens Returns In FX’s Fantastic Limited Series
It’s been eight years since U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) packed up his Stetson hat and moved down to Miami in the series finale of FX’s consistently excellent “Justified.” (Although it’s 15 years in the world of the show.)…
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Sound of Freedom Featured, Reviews Film Threat
NOW IN THEATERS! I’ll say this about Alejandro Monteverde’s Sound of Freedom. The film’s message far outweighs any criticism or praise I have for the film. It’s an important true story about child sex trafficking, and in its presentation, it…
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Pascal Plante Crafts Disturbingly Clever Psychological Horror
While we can dismiss ghosts, ghouls, and other fantastic creatures as figments of our imaginations, it is harder to let go of the uncomfortable feeling that the biggest monsters out there are people. Pascal Plante’s latest movie, Red Rooms (Les…
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David Jařab’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ Riff Falls Flat
Some literary works are so powerful that they keep echoing centuries after they first became public. That's the case with Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, a novella that helped define the Western view on colonization and which inspired dozens of…
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Raylan Givens Triumphantly Returns to TV
This summer, the man with the hat is finally back. No, I'm not talking about Indiana Jones here. Real ones know the season's most exciting revival is happening over on FX, where, eight years after Justified wrapped up its sixth…
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Prisoner’s Daughter Featured, Reviews Film Threat
NOW IN THEATERS! The great indie boomerang has brought another great director back to where it all began in the gritty drama Prisoner’s Daughter, directed by Catherine Hardwicke. Max (Brian Cox) is a former prizefighter who is in prison for…
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Saw the Ride VIP Behind the Scenes Tour Review
After the popularity of the previous Saw the Ride VIP behind the scenes tour back in 2022 Thorpe Park have added more dates to the 2023 calendar to go behind the scenes of the world’s first horror movie rollercoaster. Themed…
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Richard E. Grant and Daryl McCormack Lead Turbulent Thriller
If there is a lesson of its own to take away from the thriller that is The Lesson, directed by Alice Troughton and written by Alex MacKeith, it is that less can often be more. Some of the most authentically…
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No Hard Feelings Featured, Reviews Film Threat
In this era of cancel culture and political correctness, the genre of comedy, in general, has become a dying breed at movie theaters. It’s difficult to believe that it’s been twenty-five years since the raunchy comedy classic There’s Something About…
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Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out Featured, Reviews Film Threat
OAK CLIFF FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! Never has an alien abduction story been so sweet than in Jake Von Wagoner’s feature, Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out. Long ago, little Calvin (Jacob Buster) was instilled…
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Bless Me Father Featured, Reviews Film Threat
The gangster thriller Bless Me Father takes a deep dive into the moral issues of a violent initiation to a New Jersey mob family. Vinny (Gianni McLaughlin, who also wrote and directed) finds himself ill-suited to be a made man as he…
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