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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A Compelling, Thrilling, Frightening Horror Spinoff
Screenwriting and directing duo Álex Pastor and David Pastor face the enormous task of crafting a story that is as engaging, thrilling, and unique as Bird Box without relying on the same themes and plotting. Bird Box Barcelona suffers from…
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A Profile of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley
A common refrain you’ll hear when discussing documentary filmmaking, especially those about celebrities, is where people will say that this or that film is “for the fans” with not that much appeal to a more general audience outside of that.…
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