A Chilling, Nuanced Look at Fraternity Culture

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A Chilling, Nuanced Look at Fraternity Culture

Greek life has been prominently featured in media for a while now, mainly in comedies like Animal House, Neighbors, and House Bunny. In recent years, however, Hollywood has had the desire to look more deeply into these institutions. From Max’s…

The Angry Black Girl And Her Monster Review: Marvelous, Tragic, Terrifying

The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster is one of the year's best horror movies. Everything from the production value to the performances syncs perfectly with writer-director Bomani J. Story’s vision. His script moves like a finely tuned watch and…

‘Against All Enemies’ Shines a Light on the Terrifying Veteran-To-Domestic Terrorist Pipeline [Tribeca]

The MAGA mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 shared many surface similarities with the ideologically opposed mobs that fought against police in American cities over the past few years: improvised weaponry; social media fixation; an emphasis…

Ben Kingsley & Ezra Miller Are Dalí in Banal Biopic

This review was originally part of our coverage for the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. The late surrealist artist Salvador Dalí was many things. He was a painter, a filmmaker, and, especially in his later years, the center of social…

The Angry Black Girl And Her Monster Is A Brilliant Journey Into American Horror

The trailer for “The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster” makes it easy to assume that this is a Jordan Peele movie. The trailer immerses you in its urban setting, complete with gang violence and a hip-hop inspired soundtrack. As…

Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story

Few horror icons have been as indelible as Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger from The Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. So, is it a blessing or a curse? Just who is Englund beyond the character that everyone knows him for? Hollywood Dreams &…

‘Downtown Owl’ Can’t Quite Translate Chuck Klosterman From Page To Screen [Tribeca]

As often proves the case with talky indies, a single visual flourish in “Downtown Owl” emerges to ensure the film does not become a mere plot and dialogue delivery mechanism. Here, that’s the long lens shot, which flattens out images…

The Living Are the Real Terror

Ted Geoghegan isn’t messing around with his newest offering, Brooklyn 45. The man behind We Are Still Here has returned with yet another period piece, teaming up with Shudder for a 1940s horror tale that seems like it comes straight…

Woolf Women | Film Threat

Directed by Marchella De Angelis and Jennifer Schauerte, Woolf Women follows Schaerte, or “Jungle Jenny,” the world’s number 2 women’s downhill skater. She is a world-class athlete who leads a collective of five downhill skateboarders with a passion for thrill-seeking called Woolf…

Animated Series Peaks in Final Episodes

Watching Season 1 of Human Resources was the animated series equivalent to going through doodles of a notebook from a 15-year-old. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but, more often than not, the Big Mouth spin-off favored repetitive dick jokes…

Scarlet (L’envol) | Film Threat

Pietro Marcello, the celebrated director of 2019 hit Martin Eden, is back with his latest literary adaptation, Scarlet (L’envol). The previous film was daunting in scope and grounded in earthly conflicts like labor and class. Based on Alexander Grin’s novel, this historical romantic…

Speak Up Brotha! | Film Threat

Director Wes Andre Goodrich tells the story of a young man who can’t utter a word but has so much to say in his short film, Speak Up Brotha!. Roderick Lawrence is Ahmad, a man who suffers from deep anxiety when…

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