Good Performances From Letitia Wright & Jamie Bell Can’t Help This Dull Western
Westerns, by nature, usually find themselves set in isolated parts of the United States with a limited cast and set that allows dialogue to do the heavy lifting as much as the characters speaking those lines. With any luck, a…
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Don’t Open the Box | Film Threat
Writer-director Sean Breathnach’s horror short, Don’t Open the Box, confirms that if you open your door at night and there’s a mysterious package, then re-read the title. John Ryan Howard plays Mike, a father who is up at night working from…
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A Deconstruction of True Crime
Editor’s Note: The below contains light spoilers for Based on a True Story. What happens when a suburban couple facing bankruptcy and stressing over marital issues finds out they know a serial killer? Created by Craig Rosenberg, Peacock’s Based on…
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Avocado | Film Threat
Casey de Fremery dives into the relationship between a dominant and submissive in the short film, Avocado. Our tale begins with our submissive, Neil (Jeremy Parr), being strapped down…collar and all, by this dominant counterpart, Gabriela (Steph Martinez). Neil is…
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They Wait In The Dark
With They Wait in the Dark, Patrick Rea devises an exceptionally sinister tale of domestic abuse, topped off with a couple of startling reveals that will make your blood run cold. Despite a small budget and cast, the writer-director does not…
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A Wholesome but Unsurprising Finale
It's been three seasons since we first met the walking chaotic mess that is Devi Vishwakumar (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) and with Season 4, which also serves as the show's last, Never Have I Ever sidesteps any last-minute twists to offer a…
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Mom and Dad’s Nipple Factory
Cancer is a terrible thing, no doubt about it. However, in the spectrum of dealing with cancer, most oncologists I’ve met have averred one should have a sense of humor about it. That, to laugh, is the best medicine, even…
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The Flash | Film Threat
Allow me to restate that my policy has always been to judge a film based on what’s thrown on the screen and not on the personal lives of those on or behind the camera. Yes, you can find instances where…
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Solid Rock Trust | Film Threat
In Solid Rock Trust, writer/director Rick Ives puts a twist on the heist thriller by turning the action from the team on the ground to the man…woman in the chair. Solid Rock Trust opens in an abandoned and dilapidated office…
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Bloodlines: The Jersey Devil Curse
Director Seth Breedlove and writer Jason Utes explore the origins and history of the Jersey Devil in their film Bloodlines: The Jersey Devil Curse. The feature is a hybrid between documentary and narrative horror. Primarily, it’s a documentary covering the history…
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The Autobots Fail at a Fresh Start
The history of the Transformers movies over the last sixteen years has been an exhausting, frustrating, and mostly terrible experience. From 2007 to 2017, Michael Bay made five Transformers films, each more brain-meltingly terrible than the last, a series that…
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Eva Longoria Trades Honesty for Heart
The tension at the core of Eva Longoria’s sentimental yet superficial directorial debut Flamin’ Hot, a film that bills itself as being the true story of the man who claims to have invented “Flamin' Hot Cheetos,” is in how we…
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