‘Arnold’ Review: Schwarzenegger Documentary Is Incomplete
In the growing industry of celebrity documentaries, everything can feel tightly managed to the point of being suffocatingly safe. This isn’t to say directors can’t carve out something illuminating about their subjects, but watching these types of works can be…
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Past Lives | Film Threat
NOW IN THEATERS! The sign of a good romance is just how emotionally wrecked you feel by the end. Writer-director Celine Song’s Past Lives hits all the right emotional chords for an intelligent tale about love and past/passed opportunities. We begin with…
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The Sperm Bank | Film Threat
Director Margaux Susi’s The Sperm Bank is a comedic short based on the true story of writer and star Rob Scerbo. He went through a fight with stage-4 testicular cancer. But, before starting treatment, Rob’s doctor (Parvesh Cheena) advises him to get…
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Simulant | Film Threat
The director of Simulant is April Mullen. She’s the underrated genius behind the stunning 88 and goofy-fun splatterfest Dead Before Dawn. That’s one in the plus column, and the film hasn’t even started yet. This sci-fi dramatic thriller stars talent behind beloved franchises such as Arrow, Shang…
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FROM Season 2 Episode 7: DEEP DIVE and Reaction
Thank you #FROMily, we are back with another recap of our favorite Far Out show FROM. I’m your host with the most Anthony and we’re picking right up where we left off last week in the aftermath of Boyd KILLING ONE…
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Trials to Tribulations | Film Threat
Sports documentaries are a fascinating genre. My particular favorites are generally the deeply motivating and inspirational rags-to-riches stories. In director Greg Romano’s Trials to Triumph, we witness a man go through both to gain a deeper sense of meaning. Written by Dan…
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Fangs Out | Film Threat
One of the joys of being an independent film critic is witnessing the sheer breadth of creativity that enterprising, low-budget filmmakers use to bring their visions to life. Directors have made some truly stellar motion pictures with barely two cents…
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Horror Comedy Struggles To Get To So-Bad-It’s-Good Territory
For the uninitiated, Sterling Films is a production house that specializes in micro-budget movies. Fangs Out, much like many Sterling productions, is not for everyone, especially if you want cohesive narratives, production value that rises above the average student film,…
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Beware of Goat | Film Threat
Following up his short Roadkill, writer-director Justin T. Malone’s Beware of Goat is an incisive and joyously sardonic look at rural life in the American South. It is a remarkably canny film with well-defined characters and as much escalating tension surrounding a single…
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The Roundup: No Way Out
Sinister forces are chasing after a missing stash of drugs in director Sang-yong Lee’s thriller, The Roundup: No Way Out, written by Kim […] The post The Roundup: No Way Out first appeared on Film Threat. Disclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated…
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Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse | Film Threat
NOW IN THEATERS! Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson, would be a great film if it weren’t so damn long. That said, it’s pretty good. Screenwriters Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Dave…
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The Little Mermaid IMAX Review: Snooze Inducing
A live-action remake to cash in on the success of recent live action animation remakes but at least they were interesting as The Little Mermaid delivers a dry, bland and quite frankly unwatchable affair at times. Here’s our The Little…
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