Lucky Louie Featured, Reviews Film Threat
It’s not that Lucky Louie is a bad movie — in fact, it is cleverly edited, includes a strong helping of detective fiction, and has a good heart. But as a story, it is so milquetoast, so overwhelmingly sappy, that watching it…
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A Triumphant, Exhilirating Animated Adventure That Shines Bright
After what felt like ages of uncertainty and heartbreak, those who remained steadfast in their support for Nimona finally feel triumphant. Harsh circumstances made it so that a revelatory animated feature about a shape-shifting hero and two gay knights became…
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Julie Cohen’s Documentary is An Empathetic Exploration of Intersex Experience
Despite the wealth of powerful queer documentaries, few films have taken a specific look at the “I” in LGBTQIA+. Exploring the complexities of the intersex experience, director Julie Cohen’s Every Body seeks to amend this absence. For those unfamiliar with…
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Spaghetti Western Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Greasepaint, tears, and tomato sauce resonate most peculiarly in director Jaden LeBel’s comedic short Spaghetti Western. The whole film takes place in a dark dressing room where a woman in Western gear is applying clown make-up. Ryan Burke’s voice-over introduces us…
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Endearing Animated Story Could’ve Gone Deeper
Being a teenager is hard. Countless movies and television shows have been dedicated to that fact. DreamWorks' latest animated features posits the same thing, but with a unique twist: Being a teenager is hard, but being a teenage kraken is…
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Kate Beckinsale and Brian Cox Can’t Save Muddled Drama
In a month filled with blockbuster releases, Prisoner’s Daughter quietly sneaks into theaters as a small-scale drama about second chances and toxic patterns. It’s an admirable goal, and with Brian Cox and Kate Beckinsale in lead roles, the movie had…
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Punk Kids Featured, Reviews Film Threat
I’ve seen it all when it comes to movies for the younger set. The best way to describe writer-director Mike Heff’s feature, Punk Kids, is it’s the hard-edge family film you’ve been looking for. Punk music, a bit of swearing, and…
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An Unauthorized Tour Featured, Reviews Film Threat
One of the hottest films of the summer is sure to be Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, starring Margot Robbie. Before you head into theaters to see that, visit a Barbie world with Susan Stern’s director’s cut of Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized Tour. The…
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny IMAX Review
An Indiana Jones movie about an artefact that can time travel, if only it was real then I could travel back to the time before I wasted 2 hours and 22 minutes on this rather tired feature, with that said…
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Sarah Snook Horror Movie Falls Short Of Its Lofty Premise
Netflix's latest horror movie, Run Rabbit Run, an acquisition out of Sundance, has all the hallmarks of the genre fare seen in recent years. A grieving mother, a young (and unsettling) child, and generational trauma. There's a discomfiting score punctuated…
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Orchid Moon Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Writer-director Lewis William Robinson’s feature-length debut, Orchid Moon, is a dramatic ode to what it takes to come out of a downward grief spiral. Harry (Jake Waring) drinks himself into oblivion every night, unable to deal with the loss of…
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Horror In The Forest Featured, Reviews Film Threat
There is no escaping the fact that director Brendan Rudnicki’s Horror In The Forest is another entry in the long line of found footage films aping The Blair Witch Project. Georgie (Alexa Lauren), Bo (Andrew Thomas), and Stephan (Dylan DeVane) venture out into…
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