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Gorka | Film Threat

We live in a shrinking world whose boundaries are obscuring and becoming less and less clear each and every day. To this end, in the EU, it’s possible now to be an exchange student in your last year of High…

Sean Penn Is A Tormented American Hero In An Entertaining Yet Painfully Predictable Thriller

In Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s “Black Flies,” silence is as scarce a commodity as hope. Young first responder Ollie Cross (Tye Sheridan) learns very early on that the job comes with two partners: the one sitting next to you and the relentless…

‘Strange Way of Life’ Pedro Pascal & Ethan Hawke Sizzle

As much as the cowboys of the American West are associated with being masculine men who are the salt of the earth, so too are they associated with homosexuality. This didn’t start with Brokeback Mountain, though I’m sure that will…

Cate Blanchett Stars in This Beautiful, Flawed Drama

Set in 1940s, Warwick Thornton presents The New Boy, a story set in a 1940s orphanage located in the rural Australian outbacks. The film follows an unnamed Aboriginal boy played by Aswan Reid who is taken from the wilds of…

It’s Quieter in the Twilight

NOW IN THEATERS AND ON VOD! I’ve been fascinated with NASA and the space program for as long as I can remember. Technology has rapidly changed the way we approach space exploration today. Most of us don’t realize that there…

A Disposable Remake That Will Make You Yearn For The Chemistry In The Original

For all of the success that Kenya Barris has had on TV, his film output as a director and especially a screenwriter is bizarrely spotty. For a project like “Girls Trip” (co-written with Tracy Oliver), we then have his directorial…

Rachel, Rachel | Film Threat

100 YEARS OF WARNER BROTHERS FILM REVIEW! For its time, the 1968 drama Rachel, Rachel, written by Stewart Stern, based on the novel A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence, was cutting-edge in its social nuances and character approach. The power team of…

Mexican Auteur Amat Escalante’s Latest is a Chilling Commentary on Absence [Cannes]

Five years ago, on March 14th 2018, a car pulled alongside Brazilian Councilwoman Marielle Franco’s vehicle and fired several shots, killing both the politician and her driver. The crime, which enraged a country undergoing grave political turmoil, still remains unsolved.…

Gray People | Film Threat

Writer/director Romello Blade’s Gray People sets up a world where a bill passes for the immigration of gray-colored people to become United States citizens. This proves to be controversial for the rest of the population. A slacker, Nick (Isaish Jimenez), has one…