The Round Up: No Way Out

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The Round Up: No Way Out

Sinister forces are chasing after a missing stash of drugs in Sang-yong Lee’s thriller, The Roundup: No Way Out. Don Lee returns once again as Detective Ma Seok-do in the sequel to the 2022 Korean hit, The Roundup. Seok finds…

Sophie Thatcher Grounds An Unsettling Horror Adaptation

Based on Stephen King’s short story of the same name, The Boogeyman smartly crafts a story that is as disconcerting as it is emotionally raw. There is something to be said about our society’s lack of openness about death and…

Justine Triet Weaves a Twisted Drama

Accused of killing her husband and put on trial for his death, a woman must face public scrutiny while defending and explaining herself to a world audience. Justine Triet's Anatomy of a Fall is a gripping and enigmatic story about…

South Beach Shark Club | Film Threat

Have you ever been invited to a casual party at a stranger’s house, and when you arrive, everyone is sitting around telling stories that are too incredible to believe? The story of legends, if you will. This is how I…

Don’t Sleep On The Boogeyman

High school student Sadie Harper and her younger sister Sawyer are reeling from the recent death of their mother and aren’t getting much support from their father, Will, a therapist who is dealing with his own pain. When a desperate…

A Story We’ve Seen Before That Brings Nothing New To The Table

April Mullen’s (Wanderer) seventh feature film, Simulant, is drenched in classic sci-fi tropes, but it never makes a mark of its own. Ryan Christopher Churchill's (Love Your Enemy) script is predictable up until the final ten minutes of the film.…

Tom Holland Stars in Middling Mystery

There is something nice about seeing Tom Holland playing someone other than Spider-Man in the Apple TV+ series The Crowded Room. This isn’t because his take on the wall-crawler was bad, per se, but more that it felt like he…

Crescent Gang | Film Threat

Screenwriters Latasha Choe Johnson and B. Danielle Watkins drown their lighthearted drama, Crescent Gang, in sentimentality. Onyx Keesha and Gino Raphael Payne, the directors, keep the schmaltz high through tone and musical cues. Is this amount of emotional whimsy too much…

Y2K Babes | Film Threat

The first episode of Y2K Babes packs a considerable punch. Trying to break into entertainment is challenging work. It is even more difficult in an industry, such as television, that places importance on “vibes,” frowns at networking during a funeral, and constantly…

Brutal Season | Film Threat

Brutal Season takes only a few words to transport its audience fully. “I swear it’s getting closer. Only just a little, too; you can hardly notice it.” These words are spoken with apprehension. Perhaps it is the poise of the camera…

Charles Melton Stands Out In Haynes’ Intense Dramedy [Cannes]

Todd Haynes’ quirky and cutthroat dramedy, May December, is an uncomfortably twisted examination on consent and the long-lasting effects it may have on a family. Through Julianne Moore’s character, Gracie, screenwriter Samy Burch elicits an uneasy truth about predators and…

Spectacular Splash Page Sequel Delivers With Deeper Emotion & Next-Level Comic Book Visuals

All right, let’s do this one more time: (cue propulsive, impossibly cool hip-hop beat): in 2018, despite an oversaturation of ‘Spider-Man’ movies, and just two years after Marvel introduced yet another actor as the character in live-action (just two years…

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