Renfield Review | Flickreel
How do you compete with Nicolas Cage as Nicolas Cage in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent? Nicolas Cage as Count Dracula! It’s rather astonishing that it’s taken this long for Cage to play a vampire, especially since his uncle,…
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Toni Collette Is Perfect As An Unexpected Mob Boss
There are some movies that, just from the premise alone, sound like they'll be a blast. Catherine Hardwicke's new film Mafia Mamma is one such title, and it certainly leans into the silliness of its central conceit. In some ways,…
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Russell Crowe Can’t Save This Unholy Disaster
The horror genre has always got an unfairly bad rap. Audiences will make up their mind about a movie just by the poster or title alone. If it’s a straightforward scare fest, it will be deemed “stupid” or “predictable.” If…
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Toni Collette Stars in Unfunny, Repetitive Comedy
It feels odd to say it, but one expected more from Mafia Mamma. It was unlikely to be the next comedy masterpiece, but it still could have been disposable fun. After all, even the most flawed of comedy films can…
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Chrissy Judy | Film Threat
Any real friendship is a two-way street, but the unpleasant truth is that not all friendships are built to last. In Chrissy Judy, writer-director-star Todd Flaherty observes the collapse of a queer friendship and the frightening, isolating path one must take…
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
With the penultimate episode of the season, The Mandalorian finally picks up its momentum—tying together its loose narratives and delivering a nerve-wracking adventure. While there is no question that Season 3 has had its standout episodes and fun moments, it…
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Leda | Film Threat
Leda has no dialogue in it. I don’t mean that in a silent movie way, with the dialogue showing up as interstitials. Screenwriters Wesley Pastorfield and Samuel Tressler IV have told their version of the ancient Greek myth with no…
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If I Could Ride | Film Threat
Directed by Shawn Welling and based on the book of the same name by Don Miller, If I Could Ride is a low-budget, family-friendly equestrian drama. The story charts the internal and external struggles of two teenagers who couldn’t be any more…
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‘The Last Thing He Told Me’ Review: Jennifer Garner’s Forgettable Mystery
Reese Witherspoon's production company Hello Sunshine has quite a reputation for adapting best-selling books to both the big and small screen, from Gone Girl to Big Little Lies, Little Fires Everywhere to Where the Crawdads Sing. In the past few…
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The New Abolitionists | Film Threat
NEW TO VOD! There is still slavery in the world today. The problem is that most countries either choose to ignore the problem or are economically dependent on the oppressive practice. Director Christina Zorich’s The New Abolitionists spotlights four Christian organizations…
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Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Sophomore Feature Hints At The Master Filmmaker To Come
Love triangles, the shifting fault lines of emotional landscapes, and the ramifications of common cruelty — in Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s second feature, 2008’s “Passion” (now hitting U.S. cinemas for the first time), the celebrated director grapples with the themes that would…
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Bill Hader’s HBO Crime Dramedy Goes Out With a Bang
In its fourth and final season, HBO's darkly comic crime drama Barry shows its cards just a few minutes into its first episode. Barry Berkman, Bill Hader's earnest yet sociopathic hitman, is newly incarcerated after finally getting caught by the…
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