A Funny Flick Aching To Stretch Its Legs
A story about the world of casting auditions and finding friends in the weirdest of places we bring you our Two’s A Crowd review. Two struggling, diametrically opposed actors’ find their fates collide in one calamitous audition. They’re paired together…
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A Blast From the Past That Leaves Hope for the Future
Riverdale returns this week for its seventh and final season, and after six insane years that have featured wild storylines including organ-harvesting cults, multiverses, and the highs and lows of high school football, the series is time-traveling back to the…
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Toni Collette Leads an Intriguing Yet Incomplete Adaptation
In any discussion of a series that attempts to adapt a beloved novel, of which this year has already seen several tries to mixed results, a balance must be struck between comparing the two versions of the story and evaluating…
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Jasmine is a Star | Film Threat
Jasmine is a Star, written and directed by Jo Rochelle, introduces us to Jasmine, a teen living with Albinism. Albinism is a genetic disorder that results in decreased production of a pigment called melanin in the skin, hair, and eyes,…
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The Covert Reaches a Turning Point
At the midway point of Season 3, The Mandalorian finally brings into focus a plotline that it has been teasing since the premiere, but in order to reach it — the path is lined with comically ill-equipped pirates. With Episode…
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Farmer Ed | Film Threat
One seldom discussed element of an excellent comedy is the idea of keeping the audience off-balance. One good example of this is filmmaker Azwan’s short film, Farmer Ed. Ed (E. James Ford) and his wife, Birdie (Samantha Nugent), are a pair…
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A Brush of Violence | Film Threat
I think we all know that artists are cut from a different cloth than the rest of us “normies.” One of these differences is in the perception of life/death. Writer-director Daniel Lawrence Wilson’s short film, A Brush of Violence, takes us…
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The Burial | Film Threat
Writer-director Michael Escalante’s The Burial is always hiding something. Thankfully, what is slowly unearthed is not as drab or derivative as simply a reanimated corpse or an abstract curse, but instead something novel and thematically compelling. With the aid of a clever…
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Asante Blackk & Luis Guzmán Elevate A Touching Drama [SXSW]
Directed by Aristotle Torres from a screenplay in partnership with Bonsu Thompson, Story Ave is elevated by the special relationship crafted between its main characters. It doesn’t tell a fresh story, but in Torres and Thompson’s capable hands, the narrative…
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Pay Or Die | Film Threat
SXSW Film Festival 2023 REVIEW! Pay Or Die, directed by Rachael Dyer and Scott Alexander Ruderman, is about the impossible dilemma many Americans face: pay exorbitant prices for insulin regularly and risk financial ruin, or pay higher hospital bills when sick…
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Chris O’Dowd Leads a Series in Search of Potential
What is your life’s potential? Not your job, not your hobbies, but your potential. It is an existential question in an almost cosmic sense that carries with it a great weight. In The Big Door Prize, the new Apple TV+…
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‘Child’s Play’ Documentary Explores Found Family
In the late ‘80s, writer Don Mancini came up with a strange script about a friendly-looking doll coming to life and terrorizing a family. That story would be used by director Tom Holland to create Child’s Play, one of history's…
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