An Intriguing and Twisty Look Into Satanic Panic
Most people are probably familiar with Satanic Panic, even moreso these days after the most recent season of Stranger Things which focused on the scare during the mid 1980s. But do you know where the paranoia began? No, not from…
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Dr. Pershing Steps Into the Light
Episode 3 of The Mandalorian’s third season breaks free of the story styling that has been established across three seasons, shifting the focus away from Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal/Brendan Wayne/Lateef Crowder) in unexpected ways. With the aptly titled episode, “The…
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Followers | Film Threat
The found footage film Followers begins as a Project X-style hijinx comedy before transitioning into a drama about the pitfalls of the influencer life. Then, writer-director Marcus Harben ventures into full-on horror territory. Does the filmmaker properly maintain the tone…
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Julio Torres Debuts With A Charming Immigration Fairy Tale [SXSW]
Whimsy gets a bad rap in Hollywood. In the hands of some filmmakers, a fantastical approach can be a sign of emptiness — an attempt to obscure a simplistic or pandering narrative through layers of artifice. But the framework of…
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Claudia Restrepo and Derrick DeBlasis Are Star-Crossed Lovers
Life is beautiful and weird. People enter and exit our lives in totally unexpected ways, sometimes staying far longer or shorter than we ever anticipated. We get so fixated on our routines, our futures, on what our lives are “supposed”…
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SXSW 2023: Problemista Highlights The Problems Of Immigration
SYNOPSIS: Alejandro (Torres) is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in New York City. As time on his work visa runs out, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast (Swinton) becomes…
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American Cherry | Film Threat
Music video and commercial director Marcella Cytrynowicz makes her feature-length debut with American Cherry. The writer-director hones in on the lives of the young and lost, though the characters hope love can save them. She also explores mental illness, generational…
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Rachel Sennott Shines In A Narratively Tricky Seriocomic Drama [SXSW]
Rachel Sennott is ideally cast in the leading role of Ally Pankiw’s “I Used to Be Funny” because this is a character who sort of can’t help but make you laugh, even without trying, even in tremendously difficult situations. Her…
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Willem Dafoe Is Perfectly Unhinged In Surprising Survival Drama
On the surface, the idea of being trapped inside a luxury apartment sounds like a glorious dream. Situated well above the unending bustle of New York City, surrounded by high-end art and top-of-the-line amenities, who could possibly complain about that?…
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Rachel Sennott Like We’ve Never Seen Her Before
Rachel Sennott is the comedic actor of the moment. In 2020, she led the anxiety-inducing, darkly hilarious Shiva Baby which put all the anxieties and fears of an entire generation on her shoulders, and she walked through it with ease.…
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Maddie Ziegler Struggles with Womanhood
The two quotes used to introduce Molly McGlynn’s Bloody Hell perfectly set the tone for the story the filmmaker is trying to tell. By using a powerful passage from Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, Bloody Hell sets the stage…
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A Great Start With A Bumpy Landing
Gerard Butler goes from pilot to punishment as his plane lands on a war-torn island but is it worth the watch? Here’s our PLANE review. In the white-knuckle action movie Plane, pilot Brodie Torrance (Gerard Butler) saves his passengers from…
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