I’m A Celebrity 2024 Returns With a Bang!
I’m A Celebrity 2024 is here and back on our TV screens and in that very moment, the Great British public knows that Christmas is just around the corner! This year sees a brand new cast of celebrities who will…
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Space Cowboy Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Marah Strauch and Bryce Leavitt’s Space Cowboy follows Joe Jennings, a skydiving cinematographer, and his incredible life story and talent for aerial filmmaking. The documentary covers Jennings and his production team’s process of finding the perfect car that can freefall…
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Naked Acts Featured, Reviews Film Threat
The great indie wave of the 90s has one more crest to surf, as a missed masterpiece of the era, Naked Acts, written and directed by passed-over auteur Bridgett M. Davis, has been unearthed and restored. Lydia Love (Patricia DeArcy)…
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I Win Featured, Reviews Film Threat
In Robin Hofmann’s feature film I Win, a young teen, Jax (Austin Lampe), and his mother, Gloria (Sarah Malfara), move to a new town after his father’s untimely death. Upset that he had to uproot his life just before his…
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Angela’s Shadow Featured, Reviews Film Threat
In director and co-writer Jules Koostachin’s drama Angela’s Shadow, a dark time of cultural upheaval in Canadian history is explored. In 1930s Ottawa, Angela (Sera-Lys McArthur) was the young Indigenous wife of European man Henry (Matthew Kevin Anderson). She is…
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Ghosted Featured, Reviews Film Threat
“Ghosted” is a term meaning “to abruptly cut off contact with someone without giving that person any warning or explanation for doing so.” Director Lokesh Babu Akula and director-screenwriter-star David Bermudez tap into the modern-day dating scene, riffing off Fatal Attraction, among…
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Faults Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Fire up that sack of sour diesel as you are in for a total gas with the potent British sci-fi short Faults, directed by Ben Ogunbiyi with a script by Ogunbiyi and Rhys Mainwaring. Mary (Anna-Maria Nabirye) enjoys a sunny…
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‘Bosch’ and ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ Have a Surprising Connection
Viewers might be unaware that the wildly popular Bosch and The Lincoln Lawyer television franchises share an interesting connection. Both shows are based on the bestselling novel series created by Michael Connelly, but it gets even more interesting. In Connelly's…
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Nightbitch Featured, Reviews Film Threat
NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! The loss of identity, sense of days blending together, anger toward your partner, and strong feelings of hopelessness and depression that can come from being a stay-at-home parent to a precious young child is…
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Luc Besson’s Sci-Fi Spectacle Is Still Brilliantly Bonkers
By any measure, The Fifth Element is wild. Written and directed by Luc Besson (Léon: The Professional, Lucy) – a man not known for cinematic restraint – the movie is a giddy sci-fi explosion, smashing together a rip-roaring story, fully-committed…
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Bound Featured, Reviews Film Threat
NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! I find joy in independent films from stories told free of big Hollywood studio interference. One such film is Isaac Hirotsu Woofter’s dramatic thriller Bound. Alexandra Faye Sadeghian stars as Bella, a young woman…
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An Intimate, Character-Driven Drama That Has No Easy Answers
I was surprised when it was announced that another film — and not writer-director Payal Kapadia’s lush All We Imagine as Light — would be India’s entry to the Oscars. The film’s story spans three generations and it’s a loving,…
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