Netflix’s Cheesy Holiday Romance Pairs Tradition With A Music Twist
Meet Me Next Christmas is a corny Christmas movie that follows the typical tropes, but the musical elements and central characters make it a fun watch nonetheless. Getting into the Christmas season, Netflix is gearing up a slate of brand-new…
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A Delicious Auction and a Shocking Tie
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Survivor 47 Episode 8. Get your appetites ready and your cash tubes prepped for the Survivor auction! Created by Charlie Parsons, this mainstay of the legendary CBSreality series returns to offer this…
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‘Small Things Like These’ Review
What comes to mind when you think of Ireland? James Joyce, Guinness, stew, your great great great grandmother who might have been born there. In contemporary times, it’s probably Paul Mescal’s GAA shorts, Sally Rooney’s gutwrenching notes on love, or…
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Cast Party Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Filmmaker Tyler AM’s horror film, Cast Party, is a testament to not giving up on your dreams of filmmaking. Cast Party was shot years ago, I believe, when he was in his late teens. The production was fraught with problems,…
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Half Of This Movie Gets That Holiday Season Feeling Just Right
I see Christmas Eve in Miller's Point as a combination of two storytelling instincts, the first of which is, unsurprisingly, the Christmas movie. This is one of those not just set around the holiday, but about it, and scenes of…
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Ding Dong, the Bell Is Rung
Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for The Masked Singer Season 12 Episode 6. It's time to have some fun, fun, fun as it's The Masked Singer Season 12 Group B Finals! The three contenders, Goo, Wasp, and Bluebell kick…
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‘Citadel Honey Bunny’ Review – Samantha and Varun Dhawan Smolder in High-Stakes Spyverse Prequel
These days, it feels like almost every new series has to kick off a franchise or inspire a host of spin-offs in order to justify its existence. Prime Video's The Boys spawned Gen V, as well as an animated anthology,…
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Invoking Yell Featured, Reviews Film Threat
To think there was a time when audiences thought found footage was a compelling style of cinema. Coming into adulthood in the aughts, we were living in the cultural wake of The Blair Witch Project, which is still the only…
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Nick Frost Is Haunting In A Ghost Story That Moves Too Fast & Too Slow
After often showcasing his skills in the world of comedy, Nick Frost is tapping into a new side of performing with Black Cab. Frost is best known for his work co-leading the Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy with Simon Pegg, while…
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Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto’s Directorial Debut Is a Solid Effort
Many films use the imaginative nature of cinema to blur the lines between life and the afterlife, but just a select number of them do it in ways that feel innovative and intriguing. Pedro Páramo uses its supernatural language to…
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Agent of Happiness Featured, Reviews Film Threat
In the documentary Agent of Happiness, Amber Kumar Gurung plays the agent, traveling the mountains of the Bhutanese Himalayas conducting government-sponsored surveys of happiness. Ironically, while scoring the happiness of other citizens, his own fulfillment is dubious, as his life…
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This Stale Christmas Morality Tale Doesn’t Take A Stance
Based on the 1972 children's book of the same name by Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever lengthens the story but fails to dig deep while exploring its own true meaning of Christmas. Now that it's November, stores, companies,…
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