‘Upload’ Season 3 Review — Afterlife Comedy Doubles Down on Satire
The first season of Upload felt like it arrived at just the right time. Michael Schur's afterlife comedy The Good Place had just come to an end and everybody was looking for something to watch in its place. Upload offered…
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Inside Man Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Mob films document the rise, infiltration, or gradual fall of organized crime families and institutions. For police detective Bobby Belucci (Emile Hirsch) of Danny A. Abeckaser’s newest indie crime thriller, Inside Man, he is dead set on infiltrating the ill-famed…
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The DJ Chris Villa Story Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Jeremy A. Lopez’s documentary, One for ALL: The DJ Chris Villa Story, takes into the world of competitive DJ-ing, but this is not your typical sports or music documentary. As the title suggests, this is about one of the nation’s…
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Nyad Review | Flickreel
Diana Nyad is an exceptional athlete and an all-around fascinating individual. This comes across in her biopic, even if the film isn’t as extraordinary as the woman at the core. Nyad hits all of the notes that it needs to,…
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Appendage Review: A Twisted Tale of Body Horror and Self-Doubt
In the dark, disturbing realm of body horror, Anna Zlokovic‘s Appendage plunges audiences into a nightmarish journey through the psyche of its protagonist, Hannah, played with palpable vulnerability by Hadley Robinson. The film serves as a stark reminder that beneath…
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Canvas Featured, Reviews Film Threat
There is a lot of brilliance in writer/director Ryan Guiterman’s Canvas, but it has to be balanced against a lot that is amateur or limited. The animated horror offering kicks off with nice, anime-style credits, seemingly aimed at placing this within that…
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‘Stranger Things Flight of Icarus’ Review — Eddie Munson’s Heroic Backstory
The Big Picture Stranger Things: Flight of Icarus delves into Eddie Munson's backstory, revealing the highs and lows of the beloved character. The novel introduces new characters and expands on existing ones, including Eddie's friends, family, and love interests. Written…
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Avenue of the Giants Featured, Reviews Film Threat
I have long been of the belief that secrets will eat you alive. They tend to fester like an infection in your very soul. The two main characters of writer-director Finn Taylor’s Avenue of the Giants have been keeping traumatic secrets for…
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Newsham Scream Park Review: The Perfect Scare Location
Housed inside one of the most evil and haunted places in the UK we were kindly invited to Newsham Scream Park for their first ever event as the old orphanage / asylum welcomed guests to a scare maze experience like…
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‘Wolf Like Me’ Season 2 Review — A Funnier, Deeper Follow-Up
Heading into Wolf Like Me Season 2, there's already an inherent advantage that this sophomore outing has over its predecessor: being able to talk about the supernatural secret that advice columnist Mary (Isla Fisher) has been hiding since the beginning…
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The Bell Keeper Featured, Reviews Film Threat
IN THEATERS AND VOD! Director Colton Tran’s The Bell Keeper begins like one of the C-grade slashers at which the excellent The Cabin in the Woods pokes fun. Brittany (Kathleen Kenny), Liam (Reid Miller), Matthew (Mike Manning), Holly (Cathy Marks), Gabriel (Capri-Antoine Vaillancourt), and…
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Sam, Now Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Sam, Now was filmed over such a long time it becomes its own definition of multimedia, derived from roughly equal parts Super 8 film and Hi 8 and Digital Video. It also encompasses documentary-style road movies and drama, but all…
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