The Teen Comedy Genre Gets A Much-Needed Kick In The Ass

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The Teen Comedy Genre Gets A Much-Needed Kick In The Ass

Summary Bottoms is a violent and riotous teen comedy that brings back the anything goes feeling missing from high school comedies and movies as a whole. The film features Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri as PJ and Josie, two Rockbridge…

Perpetrator Review: A Promising Premise That Falls Short

Perpetrator, directed by Jennifer Reeder, is a film that attempts to blend elements of supernatural transformation with a mystery surrounding a series of teen girls’ disappearances. While it offers an intriguing premise and a few commendable performances, it ultimately falls…

‘The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon’ Review

This review was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the series being covered here wouldn't exist.You know what would make a good zombie story? One where a…

Julia Louis-Dreyfus Takes On A Celestial Embodiment Of Death

TELLURIDE – At a festival full of gutsy films Daina O. Pusić’s directorial feature debut, “Tuesday,” may be the most visionary of them all. No small feat when you’re premiering opposite works from Yorgos Lanthimos, Pablo Larrain, Jonathan Glazer and…

Founders Day Featured, Reviews Film Threat

The screenplay for Founders Day, by director Erik Bloomquist and his brother Carson Bloomquist, feels like a reaction to the ever-growing political divisiveness in the United States. In the town of Fairwood, the mayoral election is heating up. Incumbent Blair…

Léa Seydoux Leads Bertrand Bonello’s Epic, Time-Spanning Sci-Fi Warning About A.I. [Venice]

You didn’t expect French filmmaker Bertrand Bonello to make a conventional sci-fi, did you? Good, because “The Beast” is far from it. It all starts in 2044 with beautiful actress Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) in desperate need of a job. To…

Imogen Poots Leads A Moody & Jagged Drama About Heiress Turned Marxist Radical [Telluride]

Based on a true story, they said, based on actual authentic events, but what does any of that matter if the actual story presented on screen doesn’t really resonate clearly or deeply? That’s the frustrating part of “Baltimore,” an intriguing…

Kevin Macdonald’s Fashion Doc Flirts With Cliché & Struggles To Tell A Bigger Story [Venice]

One viewing of “High & Low – John Galliano, “a documentary chronicling the impressive rise of British fashion designer John Galliano and his equally jarring fall from grace, should be more than sufficient to convince even the most uneducated of…

The Inflection Scheme Featured, Reviews Film Threat

For drama and theater students, James H. Lee’s short film, The Inflection Scheme, explores the idea of status and how it propels a story forward. Shaun Bedgood plays a shady crypto-trader who is in serious trouble. His current positions have…

Wrath of Khan Making Of Book Review

Can you believe that still to this day I’ve not seen one episode or one Star Trek movie, that’s quite some record as I always batted for Team Star Wars but after flicking through a few pages of this book,…

#ChadGetsTheAxe Featured, Reviews Film Threat

As Social Media ages past the 2000s, when it begins, it will morph into a farcical mess. There have been several films that have alluded to this situation. Still, no one quite revels in it the way Travis Bible and…

Alexander Payne And Paul Giamatti Reunite For a ’70s Nostalgia Dramedy

TELLURIDE – Considering the success and adoration of “Sideways,” it’s surprising it took Alexander Payne and Paul Giamatti this long to find another film to make together. Almost 20 years later, the director and actor have reteamed for “The Holdovers,”…

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