The Little Mermaid IMAX Review: Snooze Inducing
A live-action remake to cash in on the success of recent live action animation remakes but at least they were interesting as The Little Mermaid delivers a dry, bland and quite frankly unwatchable affair at times. Here’s our The Little…
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Ben Affleck Stars In Bland Action Thriller With A Weak Script
Robert Rodriguez's latest action thriller felt like a disappointment waiting to happen. He wrote the original screenplay over 20 years ago, but the film hadn’t seen much life since 2018 when Max Borenstein rewrote the script. Three production halts and…
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Citadel Season Finale Wraps Up A Great New Spy Thriller Series
Citadel on Prime is one of the biggest shows of the year. In terms of budget, at least. The Russo Brothers produced new series is an action spy thriller that looked to be the next big thing. And while it…
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The Round Up: No Way Out
Sinister forces are chasing after a missing stash of drugs in Sang-yong Lee’s thriller, The Roundup: No Way Out. Don Lee returns once again as Detective Ma Seok-do in the sequel to the 2022 Korean hit, The Roundup. Seok finds…
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Sophie Thatcher Grounds An Unsettling Horror Adaptation
Based on Stephen King’s short story of the same name, The Boogeyman smartly crafts a story that is as disconcerting as it is emotionally raw. There is something to be said about our society’s lack of openness about death and…
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Justine Triet Weaves a Twisted Drama
Accused of killing her husband and put on trial for his death, a woman must face public scrutiny while defending and explaining herself to a world audience. Justine Triet's Anatomy of a Fall is a gripping and enigmatic story about…
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South Beach Shark Club | Film Threat
Have you ever been invited to a casual party at a stranger’s house, and when you arrive, everyone is sitting around telling stories that are too incredible to believe? The story of legends, if you will. This is how I…
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Don’t Sleep On The Boogeyman
High school student Sadie Harper and her younger sister Sawyer are reeling from the recent death of their mother and aren’t getting much support from their father, Will, a therapist who is dealing with his own pain. When a desperate…
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A Story We’ve Seen Before That Brings Nothing New To The Table
April Mullen’s (Wanderer) seventh feature film, Simulant, is drenched in classic sci-fi tropes, but it never makes a mark of its own. Ryan Christopher Churchill's (Love Your Enemy) script is predictable up until the final ten minutes of the film.…
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Tom Holland Stars in Middling Mystery
There is something nice about seeing Tom Holland playing someone other than Spider-Man in the Apple TV+ series The Crowded Room. This isn’t because his take on the wall-crawler was bad, per se, but more that it felt like he…
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Crescent Gang | Film Threat
Screenwriters Latasha Choe Johnson and B. Danielle Watkins drown their lighthearted drama, Crescent Gang, in sentimentality. Onyx Keesha and Gino Raphael Payne, the directors, keep the schmaltz high through tone and musical cues. Is this amount of emotional whimsy too much…
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Y2K Babes | Film Threat
The first episode of Y2K Babes packs a considerable punch. Trying to break into entertainment is challenging work. It is even more difficult in an industry, such as television, that places importance on “vibes,” frowns at networking during a funeral, and constantly…
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