Chris O’Dowd Leads a Series in Search of Potential
What is your life’s potential? Not your job, not your hobbies, but your potential. It is an existential question in an almost cosmic sense that carries with it a great weight. In The Big Door Prize, the new Apple TV+…
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‘Child’s Play’ Documentary Explores Found Family
In the late ‘80s, writer Don Mancini came up with a strange script about a friendly-looking doll coming to life and terrorizing a family. That story would be used by director Tom Holland to create Child’s Play, one of history's…
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Hitchcock’s Feathered Film Earns Its Legendary Status
Last year, I had the thrilling opportunity to remedy a major faux pas in my film enthusiast journey: I finally watched and reviewed Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. How it took me so long to watch such an iconic and frankly perfect…
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I Call On You My Friends
Joshua Charperrin Woodard’s short film, I Call On You My Friends, tells the story of four friends gathering for the first time in seven years by a campfire. Jim (Jordan Dean Foster) is the one who called the meeting and already…
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Review
Although Jeremy Irons’ presence made for an unintentionally hilarious watch, 2000’s Dungeons & Dragons otherwise took itself too seriously. That’s not to say players don’t take D&D campaigns seriously. When your character dies in a campaign, it can feel like…
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Pothole | Film Threat
In Derek Rosenfeld’s short film, Pothole, a couple is stranded on a dark roadside with a flat tire. Of course, Betty (Sam Simone) is hopelessly fixing the tire while Clyde (Matt Algozzini) figures out their next move… inside the car. Then,…
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Malcolm Speaks | Film Threat
At first glance, Michael Wynn’s short film, Malcolm Speaks, appears to be simply actor Micahel Wynn (credited as Michael X) reenacting Malcolm X’s famous House Negro Field Negro speech. But Wynn is able to connect Malcolm’s words from 1963 to…
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Go Through the Dark | Film Threat
Guanglin Yu is an 11-year-old Go prodigy living in mainland China. However, Guanglin’s skill in the classic strategy game is unique because he is almost entirely blind. After placing second in a significant Go tournament, Guaglin’s single father sees him…
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Bheed (2023): A Crowd In Distress
Bheed (2023): Starring Rajkumar Rao as police inspector Surya Kumar SinghThe socio-political drama unfolds. It was March 24, 2020. The honorable Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a.k.a “PM Modi”, made an abrupt announcement at around 8 PM that the entire…
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Adventurados | Film Threat
Blue-collar science fiction is a time-honored tradition. Silent Running, Dark Star, Outland, and Moon all demonstrate a conceit wherein corporate overlords screw over the working man. Oftentimes, these films take place around the orbit of the Moon or somewhere we haven’t yet been in the…
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Chaotic Fantasy Adventure Rolls a Hit
For years, the concept of adapting the vast and immersive canon of Dungeons & Dragons into a successful feature film seemed insurmountable — but there's no denying that the tabletop role-playing game has been given a new resurgence lately, thanks…
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Geoff McFetridge: Drawing a Life
SXSW FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! When people say the word “artist,” they mean a painter. For most humans on this rock, art = visual. It’s oddly limiting, given that in order for the person to paint a thing, they first…
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