The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse

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The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse

NOW ON APPLE TV! Prepare to be entered involuntarily into a treacle chugging contest with the Oscar-winning animated short The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse, directed by Peter Baynton and Charlie Macksey. It is the adaptation of the…

Fighting Olympus | Film Threat

Writer-director Julian Hampton’s action drama, Fighting Olypmus, is his sophomore feature-length effort. As the title implies, Hampton updates the characters from ancient Greek myths for a modern and more grounded approach. While this is a noble task, the film is…

Another Body | Film Threat

SXSW FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! The ability to destroy lives from the comfort of a darkened room on your computer is getting easier and easier. One such case of humiliation and doxing is told in co-directors Sophie Compton and Reuben…

Company of Prophets | Film Threat

One of the most difficult challenges of reviewing films is understanding a filmmaker’s vision. Sometimes one can find themselves in a difficult position of trying to write an objective review of something you don’t quite grasp. This is the dilemma…

Sally Hawkins Can’t Save Dull Biopic With Misplaced Focus

While pulling from true stories can make for excellent fiction films, there's a certain way of telling them that tends to leave critics gritting their teeth, its conventions associated with the too-broad term 'biopic'. These movies are easily accessible, perhaps,…

A Dishonourable Death: At Twenty-Seven Minutes Past Six

There are times when I just want to watch a bit of silliness, especially when death is on the line. That’s what I got from writer-director Blok’s short film, A Dishonourable Death: At Twenty-Seven Minutes Past Six. It’s 1837, and important…

Horror Film Delivers Chilling, Unnerving Scares [SXSW]

Talk to Me takes the living’s relationship with the dead and dials it up to 100. Directed by Michael Philippou and Danny Philippou, who co-wrote the screenplay with Bill Hinzman from a concept by Daley Pearson, the horror film is…

The Last Deal | Film Threat

NOW ON VOD! We are heading straight down Shakedown Street at 100 MPH in writer/director Jonathan Salemi’s cannabis crime picture, The Last Deal. Based on true events, it starts out in 2015 in Los Angeles, just prior to marijuana being…

Anthony Mackie & Zoe Chao Uplift Charming Sci-Fi Rom-Com [SXSW]

Romantic comedies haven’t quite disappeared, and indie filmmakers are coming up with fresh angles to tell such stories, breathing new life into the genre. Director Kristian Mercado and screenwriter Angela Bourassa know what’s up when it comes to rejuvenating romance,…

Sally Hawkins Stands Out in Stephen Frears Film

This review was originally published as part of coverage for the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. Philippa Longley (Sally Hawkins) is having a difficult time in her life. She’s been overlooked for an exciting position at her job, she suffers…

John Wick Chapter 4 4DX Review: Copy and Paste Choreography

It’s the fourth instalment of a franchise that is best known for its fight sequences than its story, script, acting and everything else that makes a film, a film. Switch off your brain and enjoy, here’s our John Wick Chapter…

The Ghost Lights | Film Threat

NOW ON TUBI! Grab a six-pack of Shiner Bock and a Joe Ely western shirt as we head to Texas for writer/director Timothy Stevens’ well-constructed sci-fi thriller The Ghost Lights. Journalist Alex (Katreeva Phillips) arrives in Dallas for her father’s…

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