More Like a Plea for Help
The penultimate episode of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s final season is yet another example of squandered potential. With so little time remaining with a cast of characters that have grown to feel like a second family for the audience, Episode…
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Upcoming New Indie Crime Drama “TONIC” (2023): The Perils of The Piano Man
A barfly jazz pianist must commit murder to pay off a drug debt to a crooked cop. Best hold on tight. It’s gonna be one helluva night.A couple of summers ago I interviewed indie filmmaker Derek Presley on the occasion…
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Savi The Cat | Film Threat
In Savi the Cat, the animated-live action short comedy from writers-directors Netsanet Tjirongo and Bryan Tucker, happy newlyweds Ken (Ken Nsimbi) and Kaila (Kaila Nsimbi) encounter their first marital snag after adopting an intractable kitten. “I had no idea something so…
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The Animal Kingdom Is Too Conventional To Truly Roar [Cannes Review]
CANNES – Imagine the world completely changing over the span of just two years. No, there hasn’t been an apocalyptic nuclear war. Sadly, first contact hasn’t been achieved with aliens. And, in the most likely scenario, the planet hasn’t upended…
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Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Mystery Defies Easy Interpretation
On the surface, Hirokazu Kore-eda's Monster seems to merely be about a boy struggling at school with his single mother doing her best to keep their life together. When an incident leaves her son injured, she storms into said school…
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A Great Thriller But a Poor History Doc
At a certain point in the final episode of Ghosts of Beirut, a character utters a powerful statement about the relationship between the Middle East and the United States: both territories “are the same” and they “feed on each other.”…
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American Sikh | Film Threat
TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! In American Sikh, co-directors Vishavjit Singh and Ryan Westra, who also wrote the film, present a highly creative animated short film. The plot centers on a Sikh American man (Vishavjit Singh) who becomes Captain America…
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Who Needs Logic When You’ve Got Family
The end of the road begins. Fast X, the tenth film in the Fast & Furious Saga, launches the final chapters of one of cinema’s most storied and popular global franchises, now in its third decade and still going strong…
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World War II Horror Movie Is Both Scary & Smart
Brooklyn 45, from writer-director Ted Geoghegan, takes place in a single location — a Brooklyn brownstone — during a singular period of time — the Christmas after World War II drew to a close. Utilizing both its single location and…
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Jason Momoa Flamboyantly Steals The Show In This Ridiculous Yet Entertaining Wild Ride
You will either watch “Fast X” or you won’t. It’s not a film series that people are on the fence over, and they’ve probably made up their minds long before now. The multibillion-dollar franchise that kicked off over 20 years…
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Steve McQueen’s Documentary Makes an Impact
What do a crowd protesting COVID lockdown, climate change, ice skating on a canal, and Nazi-occupied Amsterdam have in common? Not much, but to Steve McQueen they string together a story with Occupied City. The documentary was directed and produced…
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This Remake Barely Gets off the Ground
Remakes are nothing new in our current movie landscape though few have felt as bafflingly unnecessary and painfully unfunny as White Men Can’t Jump. Though the 1992 original starring the spectacular duo of Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes is not…
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