Johnny Depp and Maïwenn Lead Period Romance

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Johnny Depp and Maïwenn Lead Period Romance

Biopics can shed new light on the life and work of beloved celebrities, but they can also introduce the audience to a fairly unknown historical figure. That’s the case with Maïwenn’s Jeanne du Barry, a period romance inspired by the…

Knights of the Zodiac | Film Threat

NOW IN THEATERS! Based on the manga Saint Seiya by Masami Kurumada, Tomasz Baginski’s Knights of the Zodiac is the latest Big Hollywood entry into the YA Fantasy genre. Mackenyu stars as the orphan Seiya, whose sister, Patricia (Kaylan Teague),…

Rebel//Rebel | Film Threat

Struggling with addiction, Jake Hughes, a former Hollywood star, hopes to revive his career in a small Midwestern town in Drew Harwood’s feature, Rebel//Rebel. Jake Hughes (Gareth Koorzen) is the said struggling actor, and his final chance at his tenuous…

Maïwenn’s Johnny Depp-Starring Cannes Opener Is An Unsalvageable Royal Drama [Cannes]

Speaking on her decision to bring the story of chief royal mistress Jeanne du Barry to screen, French actress and director Maïwenn said the figure of the Countess seduced her because she is a “magnificent loser,” adding that the allure…

Playing With Fire | Film Threat

Playing With Fire, directed and edited by Allan Miller, is about a heretofore unknown pioneer in the field of Baroque musical conducting. From the age of 4, Jeannette Sorrell became obsessed with the piano. Her parents did not initially understand…

A New Old Play | Film Threat

Writer-director Qiu Jiongjiong’s A New Old Play opens with two affable demons, Oxhead and Horseface, personified as humans, pumping the front tire of the rickshaw they use to shuttle souls to the afterlife. This moment, an eccentric mixture of the supernatural and…

Space Wars: Quest for the Deepstar

In the year 2980, death is not the end. Instead, a soul can be extracted into “essence,” a small blue liquid used to resurrect those who have passed on. However, finding the process of immortality through essence is only available…

Sapiosexual | Film Threat

Sapiosexual describes a person who finds intelligence sexually attractive or arousing. In the dark, sexually-driven, slightly suspenseful thriller Sapiosexual, the idea of this type of attraction is brought to an entirely different level with a bit of a twist and a…

A Gem in the Chessington Shrine

After years in the making the partnership between Merlin Entertainments and Sony results in the World of Jumanji at Chessington World of Adventures and it’s wonderful! Here’s our World of Jumanji review. Merlin Entertainments has brought the world’s first Jumanji-themed…

The Coroner’s Assistant | Film Threat

Angeline Walsh’s comedic series, The Coroner’s Assistant, takes us into the dark underbelly of London’s cadaver trade. Will you survive or be the next put up on the seller’s block? It’s Victorian-era London, and a young anatomy student, James Rigby…

The Cult Cartoon Thaws Out and Is Fresher Than Ever

Way, way back in the early 2000s, MTV aired Clone High, an animated series about a high school comprised of genetic copies of famous guys and ladies. The show was both a brilliant parody of the high school dramas of…

Chile ’76 | Film Threat

1976 was certainly a scary time to be in Chile. In Manuela Martelli’s political thriller Chile ’76, the writer-director focuses on a personal story of one woman’s attempts to help the opposition against Augusto Pinochet. For context, Pinochet was a brutal…

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