Doctor Who Am I | Film Threat
Matthew Jacobs was a writer of Young Indiana Jones and wrote the original script for The Emperor’s New Groove, but he is known most for writing the 1996 film Doctor Who: The Movie. The film faced heavy criticism from fans and critics alike and did…
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Infinite Sea (Mar Infinito) | Film Threat
Written and directed by Carlos Amaral, Infinite Sea (Mar Infinito) is a Portuguese sci-fi drama set in a dusty city no longer bustling with life. It’s eerily quiet, mostly vacant, and serves as home to a select few occupants who were left…
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A Game You MUST Play!
We were invited down to the Saw Escape Experience in London as we stepped foot inside the movies and attempted one of Jigsaw’s games. Here is our Saw Escape Experience London review. The Saw Escape Experience in London is an…
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Kite Zo A : Leave the Bones
SXSW Film Festival 2023 REVIEW! Kite Zo A: Leave the Bones is not a dramatic feature, nor is it precisely a documentary… at least in the traditional sense. Director Kaveh Nabatian invites the viewer to witness an audiovisual explosion of Haitian music…
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Condor’s Nest | Film Threat
You have to be in the right mood to watch a film like writer-director Phil Blattenberger’s exploitative war actioner Condor’s Nest. Making up for budgetary restrictions with some juicy dialogue and a momentum that rarely lags, the filmmaker couldn’t give less…
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Ben Affleck’s Sports Bio Is His Industry Manifesto
For all the headlines written about Ben Affleck’s mid-career return to superhero movies, one still must wonder what movies we missed from Director Affleck while Actor Affleck was otherwise preoccupied. Even accounting for the commercial hiccup that was “Live by Night,” Affleck…
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
NOW ON HBO! It’s amazing what you can get done with some empty opioid pill bottles and a pile of lifeless bodies in the awe-inspiring documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed by director Laura Poitras. It opens with famed art…
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Charles Dickens’ Classic Is Deftly Reborn
Over 160 years after Charles Dickens penned, what is now hailed as his greatest work, Great Expectations, has found a new life in Steven Knight’s smartly crafted limited series by the same name. Adaptations are no easy feat to pull…
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Attached | Film Threat
It’s not hard to step outside and see how we as a society are becoming more and more attached to our devices. Director/writer Xingyu “Harry” Chen and co-writer John Thompson delve into this phenomenon in their horror short Attached. Theo (David…
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Steven Yeun & Ali Wong Are As Magnificent As They’ve Ever Been In Netflix’s Sublime Revenge Saga [SXSW]
Watching “Beef,” the new series from longtime writer Lee Sung Jin produced by A24, is like observing a trainwreck. Only, instead of it being an accident that seems to come out of nowhere, two different drivers are operating separate locomotives…
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Susie Searches | Film Threat
SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! Mystery movies and true crime podcasts have been all the rage in recent years. As such, I expected writer/director Sophie Kargman’s Susie Searches, co-written by William Day Frank, to be in the same kind…
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Adele Lim’s Raunchy Comedy Is An Instant Crowd-Pleaser [SXSW]
When it comes to R-rated comedies, no other film festival can hold a candle to SXSW. The Austin-based film festival is often the jumping-off point for some of the year’s highest-profile comedies; previous premieres have included films like “Knocked Up,”…
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