Ed Sheeran The Sum of it All Review: Insightful Yet Saddening
Disney Plus has peeled back the curtain on singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran as this documentary opens your eyes but not in the positive and uplifting way the press release would have me believe. Here’s our Ed Sheeran The Sum of it…
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The Recruit | Film Threat
In director Bao Truong and writer Christina Connerton’s short film, The Recruit, Connerton plays Kat, a serial people pleasure, on her way to interview for a job-recruitment company. When she arrives at the offices of Intrinsic Recruiting, everything appears to be…
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The Celebrants | Film Threat
So the first waft of intrigue in auteur Antero Alli’s new experimental video, The Celebrants, occurs immediately with an untouched romp through seeming mundaneness. What’s with all this natural lighting and round-the-house footage? What’s the writer-director up to? We seem to…
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Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3
It’s finally here. The last good Marvel movie that we’re gonna get for a very long time. James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3 is almost the middle finger to Marvel for firing his a*s as he jumps ship to his…
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Crossfire | Film Threat
Yadhu Krishnan’s feature-length debut, Crossfire, tells an oft-told tale. But the dramatic thriller stars the underrated Louis Mandylor and Kevin Gage, which instantly ups its appeal. Can the writer-director add enough twists and character depth to make the narrative feel…
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FROM: Breaking Down Season 2 Episode 2!
Thanks for checking out my FROM Season 2 Episode 2 Review, Recap, and Analysis. The Episode’s Title is The Kindness of Strangers. We’re picking right up where we left off last week with FROM continuing to raise the stakes in…
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Final Vow | Film Threat
Director and co-writer Ruben Islas does not pull the punches in Final Vow, an action-adventure drama centered on human trafficking. Sister Anne Marie (played by Christina Urias, also a co-writer) is a Catholic nun who works in an orphanage in…
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Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat NAODS Show Review
I head down to the Abbey Theatre in Nuneaton to bring you this NAODS show review of Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat as it debuts for the first time on an amateur stage. NAODS are Nuneaton’s oldest amateur dramatic society…
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Hannah Waddingham Steals the Show
One would think, in terms of adapting things for the small screen, we’d have exhausted the literary canon by now. Every Jane Austen novel has been done to death, and the Brontë sisters are relatively close behind. It’s likely that…
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Assassin | Film Threat
At first glance, Assassin appears to be a Possessor clone. While the feature-length debut of director/co-writer Jess Atlas does share similarities to Brandon Cronenberg’s film, the two are distinct from each other. Cronenberg’s brilliant title is a heartbreaking tale about…
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Sisu | Film Threat
NOW IN THEATERS! If you’ve seen the trailer for Jalmari Helander’s action movie, Sisu, you know exactly what you’re getting into. No surprises. Jorma Tommila stars as our deadly protagonist, Aatami. It’s the final days of World War II, and…
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Simón | Film Threat
What if your homeland collapses? What if the stores go empty, the medical supplies are cut off, the living standards fall to their lowest, and everyone’s future and life become incomprehensible? Each country and society has its flaws and struggles,…
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