Teddy Told Me To | Film Threat
Beloved childhood toys become the misshapen helms of lunatics in Teddy Told Me To, the directorial debut of special effects artist Tom Devlin. It opens with a YouTube livestream of an abandoned haunted house attraction. It closed down years ago due…
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Jena Malone Anchors Compelling, Uneven Religious Horror
Home Movie Reviews Consecration Review: Jena Malone Anchors Compelling, Uneven Religious Horror As bloodied and haunted as it gets, Consecration is a somewhat satisfying journey because Smith and Cook's script understands Grace is the anchor. Jena Malone in Consecration Christopher…
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Northern Shade | Film Threat
Writer/director Christopher Rucinski’s Northern Shade takes the neo-noir genre into America’s backwoods. Justin (Jesse Gavin) is a drunk military veteran languishing his life away on his father’s boat. He can’t sleep at night as he relives the death of his best friend,…
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Lifeless Thriller Never Recovers From Its Poor Script
Movies are the product of multiple elements working in unison, and in the very best of them, everything is firing on all cylinders. Usually, if one or two aspects aren't so great, quality in other places can rescue the viewing…
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The Golden Boys | Film Threat
The Golden Boys is your typical road trip/buddy comedy, but it’s also an independent feature made for under $700. Produced by brothers Peter and Anthony Algiers, it is evident a lot of work went into making the film. But does that…
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A Wordless and Hypnotic Exploration of Indigenous Mexican Communities
A series of rituals play out across Helmut Dosantos’ nearly wordless documentary “Gods of Mexico.” Honing in on Indigenous communities and their labor in Mexico despite the shadow of the country’s creeping modernization, Dosantos’s breathtaking film recalls the work of…
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Lackluster Chemistry Doesn’t Sink Sweet Rom-Com
Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher are no strangers to romantic comedies, and Your Place or Mine, Netflix's latest rom-com, has the two massive Hollywood actors teaming up for the first time. Can they recreate the magical feeling of some of…
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Creed 3 Aiming For All The Feels
After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) has been thriving in both his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian (Jonathan Majors), resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he…
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Cryptid | Film Threat
NOW ON VOD! The rain in Maine falls mainly on partially eaten corpses in writer/director’s Brad Rego’s retro monster feature Cryptid. One rainy night someone dies horribly on a rural Maine back road. Struggling freelance reporter Max (Nicholas Baroudi) tries to…
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Kurt Wimmer’s Remake Feels Like A Knife Through A Corn Cob Brain
Not every horror film needs to be produced by A24 or made by Jordan Peele to be of elevated quality. There are more grindhouse offerings like “Terrifier 2” that skip arthouse sensibilities and still deliver a heaping helping of blood,…
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Tatum’s Still Got It In Underwhelming Conclusion
Home Movie Reviews Magic Mike's Last Dance Review: Tatum's Still Got It In Underwhelming Conclusion Magic Mike’s Last Dance doesn’t reach the heights of XXL, nor does it have the same energy & sex appeal, but it does offer some…
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Michael Shannon Fudges the Truth
Come on, admit it. You’ve told a tiny nontruth before in order to boost yourself up. It’s likely harmless and not something that anyone would even notice. Unless, of course, you are pretending to be somebody you most definitely are…
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