Greywood’s Plot | Film Threat
In the annals of low-budget horror, movies are seen as mythical for their ability to reflect a director’s vision despite a lack of resources. Greywood’s Plot finds itself strangely in a queue to be one of these films but is unaware that…
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Good Old-Fashion Scares That You Cannot Refuse
We often say the word “trope” demeaningly, as if using a tested-and-approved formula was bad somehow. The fact remains that for something to become a trope, it had to be successfully repeated dozens of times. So, it’s not necessarily bad…
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Despite A Stellar Cast, This Dark Comedy Flops Hard
Home Movie Reviews The Estate Review: Despite A Stellar Cast, This Dark Comedy Flops Hard The Estate had the perfect setup for a great comedy featuring an all-star ensemble of actors adept at humor, but it fails to meet the…
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Where Set Design Trumps Storyline
Mediumrare Entertainment released this Collector’s Edition Blu-Ray this month with a bunch of must-see features but sadly a pretty picture doesn’t make for a good movie as we bring you this The Munsters review. Lily is just your typical 150-year-old,…
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Nicolas Cage Leads a Familiar and Forgettable Western
It's tough to imagine an audience that would be satisfied with The Old Way, a new Western starring Nicolas Cage. One would presume that Cage-heads would be the film's primary target, but super fans of the oftentimes grandiose actor will…
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Santa Claus Action Flick Can’t Sustain Its Clever Premise
The holiday action comedy “Violent Night” feels like it was sold in one of those pitch meetings from “The Player,” two guys in a room with Griffin Mill, excitedly announcing their brainchild: “It’s ‘Die Hard’ meets ‘Bad Santa!’” They presumably…
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The Road Dog | Film Threat
Director/co-writer Greg Glienna’s feature film, The Road Dog, tells the story of a man who has the opportunity to take a do-over on his life while forced to confront why his life went wrong in the first place. Doug Stanhope is…
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Alice Diop Challenges Our Conceptions of the Legal Drama
There are a lot of legal dramas out there. On television, this past year has seen great shows like Better Call Saul and ones that are less so like The Lincoln Lawyer. In film, there have been compelling works like…
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Missing Review | Flickreel
Most movies emphasize the dangers of technology. We’re slaves to our phones. Twitter is rotting our brain cells. It’s only a matter of time until Skynet takes over. Those assessments aren’t wrong per se, but does every movie need to…
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James Gunn Mixes The Absurd & The Vulgar With Heartwarming Delights
Filmmaker James Gunn’s modus operandi has been mostly the same but especially pronounced over the last few years. He’s always been attracted to misfits, outsiders, and the forgotten, and that’s always yielded lots of great, irreverent humor, championing the losers…
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Mind Bender Pushes Limits Of Reality & Patience
Home Movie Reviews Something In The Dirt Review: Mind Bender Pushes Limits Of Reality & Patience Benson and Moorhead have made it clear what they are interested in as filmmakers and this film is another trippy entry into their burgeoning…
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Al Pacino and Logan Lerman at Odds
At the end of the first season of Hunters, there were a series of significant twists that got dropped right into the middle of the story and shattered all we had come to know up until then. While this review…
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