‘Elsbeth’ Season 2 Review – Same Upbeat Energy, New Stakes
One of the biggest surprises of the last TV season had to be CBS's procedural crime drama Elsbeth. The subject matter, mixed with its initial billing as a spin-off of The Good Wife, initially suggested a series very similar in…
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‘From’ Season 3 Episode 4 Recap
Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for From Season 3 Episode 4. The achingly familiar scene of a fallen tree and a murder of crows hails the screen in the opening sequence of From Season 3 Episode 4, "There and…
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‘Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage’ Review
The Coopers are back! Well, sort of. In Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage, created by Chuck Lorre, George Cooper Jr., aka Georgie (Montana Jordan), and Mandy McAllister (Emily Osment), have moved in with Mandy's parents, Audrey (Rachel Bay Jones) and…
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Duino Featured, Reviews Film Threat
NEWFEST FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! Often, movies are made for the masses, i.e., us. But sometimes, a movie is made for the artist as a catharsis. Juan Pablo Di Pace and Andrés Pepe Estrada’s Duino is the story of one…
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Maid Droid Origins Featured, Reviews Film Threat
One year after Maid Droid, writer-director Rich Mallery returns to that world with Maid Droid Origins. A quick check with IMDb makes it appear that no character from the first film appears here, but I having not seen it, I…
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‘The Walking Dead Daryl Dixon – The Book of Carol’ Episode 3 Recap
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon - The Book of Carol Episode 3. The last time we saw Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride) on The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon - The Book of Carol,…
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‘The Penguin’ Episode 4 Recap
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for The Penguin Episode 4. Last week's episode of The Penguin finally saw Oz Cobb (Colin Farrell) and Sofia Falcone (Cristin Milioti) working together to sell a new street drug known as Bliss…
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‘Tracker’ Season 2 Premiere Recap
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Tracker Season 2 Episode 1. Tracker Season 2 hits the ground running with an alluring new mystery and one of the deadliest cases yet. "Out of the Past" catches us back up…
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Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Benoît Chieux’s gorgeously animated Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds feels like a breath of fresh air in the vacuum of Disney’s recent ideologically-driven, pedestrian output. Made on a fraction of these features’ budget, Sirocco is infinitely more inspired/inspiring,…
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Hell Hole Featured, Reviews Film Threat
NOW ON SHUDDER! Someone really knows how to break the ice at the monster party in the notable creature feature Hell Hole, directed by John Adams and Toby Poser. Written by Adams, Poser and Lulu Adams, the film opens in…
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The Outrun Featured, Reviews Film Threat
NOW IN THEATERS! If you’ve ever had a friend or family struggle with an addiction, you know that nothing you say or do will change their ways. It seems to always happen at their rock bottom. Nora Fingscheidt’s feature, The…
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The Apprentice Featured, Reviews Film Threat
NOW IN THEATERS! A Trump movie coming out during a highly contentious election year? What could go wrong? Oddly enough, Ali Abbasi’s Trump biopic, The Apprentice, is not the film I thought it would be, especially at a time when…
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