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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The Haunted Forest Featured, Reviews Film Threat
The Haunted Forest is full of a rich and charming Halloween atmosphere, but does it deliver on scares? In writer/director Keith Boynton’s horror film, we follow Zach (Grayson Gwaze), a boarding school senior who takes a job at his cousin…
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Universal Language Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Universal Language is set in Winnipeg in an absurdist alternate future where Persian and French are the official languages of Canada. The snow-laden streets have turkeys wandering them, there are stores that sell nothing but Kleenex, and graveyards are bizarrely…
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Sleep Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Ever since The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, horror has been entrenched in themes of sleep, possession, and mysticism. Films like Cat People and Suspiria have explored this theme in fascinating ways, despite the stylistic differences between European folklore and Giallo’s…
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Family Political Drama Is One of the Year’s Best
There is a scene early on in Walter Salle’s I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui in Portuguese) that prepares you for what type of film you're about to see. The teenage Veroca (Valentina Herszage), the eldest child of the Paira…
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Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Review
Reviewing Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is an acknowledgment that it is a sequel — when it hit theaters in 1980, Star Wars had already changed the world forever, and expectations were impossibly high. Theaters filled with fans frantically…
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‘Tracker’ Season 2 Review – One of the Best Shows on TV Gets Even Better
Back in February, viewers were pleasantly surprised by CBS's latest breakout hit drama, Tracker, which pushed former Smallville and This Is Us star Justin Hartley into the limelight. The series, based on the character from Jeffrey Deaver's The Never Game,…
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A Quiet, Powerful Drama About Family and Sacrifice
South Asian cinema is not often celebrated for its social realism, instead favored for its colorful mixing of metaphorical allusions to the toils of daily life wrapped within spectacular and kinetic set pieces. On the other hand, there has been…
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‘Puzzle Box’ Review – A Found Footage Horror Film That Tries to Be Something Different
Once upon a time, thanks to the success of The Blair Witch Project in 1999, the found footage subgenre of horror felt fresh and was a nice change of pace after the Scream slasher era began to wane. Of course,…
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