Violent Night Review: Santa is BRUTAL
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xueIvyEtQvw[/embed]When a team of mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone inside hostage, the team isn’t prepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus (David Harbour, Black Widow, Stranger Things series) is on the grounds, and…
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Bones and All Review | Flickreel
Some will call Bones and All grotesque. Others will call it grotesquely romantic. The film blends tones, themes, and genres to create a meal that’s not quite like any other. The unusual ingredients make sense when you consider the cooks…
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Graham Foy’s Feature Debut Looks For The Magic But Fails To Capture It [TIFF]
What does the title of Graham Foy‘s “The Maiden” mean? The film’s early title card reveals that it’s a graffiti tag for Kyle (Justin Sluiter) and Colton (Marcel T. Jiminez), two friends in ’90s Calgary who litter their hometown with the…
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Ungar’s Crime Drama Organically Thrills Despite Mixed Signals
Armed bank robberies are some of the most fascinating crime stories in film and television. Specifically, ones in which no victims are hurt always draw in national viewership and intrigue. Canada’s “Flying Bandit,” for example, was known as the infamous…
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Benson & Moorhead Show Search for Signs
Human beings are in an uncomfortable position in the cosmos. Our sensorial apparatus is incapable of seeing or hearing everything that happens around us, while our nervous system can only process a limited amount of information. Yet, we are pattern-seeking…
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The 1978 Original Doesn’t Quite Live Up To Its Legacy
Halloween (1978) has a perfect credits sequence for a film centered around that holiday. It also has a chilling first scene, as the jack-o’-lantern segues into a first-person perspective of someone spying on Judith Myers and her boyfriend on Halloween…
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Jeepers Creepers Reborn Review: A Dumpster Fire
We were sent a screener to bring you this Jeepers Creepers Reborn review but I kind of wish they didn’t! Chase and Laine head to the Horror Hound Festival, where Laine begins to experience unexplained premonitions and disturbing visions associated…
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Absolute Denial | Film Threat
Writer-director Ryan Braund’s Absolute Denial is a hand-drawn showcase of cinema that proves to be a rousing look at A.I., computers, loneliness, genius, and madness. An obsessive computer programmer named David (Nick Eriksen) attempts to make something of himself by developing an…
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Bhediya (2022): The Love Story Of A Beast
If the world will be free of problems, paradise will lose its value. But the world won’t ever be free of problems because as night falls, he transforms! The legend tells the tale of the Big Bad Wolf and seven…
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Review
The original Knives Out took everything we know about whodunit stories and subverted our expectations. Glass Onion plays with our knowledge of the previous film, catching us off guard in new, thrilling ways. While still A Knives Out Mystery, Glass…
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Sheila Pye’s Striking Feature Debut Wants To Burn It All Down [TIFF]
#MeToo has done a lot of good for culture in the five years since the movement’s birth. But there’s bad to take with that good, too, like the endless and awkward sloganeering that commodified the cause as a series of…
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WWII Tale Has Some Charm, But Not Enough Depth
Few moments in history seem to be covered as extensively on screen as World War II. It feels like nearly every aspect of this wide-ranging, devastating event has earned its own movie. In the case of Morgan Matthews' Railway Children,…
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