The Assessment Featured, Reviews Film Threat
TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! The Assessment is set in a future where the outside world has become essentially uninhabitable, and humanity has retreated to climate-controlled domes. At the same time, a new drug has slowed aging dramatically. The…
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We Visited Jeremy Clarkson’s Pub and Farm Shop
On a recent trip to the Cotswolds we thought we’d take a trip to see Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat Farm and his brand new pub The Farmer’s Dog, both made famous from featuring in the Amazon Prime hit Clarkson’s Farm.…
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Music For Mushrooms Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Technology, social media, nonstop news, and an overabundance of information bombard us with constant noise. There is no doubt an extreme increase in anxiety, distress, and despair in the Western world. Director and musician Krishna-Trevor Oswalt, otherwise known as East…
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Art Dealers Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Art Dealers, directed by Roy Power and Adam Weiner, is an entertaining rock concert documentary. We follow Adam Weiner, who goes by the stage persona Low-Cut Connie, and his band, the Art Dealers. He is a charismatic frontman with a…
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Clocking the T Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Clocking the T is a hip, fresh romantic comedy from director/co-writer Michael Thibault. Candace (Jana Nawartschi) works in HR for a blood lab. Dave (Ben Hicks) is a social media astro-turfer. He and associates spend their days spinning comments on…
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Shyamalan-Produced Mystery Drowns In A Shaky Story & Uninteresting Characters
Despite the mixed directorial career he's had over the decades, I've always considered myself a fan of M. Night Shyamalan. Some of my favorite movies have been created by the filmmaker, such as 2002's Signs, while I've also enjoyed a…
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‘Krazy House’ Review – Nick Frost and Alicia Silverstone’s Film Mistakes Stupidity for Satire
Experimentation is essential to filmmaking, but not all experiments are successful. Steffen Haars and Flip van der Kuil's Dutch action-horror comedy Krazy House is a catastrophic flop. What should have been a 20-minute Adult Swim special is dragged into a…
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‘Sweetpea’ Review – Ella Purnell Won’t Be Ignored in Delightfully Twisted Dark Comedy
Ella Purnell has been having a brilliant year — although maybe it would be more accurate to say a brilliant handful of years. From her terrific turn as mean-girl Jackie Taylor in Showtime's survival thriller Yellowjackets to her widely-praised voice…
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‘From’ Season 3 Episode 3 Recap
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for From Season 3 Episode 3. Hope continues to be sapped from the air with each episode of From Season 3, as the townsfolk and their leaders buckle under the evolving horrors that…
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Closed Casket Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Ever since my father took me to a haunted house maze in Los Angeles as a young child, I have been fascinated by horror attractions. The seemingly sadistic performers that night delighted in making a little boy cry. In my…
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Gaslighter Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Virginia Powers Hendry’s horror short Gaslighter taps into some of our basic fears, walking the thin tightrope between safety and regret. Co-writer Anastasia Washington stars as our protagonist, Anne, who arrives home one dark evening only to find her power…
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Prime Video’s Witchy Horror Actually Understands The Restaurant Industry
There are several culinary series — about making food, about chefs, about traveling and being introduced to a variety of foods from different cultures — and movies about the restaurant industry (the dark comedy The Menu instantly comes to mind).…
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