I’ll Be Right There Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Like a good home-cooked meal, Brendan Walsh’s charming little dramedy I’ll Be Right There serves you exactly what you expect. And there’s nothing wrong with that if familiarity is what you seek. All the ingredients are here: solid acting, a…
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‘Agatha All Along’ Episode 4 Recap
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Agatha All Along Episode 4. Agatha All Along Episode 4 turns up the heat — and we’re not just talking about the fire trial. Rio Vidal (Aubrey Plaza) is officially joining the…
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Miyazaki’s Most Romantic Film Is Just As Breathtaking 20 Years Later
Revisiting Howl's Moving Castle after 20 years is no hardship, as the seminal film by Hayao Miyazaki from Studio Ghibli isn't just lush and idyllic, it also takes a stance. Set in another world where magic is real and wizards…
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‘The Masked Singer’ Season 12 Episode 2 Recap: Everybody Cut Loose!
Everybody cut Footloose! The theme weeks have returned, and this one was perfection. The Masked Singer kicks off the aptly titled "Footloose Night" episode with a rousing performance of the title track from Footloose, performed by Robin Thicke wearing his…
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A Moving History of the Decline and Fall of a Featherweight Empire
In 1946, boxing history may or may not have been made. It was a featherweight bout between Guglielmo Papaleo, better known as Willie Pep, and Jackie Graves. The fight lasted for 8 rounds (out of 10 scheduled) and ultimately called…
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Powerful Family Documentary Finds Beauty in the Pain
Over the last few years, I’ve suffered from some major eye issues that easily could have led to blindness. Now, some will be particularly bemused by a film critic losing their vision, mired somewhere between a Twilight Zone tale of…
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Saturday Night Reviews Film Threat
TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! Jason Reitman’s latest film, Saturday Night, is set in the 90 minutes leading up to the first episode of what would become known as Saturday Night Live and attempts to capture the chaos, beauty,…
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‘Haunt Season’ Review – An Unscary But Oddly Affecting Haunted House Horror Movie
Haunt Season is a strange film. It’s not the low-budget slasher B-movie that you can easily write off with its shallow characters and overreliance on fake blood. It’s something smarter, and, ultimately, more soulful than that. A tale of a…
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Tobe Hooper’s Horror Classic Hasn’t Lost Its Devastating Power
One of the most notorious aspects of Tobe Hooper's 1974 horror classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is that, despite its lurid title, premise (five young people encounter a cannibalistic back-country family, one lives to tell the tale), and tagline…
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Michael Jai White Can’t Save Formulaic Action-Comedy
Jason Krawczyk’s last directorial effort is 2015's punchy "bullets, blood, and Bingo" flick He Never Died. His comeback project, the Tubi original Don't Mess With Grandma (aka Sunset Superman), hopes to channel the same indie action gumption. It's a home…
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‘Heavier Trip’ Review – A Fun Metal Sequel That Lags Behind the First
Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren get the band back together in their Finnish metalhead sequel, Heavier Trip. It’s a direct continuation of 2018's Heavy Trip, which chronicled the improbable and hilarious rise of amateur thrashers Impaled Rektum. It’s nowhere near…
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‘Strange Harvest Occult Murder in the Inland Empire’ Review
One half of the Vicious Brothers, Stuart Ortiz, directs his first solo horror feature with Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire. It's a faux true-crime documentary about San Bernardino's most prolific serial killer, doing the work to trick…
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