The Seance Featured, Reviews Film Threat
In Rob Federic and Carroll Brown’s short, The Seance, there may be a reason that there is only one way to cross to the other side. A group of acquaintances approaches a dark and mysterious home: the Writer (Marcus DeAnda),…
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‘Empire Waist’ Review – A Fashionable Tale of Friendship and Confidence
Wayfarer Studios and American High have consistently been providing quality teen entertainment in the past few years. From Five Feet Apart and Clouds for the former and Crush and Plan B for the latter, I was excited to see both…
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Stunning, Hilarious DreamWorks Animation Is An Instant Classic
When you hear that Chris Sanders is directing a new animated feature for DreamWorks, you sit up a little straighter. Sanders, who has been a long-time partner of How To Train Your Dragon's Dean DeBlois, is striking out on his…
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The Low End Theory Featured, Reviews Film Threat
In indie crime thriller The Low End Theory, director and co-writer Francisco Ordonez presents the story of a combat vet who steals from her drug-dealer boss. Racquel (Sofia Yepes) is funding her artistic endeavor to become a beats producer in…
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We Still Haven’t Seen Anything Like The Wachowskis’ Game-Changing Sci-Fi Gem
There’s a version of this review that explores how we didn’t appreciate Lana and Lilly Wachowski's genius at the time, and, in hindsight, The Matrix entered the zeitgeist at the perfect time in film history. In 1999, the film was…
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A Very Flattened Christmas Featured, Reviews Film Threat
A Very Flattened Christmas is the feature-length follow-up to the series Flattened. The show was created by Key Tawn Toothman, who co-writes this film with director Shane Wallace. Was there a compelling reason to return to the well of a…
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‘Rez Ball’ Review – Netflix’s Basketball Drama Sticks to Formula, but Finds Light in the Darkness
“The higher you go, the greater the fall,” Gloria Holiday (Julia Jones) tells her son Jimmy (Kauchani Bratt) early in Rez Ball. When Gloria was her son’s age, she was a basketball star on the Navajo Reservation team in Chuska,…
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Netflix’s Inspiring Sports Drama Takes A Challenging Subject & Fills It With Hope
This article contains references to suicide. Rez Ball is a moving sports drama based on true events that rocked a small community following a suicide. The film approaches challenging topics, while also focusing on the hope and unity the Native…
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Nick Frost’s Family Vacation Nightmare Is More Than Meets the Eye
In the vein of Midsommar and Sightseers, Steffen Haars’ Get Away is a vacation nightmare that delivers on its “getaway” wordplay. Nick Frost writes and stars in this Nordic take on tourism as a cornily comedic and viciously violent invasion.…
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‘‘Doctor Odyssey’ Review – Sexy Network TV Is Back, Baby!
ABC’s glamorous new Ryan Murphy series, Doctor Odyssey, set sail last night, hot on the heels of the un-bee-lievable Season 8 premiere of 9-1-1. Set aboard a luxury cruise ship captained by Captain Massey (Don Johnson), the new series aims…
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Pink Belt Featured, Reviews Film Threat
The best thing about Pink Belt is that one does not need to know anything about its subject, Aparna Rajawat, going in. Writer-director John McCrite’s documentary is about Rajawat and her desire to bring awareness to violence against women in…
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‘Better Man’ Review – Robbie Williams Is a CGI Monkey In Wild Take on the Music Biopic
How do you spice up another musician's ego-soothing biographical drama? Monkeys. I'm not joking. Better Man started as a conversation between English pop royalty Robbie Williams and director Michael Gracey. Williams expressed feeling like a dancing monkey in stages of…
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