Anna Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Dekel Berenson’s short film, Anna, takes on a bit of poignancy in light of current circumstances. Filmed in 2019, our story takes place in a war-torn Eastern Ukraine. Anna (Svetlana Barandich) is a portly single mother working day-to-day at a…
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Dune Part Two Review: An Epic Sci-Fi That Lives Up To The Hype
The saga continues as award-winning filmmaker Denis Villeneuve embarks on “Dune: Part Two,” the next chapter of Frank Herbert’s celebrated novel Dune, with an expanded all-star international ensemble cast. The film, from Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures, is the…
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Slim Chances Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Slim Chances, the four-minute short film directed and written by Asia Bonetto, explores the harmful effects of eating disorders. Living in a poky apartment is a young woman who, by all appearances, adheres to a routine. The camera steadily moves…
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‘Completely Made-up Adventures of Dick Turpin’ Review — Apple TV+ Comedy Struggles
The Big Picture The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin is a light, airy comedy series on Apple TV+ with vibrant aesthetics. The show features comedian Noel Fielding as a friendly highwayman who lacks a proper gang. The series has…
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Get Lucky Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Get Lucky is an Indie comedy by Swedish director Ingela Ogard. Normally, a review would begin with a synopsis of the film. Still, for this film, which hews very closely to some familiar tropes, we can visualize that concept and…
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‘Constellation’ Episode 4 Recap — Apple TV+’s Sci-Fi Mystery Takes a Turn
Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for Episode 4 of Constellation. The Big Picture A greater focus on personal dramas makes Constellation 's characters more tangible in Episode 4. With the matter of what the series is about resolved, we…
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BHAKSHAK Review: Bhumi Pednekar’s Finest Film
I’m starting to like Bhumi Pednekar more and more. While I’m not a fan of her when they try to shoehorn her into leading ‘heroine’-type roles like in Thank You For Coming. But when she does these street-level grounded and…
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Cover Your Ears Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Director Sean Patrick Shaul’s documentary Cover Your Ears takes viewers on a 100-year journey through censorship in music. Racism, overreaching politicians, angry moms, and Christianity all show up as culprits in the struggle to maintain and define American culture, but…
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Cabrini Featured, Reviews Film Threat
8400 seconds. 140 minutes. Two hours and 20 minutes. That is the seemingly daunting runtime of Cabrini, directed by Alejandro Monteverde, who came up with the story with screenwriter Rod Barr. Their inspiration is the life of Frances Xavier Cabrini, an…
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‘The Sweet East’ Review — Get Ayo Edebiri and Talia Ryder Out of There
The Big Picture The Sweet East is a well-shot though ultimately empty absurdist look at Eastern America. The film follows Lillian as she goes from a field trip to a more wandering and scattered series of encounters. Talia Ryder delivers…
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Dark Hallway Featured, Reviews Film Threat
One of the exciting aspects of film is when a filmmaker changes the narrative structure of a work. One can use flashbacks, or events could be shown, suggesting the whole story is a dream sequence. Tobias: Dark Hallway, written and directed…
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Kate Winslet Chews Every Scene In HBO’s Smart Deconstruction Of Political Upheaval
The leader of a fictional European country falls apart in HBO’s latest political satire, “The Regime,” premiering on March 3. The network has a long history of deconstructing power on shows like “Veep” and “Succession,” two programs that will undoubtedly…
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