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Saturday Night Featured, Reviews Film Threat
WEB2 days ago — Movie score: 8/10. "…a fast-paced whirlwind tour of a seminal moment in American culture." 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 …
The Guilty Featured, Reviews Film Threat
WEBOct 1, 2021 — The strength of cinema is that it is so visual and provides a much larger canvas. That’s wasted when everything happens in one location. Still, The Guilty manages to keep things interesting with a propulsive plot. Just about the time you would be getting bored, another call comes in, or our protagonist has some kind of crisis.
The Substance Featured, Reviews Film Threat
WEBSep 25, 2024 — Movie score: 9/10. "…the real star of The Substance has to be the numerous practical effects." Despite what the title suggests, The Substance is not a decades-later sequel to the cult masterpiece The Stuff. The film, written and directed by Coralie Fargeat, is a bit more like if Passion Of Mind was directed by …
Wonka Reviews Film Threat
WEBDec 15, 2023 — NOW IN THEATERS! With Wonka, director/co-writer Paul King and co-writer Simon Farnaby present a delightful musical exploring the origins of Roald Dahl's mysterious and beloved chocolatier. As the story begins, Willy Wonka (Timothée Chalamet) arrives on a steamer to make his fortune in a small, middle-of-the-continent, unnamed European city. He has come here because it contains
Schism Featured, Reviews Film Threat
WEB4 hours ago — By Michael Talbot-Haynes | October 3, 2024. Lost arts from indie film lore are revived and unleashed in the spectacularly campy spine-tingler Schism, written and directed by Thor Moreno. One day, Nola (Cait Moira) walks into the house, opens the bedroom door, and starts screaming at what she sees inside. Four years later, she is locked in a ...
Terrifier 2 Featured, Reviews Film Threat
WEBNov 5, 2023 — AWARD THIS! 2023 NOMINEE! The luxury loungers of your local theater are sticky with blood after repeat showings of writer/director Damien Leone's incredible screen breaker Terrifier 2. Continuing exactly where the 2016 original left off, the movie follows the return of the Miles County killer, Art the Clown (David …
The Deliverance Featured, Reviews Film Threat
WEBSep 20, 2024 — NOW ON NETFLIX! Glenn Close is closer to finally getting that Oscar thanks to her stellar work in the stumbling exorcism picture The Deliverance, directed by Lee Daniels and written by David Coggeshall and Elijah Bynum.Based on a true story, the movie is set in 2011 in Gary, Indiana, where Ebony (Andra Day) has moved with her three children: Nate (Caleb McLaughlin), Shante (Demi Singleton ...
Plastic Featured, Reviews Film Threat
WEB14 hours ago — Movie score: 8/10. "…Jun’s music aspirations are put on hold, and a friend… convinces him to join his venture business." Daisuke Miyazaki’s Plastic follows two teenagers over the course of four years. We track the young lovers from 2018 to 2022 in this loose coming-of-age tale. 2018 was a year of …
Eradication Featured, Reviews Film Threat
WEBSep 29, 2022 — Director Daniel Byers’ Eradication, which he co-wrote with star Harry Aspinwall, is better than most coronavirus-inspired tales, even if it’s catching only the tail-end of our cultural obsession with the pandemic. At least part of the allure of developing a screenplay centered around isolation is that there’s now a built-in audience that ...