What is God to you?
Cancel your weekend plans and go see #Anora, the best film of the year. Mikey Madison is sublime.
Review #516 on Film Threat:
Anora Featured, Reviews Film Threat NEW IN THEATERS! Sean Baker can do no wrong. His three most notable features – Tangerine, The Florida Project, and Red Rocket – are all bona fide masterpieces. Anora, the 2024 Palme d’Or winner, continues his streak of poignant tales about boisterous, enigmatic, passionate, flawed, very real c...
If Hayao Miyazaki and Mœbius teamed up to remake/combine #FantasticPlanet and #TheYellowSubmarine, they may have ended up with something like the trippy #SiroccoAndTheKingdomOfTheWinds.
Review #515 on Film Threat:
Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds Featured, Reviews Film Threat Benoît Chieux’s gorgeously animated Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds feels like a breath of fresh air in the vacuum of Disney’s recent ideologically-driven, pedestrian output. Made on a fraction of these features' budget, Sirocco is infinitely more inspired/inspiring, refusing to pander to ...
Working on a Disney shoot with director extraordinaire Gil Green 🎥
I'm still not quite sure what the time-travel-parallel-dimension-paradox-mindfuck #ThingsWillBeDifferent is about, but I think that may be the point.
Review #514 on Film Threat:
Things Will Be Different Featured, Reviews Film Threat Writer-director Michael Felker’s debut feature Things Will Be Different requires viewers to get on its otherworldly, endlessly puzzling wavelength. Those easily frustrated by deliberately opaque narratives should probably steer clear. However, fans of head-scratching time-travel tales in the likes...
Edie Falco headlines an impressive cast in the charming but by-the-numbers dramedy #IllBeThere.
Review #513 on Film Threat:
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 few laugh-out-loud moments counterbalanced by several...
#SheWantsMe is a mixed bag of rom-com cliches. The presence of Josh Gad doesn't help.
Review #512 on Film Threat:
She Wants Me Featured, Reviews Film Threat Initially released in 2012, Rob Margoiles's She Wants Me has a lot going for it. There's disarming sweetness, a careful balancing of tones, and solid lead performances. It is a shame, then, that the meandering jumble of plot happens to be utterly predictable, the writer-director having studied every...
Pitt and Clooney attempt to out-charm each other in #Wolfs.
Review #511 on Film Threat:
Wolfs Featured, Reviews Film Threat Jon Watts’ Wolfs relies heavily on the wattage of its star power to carry a narrative that is only mildly inventive. Its belief in its own cleverness is somehow charming instead of grating, though. Sure, the dialogue, while engaging, isn’t nearly as snappy as Watts thinks it is. The twists and t...
Clint Eastwood's daughter vs. Mel Gibson's son! 'Nuff said.
Seek out Clawfoot.
Review #510 on Film Threat:
Clawfoot Featured, Reviews Film Threat Michael Day’s Clawfoot is one f***ed-up flick. It maintains an ice-cold satirical tone while upping the ante on casual viciousness, morphing from a psychological cat-and-mouse game into a sadistic bloodbath. It draws a few controversial conclusions in its dissection of classism and toxic masculini...