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The Social Reckoning

Social and political upheaval erupts in The Social Reckoning when Facebook employee Frances...

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Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence

I can't believe it's been nearly fifty years since Attack of the Killer Tomatoes came out. All...

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Man Eating Pussy

BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL and SITGES FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW! Man Eating Pussy is a...

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Jake

THE SEATTLE FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! Addison Melfi wrote, directed, produced, and stars in...

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Do Artists Gather Twigs in a Time of Avoidance?

In a few short months, I will cross the two-year mark of investigating and writing these...

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American Baby

In her feature-length debut, American Baby, filmmaker Ellen Rodnianski cunningly explores what...

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Onwards and Sideways

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! A romantic comedy about two senior citizens...

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Baby Sea Turtle

THE SEATTLE FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! Baby Sea Turtle is written, directed, produced, and...

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Naked Alien Massacre

Deep in the woods, a team of scientists goes hunting for signs of extraterrestrial life. What...

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Godmother

FANTASTIC FEST 2026 REVIEW! It’s been a banner year for Internet personalities dipping their...

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Alterity

According to the Alien Ancestry Theory, some human bloodlines are tied to alien ones. Somehow,...

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Riptides

The dark comedy Riptides, written and directed by Alex Karpovsky, best known for his deadpan...

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Backpay

There’s an old saying that “payback is a bitch.” Filmmaker/actor Mike Gallant’s new...

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Dolph: Unbreakable

“There’s no easy way out, there’s no shortcut home” aren’t just lyrics from the...

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Familiar

Everybody's working for the vampire weekend in the strung-out-on-blood found footage horror...

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What Makes Life of Luxury’s Monsters So Convincing? They’re Actually There Image

What Makes Life of Luxury’s Monsters So Convincing? They’re Actually There

Parker Hajiaskari's horror series puts real, practical creatures in the room and films its night scenes in total darkness. More than 10...

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Movies That Show the Difference Between Attraction and Compatibility

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Attraction and compatibility are two separate systems that happen to operate on the same two people. One is fast and involuntary, and it finishes inside a...

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Casino Royale at 20: The Poker Game That Rebooted Bond Still Shapes How America

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Twenty years after Daniel Craig first sat down across from Le Chiffre, Casino Royale is back on the big screen this October in a restored 4K print timed to...

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What Cinema Can Learn From the Growth of Interactive Entertainment

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Cinema has spent more than a century developing ways to hold an audience’s attention. Strong stories, memorable characters, visual design, sound, pacing,...

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Previs on a Shoestring: How Indie Directors Are Using AI Video Before the First

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Ask a first-time feature director where the money went and you will rarely hear "cameras." You will hear "the days we lost." A location that read...

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From Script to Set: How a Micro-Budget Feature Ran Pre-Production and Ten Shoot

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On every small crew I've worked on, nobody has just one job. The person breaking down the script is also building the shot list, calling the DP about a...

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From the Big Screen to the Small Screen: Why Mobile Entertainment Keeps Growing

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Entertainment is closer than ever. While going to the cinema remains a distinct experience, audiences can now watch films and shows from virtually anywhere...

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College Bowl Season And The Rise Of Crypto-Friendly Sportsbooks

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Bowl season compresses more meaningful college football betting volume into a few weeks than any other stretch of the calendar, with dozens of matchups...

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Celebrity Documentaries Are Everywhere. These Stars Chose Someone Else’s S

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Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Malala Yousafzai, Eva Longoria Bastón, and Kelly Rohrbach Walton have each put their names behind a documentary in the past four...

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Why Coin-Based Game Platforms Belong in the Conversation About Interactive Enter

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For most of film history, audiences watched. They sat in theaters, followed a story, reacted to performances, discussed endings, and waited for the next...

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Ver,Veracruz writer-director Andres Ramirez shines a light on his hometown

Film Threat contributing editor Bradley Gibson recently spoke with Mexican writer-director Andres Ramirez about his documentary...

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The Man with the Silver Case

When the man in gray (Stuart Reid) is tasked with transporting a locked silver briefcase with no questions asked, word quickly...

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Fjord

Based on a true story and the winner of this year’s Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Fjord revolves around a new...

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