Andy Howell

The Starling

By Andy Howell | September 2021

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! In The Starling, Melissa McCarthy reteams with Chris O’Dowd as a couple who has lost a…

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TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! In The Starling, Melissa McCarthy reteams with Chris O'Dowd as a couple who has lost a child and has a...

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TCM CLASSIC FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! To be an all-time classic, a film has to be iconic, fresh, and do something better than any movie before or...

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In Erna At War (Erna i krig), a middle-aged mother trying to protect her son from getting drafted into World War I by the German army ends up going off...

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In Akilla's Escape, a drug robbery gone wrong results in Akilla (Saul Williams) capturing one of the would-be thieves... a young boy, Sheppard (Thamela...

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In Persona Non Grata, Irina (Rosalinde Mynster), a cosmopolitan author, revisits her hometown in rural Denmark for her brother's wedding, only to find out...

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Cinema of Sleep starts with one of the most compelling opening scenes I've seen recently. Anthony (Dayo Ade), a Nigerian refugee, is watching a film in a...

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The Conservation Game follows retired police officer Tim Harrison and a team of like-minded animal conservationists. They pull at threads trying to get to...

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Proxima means near, thus the name of the closest star to the Sun, Proxima Centauri. Proxima is also a fitting title for a movie about a mother having a...

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TORONTO 2020 FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW! Ruth (Jessica Barden), the protagonist of Holler, is a teenager in a small, midwest town whose college dreams are...

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Readers of Film Threat may know me from my regular movie reviews — I tend to cover festivals. But I’m also a professional astronomer, and where I...

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