Newport Beach Film Festival

Book Week

By Alan Ng | May 2019

There’s that delicate balance between being human and being an a*****e or simply being likable versus unlikable. Writer/director Heath Davis manages to…

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There’s that delicate balance between being human and being an asshole or simply being likable versus unlikable. Writer/director Heath Davis manages to...

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At first glance, Chris Faulisi’s 1980’s-set dramatic thriller The Shade Shepherd may seem like it adds up to more than the sum of its parts. However,...

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I saw a film starring John Lithgow and Blythe Danner. Honestly, I should just end the review there. You know it’s going to be good…like really good. If...

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At Film Threat, we’re really not supposed to talk about film festival experiences in our reviews. Just write a straight review for god sake. My basic...

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Obsession is always an excellent subject for a documentary. The obsessive-compulsive subject who focuses on just one thing, and spends his/her life...

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When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili's head, he is forced to flee with his wife and two young daughters. Capturing their...

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Pick It Up - Ska in the 90s tells the story of the rise and fall of the ska genre by all of those that were a part of it. I was never big on ska. I was...

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When two couples with mixed feelings about having kids hatch a plan to share one baby, it seems like the perfect compromise-until things spiral out of...

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The transition from teenager to young adult is a difficult period in everyone’s life. During this time, we struggle with who we are becoming and where we...

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Australian director Heath Davis clearly doesn’t think too highly of his country’s Outback, at least according to his alternately contemplative and...

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