BEST OF BOTH WORLDS
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 13 minutes |
The filmmakers show they know how to make a film, the actors handle their roles and the film leaves you feeling content with what you just saw. It doesn’t really challenge you, or make a terribly memorable statement, but it competently delivers…
Posted on April 30, 2013 by Mark Bell
CODA NERA
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 26 minutes |
In the end, those who are dead return to life, and all seems right with the world…except for one nagging little trick that leaves all questions unresolved, and all characters and Film Threat movie-viewers right back where they started…
Posted on April 29, 2013 by Amy R. Handler
FLAMINGOS
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
The film’s three main characters may not be likable, but the lurid glare of their intensity is riveting…
Posted on April 28, 2013 by David Finkelstein
THE JANITOR
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 16 minutes |
Shot in black and white, the film maintains the power of the contrast without succumbing to the grit and grime that sometimes accompanies black and white films (usually by design). Visually, the imagery only complements the moral complexities of the narrative; the cleanliness to the image works with the themes in the film, and the black and white nature of the moral considerations is appropriately challenged by the intrusion of the gray…
Posted on April 27, 2013 by Mark Bell
ON THE HORIZON
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  Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 5 minutes |
While the women easily fall into the characters of the damaged and the damaging, their locations also give another piece of the puzzle; the power of water, and the abundance on one side while the other remains parched…
Posted on April 27, 2013 by Mark Bell
RIDESHARE
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 80 minutes |
One thing’s for sure at this particularly erratic time in history, films like “Rideshare” are definitely the ideal escape from our fears and hostilities…
Posted on April 26, 2013 by Amy R. Handler
KING GEORGE VI – THE MAN BEHIND THE KING’S SPEECH (DVD)
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 80 minutes |
This fine documentary offers a handsome tribute to an unlikely yet beloved head of state…
Posted on April 24, 2013 by Phil Hall
OBLIVION
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  Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 124 minutes |
You know a picture’s derivative when a list of titles in the same genre technically constitutes a spoiler…
Posted on April 24, 2013 by Rick Kisonak
JOHNNY GHOST
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 76 minutes |
“Johnny Ghost” is not just a good thriller, it’s a great one. 76-minutes in duration, and with sparse dialogue, we breathe every cinematic breath with Millicent, live her turmoil and fears, and are virtually catapulted into her past, present and future…
Posted on April 23, 2013 by Amy R. Handler
LESS LOST
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 77 minutes |
Simple in construct, the story strikes a subtle but universal chord, and that’s what separates it from most war films…
Posted on April 22, 2013 by Amy R. Handler
DREAMBODY/EARTHBODY (DVD)
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 80 minutes |
The workshops have clearly opened a door for these people to find levels of reality that are normally closed to us, and they find the experience thrilling and liberating…
Posted on April 21, 2013 by David Finkelstein
KIBURI
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 4 minutes |
The 3D animation employed in this short is richly imaginative…
Posted on April 20, 2013 by Phil Hall
WINGS OF LIFE (DVD)
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 80 minutes |
Meryl Streep provides a somewhat fey narration from the perspective of the plants that are pollinating…
Posted on April 19, 2013 by Phil Hall
THE CEMETERY
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 80 minutes |
In “The Cemetery,” from the same group that brought the surprisingly-good “Cross Bearer,” a team of ghost hunters hike to an ancient cemetery, five miles into the heart of a forest, to record weird happenings…
Posted on April 19, 2013 by Mike Watt
DISCONNECT
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 115 minutes |
“Disconnect” makes you want to be a better person both online and IRL…
Posted on April 19, 2013 by Jessica Baxter
