Film Threat

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Film ThreatUSAJimmy NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! Everyone thinks they know Jimmy Stewart, the stammering everyman who made us believe in small-town heroes...

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Film ThreatUSAAontas NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! Three masked older women rob a credit union in a village in Ireland. Everything seems to...

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Film ThreatUSAWhat Is Jackpot Film About? Plot, Cast & Ending Explained Jackpot! is a 2024 action-comedy set in a near-future California where winning the lottery can make you extremely rich or get you...

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Film ThreatUSAWhite Room NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! Loss is inevitable. In JT Rees’ short film, White Room, we see that, as tragic as...

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Film ThreatUSAThe Water Is Always Warm Conceived entirely by auteur Morgan Krantz, the indie with the quirky, enigmatic title The Water Is Always Warm is a difficult one...

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Film ThreatUSAThe Idea Based on Raymond Carver’s short story “Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?”, filmmaker Henry Chastain’s The Idea tells a cautionary tale about...

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Film ThreatUSAEchoes of Dread We live in an age where virtually anything can be broadcast to the world with the click of a button. Social media...

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Film ThreatUSAPlan Bea The Australian movie musical Plan Bea is a pandemic reminder that restrictions can make room for creativity. When singing is banned and...

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Film ThreatUSAI Have Proof Writer-director James Cullen Bressack goes back to the found footage well with I Have Proof. Presented as a series of evidentiary tapes,...

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Film ThreatUSABlack Smoke Tales: Insured To Die Keith Lakean Powell‘s next installment of Black Smoke Tales wonders what would happen if greed won out over family in the episode...

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Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku — the silver screen, and the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

I came to Tokyo at twenty-three for a summer job at a Shibuya mini-theatre and the job never quite ended. Fifteen years of festivals later I still think the only review that counts is the one the room gives you: where the laugh lands, the moment three hundred people stop moving at once, whether anybody stays for the credits.

Cinepuuulse follows Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — across about a hundred and twenty sources. A good number of them are Spanish, French and Portuguese, because those countries programme this work seriously and write about it better than most of the English-language trade. Genre and art-house get the same seat here. I am not ranking them, and nothing is scored out of ten.

Each story is a headline, a short excerpt, one still and a link to the outlet that did the reporting. We never republish the piece, and the still belongs to its studio or its photographer. A Korean trade paper appears in Korean, a French review in French. We point at the work; we do not put words in anyone's mouth.

— Daren Wise, Tokyo