THE E! TRUE HOLLYWOOD STORY: MIGHTY MOUSE
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  Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 7 minutes |
Our hero falls into the typical shame spiral alcoholism, drugs, and cheap sex…
Posted on December 29, 2002 by Dennis Przywara
ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA: THE TSUI HARK REPORT
BEST OF 2002! If you want to get an overview of Hong Kong cinema of the last twenty years – and who doesn’t? – you would do well to start by focusing in on Tsui Hark. Following is a highly personal and subjective catalog of the work of my favorite Asian filmmaker, with comments. It includes both Tsui’s work as a director and his equally important work as a producer…
Posted on December 28, 2002 by Michael Wells
THE HOLLYWOOD WAY PAGE-BY-PAGE
Frederick Levy knows plenty about making it in the film industry. He became the Vice-President of Martin Katz Productions (part of the team responsible for “Titanic” and “Reindeer Games”) but began his career as a studio guide at Universal Studios Hollywood. His book, The Hollywood Way, is full of the tips and principles that Levy’s [...]
Posted on December 28, 2002 by Film Threat Staff
FAREWELL TO MY COUNTRY
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  Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 99 minutes |
“Farewell to my Country” was produced and is presented as a testament to a country which placed such a high value on ignorance and intolerance that it created untold misery for thousands of people, disfiguring its own heritage with a scar of shame…
Posted on December 28, 2002 by Phil Hall
THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE PEOPLE SHOW
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  Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 100 minutes |
Flesh eating zombies, bad daytime TV, women prison flicks, they all here and they’re all worse than the original creations that they’re spoofing…
Posted on December 28, 2002 by Dennis Przywara
NOEMI GETS PUSHY
BEST OF 2002! Noemi Zeigler has created a very personal documentary short. “I always knew from a very young age that I wanted to be the female Woody Allen…”
Posted on December 27, 2002 by Chris Gore
CITIZEN KAUFMAN
BEST OF 2002! Like the Toxic Avenger gutting a corrupt mayor, Lloyd Kaufman is on a rant. “The Sundance Film Festival is bogus,” the outspoken renegade claims. “They hate filmmakers, and they’re not really independent.” Prepare to be Tromatized by the Father of the Toxic Avenger…
Posted on December 27, 2002 by KJ Doughton
GORE’S “GROWTH” SIZED UP
We dish out a wealth of brutally honest opinions on this site; actually it’s a great deal of what we do. So the Facer has seen to it that we finally receive our share of scrutiny…with an interesting twist. This isn’t a simple review of our website, nor is it an evaluation of our team of writers…
Posted on December 27, 2002 by Film Threat Staff
EBERT ADMITS HE’S OUT OF TOUCH
Award-winning film critic Roger Ebert, who celebrates his 60th birthday today, has finally admitted that he is out of touch. Ebert is best known for popularizing the simplified binary review system — thumbs up/thumbs down. In his recent review of “Scooby Doo” which appeared on the Chicago Sun Times web site, the thumbmaster freely admitted, “Not only am I ill-prepared to review the movie, but I venture to guess that anyone who is not literally a member of a ‘Scooby-Doo’ fan club would be equally incapable…”
Posted on December 27, 2002 by Film Threat Staff
AUTUMN LEAVES
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Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 8 minutes |
“Autumn Leaves” manages to be stirring without descending into schmaltz…
Posted on December 27, 2002 by Pete Vonder Haar
WOMAN X
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  Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 15 minutes |
Details of the attack aren’t necessary, but it does involve testicles and one very tightly clenched fist…
Posted on December 27, 2002 by Doug Brunell
I STAND ALONE
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  Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 93 minutes |
Father is a communist killed by Nazis. Molested by an educator. Meets a lady and gets her pregnant. She splits, so he raises his mute daughter alone — all while fighting sexual urges for her…
Posted on December 27, 2002 by Doug Brunell
HAMILTON MATTRESS
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Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 29 minutes |
This is one of those rare “family films” that actually does appeal to people over eight years old (and we don’t just mean grannies, either)…
Posted on December 27, 2002 by Charles Martin
SMACK MY GRINCH UP
Ron Howard’s “Grinch” will never achieve the cultural resonance of its predecessor. Like most remakes, it will be consigned to the bargain bin of film history, relegated to occasional viewing by families whose DVDs of “A Christmas Story” are irrevocably scratched…
Posted on December 26, 2002 by Pete Vonder Haar
MEET THE REAL LANCE HENRIKSEN
Sure, he’s known for his work in “Aliens” and “Millennium,” but Lance also crafts a mean dinner platter on the pottery wheel…
Posted on December 26, 2002 by Film Threat Staff