HORNS AND HALOS
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  Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 97 minutes |
OPENS IN NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 28TH! The “Fortunate Son” story is one of the most compelling rollercoaster rides in recent political journalism…
Posted on February 26, 2003 by Phil Hall
WINNERS OF THE “WHY DO YOU LOVE/HATE GEORGE LUCAS” CONTEST
Yeah, it’s taken us a little longer than expected, but here they finally are, the winning essays in our Why do you Love/Hate George Lucas contest. Carl Rossi ^ I don’t hate George Lucas. I have fallen out of favor for the man. Star Wars, though exciting and proof of an amazing imagination, had a [...]
Posted on February 25, 2003 by Film Threat Staff
THE FACER BITES MCWEENEY
The Facer loves to attack many on the internet, including this web site, but one of their favorite targets is the crew over at Ain’t It Cool News, especially when it has to do with Drew McWeeney, the Facer’s apparent arch-nemesis. Insults have been tossed back and forth over the Internet for nearly a year [...]
Posted on February 25, 2003 by Film Threat Staff
ATTACK OF THE GUERRILLA GIRLS
“Even the U.S. Senate is more progressive than Hollywood.” That’s what the Guerrilla Girls have to say and come March, they’re going to be screaming it at the corner of Melrose and Highland by the way of a new billboard. Someone had to do it!
Posted on February 25, 2003 by Film Threat Staff
GET LOST!
The FINAL DEADLINE to enter your film into the Lost Film Festival 8.0 in Philly is coming up on March 14th, with the festival going down on April 10-14…
Posted on February 25, 2003 by Film Threat Staff
BUM RUNNER
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  Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 9 minutes |
Two homeless idiots, a midget named Kat, and a lard ass named Oatmeal spend their days stealing from other homeless men…
Posted on February 25, 2003 by Dean Edward
TILL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 101 minutes |
IN THEATERS! The nonlinear structure and glacial pace is less dream like and more like a droning trance, and accordingly Pearce and Bonham Carter sleepwalk through their roles…
Posted on February 25, 2003 by Michael Dequina
THE LIFE OF DAVID GALE
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Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 127 minutes |
IN THEATERS! Bad movies are easy to make, but as this overheated and self-defeating propaganda piece shows, it takes a genuinely talented group of people to come up with the most astonishing botch jobs…
Posted on February 25, 2003 by Michael Dequina
GIRL 24
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  Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 12 minutes |
SLAMDANCE 2003 SHORT FILM SELECTION! “Girl 24″ takes the “Frankenstein” story and tells it in reverse: this time around, two robots create a human…
Posted on February 25, 2003 by Phil Hall
HIMROD FOREVER
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Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 25 minutes |
SLAMDANCE 2003 SHORT FILM COMPETITION SELECTION! I wish I could tell you the plot of this film, but I just couldn’t find one…
Posted on February 25, 2003 by Kevin Carr
INDIES AT THE GRILL
Indies At the Grill is a series of screenings of local independent films in the Maryland, Washington,D.C., and Virginia area. They are constantly looking for submissions so there is no deadline. The screening format consists of short films and features. Shorts should be under 30 minutes. Films should be Maryland, Washington, D.C. and Virginia based [...]
Posted on February 24, 2003 by Film Threat Staff
TIBURON BRINGS 175 FILMS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
The Tiburon International Film Festival is getting ready to kick off their second year with a massive schedule of 175 films from 40 different countries…
Posted on February 24, 2003 by Film Threat Staff
SHADOWBOXER
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Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 28 minutes |
NODANCE COMPETITION SHORT! Filmmaker Vilka Tzouras clearly has an eye and ear for relating the horror and misery of an at-risk teenager’s dead-end world…
Posted on February 24, 2003 by Phil Hall
LADY OF THE LAKE
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Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 8 minutes |
SLAMDANCE 2003 SHORT FILM SELECTION! If the film looks cheaply made, that is because it is: the puppets are Barbie dolls covered in clay, the sets are cardboard and the film was illuminated with desk lamps…
Posted on February 24, 2003 by Phil Hall
A FALL FROM THE CLOUDS
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Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 6 minutes |
If the plot twist doesn’t quite fit here, at least one can credit the amount of time and imagination lavished in the film’s production…
Posted on February 23, 2003 by Phil Hall