APRIL IS MY RELIGION (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 94 minutes |
NOW AVAILABLE IN THE FILM THREAT DVD STORE! Defying expectations and coming-of-age clichés, Bill Boll has made a big-hearted, openly naïve film that is definitely not a love story, but which is about love…
Posted on April 29, 2003 by Bob Westal
WATCH THOSE BIKINI BANDITS GO
This week, the Raindance Film Festival presents some late-night underground filth at the Curzon Soho Cinema in London: First up is “KINKY GERLINKY,” a documentary on London’s legendary den of debauchery. With BOY GEORGE, SINEAD O’CONNOR, LEIGH BOWERY and a thousand vicious drag queens. Film screens on Friday, May 2nd at 11:30pm. Then there’s “BIKINI [...]
Posted on April 28, 2003 by Film Threat Staff
IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO GET YOUR FILM INTO THE SAN DIEGO FILM FESTIVAL
The San Diego Film Festival, a five-day celebration of film produced by the San Diego Film Foundation, is set to take place Sept. 17-21 in the historic Gaslamp Quarter…
Posted on April 28, 2003 by Film Threat Staff
IDENTITY
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 87 minutes |
ANOTHER VIEW! Putting the pieces of the puzzle together might have proven mildly amusing had the third act’s ridiculous twist not barged in and reduced the whole affair to a bad joke…
Posted on April 28, 2003 by Rick Kisonak
CONFIDENCE
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 98 minutes |
IN THEATERS! Much of “Confidence”’s dialogue falls all over itself trying to one-up Tarantino’s tart tongue. Before the film’s first scene has ended, we’ve been privy to such verbiage as, “I’ve gotta pinch a loaf,” “Don’t mess up the hoop,” and “You’ve got a lot of sack…”
Posted on April 28, 2003 by KJ Doughton
ANNA IS BEING STALKED
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  Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 7 minutes |
“Anna Is Being Stalked” is a short film about a girl named Anna who is, um… being stalked…
Posted on April 28, 2003 by Daniel Wible
AGENT 15 (DVD)
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Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 12 minutes |
Paget Brewster is just plain hot. Paget Brewster in a bikini with a gun? Forget about it!
Posted on April 28, 2003 by Chris Gore
MANIC
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  Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 100 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! In reality, troubled people never really get rid of their demons. The best you can hope for is to find a way to control them. In the end, that’s what “Manic” is really about: a glimmer of hope…
Posted on April 28, 2003 by Ron Wells
IDENTITY
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 87 minutes |
ANOTHER VIEW! Sounds like a good idea, and the film actually isn’t that bad for the first hour or so, but once the tricky twisty ending is introduced, “Identity” goes to pieces…
Posted on April 27, 2003 by Jim Agnew
JERSEY GUY
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
“Jersey Guy” is such a painfully awful film that recalling it in order to write this review fills me with disgust…
Posted on April 27, 2003 by Phil Hall
JAR JAR BINKS: THE TRUE HOLLYWOOD STORY (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 11 minutes |
NOW AVAILABLE IN THE FILM THREAT DVD STORE! In this mockumentary, Jar Jar is a drug addict, a drunk who is only appreciated for his comic genius in France…
Posted on April 27, 2003 by Chris Gore
KILLING ME SOFTLY (DVD)
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Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 100 minutes |
Sit back and savor what has to be up to this time, the best DVD release of the young year, even if it is not for the reasons the makers had wished…
Posted on April 26, 2003 by Brad Slager
CITY OF GHOSTS
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Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 116 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! “City of Ghosts” is trying so hard to be an epic tale of crime and intrigue, but it just doesn’t quite succeed…
Posted on April 26, 2003 by Merle Bertrand
CREMASTER 3
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  Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 127 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! A woman (double amputee, special Olympics athlete and model, Aimee Mullins) in a silver lamé dress, inside an ovary-shaped room, uses specially designed shoes to slice potatoes into hexagon-shaped pieces which she places in a designated slot…
Posted on April 26, 2003 by David Finkelstein
BLUE CAR
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Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 96 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! Slow in spots, yet almost always interesting, the film takes a deeper look at a single parent household…
Posted on April 26, 2003 by Anthony Miele