PAUL DESIMONE: THE NEXT VERY BIG THING
BEST OF 2003! The first thing you notice about Paul DeSimone is…well, everything. And that is strictly by design and hard work. Rather than wait for someone to borrow his muscles for a movie, DeSimone took the initiative to create his own production that works his body to the max…
Posted on December 31, 2003 by Phil Hall
STILL “DAZED AND CONFUSED” AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
BEST OF 2003! As much as I love Austin and the people in it, it just goes to show that everyone’s intelligence is subject to question after copious amounts of alcohol…
Posted on December 31, 2003 by Margaret Burke
SUB ROSA DOES SHAKESPEARE
Here’s something you don’t see very day. Sub Rosa, distributor of underground horror classics such as Scrapbook and “Truth or Dare,” has acquired the North American home video and DVD rights to John Farrell’s critically-acclaimed 2001 feature film of Shakespeare’s “Richard the Second.” Sub Rosa Studios will release “Richard the Second” in the summer of [...]
Posted on December 31, 2003 by Film Threat Staff
FEARLESS TALES IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Northern California’s first and only genre-based horror, sci-fi and fantasy film festival will take place March 12-18, 2004 in the Bay Area…
Posted on December 31, 2003 by Film Threat Staff
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 127 minutes |
It is a little depressing to see such a heavy emphasis on Jerry Bruckheimer in the special features. There seems to be struggle behind the scenes. Was this a Disney film? Or was it a Jerry Bruckheimer film? After all, Jerry Bruckheimer’s high-octane action films are about as un-Disney as they get…
Posted on December 31, 2003 by Kevin Carr
PALE BLUE MOON
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Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 86 minutes |
The two leads have a great deal asked of them – to be funny, and angry, and sincere – and they carry these things off with an almost shocking amount of skill…
Posted on December 31, 2003 by Joshua Grover-David Patterson
WHAT I WANT MY WORDS TO DO TO YOU
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Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 78 minutes |
With the many women that are profiled, they have much to share among their group. Stories of past pains, not getting motherly attention, and the situations, which caused their incarceration, are covered at great lengths…
Posted on December 31, 2003 by Rory L. Aronsky
JIM CARREY COMES UNDONE
BEST OF 2003! In “Bruce Almighty,” Carrey plays a role very easy to picture him in, the role of God. Actually, Carrey plays an ordinary, down-on-his-luck guy who gets God’s powers for a week while the Big Guy takes a vacation. But nevertheless, the role–as fictitious as it is–rings close to Carrey’s own life and not just because of the eerie coincidences that have occurred over the years…
Posted on December 30, 2003 by Heather Wadowski
“RETURN TO SLEEPAWAY CAMP” PICS ONLINE
Remember the chick with a dick slasher flick “Sleepaway Camp” where the girls wore short shorts and the boys wore even shorter shorts? Sure ya do. Remember any of the sequels? Probably not. Well, it’s been over ten years since the second sequel plopped onto video shelves, so director Robert Hiltzik and Felissa Rose have [...]
Posted on December 30, 2003 by Film Threat Staff
GET A DOSE OF SLAMDANCE
Wanna know what it’s like at Slamdance, but don’t have the guts to brave the cold and the weirdos? Well, here you go…
Posted on December 30, 2003 by Film Threat Staff
IN AMERICA
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 103 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! “In America” contains enough magic and sincerity to cover the proverbial multitude of cinematic sins. And, better yet, for all the Irishness, it contains not a single alcoholic and not one barroom brawl!
Posted on December 30, 2003 by Bob Westal
SASHA
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  Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 7 minutes |
“Sasha” is a portrait of the filmmaker’s grandmother, who died in 1999, and, by extension, a portrait of the Jewish-American experience…
Posted on December 30, 2003 by David Finkelstein
ME WITHOUT YOU
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  Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 96 minutes |
True, this may just partly be my pathetic desire to see a hot lesbian sex scene or two, but still…
Posted on December 30, 2003 by Merle Bertrand
DUSTIN HOFFMAN BLOWS UP WITH “CONFIDENCE”
BEST OF 2003! Dustin Hoffman plays The King, a sleazy crime boss in James Foley’s “Confidence.” We caught up with Dustin last January in Park City to discuss his outlook on acting, what Sundance means to him and…”I’ve never been so gassy…”
Posted on December 29, 2003 by Chris Gore
EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: DAVID HASSELHOFF’S ASS PICKLES
BEST OF 2003! David Hasselhoff may be a lot of things to a lot of people, but to me he’ll always be the defecating lifeguard, the shitting singer and the excrement expelling ex-cop who became a vigilante…
Posted on December 29, 2003 by Doug Brunell