ROMERO RAISES THE DEAD
No, it’s not another living dead movie, but it’s close. It’s “Diamond Dead” and George Romero is directing this band from beyond the grave flick with “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” composer, Richard Hartley, supplying the tunes. Aria De Winter has been enlisted by Death himself to kill 365 people in one year. Hard task? [...]
Posted on December 29, 2003 by Film Threat Staff
ROADANCE GETS A BREAK
Park City officials have cancelled two sections of 9-2-4 of their municipal code in order to avoid a lawsuit filed by SHARK, an animal rights group who, like ROADance, has had their mobile video truck banned from operating on the streets of Park City…
Posted on December 29, 2003 by Film Threat Staff
SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 127 minutes |
IN THEATERS! After seeing so many ‘chick flicks’ with older men who date and sleep with women half his age if not younger, it was fun to finally see a film that made fun of characters and movies like that…
Posted on December 29, 2003 by Peter Lowry
TRENCHES
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 7 minutes |
Life can be absolute shit sometimes and it’s apparent that Adina’s found that out…
Posted on December 29, 2003 by Rory L. Aronsky
GOOD AMERICAN NEWS
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 10 minutes |
It’s been done, and done better, and even done recently, in “Bowling for Columbine…”
Posted on December 29, 2003 by Joshua Grover-David Patterson
BRAINWARP (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 25 minutes |
Don’t take any type of hallucinogenic drugs before viewing, or you may never return from “Brainwarp…”
Posted on December 29, 2003 by Jim Agnew
STAR WARS: EPISODE III – ATTACK OF THE BAD HAIRCUTS
So reports are coming in that George Lucas is trying to tie “Episode III” to “Episode IV” through…haircuts. Never mind that “Episode I” took place about ten years before it needed to in the Star Wars saga – haircuts will save the day…
Posted on December 28, 2003 by Eric Campos
BARBARIAN INVASIONS
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Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 112 minutes |
“Barbarian Invasions” is a moving film, but one that often seems to embrace its complicated character with too much admiration…
Posted on December 28, 2003 by KJ Doughton
HOME
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Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 30 minutes |
This film takes a lot of obvious hot-button topics (drug addiction, family, abandonment, childhood, loneliness) and tries very hard to share them without force-feeding…
Posted on December 28, 2003 by Joshua Grover-David Patterson
THE OSCAR JINX STALKS HOLLYWOOD
BEST OF 2003! Either you stay at the top of your profession or you work your way down from the dizzy heights of stardom. A surprisingly high number of actors, both major stars and quirky specialty performers, have seen their careers violently fizzle after winning the Academy Award…
Posted on December 27, 2003 by Phil Hall
DAVID CRONENBERG: HIS “SPIDER” HAS MORE BITE THAN BARK
BEST OF 2003! David Cronenberg has returned with “Spider,” a twisted psychological thriller about a man trying to get his head straight after being released from a nut house. “It’s not so much that I’m drawn to madness and decay, but for me, making a film is a philosophical endeavor…”
Posted on December 26, 2003 by Chris Gore
MIRAMAX BANNING ASIAN IMPORTS?
It certainly looks that away. Website Kung Fu Cinema was apparently served a cease and desist order from Miramax in regards to their unlawful selling of DVD imports of Hero, a film that Miramax owns North American distribution rights to. What caught Kung Fu Cinema by surprise is that they’re not in the business of [...]
Posted on December 26, 2003 by Film Threat Staff
SLAMDANCE ANNOUNCES 2004 LINE-UP
Slamdance has invited 19 feature films to compete in their tenth annual festival taking place in Park City, January 17-24. Eleven of those films are fictional narratives with the rest being documentaries. Joining the features will be 21 shorts in competition…
Posted on December 26, 2003 by Film Threat Staff
TANKUP.US
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Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 11 minutes |
“TANKUP.US” is just another look at how shitty people in this country can be in their race to have the biggest dick on the road…
Posted on December 26, 2003 by Eric Campos
THE MUSIC MAN (DVD)
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Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: G Running Time: 127 minutes |
While the songs sometimes suck the breath out of the film either by their length or their lackluster performances, it still is a decent rendition of Meredith Wilson’s classic musical…
Posted on December 26, 2003 by Kevin Carr