THE MAD ADVENTURES OF RABBI JACOB (DVD)
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  Year Released: 1973 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 100 minutes |
“The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob” is an across-the-board slam at Catholics, Jews, Arabs, blacks, women, law enforcement, clergy, and even airport security. Yet the film does not have a mean bone its body…
Posted on April 29, 2004 by Phil Hall
THE DOMESTIC UNIVERSE
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  Year Released: 1999 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 17 minutes |
Fortunately for the viewer, Lopate is also a wonderful interview subject, astonishingly articulate and perceptive about the nuances of parenting…
Posted on April 29, 2004 by David Finkelstein
SWEEP
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  Year Released: 1998 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 7 minutes |
This surface detail makes one constantly aware of the flat surface of the movie screen…
Posted on April 29, 2004 by David Finkelstein
EXTRA CREDIT
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Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 11 minutes |
It’s a movie that starts well, then stops and basically just tells us what Bourget’s film is about without actually forcing us to sit through it…
Posted on April 29, 2004 by Bob Westal
TAURUS
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  Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
In 1995, the European Cinema Academy named Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov as being among the best directors of the world cinema. In view of his most recent feature, the 2000 production “Taurus,” the academy’s decision may be in need of an overhaul…
Posted on April 29, 2004 by Phil Hall
THE METAMORPHOSIS (PART 1)
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Year Released: 1999 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 8 minutes |
I always find it amusing when an eight minute film claims to be inspired by a novel…
Posted on April 29, 2004 by Merle Bertrand
TRENT HAAGA: MILD MANNERED KING OF SICKNESS
His last stint at Tempe was on what would become a fun little cult-classic, the nifty back-woods witchcraft movie, “Dead and Rotting”. In this one, Haaga co-stars as one of a trio of friends who run afoul of an ancient crone, accidentally killing her familiar. For revenge, she transforms herself into Debbie Rochon and plants [...]
Posted on April 28, 2004 by Mike Watt
TRENT HAAGA: MILD MANNERED KING OF SICKNESS
To Haaga, the urge is to bring horror, the emotion, back to horror, the genre. To do that, rules must be broken. The cliché of the pushed envelope must be evoked—and that envelope has to be pushed hard. Among hardcore horror fans, the prevailing attitude is that Hollywood’s approach to horror is, to put it [...]
Posted on April 28, 2004 by Mike Watt
BEWARE STARKWEATHER
Charlie Starkweather, the psycho who inspired such cinematic bloodbaths such as “Badlands,” “Natural Born Killers” and “Kalifornia,” is finally getting a film of his own thanks to filmmaker Byron Werner and Aglet Productions. Set in late 1950′s Nebraska, “Starkweather” tells the tale of a frustrated teenage outcast who turns to murder for validation. When angry [...]
Posted on April 28, 2004 by Film Threat Staff
2004 INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL OF BOSTON IS HERE!
From April 29 – May 2, 2004, the Independent Film Festival of Boston will exhibit 47 films and will give the audience an opportunity to engage the films’ directors, casts, and crews during Q&A sessions following screenings…
Posted on April 28, 2004 by Film Threat Staff
CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 95 minutes |
The film’s declaration of belief is obviously sincere, but “Contending for the Faith” is not a professional movie and sitting through its very, very long 95 minutes requires the patience of a saint…
Posted on April 28, 2004 by Phil Hall
THE GEEKS SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH: FRIGHT FIGHT
Anyway. Saturday was rife with complaints (long before the “porn at the hot tub incident”). There were guests and paying customers who were grumbling long and loud. The paying customers were mad that certain guests were unaccounted for. Around 1 PM, someone mentioned that there was a piece of notebook paper with “cancellations” listed on [...]
Posted on April 27, 2004 by Mike Watt
THE GEEKS SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH: FRIGHT FIGHT
FRIGHTVISION COVERAGE! The entire weekend was little more than a blur, which had more to do with the pace of things, rather than, for a change, my alcohol intake. We shot the first part of the “Slumber Party” Friday night after the show closed, and snagged a second section on Saturday with Linnea and Stacy Sparks joining us at the hot tub.
Posted on April 27, 2004 by Mike Watt
“ALONE IN THE DARK” SNEAK PEEK
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Posted on April 27, 2004 by Film Threat Staff
THE ACTION/CUT SHORT FILM COMPETITION LAUNCHES
The Action/Cut Short Film Competition is a newly launched annual contest and a unique opportunity to discover the next generation of great filmmakers from the USA and around the world. Filmmakers will compete in three categories: Fiction – Documentary – Animation. “As a natural extension of our filmmaking seminar company, we wanted to create something [...]
Posted on April 27, 2004 by Film Threat Staff