MUNCHHAUSEN (DVD)
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  Year Released: 1943 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 111 minutes |
“Münchhausen” presented Nazi cinema production skills at its no-expense-spared apex…
Posted on November 28, 2004 by Phil Hall
RADIO FLYER (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 114 minutes |
Director Richard Donner takes a heavy hand with screenwriter David Mickey Evans’ script, playing up the “magic of childhood” thing to the point that it becomes too much…
Posted on November 28, 2004 by Brad Cook
GUERRILLA: THE TAKING OF PATTY HEARST
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 89 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! Any student of recent U.S. history must be familiar with the incredible-but-true story of Patty Hearst’s abduction by the Symbionese Liberation Army, a radical militant fringe group. “Guerrilla” is a riveting account of this demented and scarcely believable American story…
Posted on November 28, 2004 by Tim Merrill
THE INCOMPARABLE LENA HORNE (DVD)
The joy of watching Horne bring beauty and style to Hollywood’s hit parade is more than sufficient…
Posted on November 27, 2004 by Phil Hall
THE LAZY ASSASSIN
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 10 minutes |
Instead of being fashionable, furtive, and obsessively clean and neat, the lazy assassin is comfortably dressed, ridiculously fearless, and ill-groomed…
Posted on November 27, 2004 by Stina Chyn
FREE SCREENING: The Woodsman
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Posted on November 26, 2004 by Film Threat Staff
CHRISTMAS WITH THE KRANKS
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 98 minutes |
IN THEATERS! It’s bad enough that we’re reminded of what horrible people we are once a year by the annual ground assault of holiday movies, but you can only tell someone to be nice to your fellow man so many times before people get sick of it…
Posted on November 26, 2004 by Pete Vonder Haar
HARD LUCK GIRLS
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 61 minutes |
Any semblance of a story is also clearly gone as it seems to be preferable to have as many shots as possible of strippers, a catfight, and a sequence in which one of the “been there, done that” strippers, teaches Krista the art of a lapdance…
Posted on November 26, 2004 by Rory L. Aronsky
HALF A SIXPENCE (DVD)
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Year Released: 1967 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 127 minutes |
For those who watch movies expecting more than sumptuous sets and handsome costumes, “Half a Sixpence” has little to offer…
Posted on November 26, 2004 by Phil Hall
WHISTLER AROUND THE CORNER
It’s only a week away – On December 2 through 5, the Whistler Film Festival will screen 93 films, including 33 feature- and mid-length films and 60 shorts…
Posted on November 25, 2004 by Film Threat Staff
ALEXANDER
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 127 minutes |
IN THEATERS! Stone can’t resist putting on his revisionist history cap once again. And while Alexander may not have been the worst of the warlords who plundered their way across the globe, Stone tries to portray him as the Education King, lifting the unwashed out of their ignorance and leaving no barbarian behind…
Posted on November 25, 2004 by Pete Vonder Haar
THE DEVIL’S COURTHOUSE
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 71 minutes |
Uniqueness is always a virtue and there’s undoubtedly a streak of that in this fantasy/horror/sci-fi hybrid mash-up. Actually watching it might lead to headaches, so lay in a stock of whatever kills your pain if this one threatens your attention…
Posted on November 25, 2004 by Fred Beldin
CORN (DVD)
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 96 minutes |
Now the fretful advocacy set gets its due with “Corn”, a film that shines the glare of attention on the controversial field of bio-engineered food…
Posted on November 25, 2004 by Brad Slager
BEHIND “JAR JAR BINKS: THE F! TRUE HOLLYWOOD STORY” FILMMAKERS
What was the budget and how long did it take you to make it? Alok: The budget was $1,700 and it took six months shooting off and on during various weekends. Leif: It would have been far less if we hadn’t changed our initial objective audience. We shot enough footage to make half a feature. [...]
Posted on November 24, 2004 by Chris Gore
FILM THREAT’S FRIGID 50: THE COLDEST PEOPLE IN HOLLYWOOD 2004 – EXTRA COLD!
51. THE MPAA What? A little puppet sex couldn’t be tolerated? Is it because they were jealous of the puppets? The MPAA’s asinine decision-making took center stage with the threat of an NC-17 placed on Team America: World Police – all due to a little genital-free puppet sex. Fortunately, Trey Parker and Matt Stone captured [...]
Posted on November 24, 2004 by Film Threat Staff