BORN INTO BROTHELS
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 85 minutes |
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE! Pretty much the title says it all in that whatever you can imagine as a result basically shows up on screen. Co-director Zana Briski actually insinuated herself into the red light district of Calcutta India in order to glean knowledge about the women, but as she says in the narraration, the first thing she encountered were the children…
Posted on February 26, 2005 by Brad Slager
TUPAC: RESURRECTION
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 115 minutes |
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE! “Resurrection” gives you the whole story from the day of Tupac’s birth to his untimely death in Las Vegas. To separate it from the rest of the pack, this is supposedly the first “official” documentary on Tupac, Mama Shakur approved…
Posted on February 26, 2005 by Eric Campos
THE INCREDIBLE BRAD BIRD
2005 ACADEMY AWARD WINNER! With the release of Pixar’s animated “The Incredibles”, writer-director Brad Bird is now standing atop a gargantuan artistic achievement: without a doubt the most visually complex and ambitious computer animated film ever made. So it’s a bit of wonder that the one question he keeps getting asked from interviewers and radio commentators is, “Would you mind doing Edna?”
Posted on February 25, 2005 by David Templeton
THE BOOTLEG FILES: “DEATH OF A SALESMAN”
When Arthur Miller croaked on February 11, all of his obituaries cited the obvious: his contributions to the American theater, his social activism, his tumultuous marriage to Marilyn Monroe, etc. Strangely, no obituary bothered to mention Miller’s contribution the world of films that are only available on bootleg videos. Admittedly, it is a small contribution [...]
Posted on February 25, 2005 by Phil Hall
THE BOOTLEG FILES: “DEATH OF A SALESMAN”
Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the funky world of rare, classic and hard-to-find films which can only be obtained via bootleg video channels. This week, Phil treats Arthur Miller like a piece of fruit…
Posted on February 25, 2005 by Phil Hall
“THE AMITYVILLE HORROR” TRAILER
http://www.filmthreat.com/forums/showthread.php?p=22172#post22172
Posted on February 25, 2005 by Film Threat Staff
HAWAII INTERNATIONAL SPRING IN APRIL
Hawaii International Spring Film Festival kicks off April 1st…
Posted on February 25, 2005 by Film Threat Staff
WHISKY
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  Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 94 minutes |
OPENS IN NEW YORK ON MARCH 3RD! Whatever production wins the Foreign-Language Film Oscar does not deserve the prize because “Whisky” is global cinema at its best. This is a truly great film…
Posted on February 25, 2005 by Phil Hall
VLAD (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 98 minutes |
It’s a worthy contribution to the genre, but nowhere near as good as it could have been…
Posted on February 25, 2005 by Doug Brunell
PIZZA THE MOVIE
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 98 minutes |
Avoid this like a restaurant staffed by lepers…
Posted on February 25, 2005 by Doug Brunell
NAPOLEON DYNAMITE (DVD)
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 95 minutes |
Given the movie’s cult hit status, I hope Fox decides to revisit it sometime and throw in a good documentary…
Posted on February 25, 2005 by Brad Cook
MILLION DOLLAR BABY
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 127 minutes |
BEST PICTURE ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE! It is not exactly in the Hollywood tradition for filmmakers to improve with age. Nonetheless, at 74, Eastwood is doing the finest work of his long and considerable career directing, starring in and even scoring “Million Dollar Baby…”
Posted on February 25, 2005 by Rick Kisonak
THE AVIATOR
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 127 minutes |
BEST PICTURE ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE! As big and rollicking an entertainment as it is, “The Aviator” deals smartly with its most problematic element, namely Hughes’s mental decline. Although we are spared the truly dark and reclusive final decades of his life, the film stealthily mixes into the story Hughes’s steady deterioration…
Posted on February 25, 2005 by Chris Barsanti
SIDEWAYS
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 123 minutes |
BEST PICTURE ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE! With only four feature films under his belt, Alexander Payne is becoming one of the greatest American directors of modern cinema and again, “Sideways” is on its way to being one of the best films of the year…
Posted on February 25, 2005 by Michael Ferraro
FINDING NEVERLAND
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 106 minutes |
BEST PICTURE ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE! “Finding Neverland” is, let’s see…the “fictional autobiographical” account of how author J.M. Barrie came to create “Peter Pan,” one of the acknowledged classics of children’s literature. It’s also a movie that endeavors to answer the age-old question: what kind of person writes a story filled with fairies, lost boys, and pirates?
Posted on February 25, 2005 by Pete Vonder Haar