AMONG BROTHERS
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  Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
WORLDFEST-HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2005 REVIEW! In 1994, the body of South Carolina college student Jennifer Matthews was discovered in her burned out apartment. An autopsy conducted by local authorities determined that, though she had been burned almost beyond recognition, there was no evidence of smoke in her lungs. The case remains open to this day…
Posted on April 30, 2005 by Pete Vonder Haar
THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 110 minutes |
IN THEATERS! Adams and director Garth Jennings were forced to cut large portions of the book. They try to make “Guide” more of a traditional story, and as a result even those unfamiliar with the novels will likely get the feeling something is missing from the finished film…
Posted on April 30, 2005 by Pete Vonder Haar
THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX (DVD)
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  Year Released: 1939 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 106 minutes |
“The Private Lives of Elizabeth & Essex” isn’t entirely a low point in the respective careers of Flynn and Davis, but it doesn’t do much for them either…
Posted on April 30, 2005 by Rory L. Aronsky
THE LOVELESS (DVD)
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  Year Released: 1982 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 82 minutes |
In “The Loveless”, cult favorites Kathryn Bigelow and Willem Dafoe were each given their first chance to shine, with Bigelow as co-director and Dafoe leaping into his first starring role…
Posted on April 30, 2005 by Greg Bellavia
WILD THINGS: DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 87 minutes |
Good, grand and glorious T&A…
Posted on April 30, 2005 by Rory L. Aronsky
5IVE
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 85 minutes |
There have been so many small-story, central-location, no-budget, dialogue driven independent films popping up over the course of the past decade that perhaps the category deserves its own subdivision in independent film. “5ive” is such a story: one primary location, a tiny cast and a fairly narrow plot…
Posted on April 30, 2005 by Rachel Morgan
GUT PILE (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 51 minutes |
There are better horror films, but if you’ve only got an hour to kill, this may fit the bill…
Posted on April 30, 2005 by Doug Brunell
THE BOOTLEG FILES: “LIGHT UP THE SKY”
If you’re like me, you believe the Holy Trinity should be reconfigured to include a fourth entity: the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit and Benny Hill. So imagine my happy shock when I came upon a Benny Hill movie I never knew existed and which, as far as I can determine, was nowhere to [...]
Posted on April 29, 2005 by Phil Hall
THE BOOTLEG FILES: “LIGHT UP THE SKY”
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 unearths a very rare Benny Hill movie!
Posted on April 29, 2005 by Phil Hall
LINE-A-PALOOZA: EPILOGUE – EPISODES VII, VIII, AND IX?
I walked through the convention center, passed the line for the Store, all those people lined up to get an exclusive Vader figure and I wanted to scream “Get out while you can! Enjoy the rest of the convention, do anything, but get out of line!” By the time I had exited the convention center [...]
Posted on April 29, 2005 by Mark Bell
LINE-A-PALOOZA: EPISODE VI – RETURN OF THE LINE
Finally 8 am rolled around and the lights, which had been dimmed, came on full blast and we all rose to our feet. The room started to empty, and Stormtroopers and other volunteers led us into the ballroom. Volunteers in red shirts kept repeating that no video cameras were allowed, still photos could be taken [...]
Posted on April 29, 2005 by Mark Bell
LINE-A-PALOOZA: EPISODE V – THE LINE STRIKES BACK
At 5:30am we found out why we were still outside: the Hyatt had locked their doors. They didn’t like all the fans coming in to access the skywalk earlier, and had shut us out. Meanwhile, we could still see fans on the skywalk, nice and warm, sitting down and relaxing. We were miserable. I called [...]
Posted on April 29, 2005 by Mark Bell
LINE-A-PALOOZA: EPISODE IV – A NEW LINE
As bad as our previous location was, it was on the side of the building that was shielded from the wind. In our new location, lined up down Maryland in front of the Hyatt, we were getting destroyed by the gusts. Fans were getting even crankier than they had been, and I even suggested that [...]
Posted on April 29, 2005 by Mark Bell
LINE-A-PALOOZA: EPISODE III – REVENGE OF THE LINE
Around 3:30am, it all went to hell again when a GenCon employee arrived and informed us that he was going to finally get us out of the rain, and all we had to do was follow him with the line in the same order. Out of the rain!?! It was a miracle, they were finally [...]
Posted on April 29, 2005 by Mark Bell
LINE-A-PALOOZA: EPISODE II – ATTACK OF THE LINE
I arrived where the non-fan club line should be and, sure enough, folks were already lining up. Fold-out chairs were set, people were bundled and, most important of all, there were only about 20-30 people ahead of me. This pretty much guaranteed that I’d be seeing Lucas for the first show and also set up [...]
Posted on April 29, 2005 by Mark Bell