LINE-A-PALOOZA: EPISODE I – THE PHANTOM LINE
Gore and I first inquired at the press office. If anyone should know how this situation was to work, they should have some idea, right? Wrong. They knew nothing, and repeatedly told us so, as well as letting us know that “this event is more for the fans than the media.” Of course, but we [...]
Posted on April 29, 2005 by Mark Bell
TELLURIDE CALLS FOR 2005
That’s right, Telluride is coming back for another great Labor Day weekend. Find out how you can be a part of it…
Posted on April 29, 2005 by Film Threat Staff
SIXTEEN TONGUES (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 80 minutes |
“Sixteen Tongues” comes highly recommended for those who understand that independent movies can offer so much more than simple low budget thrills…
Posted on April 29, 2005 by Mike Watt
TENEMENT (DVD)
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  Year Released: 1985 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 94 minutes |
How I miss eighties exploitation!
Posted on April 29, 2005 by Daniel Bernardi
THE DEVIL & MANNY SCHMECKSTEIN
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 6 minutes |
“The Devil & Manny Schmeckstein” is artfully created, humorously written, and re-interprets the common definition of and difference between Hell and Heaven…
Posted on April 29, 2005 by Stina Chyn
GIRLS INTERRUPTED: THE CONTROVERSIAL NEW RUNAWAYS DOCUMENTARY
NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2005 INTERVIEW! Victory Tischler-Blue’s powerful documentary “Edgeplay” has been a long time in the making, but this was never the way she intended things to be. Tischler-Blue interviewed all of her former musical comrades except Joan Jett, who–according to the filmmaker–ignored her requests to participate in the film for several years…
Posted on April 28, 2005 by Chris Parcellin
EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: REHASH CITY
I’m guilty of promoting this culture of remakes and adaptations, and I hang my head in shame because my attendance at “Sin City” helps bring “Spawn 2” that much closer to becoming a real entity…
Posted on April 28, 2005 by Doug Brunell
“LAND OF THE DEAD” TRAILER
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Posted on April 28, 2005 by Film Threat Staff
SOME TRULY INSPIRATIONAL AWARDS
The First Annual Inspiration Film Festival announced the winners of its Inspiration Awards Monday night…
Posted on April 28, 2005 by Film Threat Staff
THE INTERPRETER
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  Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 127 minutes |
IN THEATERS! There aren’t many active filmmakers of significance who have turned out marketable work over five decades. Sydney Pollack is a member of that select association though the mere act of sticking around this long probably has come to lend his career a degree of undeserved luster…
Posted on April 28, 2005 by Rick Kisonak
DOWN SIZE ME
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  Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 38 minutes |
NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2005 REVIEW! What happens when you make a highly successful, opinionated documentary? The detractors come out of the woodwork and they’re militant and aiming to take you down. Such is the case with Michael Moore and “Fahrenheit 9/11” that inspired the rebuttal documentary “Michael Moore Hates America”. Now, it’s Morgan Spurlock’s turn in the hot seat, whose “Super Size Me” film has inspired this short counterpoint doc…
Posted on April 28, 2005 by Eric Campos
QUEST FOR THE EGG SALAD (DVD)
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Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 60 minutes |
The plot, which doesn’t seem to matter as much as the jokes, involves some magical egg salad stolen from Bonejack by the Goblin King…
Posted on April 28, 2005 by Doug Brunell
A VIEW TO A BOAT CHASE (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 71 minutes |
I’ve seen a fair share of movies. Action, comedy, film noir, horror, art film, etc. “A View to a Boat Chase” doesn*t fall into any of these categories, instead it would classify as a home movie…
Posted on April 28, 2005 by Greg Bellavia
LARRY HANKIN: 10 FUNNY FABLES (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 100 minutes |
Hankin’s fables favor underdogs and unusual situations that provide an ostensibly novel setting for the encouragement of smart thinking…
Posted on April 28, 2005 by Stina Chyn
APOCALYPTIC YASUAKI NAKAJIMA
NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2005 INTERVIEW! Yasuaki Nakajima’s “After the Apocalypse” tells the story of five strangers who stumble upon each other as they try to figure out their new surroundings on a post-apocalyptic Earth…
Posted on April 27, 2005 by Eric Campos