MOVIE MARKETING MADNESS: WAR OF THE WORLDS
In an attempt to show how marketers are trying to put the most hinders in the theater seats, Chris Thilk breaks down why some movie campaigns work and some don’t. This week, Chris picks apart the push for “War of the Worlds”…
Posted on June 28, 2005 by Chris Thilk
WIN HONORS GURINDER CHADHA
“The Women’s Image Network (WIN), producer of the WIN Awards, announces director, Gurinder Chadha, (BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM, BRIDE & PREJUDICE) will be its 2005 Chaplin Limelight Award Honoree. Established in 2003, The Chaplin Limelight Award spotlights emerging women directors, who bring a sense of innovation and originality, together with a standard of excellence, to [...]
Posted on June 28, 2005 by Film Threat Staff
48 HOURS OF EXTREME
The 8th Extreme Filmmaker 48 Hour Film Festival is set to go down at the ArcLight in Los Angeles on August 25th…
Posted on June 28, 2005 by Film Threat Staff
UNCONSCIOUS
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 108 minutes |
ATLANTA FILM FESTIVAL 2005 REVIEW! Joaquin Oristrell’s film “Unconscious” is a brilliant exploration into the implications of Freud’s theories on one family…
Posted on June 28, 2005 by Stina Chyn
A JOKER’S CARD
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 20 minutes |
NEW FAN FILM! When paying tribute doesn’t sufficiently express your love for a book, a movie, or a narrative style, you must resort to emulating it in the spirit of campy fun—which is exactly what writer-director Johnny K. Wu does in his DC Comics parody “A Joker’s Card”…
Posted on June 28, 2005 by Stina Chyn
SECOND BANANA
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 24 minutes |
Beyond the loving movie references, Bey has obviously lived through the taunting trials of fatherhood…
Posted on June 28, 2005 by Rory L. Aronsky
DAVID GIARDINA: PULLING “TAFFY”
At a time when so many horror films and thrillers literally clobber the viewer with an excess of CGI trickery and endless violence and gore, the small indie offering “Taffy Was Born” takes a more classic approach to scaring the excrement out of the viewer…
Posted on June 27, 2005 by Phil Hall
FILM THREAT DVD PATROLS THE “FRONTIER” WITH “LIGEIA”
Keeping up their roles as distributor to the best undiscovered indie-film gems around, Film Threat DVD announces the release of Frontier by David and Nathan Zellner and “Ligeia
Posted on June 27, 2005 by Film Threat Staff
GET YOUR CON-CAN ON
CON-CAN Movie Festival, Tokyo, Japan, is an online film festival targeting short films up to 20 min…
Posted on June 27, 2005 by Film Threat Staff
MARDI GRAS: MADE IN CHINA
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  Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 62 minutes |
ATLANTA FILM FESTIVAL 2005 REVIEW! What do mass-produced clothes, electronics, toys, and hair accessories have in common? If you look at their tags, you’ll see that nearly every one of them is made in China—so are Mardi Gras beads, but you’ve probably never thought about the manufacturing origin of the multi-colored, festival-specific plastic necklaces…
Posted on June 27, 2005 by Stina Chyn
THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 107 minutes |
ATLANTA FILM FESTIVAL 2005 REVIEW! Regardless of his or her swimming skills, if you throw a person into a large body of water, self-preservation kicks in and that person will struggle to stay afloat…
Posted on June 27, 2005 by Stina Chyn
THE DANCER (DVD)
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  Year Released: 1994 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 96 minutes |
Being from Sweden, the home country of Ingmar Bergman, “The Dancer” is very patient…
Posted on June 27, 2005 by Rory L. Aronsky
JIBJAB: THE EARLY YEARS 1999 – 2004 (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 30 minutes |
The DVD for “JibJab: The Early Years” features a quote from Jay Leno expressing his love for the fellows at JibJab. When Leno heralds these quote unquote comic masterminds, you should have an idea of what is about to follow…
Posted on June 27, 2005 by Daulton Dickey
THE MILK CAN
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 95 minutes |
On the surface, “The Milk Can” is about a war between two small towns…
Posted on June 27, 2005 by Doug Brunell
MARCH OF THE PENGUINS
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: G Running Time: 84 minutes |
IN THEATERS! The impressive spectacles depicted include mass migration in which the penguins walk and slide on their stomachs to reach the mating grounds, protect their babies from bereaved mothers who try to steal them, and share moving moments of intimacy…
Posted on June 27, 2005 by Jeremy Mathews