THE REAL ‘SILENT HILL MOVIE’ TRAILER
A few weeks back a pretty impressive fake trailer for the Christophe Gans directed “Silent Hill” movie hit the web. Well, this one’s the real deal and it looks freaky!! See what happens when you get a good director and screenwriter (Roger Avary) on the case? Grab a scarf for those chills you’ll get when [...]
Posted on January 30, 2006 by Film Threat Staff
STAY
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  Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
SUNDANCE 2006 DRAMATIC COMPETITION REVIEW! Bob(cat) Goldthwait returns to the feature-length director’s chair for the first time since 1992’s epic masterpiece of clown versus rodeo clown, “Shakes the Clown…”
Posted on January 30, 2006 by Michael Ferraro
MATT DILLON DOES IT FOR JOHNNY (AND MORE)…
As promised, a pictorial examination of my first trip to Sundance. Firstly, here is a picture of Chris Gore in the kitchen of our wonderful condo, wearing a T-shirt that supports all of Virginia… or am I getting confused with something else? Next, here I am kicking it with director Tamra Davis (Billy Madison, Half [...]
Posted on January 29, 2006 by Michael Ferraro
DAYLIGHT HOLE
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: G Running Time: 6 minutes |
In his first short film, Director Matt Palmer plays a sound man who
ventures into an empty cave to record the trickling sounds of the water that runs underground…
Posted on January 29, 2006 by Sally Foster
BREAKING BEATS AND RHYMES: A HIP-HOP HEAD WEIGHS IN ON MANHOOD IN HIP-HOP CULTURE
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  Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 60 minutes |
Through presentation, both lyrically and music video, hip-hop has allowed itself to become an incredibly formulaic medium dominated mostly by men…
Posted on January 29, 2006 by Michael Ferraro
THE SHORT LIFE OF JOSE ANTONIO GUTIERREZ
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
SUNDANCE 2006 WORLD DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION REVIEW! Jose Gutierrez did in fact live a short life. His experiences, however, dictate otherwise…
Posted on January 29, 2006 by Michael Ferraro
SUBJECT TWO
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 93 minutes |
SUNDANCE 2006 PARK CITY AT MIDNIGHT REVIEW! One of the most popular monster stories in literature is Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Interpretations in film abound, from James Whale’s classic portrayal, to less successful efforts starring Sting and Kenneth Branagh. Writer/director Philip Chidel has taken a new track with “Subject Two…”
Posted on January 29, 2006 by Pete Vonder Haar
THE GROUND TRUTH: AFTER THE KILLING ENDS
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  Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 75 minutes |
SUNDANCE 20006 DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION REVIEW! “The Ground Truth” begins in familiar fashion, as director Patricia Foulkrod shows us new Marine recruits being put through the paces of basic training…
Posted on January 29, 2006 by Pete Vonder Haar
FLY THE BRENLY SKIES
Me and planes. To start with, the schedule at this year’s festival was pretty grueling. I saw 21 movies and a shorts festival over the course of six days, most of the reviews are currently up (I haven’t been able to will myself to sit down in front of a computer to bang out the [...]
Posted on January 28, 2006 by Pete Vonder Haar
CARLOS BOLADO: GOD ONLY KNOWS
SUNDANCE 2006 INTERVIEW! “God Only Knows” is the English translation of Carlos Bolado’s “Solo Dios Sabe,” that sees a wild love story between an art student and a journalist unfold from Mexico to Brazil…
Posted on January 28, 2006 by Eric Campos
SPACE THING
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 3 minutes |
SLAMDANCE 2006 ANARCHY ONLINE FILM REVIEW! “Space Thing” is a dumbfounding and puzzling experimental film that displays an immense sense of zeal in being frenetic and chaotic and also never really makes a lick of sense…
Posted on January 28, 2006 by Felix Vasquez Jr.
LITTLE RED FLOWERS
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Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 92 minutes |
SUNDANCE 2006 WORLD DRAMATIC CMOPETITION REVIEW! Four year old Qiang has been dropped off at a boarding school because no one can care for him. While most films show boarding schools with copious amounts of children to be “Oliver Twist” like hell holes, this one’s fairly nice…
Posted on January 28, 2006 by Don R. Lewis
EVE & THE FIRE HORSE
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 92 minutes |
SUNDANCE 2006 WORLD DRAMATIC COMPETITION REVIEW! Luck, karma, coincidence, religion and faith – “Eve and the Fire Horse…”
Posted on January 28, 2006 by Michael Ferraro
IN THE PIT
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 80 minutes |
SUNDANCE 2006 WORLD DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION REVIEW! A second level is being built atop a pre-existing freeway in Mexico City. This thing is huge and several workers risk their lives to speeding traffic, large holes in the ground and the obvious threat of falling off just to get it built…
Posted on January 28, 2006 by Don R. Lewis
BY THE WAYS, A JOURNEY WITH WILLIAM EGGLESTON
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 85 minutes |
SUNDANCE 2006 WORLD DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION REVIEW! I’ll come right out and admit my naivety about who William Eggleston is or what he does…
Posted on January 28, 2006 by Don R. Lewis