WALKOUT
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  Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 120 minutes |
“Walkout” takes place in 1968 and involves the equal rights movement of Chicano students in California whom protested and formed groups to stage protests and walkouts from school…
Posted on March 30, 2006 by Felix Vasquez Jr.
ECHOES OF FORGOTTEN PLACES (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 43 minutes |
“Echoes” inspires awe in this possibility that what may have come from workers long ago is still somewhere today…
Posted on March 30, 2006 by Rory L. Aronsky
THE HOBART SHAKESPEAREANS (DVD)
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 52 minutes |
As Los Angeles struggles to wake up at 5:30 a.m., Rafe Esquith is already on his way to work. When he arrives at his job, the sun hasn’t yet seen the tops of the buildings. He subsists on $40,000 a year and makes his job more about what he does than about the money he earns. He even comes in on Saturdays…
Posted on March 30, 2006 by Rory L. Aronsky
LUCINDA SPURLING IS A RARE BIRD
BERMUDA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INTERVIEW! Lucinda Spurling’s “Rare Bird” is a captivating documentary film about the attempt to save a species long thought extinct, the Cahow, a seabird nesting on an obscure island in Bermuda. The film premiered at the 2006 Bermuda International Film Festival, where I was lucky enough to sit down and have a chat with her…
Posted on March 29, 2006 by Michael Ferraro
CINEMA CPR: “DUMA”
KJ Doughton resurrects reels and breathes life back into films currently on life support and verging on extinction. This month, KJ breaks out the paddles on “Duma…”
Posted on March 29, 2006 by KJ Doughton
“KEANE” DVD GETS A SODERBERGH SHAKEUP
Lodge Kerrigan’s film “Keane” managed to score a nice little buzz after it hit the film festival circuit. The film, which was produced by Steven Soderbergh, tells the tale of a man who thinks his daughter has been kidnapped from a New York bus terminal. The DVD has just hit stores and (film geeks, you [...]
Posted on March 29, 2006 by Film Threat Staff
CRONENBERG IS ONE BUSY CANADIAN
The fine folks at Dark Horizons have a pretty comprehensive list of possible projects for David Cronenberg to tackle next. Cronenberg even took time out from promoting the DVD of “A History of Violence” to comment on the possibilities. We hope your head doesn’t turn inside out and talking bugs don’t berate you when you… [...]
Posted on March 29, 2006 by Film Threat Staff
ROGER AVARY: VIDEO GAME GEEK
Roger Avary of “Rules of Attraction” and “Killing Zoe” fame gave a lengthy interview about video games and their penchant for making crappy movies. As the super creepy looking “Silent Hill” adaptation (written by Avary) gets ready to hit theaters, Avary says he was talked with about adapting the game “Darkwatch” but had a scheduling [...]
Posted on March 29, 2006 by Film Threat Staff
“POPAGANDA” GOES TO DVD
POPaganda: The Art & Crimes of Ron English is now available to own through Microcinema DVD. A feature documentary about the culture jamming and billboard liberation antics of Ron English: billboard bandit, post-punk prankster, and counter-cultural cartoonist. A modern Robin Hood of Madison Avenue, Ron paints, perverts, infiltrates, reinvents, and satirizes modern culture and its [...]
Posted on March 29, 2006 by Film Threat Staff
NEW YORK CITY HORROR FLASHES THEIR SHORTS
The New York City Horror Film Festival will be on hand at the BIG APPLE COMIC, TOY & SCI-FI CONVENTION, presenting some of the best short horror films from past festivals and giving previews of the 2006 event in the screening room all weekend! BIG APPLE COMIC, TOY & SCI-FI CONVENTION ^ MARCH 31-APRIL 1-2 [...]
Posted on March 29, 2006 by Film Threat Staff
SOUTH PADRE OPENS A CANNES OF WHOOP ASS!
The South Padre Island Film Festival is opening a “Cannes” of Texas Whoop Ass on the film industry! The South Padre Film Festival will take place on South Padre Island, TX from Sept. 22nd – 24th 2006. A cross between a Caribbean Island and a traditional Texas Town, South Padre Island offers a truly unique [...]
Posted on March 29, 2006 by Film Threat Staff
SARASOTA SALUTES ALTMAN
Robert Altman will be Saluted at the Sarasota Film Festival during the final weekend of the 8th annual event where his latest film, the Picturehouse release of Garrison Keillor’s A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION, will be presented as the Closing Night Film…
Posted on March 29, 2006 by Film Threat Staff
NOBODY NEEDS TO KNOW
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 95 minutes |
So, basically we have an industry insider avant-garde film that may find an accordingly small audience of people for whom this is everyday life. But, pretty much the rest of us will likely find this offering unwatchable…
Posted on March 29, 2006 by Ashley Cooper
LITTLE EDEN
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 83 minutes |
WARNING: This film is experimental in nature. Most people who watch this film are unable to speak or function normally for approximately (1) hour after viewing. If necessary, call a cab or pre-designed driver to return home…
Posted on March 29, 2006 by Ashley Cooper
PUZZLEHEAD
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  Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 81 minutes |
With the gung-ho surrealism of a Lynch film, and the insight of Phillip K. Dick, “Puzzlehead” is a modern “Frankenstein” tale…
Posted on March 29, 2006 by Felix Vasquez Jr.