“BLADE RUNNER” BACK TO DVD…AGAIN
Ridley Scott’s amazing “Blade Runner” is getting the special DVD treatment yet again. Warner Home Video is releasing a 25th Anniversary edition of the DVD that is said to be the directors “definitive new version” of the film. This new version will feature the directors cut of the film, which was previously featured in a [...]
Posted on May 30, 2006 by Film Threat Staff
RICHARD KELLY FORCED TO MAKE CUTS TO “DONNIE DARKO” FOLLOWUP
After a craptacular debut at the Cannes Film Festival, Richard Kelly has said he’ll have to make extensive cuts to his film “Southland Tales.” At first the director was not being allowed to fly to Cannes due to a passport mixup that had Kelly’s name listed as a terrorist threat, then the director arrived just [...]
Posted on May 30, 2006 by Film Threat Staff
WHEN A KILLER CALLS (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 90 minutes |
Recent history time, folks. I really, truly doubt that the release of “When A Killer Calls”, which appeared on video store shelves about two weeks or so ahead of the video release of “When A Stranger Calls” was some kind of incredible coincidence. Especially after the less-than-incredible coincidence of “Hillside Cannibals” coming out at almost [...]
Posted on May 30, 2006 by Steve Anderson
PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE (DVD)
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 79 minutes |
This is one that’s sure to get some hackles up. The fact that Mike Nelson’s involved is a pretty solid sign that this will be a bad movie. So what we’ve got here is the thoroughly preposterous story of alien attention whores so desperate to become celebrities that they’re willing to go to baffling lengths [...]
Posted on May 30, 2006 by Steve Anderson
LA SCORTA (DVD)
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  Year Released: 1993 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 95 minutes |
Usually, when I think “Italian cinema”, I start thinking about spaghetti westerns and zombie movies that knock off the Grand Old Man, George Romero. But now, thanks to “La Scorta”, I may have to consider them for my crime drama needs too. Basically, what’s going on here is that four young cops have been assigned [...]
Posted on May 30, 2006 by Steve Anderson
MICKEY SPILLANE’S MIKE HAMMER – DOUBLE FEATURE (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 127 minutes |
In the first TV movies featuring Mike Hammer, “More Than Murder” and “Murder Me, Murder You”, Stacy Keach plays Mike Hammer in three ways. First, he uses his fedora to continue where his words end. Moving it slightly over his eyes is his playful gesture towards the constant stream of women attracted to him, which [...]
Posted on May 30, 2006 by Rory L. Aronsky
COMPULSION (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 103 minutes |
When Orson Welles speaks in any of his films, he makes words sound as if they were born of lightning…
Posted on May 30, 2006 by Rory L. Aronsky
DOG YEARS 2
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Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 5 minutes |
Shot in Super 8mm, the best kind of film to look at memories, we hear the thoughts of Ben, a 46-year-old dog, who’s bothered by the inflamed glands in his rear…
Posted on May 30, 2006 by Rory L. Aronsky
STEPHEN TOBOLOWSKY’S BIRTHDAY PARTY (DVD)
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 87 minutes |
Stephen Tobolowsky is one of the most recognizable character actors of our time. Now he’s been given full court in Robert Brinkmann’s directorial debut “Stephen Tobolowsky’s Birthday Party”…
Posted on May 30, 2006 by Amanda Reyes
A/K/A TOMMY CHONG
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Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 75 minutes |
SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2006 REVIEW! The debut feature film of director Josh Gilbert, “A/K/A Tommy Chong” chronicles how the latter half of legendary blunt-burners Cheech and Chong was targeted by the DEA in 2003, busted for online bong manufacturing, and thrown in prison…
Posted on May 30, 2006 by KJ Doughton
CASANOVA (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 108 minutes |
Filmed in Venice, filled with lovely costumes and even lovelier locations, Lasse Halstrom’s period drama-comedy “Casanova” (2005) is an exaltation of imagery. Unfortunately, the film itself is not as marvelous. Set during the mid-18th century, “Casanova” is about a young man (Heath Ledger) whose seductive ways and lascivious appetite for the ladies cause the local [...]
Posted on May 29, 2006 by Stina Chyn
STRAIGHT INTO DARKNESS (DVD)
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Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
ON DVD JUNE 6TH! In the stylistic tradition of Terrence Malick’s “The Thin Red Line” (1998) blended with the contemplative imagery of Robert Frost and the darker ponderings of Edgar Allan Poe, Jeff Burr’s “Straight Into Darkness” follows the journey of two American soldiers lost in the winter woods of a 1945 Europe…
Posted on May 29, 2006 by Stina Chyn
CAVITE
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 83 minutes |
IN THEATERS! One thing that I learned from “Cavite”, is that my next vacation will not include a visit to the Philippines. “Cavite” captures a world that Hollywood films like “Beyond Borders” try to depict, but aren’t willing to get their hands dirty in order to achieve…
Posted on May 28, 2006 by Rachel Morgan
“CLERKS 2″ GETS 8 MINUTE STANDING OVATION AT CANNES
Sometimes the French boo, sometimes they hate your theme parks and sometimes they champion your film like it’s a God. Luckily for Kevin Smith, he received the latter treatment after his newest film, Clerks 2, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Festival-goers for the midnight screening began standing and applauding during the film’s credits and [...]
Posted on May 27, 2006 by Film Threat Staff
X-MEN: THE LAST STAND
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Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 104 minutes |
IN THEATERS…“X-Men: The Last Stand” has a few high points, but feels far too disjointed and slapdash to favorably compare to what came before…
Posted on May 27, 2006 by Pete Vonder Haar