THE SECOND CIVIL WAR (DVD)
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  Year Released: 1997 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 96 minutes |
A thankfully fictional United States, lorded over by director Joe Dante and led by a satirical script with horrific notions by Martyn Burke, has not only remained faithful to its melting pot image, but has melted along with the pot. In Rhode Island, Chinese immigrants have basically made the state their territory and a cargo [...]
Posted on August 30, 2006 by Rory L. Aronsky
ADAM-12: SEASON ONE (DVD)
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  Year Released: 1968 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 127 minutes |
Jack Webb’s famous line of dialogue on “Dragnet”, “All we want are the facts, Ma’am”, didn’t just exist to be spoken by him. It was also his mantra as a television show producer, evidenced by such productions as, indeed, “Dragnet”, and an outstanding cop show, “Adam-12”. Where most actors saw it fit to float around [...]
Posted on August 30, 2006 by Rory L. Aronsky
THE PHANTOM MENACE DIDN’T SUCK, YOUR EXPECTATIONS WERE TOO HIGH, STUPID
Could George Lucas actually be backing off his devotion to his own franchise? The franchise that gave him so much money he could pay Mexican cabana boys to wipe his ass and still sit pretty? Like that weird large pouch Lucas grew under his chin, “Phantom Menace” is one of the films in the franchise [...]
Posted on August 29, 2006 by Felix Vasquez Jr.
INSIDE STUART GORDON’S URBAN GOTHIC
Gordon’s recent feature-length project, “Edmond,” has allowed him to turn away from fantasy. In “Edmond,” based upon the play by David Mamet, Gordon has created his strongest character yet, a man whose search for meaning turns violent…
Posted on August 29, 2006 by Matthew Sorrento
MOVIE TRAILER MASHUP WEBSITE
Rather than troll the internet looking for all the latest and greatest movie mash-ups, stroll over to “The Trailer Mash” to get your daily fix of cleverness delivered by people with way, way, WAY too much time on their hands. This weeks dose of hillarity includes “How Scarface Got His Groove Back,” “Old School Village” [...]
Posted on August 29, 2006 by Film Threat Staff
STARZ MORE THAN JUST TV
Starz pay-TV is giving way to Starz Media, a new company aimed at producing original film and TV projects and then distributing them via all platforms: theatrical, DVD, PPV, broadband, cable and regular broadcast TV. “We’re creating a company that will do everything from soup to nuts,” said Bob Clasen, CEO of Starz, LLC, the [...]
Posted on August 29, 2006 by Film Threat Staff
THE CHARLES BUKOWSKI TAPES (DVD)
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  Year Released: 1985 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 127 minutes |
A must have for Bukowski fans…
Posted on August 29, 2006 by Eric Campos
THE L.A. RIOT SPECTACULAR
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 80 minutes |
Given enough time, “The L.A. Riot Spectacular” will offend someone, and that’s because Klasfeld’s film takes no prisoners, and mocks and degrades us with a smile…
Posted on August 29, 2006 by Felix Vasquez Jr.
WHAT WANTS TO WATCH “WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPERHERO?”
I’m not sure if I ever mentioned this, but I worked on an earlier incarnation of Who Wants to be a Superhero when it was called “Who wants to be a Comic Book Hero?” (I guess someone actually owns the trademark to the word “superhero.” Weird, eh? Stan mentioned during a meeting that he’s friends [...]
Posted on August 28, 2006 by Chris Gore
FILM THREAT’S “HOLLYWOOD DISTRIBUTION DIRECTORY” MYSPACE CONTEST
We at Film Threat know how hard it is to find proper financing or distribution for your feature films. It can be a daunting process, made worse if you don’t know who to call or where to look. Let us change that for you! We’ve been given 5 copies of the new Hollywood Distribution Directory, [...]
Posted on August 28, 2006 by Film Threat Staff
ANOTHER TRASH FILM ORGY
Hot on the heels of 2005’s fabulously successful ‘CURSE OF THE GOLDEN SKULL’, those wacky folks that bring you the Trash Film Orgy are at it again… That’s right, Trash Fans! The TFO Crew are gearing up to make their second feature film ‘MONSTER FROM BIKINI BEACH’-shooting this fall right here in the River City! [...]
Posted on August 28, 2006 by Film Threat Staff
SADDAM *HEARTS* “SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER, UNCUT”
According to “South Park” creator Matt Stone, imprisoned dickhead turned former dictator Saddam Hussein has been forced to watch the “South Park” movie “South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut” more than once. The film features Hussein as a homosexual whose lover is the devil and the film was banned in Iraq upon it’s release. Stone says [...]
Posted on August 28, 2006 by Film Threat Staff
TRY NOT TO “CHOKE” ON THE NEWS
DarkHorizons.com reports that Universal has acquired the rights to Chuck Fight Club Palahniuk’s novel Choke, with Paul Bernbaum (of recent Hollywoodland fame) to write the screenplay. For those curious, Choke is about a guy who goes to restaurants and scams people out of money by choking and being “saved.” The money then goes to help [...]
Posted on August 28, 2006 by Film Threat Staff
ROMERO TO MAKE “DIARY OF THE DEAD”
Dear Diary, Land of the Dead wasn’t so hot, and lots of people were expecting it to be awesome. What should I do? Another film? Retire? Oh, sometimes I wish making movies were as easy as writing in you, diary. Oh! – George A. Romero George A. Romero, the man, the myth, the legend… has [...]
Posted on August 28, 2006 by Film Threat Staff
RADIOLAND MURDERS (DVD)
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  Year Released: 1994 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 108 minutes |
The real shame, besides the tedium, is the waste of Billy Barty…
Posted on August 28, 2006 by Rory L. Aronsky