CAMERON GOES 3-D
James Cameron will produce a 3-D adventure/thriller film for Rogue Pictures.
The story will center on a father and son who become trapped and struggle to survive deep below the Earth’s surface…
Posted on October 30, 2006 by Film Threat Staff
WHO IS READY FOR MORE STREET FIGHTER?
There is talks of a sequel to the 1994 Jean-Claude Van Damme movie except this time it will be centered around the popular video game character Chun-Li…
Posted on October 30, 2006 by Film Threat Staff
HELLBOY: SWORD OF STORMS
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  Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 70 minutes |
Wayne sticks true to the Hellboy character as this powerful monster man who is more like a plumber cleaning up messes left by these beasts, having a good time doing it, and making it home in time for pamcakes. Gotta love pamcakes…
Posted on October 30, 2006 by Felix Vasquez Jr.
SAW III
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  Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 107 minutes |
By itself, “Saw III” would be a solid exercise in weaving parallel storylines and incorporation of flashbacks. Considered as the third part of this specific trilogy, though, all the pontificating about appreciating life and self-sacrifice grows increasingly tiresome…
Posted on October 30, 2006 by Stina Chyn
EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: THE GAYEST, JESUS-IEST HERO EVER
Rarely do you see two polar opposite groups of people embrace one particular thing and claim it as their own … unless that object of worship is none other than Superman. Superman, like the rainbow, apparently is an icon to both homosexuals and Christians. I don’t know whether to laugh or shake my head in [...]
Posted on October 29, 2006 by Excess Hollywood
EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: THE GAYEST, JESUS-IEST HERO EVER
Rarely do you see two polar opposite groups of people embrace one particular thing and claim it as their own … unless that object of worship is none other than Superman. Superman, like the rainbow, apparently is an icon to both homosexuals and Christians…
Posted on October 29, 2006 by Doug Brunell
BEAT THE BASTARD DOWN
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  Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 52 minutes |
Improv can be the cruelest way to reveal inadequate talents. But with “Beat the Bastard Down,” the improv approach taken by Traynor and his company results in a genuinely surprising and thoroughly entertaining commentary on the battle of the sexes…
Posted on October 29, 2006 by Phil Hall
RUNNING WITH SCISSORS
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Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 116 minutes |
It’s hard to fault a memoir where your mom gives you up for adoption to her therapist before coming out as a lesbian. I mean, that’s pretty much comedy gold…
Posted on October 28, 2006 by Pete Vonder Haar
THE BOOTLEG FILES: “SUBMISSION”
Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the wild world of classic and kooky flicks that can only be found on bootlegged videos and DVD. This week, Phil unveils the film that got Theo van Gogh killed…
Posted on October 27, 2006 by Phil Hall
“BORAT” FOLLOW-UP TRIGGERS MARRRVELOUS BIDDING WAR
Fans of HBO’s “Da Ali G Show” will be thrilled to hear Sacha Baron Cohens follow-up to the overhyped “Borat” will be none other than “Bruno,” his super-gay supermodel alter-ego. When word hit the streets that Cohen was announcing a sequel, an intense bidding war broke out in which Universal Pictures made a big ole [...]
Posted on October 27, 2006 by Film Threat Staff
THIRD SCREEN FILM FESTIVAL PHONES IN THE AWARDS
A very different film festival took place in Los Angeles last night with cinema buffs huddled around cell phones rather than gazing up at the big screen to view and vote for their favorite short movie. More than 200 attendees cast their votes in real time via text messaging powered by Mozes.com to select the $3,000 Jury Prize winning film…
Posted on October 27, 2006 by Film Threat Staff
CLIMATES
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  Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: G Running Time: 97 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! Apologists may wish to compare this style of filmmaking to Michelangelo Antonioni, but who really wants to endure “The Turkish L’Avventura”?
Posted on October 27, 2006 by Phil Hall
RORY DROPS “STUDIO 60,” FELIX BRAVES “30 ROCK”…
While “Saturday Night Live” crawls on like the injured Chihuahua you’re about to run over the second time with your jeep, it’s spawned two new shows simultaneously spoofing and surpassing its original source in laughs. Now, I enjoyed “Saturday Night Live” as a child, but when the new cast came on, we were given Horatio [...]
Posted on October 26, 2006 by Felix Vasquez Jr.
ANIMATING HELLBOY: AN INTERVIEW WITH TAD STONES
Can’t wait for “Hellboy 2″ to hit theaters? Then get your “Hellboy” fix with Cartoon Network’s new animated film “Hellboy: Sword of Storms.” Animation vet and director of “Hellboy: Sword of Storms,” Tad Stones, talks all things Disney, Mignola and “Hellboy 2″ in this exclusive interview…
Posted on October 26, 2006 by Rory L. Aronsky
CLOONEY AND COHENS: BACK IN ACTION
No true surprise here folks. George Clooney and Joel and Ethan Cohen are teaming up for their third film together. “Burn After Reading” is the story of a CIA agent who loses the disc that contains the book he is writing…
Posted on October 26, 2006 by Film Threat Staff