REMEMBERING JAMES BROWN AND GERALD FORD
In tribute to the recently deceased Godfather of Soul, James Brown, and former President of the United States, Gerald Ford, Film Threat presents the following two “Saturday Night Live” classic skits…
Posted on December 31, 2006 by Film Threat Staff
THE BOOTLEG FILES: “A CHARLIE BROWN KWANZAA”
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, Charlie Brown teaches Phil how to gobble-baste a ho…
Posted on December 31, 2006 by Phil Hall
VOLVER
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  Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 121 minutes |
You can see that the current events in Raimunda’s life and her mother’s past ‘neatly’ dovetail into twin vengeful scenarios that leave you in no doubt about Almodovar’s heavy-handed contempt for straight males, logic, plotting, and, hell, throw in believability just for good measure…
Posted on December 31, 2006 by Graham Rae
“INDIANA JONES 4″ TO BEGIN FILMING IN 2007
George Lucas has finally given the greenlight, and “Indiana Jones 4″ is heading towards a 2007 production, with a proposed release date in May 2008…
Posted on December 30, 2006 by Film Threat Staff
PAN’S LABYRINTH
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  Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 112 minutes |
Del Toro has taken several cinematic elements that don’t belong together, mashed them together and created a nearly flawless film. “Pan’s Labyrinth” is one of those underdog films that needs to be seen…
Posted on December 30, 2006 by Don R. Lewis
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM
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  Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 108 minutes |
Ben Stiller is at the front of the large pack of ensemble cast-ites, but with no major revelations. The problem with Stiller’s acting is that you have seen him in the bumbling zero to hero role before, and he’s not even trying to give subtle differences anymore…
Posted on December 29, 2006 by Zack Haddad
MOST HIGH (DVD)
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 101 minutes |
Addiction movies, drugs or otherwise, are in abundance out there. So what makes this one stand from the rest of the pack?
Posted on December 29, 2006 by Eric Campos
NOTES ON A SCANDAL
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Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 90 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! There is relatively little to recommend in “Notes on a Scandal” outside of watching Dame Judi Dench pretend to be a dyke and Cate Blanchett pretend to have sex with an underage teen boy…
Posted on December 28, 2006 by Phil Hall
EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: AN INTERVIEW WITH M.A. LITTLER
His name is probably not familiar to you, but if you are a Voodoo Rhythm Records junkie like myself, you know the Germany-based M.A. Littler as the man who did the documentary “”Voodoo Rhythm: The Gospel of Primitive Rock “˜N’ Roll” (now available on DVD). Voodoo Rhythm Records is such a niche label in this [...]
Posted on December 27, 2006 by Excess Hollywood
THE TEN BEST UNSEEN FILMS OF 2006
In keeping with our mission to celebrate independent and underground cinema, Film Threat would like to offer an encore appraisal of the best films that never received a wide release in 2006…
Posted on December 27, 2006 by Phil Hall
NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY ANNOUNCES 2006 ADDITIONS
The Library of Congress has released the list of films being added to the National Film Registry for 2006…
Posted on December 27, 2006 by Film Threat Staff
THE BODY IS NOT EVEN COLD YET
Spike Lee has signed on to direct a biopic about recently departed soul legend James Brown…
Posted on December 27, 2006 by Film Threat Staff
THE TOTALLY RADICAL PAUSE TAPE (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 32 minutes |
While his partner holds up a knife, decked out in a foreboding black mask, standing still, Pig Head Man slowly and continually squeezes his breasts…
Posted on December 27, 2006 by Rory L. Aronsky
CHILDREN OF MEN
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Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 109 minutes |
“Children of Men” is worth seeing, if for no other reason than the gorgeous vision of the end of the world Cuarón has crafted and some of the most unreal single-take action sequences ever committed to screen…
Posted on December 26, 2006 by Mark Bell
BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974): SPECIAL EDITION (DVD)
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Year Released: 1974 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 98 minutes |
We never did find out who Billy was, did we? Was he a disgruntled ex-boyfriend? A humiliated crush? Or perhaps just a lunatic who drifted into the sorority house one night before Christmas?
Posted on December 25, 2006 by Felix Vasquez Jr.