DE PALMA ATTACKS IRAQ FOR HDNET
HDNet Films has hired Brian De Palma to write and direct the feature film “Redacted” about the Iraq War…
Posted on January 29, 2007 by Film Threat Staff
SAG AWARDS, GOLDEN GLOBES… WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
The 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were handed out, and the show offered up little surprises, being an almost-exact repeat of the 2007 Golden Globe winners…
Posted on January 29, 2007 by Film Threat Staff
2007 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
The jury and audience award-winners of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival were announced at the Festival’s closing Awards Ceremony in Park City, Utah on Saturday, January 27th, 2007…
Posted on January 29, 2007 by Mark Bell
LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA
|
  Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 127 minutes |
What we know this time around is what the Japanese high command knew prior to the invasion: The Imperial fleet had been wiped out. Air support would be minimal because planes, along with thousands of troops, needed to be redeployed to the mainland. Food, water and ammunition were in short supply. There would be no reinforcements…
Posted on January 29, 2007 by Rick Kisonak
BLAME IT ON FIDEL
|
  Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 110 minutes |
2007 SUNDANCE WORLD DRAMATIC COMPETITION FEATURE! Watching the dawn of Anna’s political consciousness is a delight. Incredibly spirited, she doesn’t hesitate to challenge the ideologies of the various revolutionaries hanging around her kitchen…
Posted on January 29, 2007 by Jamie Tipps
DESTINY MANIFESTO
|
|
Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 9 minutes |
2007 SUNDANCE SHORT! “Destiny Manifesto” explores the effects of the Western world on the Eastern world through time, through Manifest Destiny, the notion that asserted the US was destined to expand, and we’ve practiced such a theory from the very beginning…
Posted on January 29, 2007 by Felix Vasquez Jr.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
|
  Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 13 minutes |
2007 SUNDANCE SHORT! Stringing a bunch of words together doesn’t make it a song, nor an artist, as Kurt Cobain taught us, and stringing images together doesn’t automatically make it a poetic statement…
Posted on January 29, 2007 by Felix Vasquez Jr.
IF I’D KNOWN I WAS A GENIUS
|
  Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 102 minutes |
2007 SUNDANCE SPECTRUM FEATURE! This film has potential. Much like Michael in the film, this film could be a great success, but all told, who really knows?
Posted on January 29, 2007 by Zack Haddad
BLACK SNAKE MOAN
|
Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 118 minutes |
Southern hospitality sees a whole new light in this pulpy romp. Mixing blues with one woman’s intense carnal obsession, “Black Snake Moan” is the story of one man’s quest to better one woman’s life…
Posted on January 29, 2007 by Zack Haddad
PETER’S PRICE
|
|
Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 20 minutes |
Cohen hooks the entirety of his premise on the question of who these men are…
Posted on January 28, 2007 by Rory L. Aronsky
THE GO-GETTER
|
Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 93 minutes |
2007 SUNDANCE SPECTRUM FEATURE! With such a decent group of actors and amazing set of locations (even if there were to many), it is a shame that the story just doesn’t keep up…
Posted on January 28, 2007 by Zack Haddad
SNOW ANGELS
|
  Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 106 minutes |
David Gordon Green’s cinematic adaptation of Stewart O’Nan’s novel poetically studies the divide between innocence and tragedy, discovery and disappointment. With a deep understanding of his characters, Green has crafted a film that’s devastating and uplifting without sounding a false note…
Posted on January 28, 2007 by Jeremy Mathews
TRADE
|
Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 113 minutes |
2007 SUNDANCE PREMIERE FEATURE! Now I have never been kidnapped nor do I know anything about sex-trafficking, but I am pretty sure that if I was abducted and forced to do things that I didn’t want to, I would tell anyone immediately…
Posted on January 28, 2007 by Zack Haddad
AFTERMATH ON MEADOWLARK LANE
|
  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 6 minutes |
2007 AFI FILM FESTIVAL SHORT FILM! This flaccid one-joke effort is as much fun as a trip to the urologist…
Posted on January 27, 2007 by Phil Hall
CATCH AND RELEASE
|
  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 124 minutes |
“Catch and Release” won’t make anybody’s “best of” lists a year from now, but it’s nowhere near as offensive as some other examples of this moldy genre…
Posted on January 27, 2007 by Pete Vonder Haar