DYNAMITE WARRIOR
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 103 minutes |
“Dynamite Warrior” is needlessly convoluted, bogged down with unnecessary back story, flashbacks, double crosses, plot twists – it’s more aggravating than entertaining…
Posted on June 30, 2007 by Eric Campos
RATATOUILLE
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: G Running Time: 110 minutes |
I wish Pixar luck in the inevitable lawsuit they’ll be slapped with when some little girl in Philadelphia tries to pet one of Remy’s “cousins” in an alley behind Geno’s…
Posted on June 30, 2007 by Pete Vonder Haar
REMEMBER THE TRANSFORMERS…
Hell, this July you may be looking at a multi-million dollar monstrosity from Michael Bay involving a former Disney channel actor, a really hot actress with the apt last name of Fox, a rapper, and the star of a bad dramedy, but hell, you’ll at least hear the original Optimus Prime kicking the shit out [...]
Posted on June 29, 2007 by Felix Vasquez Jr.
TALKING “BILLY THE KID” WITH DIRECTOR JENNIFER VENDITTI
Critically well-received, Jennifer Venditti’s “Billy the Kid” picked up the Jury Prize for Documentary Feature at the 2007 SXSW Film Festival and continues to screen in festivals around the world. In the midst of the festival circuit, Jennifer took some time to talk to Film Threat’s Mark Bell about her documentary, Billy and intention vs. interpretations…
Posted on June 29, 2007 by Mark Bell
THE BOOTLEG FILES: “DEEP END”
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 goes swimming in the wrong pool.
Posted on June 29, 2007 by Phil Hall
JOEL SIEGEL DIES OF CANCER AT THE AGE OF 63
Being an entertainment journalist has never been more dangerous, as “Good Morning America” entertainment critic Joel Siegel has died of cancer. Siegel’s death comes just one week after E! Online lost critic Andy Jones and that death came on the heels of the passing of SuicideGirls’ Daniel Robert Epstein. Read the full story at ABC [...]
Posted on June 29, 2007 by Film Threat Staff
TIM BUCKLEY: MY FLEETING HOUSE (DVD)
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 120 minutes |
Where his career could have progressed is anyone’s guess, and the video performances would suggest he was capable of triumph in any musical sphere…
Posted on June 29, 2007 by Phil Hall
ALL ABOUT UWE…
Uwe Boll is no doubt one of the most infamous filmmakers of our generation. The minute someone watches 47 seconds of any film he’s made, they automatically want to hunt him down and destroy him. He’s so bad that it seems people forgot about that other video game filmmaker, Paul WS Anderson (Mortal Kombat and [...]
Posted on June 28, 2007 by Michael Ferraro
JUMP!
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 95 minutes |
After seeing the brilliant documentary “Jump!” by Helen Hood Scheer, I am ready to go buy a damn jump rope right this second and TiVo every single jump rope competition on ESPN…
Posted on June 28, 2007 by Zack Haddad
SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY
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  Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 105 minutes |
While watching this film, a viewer is more likely to be absorbed by the film’s amazingly rich texture, extended time-sense, and it’s nuanced sense of the flavor of ordinary moments, then he will be to look for overt meanings or interpretations…
Posted on June 28, 2007 by David Finkelstein
EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: ANOTHER REASON THE MPAA GETS AN F
Let me preface this column (blog, whatever) with two things. The movie ratings system should be abolished, and “”Hostel 2″ was a better film than the first one, which I liked. If you agree that the ratings board is a necessary evil (and I don’t, but plenty do), you have to admit that it got [...]
Posted on June 27, 2007 by Excess Hollywood
SNEAKING “ON THE LOT”: WEEK FIVE
Six directors enter, one director leaves. The show switches up form AGAIN by putting the filmmakers into a theme night, Comedy, and seeing what they come up with. Luckily, Zach is in tonight’s group…
Posted on June 27, 2007 by Mark Bell
FISHBURNE BUYS RIGHTS TO “THE ALCHEMIST”
Laurence Fishburne and A-Mark Entertainment have acquired the film rights to Paulo Coelho’s best-selling novel “The Alchemist” from previous rights-holders Warner Bros. “The Alchemist” seems to be one of those projects that everyone talks about making but no one actually does (hence WB holding the rights for so long), so we’ll see if Fishburne can [...]
Posted on June 27, 2007 by Film Threat Staff
MYSPACE TV?
According to the New York Times: “On Thursday, MySpace plans to rename and refurbish the video-sharing service on its popular social network. The new service, called MySpace TV, will be set up as an independent Web site (www.myspacetv.com) that people can visit to share and watch video, even if they have not signed up for [...]
Posted on June 27, 2007 by Film Threat Staff
LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 127 minutes |
A welcome throwback to good old-fashioned, ‘80s-style lunkhead violence; no one takes a punch, kick, elbow, or bullet quite like John McClane…
Posted on June 27, 2007 by Pete Vonder Haar