RESERVATION ROAD
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 102 minutes |
To quote many other fathers, including my own, I’m not mad at “Reservation Road,” I’m just disappointed in it…
Posted on October 27, 2007 by Pete Vonder Haar
A TRIP TO THE “INLAND EMPIRE”
If you ever play a film you’ve never seen while you sleep for as long as I did with “Inland Empire” (almost a month on and off), it makes the actual viewing beyond surreal and worth recounting, hence this story…
Posted on October 26, 2007 by Jeremy Knox
THE BOOTLEG FILES: “NOSFERATU”
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 prepares a Type O chaser for the first movie vampire.
Posted on October 26, 2007 by Phil Hall
GOT A HORROR SHORT? WIN A BLU-RAY PLAYER!
The fine folks over at G4′s “Attack of the Show” are currently having a “User Created” Horror Short Film Contest…
Posted on October 26, 2007 by Film Threat Staff
STEVE BALDERSON TRIBUTE IN NEW YORK CITY!
Film geeks always look at the state of today’s cinema and ask ”Who’s gonna replace the Lynchs and Cronenbergs and Coens when they’re gone? Who’s going to be the next great auteur?”
Posted on October 26, 2007 by Film Threat Staff
DAN IN REAL LIFE
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 0 minutes |
The latest from Hedges is in places touching and funny but rarely in the course of its 95 minutes does it look anything remotely like real life…
Posted on October 26, 2007 by Rick Kisonak
HALLOWEEN: THE HAPPY HAUNTING OF AMERICA (DVD)
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 127 minutes |
I have not enjoyed writing this review, especially as Halloween is only a week away as I type this. I equate the feeling to having to smack my mother in the mouth…
Posted on October 26, 2007 by Eric Campos
ONE LAST WORD ABOUT INLAND EMPIRE
Well here it FINALLY is folks: Click right here and you’ll be whisked away to the review for INLAND EMPIRE. And it’s about flippin’ time. I’m all Lynched out. I’m done, fini, over. No more rabbits and gangsters and dreams and Emerald Cities. As much as I admire the man, I think a month and a [...]
Posted on October 25, 2007 by Jeremy Knox
HARRY POTTER AND THE UNNECESSARY KNOB
While originally more of a joke about Daniel Radcliffe being naked in “Equus,” this SuperDeluxe.com short has found new life due to J.K. Rowling’s recent revelations about Dumbledore’s sexual preference…
Posted on October 25, 2007 by Film Threat Staff
SPECIAL DEAD (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
It’s a nice, simple set-up, executed with a brash display of sex, gore and disrespect for the handicapped, or anyone else for that matter…living or dead…
Posted on October 25, 2007 by Eric Campos
SIX DEGREES OF DECORATION: INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER ALIX LAMBERT
What do bona fide coke magnates think of Al Pacino’s Tony Montana? How do real narcs feel about “Narc”? Filmmaker Alix Lambert knows, and her upcoming book “Crime” contrasts the reality of lawbreaking with its depictions in entertainment mediums…
Posted on October 24, 2007 by KJ Doughton
DVDUESDAY WITH CHRIS GORE (10/23/07)
This week, Chris Gore reviews the DVD releases of “Hostel: Director’s Cut,” “Hostel: Part II” and “Black Sheep”…
Posted on October 24, 2007 by Film Threat Staff
OTHELLO (DVD)
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 127 minutes |
Even with its imperfections and politically incorrect presentation, “Othello” is a memorable achievement.
Posted on October 24, 2007 by Phil Hall
THE LAST DUET ON EARTH
Graham Annable’s short film brings us a future full of cannibalistic mutants, and the tale of humanity’s last shot at survival… through music…
Posted on October 23, 2007 by Film Threat Staff
PLAYROOM (DVD)
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 86 minutes |
“Playroom” provides a perfect example of the fact that gory and disturbing scenes are not enough, on their own, to make for effective horror…
Posted on October 23, 2007 by Niki Foster