ORTHODOX STANCE

Year Released: 2008
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 82 minutes

IN LIMITED RELEASE! Too many sequences are so poorly recorded that subtitling is required to decipher what is being said…

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Phil Hall

2008 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL’S AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED

The jury and audience award-winners of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival were announced last night at the Festival’s closing Awards Ceremony hosted by William H. Macy in Park City, Utah…

Posted on January 27, 2008 by Film Threat Staff

SIKUMI (ON THE ICE)

Year Released: 2008
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 15 minutes

2008 SUNDANCE ONLINE SHORT FILM! “Sikumi” is a work of great intelligence and artistry…

Posted on January 27, 2008 by Phil Hall

UNTRACEABLE

Year Released: 2008
MPAA Rating: R
Running Time: 100 minutes

If I’m going to be lectured about humanity’s depravity and our fascination with suffering (both valid points), maybe the lesson shouldn’t be accompanied by slow-motion replays of a guy blowing his brains out or close-ups of bones sloughing flesh in a sulphuric acid bath…

Posted on January 27, 2008 by Pete Vonder Haar

THE BROKEN

Year Released: 2007
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 110 minutes

2008 SUNDANCE AFTER MIDNIGHT FEATURE FILM! The closer “The Broken” moves to its conclusion, the more clear it becomes that it’s all smoke and mirrors…

Posted on January 27, 2008 by Jeremy Mathews

SUNDANCE 08: HEATH LEDGER LIVES!

Sitting at the Sundance HQ, waiting for the shuttle to SLC airport to arrive to take Zack and I away from Sundance 2008 once and for all. Got myself the nice, comfy couch spot outside of the press office, and Zack is next to me passed out, I know he’s asleep because occassionally he twitches, [...]

Posted on January 26, 2008 by Mark Bell

SUNDANCE 08: LAST BLOG FROM THE CONDO…

Random Bag Check and I still have about ten hours left in Utah, but we’re out of the condo in one so I figured I’d drop one final condo blog entry (this is not the final Sundance entry, just the final condo entry). I will miss this condo, in the sense that the beds were [...]

Posted on January 26, 2008 by Mark Bell

NEVANDO VOY

Year Released: 2008
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 99 minutes

2008 SLAMDANCE FEATURE FILM! It is meant to mirror reality, but it forgets that reality on its own terms is somewhat boring…

Posted on January 26, 2008 by Phil Hall

JETSAM

Year Released: 2008
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 82 minutes

2008 SLAMDANCE FEATURE FILM! This is not exactly your typical day at the seashore…

Posted on January 26, 2008 by Phil Hall

WIND, TEN YEARS OLD

Year Released: 2007
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 21 minutes

2008 SUNDANCE SHORT FILM! “Wind, Ten Years Old” is an interesting glimpse into the rarity of childhood innocence in a war torn land…

Posted on January 26, 2008 by Felix Vasquez Jr.

OTTO; OR, UP WITH DEAD PEOPLE

Year Released: 2007
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 95 minutes

2008 SUNDANCE AFTER MIDNIGHT FEATURE FILM! This is definitely a gay zombie flick, unlike any I have ever seen before…

Posted on January 26, 2008 by Zack Haddad

SLAMDANCE GUT PUNCH: PARANORMAL ACTIVITY…

I’m repeatedly enamored with the Slamdance film festival every year since I started writing for Film Threat. While I respect and enjoy the Sundance tradition, I always seem to levitate more toward Slamdance these days for the fact that their short films, and feature length films always seem more original, and hip, unusual. Reviewing the [...]

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Felix Vasquez Jr.

THE BOOTLEG FILES: “THE FRENCH WAY”

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 drinks in Josephine Baker’s intoxicating charms…

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Phil Hall