2008 WIZARD WORLD LA ANNOUNCES PROGRAMMING!
Wizard World Los Angeles, the family friendly comics and pop culture extravaganza at the LA Convention Center March 14-16, has locked a weekend full of amazing programming and panels…
Posted on February 25, 2008 by Film Threat Staff
STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 111 minutes |
In a perfect world, this is the kind of movie that would bring its makers millions of dollars in merchandising deals…
Posted on February 25, 2008 by Rick Kisonak
SCHMOSCAR
If you saw the live cam with Mark and Chris during the Oscars, then man, what fun you missed out on. Those two are seriously goof balls, and I pity anyone who missed Chris butchering the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Ramones, and Sabbath. And Mark mocking the awards were funny too; the “Methusulah” comment inspired [...]
Posted on February 24, 2008 by Felix Vasquez Jr.
TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 106 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! This documentary, a 2008 Oscar nominee (now winner – Ed.) now in limited release, is one of the most disturbing films to appear in some time, the Coen brothers’ “No Country for Old Men” and Sidney Lumet’s “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead” notwithstanding…
Posted on February 24, 2008 by Matthew Sorrento
BE KIND REWIND
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 101 minutes |
You’d be better off re-making classic films with your friends and showing them to each other than watching Jack Black sleep-ham his way through another role while Mos Def drools in the corner…
Posted on February 24, 2008 by Mark Bell
THE SIGNAL
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 99 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! Everyone always says “The world’s a crazy place,” but what if it was literally true? What if the whole world did go crazy one night?
Posted on February 24, 2008 by Jeremy Knox
2008 INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS WINNERS!
It’s all over but the drinking! The 2008 Independent Spirit Awards are over, and the winners are as follows…
Posted on February 23, 2008 by Film Threat Staff
28TH ANNUAL RAZZIE AWARD WINNERS!
Despite Film Threat’s best predictions, the 28th Razzie Awards went overwhelmingly in “I Know Who Killed Me” and Lindsay Lohan’s “favor”…
Posted on February 23, 2008 by Film Threat Staff
VANTAGE POINT
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 90 minutes |
Minor inconsistencies aside, and there are a lot of them, “Vantage Point” might have been acceptable as a gratuitous car chase/shoot ‘em up guilty pleasure…
Posted on February 23, 2008 by Pete Vonder Haar
RAZZIE AWARDS “BERRY WORST OF 2007″ PREDICTIONS (PART 2)
Before the Academy Awards are given out on Sunday, the real awards season gets its fitting due with Saturday’s awarding of the Razzies. Who’s going to “win”? No way of knowing for sure, but here’s my picks…
Posted on February 22, 2008 by Mark Bell
RAZZIE AWARDS “BERRY WORST OF 2007″ PREDICTIONS
Before the Academy Awards are given out on Sunday, the real awards season gets its fitting due with Saturday’s awarding of the Razzies. Who’s going to “win”? No way of knowing for sure, but here’s my picks…
Posted on February 22, 2008 by Mark Bell
THE BOOTLEG FILES: “BRIDELESS GROOM”
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 is glad he wasn’t mistaken for Cousin Basil…
Posted on February 22, 2008 by Phil Hall
2008 FLORIDA FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FEATURE FILMS IN COMPETITION
ENZIAN has announced the line-up of films selected for the Documentary Film and Narrative Feature Film categories of the American Independent Competition for the 17th Annual Florida Film Festival, running March 28 through April 6…
Posted on February 22, 2008 by Film Threat Staff
STEP UP 2 THE STREETS
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 98 minutes |
It’s another of the many dance movies that fifteen years from now may just be admired in the same vein “Krush Groove” and “Breakin’” are…
Posted on February 22, 2008 by Felix Vasquez Jr.
THE DEATH OF HD DVD
If word of Warner Brothers defection put Der HD DVD Fuehrer in such panic, methinks the self-imposed gunshot to the head came around the time he learned of Toshiba’s intentions to discontinue the HD DVD format…
Posted on February 21, 2008 by Film Threat Staff