REVENGE OF THE SIFF: 2008 SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FIRST WEEKEND WRAP-UP
Enjoy Film Threat’s initial installment of SIFF sneak peaks, following the first weekend of this marathon festival’s 25-day duration…
Posted on May 28, 2008 by KJ Doughton
THE TOASTER THAT TOASTED THE GOLDEN TOAST
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 10 minutes |
“The Toaster That Toasted The Golden Toast” actually isn’t as serious a film as the name implies, which is a pretty telling statement…
Posted on May 28, 2008 by John Clapp
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS: WE HAVE A POLLACK DOWN!
Sydney Pollack dies of cancer at age 73… Source: Yahoo The last film I saw Sydney Pollack in was “Michael Clayton,” and I’ve got to say that I thought he was tops. All around, I thought he was tops. He will be missed; rest in peace, Sydney. Christopher Tolkien, son of JRR, trying to stop [...]
Posted on May 27, 2008 by Mark Bell
THE GOLDEN COMPASS (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 116 minutes |
“The Golden Compass” came and went in a flash last winter, and as it comes to DVD, we remember the film’s pre-theatrical gossip better than the film itself…
Posted on May 27, 2008 by Matthew Sorrento
A MOTHERCLUCKING GOOD TIME…
There are precisely seven more months left this year, and I just know I’m going to eat my words once I begin screening the big Oscar hopefuls, but I think one of the best–if not one of the most entertaining movies all year that I’ve seen has to be none other than “Poultrygeist.” I’ve always [...]
Posted on May 26, 2008 by Felix Vasquez Jr.
SYDNEY POLLACK DIES AT AGE 73
Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack has died of cancer at the age of 73. Pollack passed away at his home in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles County…
Posted on May 26, 2008 by Film Threat Staff
GOOGLE ME
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 97 minutes |
At the end of the day, “Google Me” is straight-up entertainment. You’re not going to learn anything particularly life-changing, but you will get to hear a bunch of interesting stories delivered in a fairly entertaining manner…
Posted on May 26, 2008 by Mark Bell
“INDIANA JONES” DISAPPOINTS RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS
Russian Communist Party members have gone on record condemning the latest “Indiana Jones” film as anti-Soviet propaganda and called for the film to be banned from Russian cinemas…
Posted on May 25, 2008 by Film Threat Staff
PUNKING OUT (DVD)
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  Year Released: 1979 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 25 minutes |
If you are any sort of music aficionado or are interested in what it was like to be at CBGBs in the late ’70s, you have to see this DVD…
Posted on May 25, 2008 by Mark Bell
INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 124 minutes |
I can’t deny it: I had a shit-eating grin on my face for most of the ensuing two hours. I also can’t deny that many of the criticisms about to be leveled at Spielberg and Lucas over “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” are well-deserved…
Posted on May 25, 2008 by Pete Vonder Haar
FILM NOIR
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 97 minutes |
We’re far from the classic world of the title, but in a 3D-animated neo-noir, gray as steel and just as cold…
Posted on May 25, 2008 by Matthew Sorrento
HEAVY METAL IN BAGHDAD
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 84 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! “Heavy Metal in Baghdad” is a documentary that needs to be seen, and hopefully its focus on a band, while telling such a deeper story, will get it in front of more people that otherwise wouldn’t go see a film about the Iraqi War on their own…
Posted on May 24, 2008 by Mark Bell
ADVENTURES OF THE GALAXY RANGERS: THE COLLECTION VOLUME 1 (DVD)
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  Year Released: 1986 MPAA Rating: G Running Time: 127 minutes |
An entertaining experience for all interested parties looking for cutting edge animation and old fashioned storytelling; it’s a sheer thrill to sit and re-visit the roots of my love for animated fare…
Posted on May 24, 2008 by Felix Vasquez Jr.
POSTAL
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 95 minutes |
“Postal” is so ballsy and unconcerned with playing touchy-feely that you have to admire the sheer joyful fearlessness that went in its making…
Posted on May 24, 2008 by Jeremy Knox
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS: ONE DAY IN, AND “INDY” IS UNDERPERFORMING… SORT OF…
“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls” has strong opening day numbers, but not quite as strong as predicted. Source: HollywoodWiretap.com We’re one day into the release of “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of thye Crystal Skull” and box office expectations have already fallen short. Or kind of have fallen short. Or who [...]
Posted on May 23, 2008 by Mark Bell