“MAKING STILL GREEN” MID-SEASON REVIEW
We’re halfway to the end of the “Making Still Green” filmmaking web series, and it’s time to take a look back at the first half…
Posted on July 31, 2008 by Mark Bell
4BIA
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 117 minutes |
It’s a shame that probably no one reading this will ever see it with an audience…
Posted on July 31, 2008 by Jeremy Knox
HEAVY METAL IN BAGHDAD (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 84 minutes |
If you see a better documentary this year, I’d be interested to know about it, as this one will be hard to match…
Posted on July 30, 2008 by Doug Brunell
“A WINK AND A SMILE”: INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR DEIRDRE TIMMONS
Sometimes it feels like burlesque is an art form lost to a new era of too much reveal, not enough tease. Luckily, it’s not lost yet, and Film Threat talks to filmmaker Deirdre Timmons about her revealing documentary about the thriving Seattle burlesque scene…
Posted on July 29, 2008 by KJ Doughton
THE FEEL GOOD FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES DEBUT
The Feel Good Film Festival (FGFF) announces it is set to premiere Friday, August 22 at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood…
Posted on July 29, 2008 by Film Threat Staff
VICIOUS CIRCLE
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
I know “Vicious Circle” is trying to tell a serious story here, but it’s so much like an “After School Special” that I couldn’t help but laugh…
Posted on July 29, 2008 by Eric Campos
HIGH AND LOW: CRITERION COLLECTION (DVD)
It’s easy to forget sometimes that Akira Kurosawa was a great filmmaker, not just someone who made great samurai movies. “High and Low” demonstrates his range of ability as he tackles a police procedural set in early 1960s Japan…
Posted on July 29, 2008 by Brad Cook
THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 104 minutes |
From the fan’s perspective, myself included, “The X-Files: I Want to Believe” is akin to one of the stand-alone episodes of the series, where “the mythology,” the government alien conspiracy, was set aside. A lot of those episodes have been phenomenal, but this movie is not nearly on that level…
Posted on July 28, 2008 by Rory L. Aronsky
STEP BROTHERS
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 95 minutes |
If you see “Step Brothers,” will you laugh? Most likely as, like a joke grenade, something is going to hit you somewhere…
Posted on July 27, 2008 by Mark Bell
SATANTANGO (DVD)
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 127 minutes |
Bela Tarr’s 1994 seven-hour dark comedy has finally turned up on DVD, and its arrival will clearly break audiences into an even split…
Posted on July 27, 2008 by Phil Hall
THE BOOTLEG FILES: HEALTH
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 gets sick over a Robert Altman dud…
Posted on July 25, 2008 by Phil Hall
RED 71
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 75 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! Feels like a short format film that was stretched into a seventy minute production…
Posted on July 25, 2008 by Felix Vasquez Jr.
ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: G Running Time: 99 minutes |
I’m not so sure “Encounters at the End of the World” isn’t simply a parody of the nature or science film dressed up like a documentary…
Posted on July 25, 2008 by Don R. Lewis
FILM THREAT’S GUIDE TO THE 2008 SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON
The geeks inherit the Earth for one week a year, and that week is upon us. The 2008 San Diego Comic-Con kicks off with Preview Night on Wednesday, and we’re here to offer you a day-by-day hitlist of the panels and programming worth checking out…
Posted on July 24, 2008 by Mark Bell
DIGITAL DUSTBIN: MADONNA’S “BODY OF EVIDENCE”
Now that the world is about to find out what Guy Ritchie’s “RocknRolla” is all about (thanks to the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con), as well as witness Madonna’s directorial debut (a British comedy, to boot), Film Threat re-examines her cinematic gem “Body of Evidence”…
Posted on July 24, 2008 by Matthew Sorrento