DRAGON HUNTERS
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 82 minutes |
“Dragon Hunters” does have a visual vocabulary all its own and there are moments in this film that deserve to be framed and hung on a wall.
Posted on December 26, 2008 by Scott Mendelson
DOUBT
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 104 minutes |
Exhausting yet invigorating, it’s a drama one witnesses more than just views.
Posted on December 26, 2008 by Matthew Sorrento
MONSTER FROM BIKINI BEACH
The spirit of Russ Meyer lives on in “Monster from Bikini Beach,” but Meyer’s unique wit and exuberance are apparently inimitable…
Posted on December 26, 2008 by Gerard Quinn
A BIG, MESSY PLACE: ALAN BALL ON “TOWELHEAD”
BEST OF 2008! “Towelhead,” the complex and audacious film from director Alan Ball, is already inciting anger, winning over enthusiasts, and prompting debate – even prior to its release. Alan Ball about talks to Film Threat about the film and messiness of the human psyche…
Posted on December 25, 2008 by KJ Doughton
PUNISHER: WAR ZONE
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 106 minutes |
More so than any of the other movies, The Punisher is directly responsible for the mayhem and chaos that goes down. As the plot unfolds, we quickly realize that if Castle had simply stayed out of the way, pretty much every bad guy that is targeted by Castle would have been arrested on capital charges in a matter of days anyway.
Posted on December 25, 2008 by Scott Mendelson
BRIGHTON WOK: THE LEGEND OF GANJA BOXING
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 85 minutes |
British Pot Smoking Ninjas!! If you liked Shaolin Soccer, you should like Brighton Wok too.
Posted on December 25, 2008 by Mark Fulton
BRUISED AND BATTERED: 2008 CINEVEGAS FILM FESTIVAL WRAP-UP
BEST OF 2008! I think I aged a year for every one of my 10 days in Vegas, coincidentally matching up with the CineVegas Film Festival’s 10th Anniversary. There were movies, there were parties, there were compromising photo shoots. Wouldn’t have it any other way…
Posted on December 24, 2008 by Mark Bell
MY NAME IS BRUCE
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 86 minutes |
If you’re a Bruce Campbell fan, then nothing I say would dissuade you from seeing this one in the first place. If you’re not, I suggest you try watching “Burn Notice” first.
Posted on December 24, 2008 by Scott Mendelson
BURN AFTER READING (DVD)
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 96 minutes |
This is easily the Coens’ funniest movie since “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” It’s full of many laugh-out-loud moments. Every character is an idiot or an asshole, but all of them desire sex or money
Posted on December 24, 2008 by Brad Cook
LARRY FLYNT: THE RIGHT TO BE LEFT ALONE (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 74 minutes |
“Larry Flynt: The Right to Be Left Alone”, directed by Joan Brooker-Mark, is a slapdash piece of filmmaking that doesn’t do justice to its subject…
Posted on December 24, 2008 by Brad Wilke
JOHN ANDERSON: BUZZING THE B LIST
A new book by the members of the National Society of Film Critics celebrates lower budget cinema classics.
Posted on December 23, 2008 by Phil Hall
DEADCENTER 2008: THE NAKED AND THE DEADCENTER
BEST OF 2008! “Everything was perfect. The end.” That’s the gist of the article Kim Haywood, Chief Operations Officer of the 8th annual deadCENTER Film Festival suggested I write…
Posted on December 23, 2008 by Pete Vonder Haar
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 107 minutes |
“Nothing But The Truth” absolutely deserves your attention. It rises to the level of quality that we should not take for granted, even while we wish we could. It’s just a darn good movie.
Posted on December 23, 2008 by Scott Mendelson
CASABLANCA: ULTIMATE COLLECTOR’S EDITION (DVD)
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 102 minutes |
It’s “Casablanca.” Do I need to say anything else? Maybe you think it’s a mushy “chick flick,” but all I can say is this: Rent it sometime. You don’t have to tell anyone you did it. You can watch it when your girlfriend or wife isn’t around, and you can tell your friends that you’re [...]
Posted on December 23, 2008 by Brad Cook
THE WILD HORSE REDEMPTION (DVD)
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 91 minutes |
There is at least one happy human story here (a released inmate gets a job with a ranch, joins a church and gets married) and one happy horse story (a once-cantakerous horse becomes part of the U.S. Border Patrol)…
Posted on December 23, 2008 by Phil Hall