ARLEN FABER
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 95 minutes |
OFFICIAL SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION 2009… “Arlen Faber” is a cute film without a lot of depth. It examines hot-button topics such as spirituality, religion, life, and death all without pressing any of those buttons.
Posted on January 27, 2009 by Scott Knopf
THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
OFFICIAL SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION 2009… In other words, Osama would love this movie. Do you really want to see a movie that Osama would love? I didn’t think so.
Posted on January 27, 2009 by Scott Knopf
SPREAD
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 97 minutes |
OFFICIAL SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION 2009… Watching Ashton Kutcher and Anne Heche screw in a vivid cornucopia of sex positions is an interesting way to spend an evening.
Posted on January 27, 2009 by Scott Knopf
PUSH: BASED ON THE NOVEL BY SAPPHIRE
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 105 minutes |
GRAND JURY PRIZE WINNER: SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2009…No disrespect to the women nominated for Best Actress this year, but one of you wouldn’t have received a phone call that morning if “Push” had come out a few months earlier.
Posted on January 26, 2009 by Scott Knopf
MARY AND MAX
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 92 minutes |
OFFICIAL SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION 2009… Shot over five years, Adam Elliot has created a masterpiece with “Mary and Max.” A stop-motion feature with absolutely no computer animation
Posted on January 26, 2009 by Whitney Borup
GOOD
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 95 minutes |
It is difficult to tell a story about a morally sound man who struggles with his humanity in a totalitarian regime when, for the majority of the movie, said hero is completely oblivious to the actual actions and true intentions of said regime.
Posted on January 26, 2009 by Scott Mendelson
BARKING WATER
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: G Running Time: 85 minutes |
OFFICIAL SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION 2009… Amidst seemingly thousands of driving montages, “Barking Water” has potential. It’s the kind of movie you cheer for, despite its flaws.
Posted on January 25, 2009 by Whitney Borup
WE LIVE IN PUBLIC
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
OFFICIAL SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION 2009… Claiming the project was a social experiment, Josh and Tanya’s relationship quickly declined in front of everyone. Apparently, a camera in the toilet bowl is not the most romantic gift a fellow can give.
Posted on January 25, 2009 by Whitney Borup
TOKYO GORE POLICE (DVD)
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 109 minutes |
“Tokyo Gore Police” has a real “Robocop” feel about it. And, like Verhoeven’s sci-fi classic, it’s plenty gory, too…
Posted on January 25, 2009 by Eric Campos
I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS
OFFICIAL SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION 2009… This is the movie where Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor kiss—and then blow each other. Shocking as that was, even more surprising was watching Carrey cross the “finish line” into some random guy’s posterior.
Posted on January 24, 2009 by Scott Knopf
WORLD’S GREATEST DAD
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  Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 99 minutes |
OFFICIAL SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION 2009… If the darkness of the humor in “World’s Greatest Dad” doesn’t convince you maybe the visibility of Robin Williams’ penis will.
Posted on January 24, 2009 by Scott Knopf
IFC FILMS EATS THE “DEAD SNOW”
How could anyone complain about Sundance when they’ve got Nazi zombies? And now the folks at IFC Films have been kind enough to give this Norwegian horror-comedy a lift out of Mormon country…
Posted on January 23, 2009 by Film Threat Staff
TIME FOR SOME “BLACK DYNAMITE”!
We have a new President this week, so we thought it would be a good time for some “Black Dynamite”…
Posted on January 23, 2009 by Film Threat Staff
THE BOOTLEG FILES: ST. LOUIS BLUES
Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the wild world of classic and kooky flicks that can only be found on bootlegged DVD. This week, Phil presents the one and only Bessie Smith in her one and only film.
Posted on January 23, 2009 by Phil Hall
THE VICIOUS KIND
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 98 minutes |
OFFICIAL SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION 2009… The film never lets up, leaving me with a pessimistic and hopeless view of humanity. Not that that’s always a bad thing.
Posted on January 23, 2009 by Whitney Borup