PRETTY
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 15 minutes |
As a culture, we put too much emphasis on the body, on the physical, which is really Quigley’s character’s only refuge. This is a short well-worth checking out…
Posted on July 19, 2008 by Mike Watt
RANDOM ACTS OF MIKE WATT: SHOOTING A LOW BUDGET PICTURE
So we’ve returned, bruised, battered and weary, perhaps wiser, from the wilds of Rochester, NY. A few months ago, Amy was recruited to take part in a new movie for Low Budget Pictures, helmed by LBP’s generalissimo, Chris Seaver. In a moment of madness, Chris asked me to take a part as well. Now, we’ve [...]
Posted on June 10, 2008 by Mike Watt
COUP DE GRACE
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 88 minutes |
Beautifully-photographed on 35mm, “Coup De Grace” is a mannered, sometimes esoteric, deliberately-paced drama about a woman at a crossroads in her life…
Posted on June 4, 2008 by Mike Watt
THE LOST (DVD)
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 119 minutes |
Ultimately, “The Lost” is much more than the sum of its parts and is definitely worth repeated viewings if only for the remarkable depth of storytelling and use of quiet moments to underscore the louder ones…
Posted on April 10, 2008 by Mike Watt
RANDOM ACTS OF MIKE WATT – 3:10 TO IDIOCY
I do not understand Hollywood’s love of remakes. Not in the slightest. Americanizing Japanese horror aside, where the theory is that Americans hate and loathe and fear subtitles and therefore will not sit through foreign films no matter how many long-haired scary little girls there are, so we must add white faces and subtract every [...]
Posted on January 21, 2008 by Mike Watt
RANDOM ACTS OF MIKE WATT: ATTACK OF THE ATHEISTS
“Why don’t we trust readers? Why don’t we trust filmgoers? Oh, it causes me to shake my head with sorrow that such nitwits could be loose in the world.” ““ Philip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy. So the Catholic League is at it again. They’re calling for a sight-unseen boycott of The [...]
Posted on November 29, 2007 by Mike Watt
ON EVERY CORNER
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Year Released: 2207 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 0 minutes |
They’re not panhandlers—make no mistake. The street performers of Pittsburgh want to make that perfectly clear. This is their job. They stake out high-traffic corners in front of shops and on bridges and sing, play a variety of instruments, juggle, dance and generally do their best to entertain the passersby…
Posted on September 5, 2007 by Mike Watt
RANDOM ACTS OF MIKE WATT: HOW I DIDN’T SPEND MY SUMMER VACATION.
Since we spent our summer shooting our new movie, we haven’t had much of an opportunity to actually watch many movies, much to the chagrin of my Netflix list. The only thing that keeps depression at bay is that this summer has, for the most part, sucked for movies. I say that like it’s some [...]
Posted on August 29, 2007 by Mike Watt
RANDOM ACTS OF MIKE WATT: “THE WORST MOVIE EVER MADE!!”
It’s a well-known fact: I hate people. You might argue: aw, come on, people ain’t so bad. Sure, not as far as diseases go”¦ There are many, many lovely individuals I am fond of. I even love these lovelies. They will be the ones to whom I will open my compound to when the zombies [...]
Posted on August 1, 2007 by Mike Watt
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 127 minutes |
Lucky for we of the cynical film-reviewing nature, “At World’s End” is actually worth the hoopla and moolah…
Posted on May 28, 2007 by Mike Watt
THE RAGE
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 80 minutes |
Former KNB-honcho Kurtzman gives us mutants, gore, fights, electrocutions, elective brain surgery, big-ass syringes and killer mutant vultures, all mixed into a break-neck paced ride that should bring back the concept of “party movie”…
Posted on May 12, 2007 by Mike Watt
THE REDSIN TOWER
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 80 minutes |
“The Redsin Tower” is a gorgeous visual homage to Argento and Bava with its rich blues and blacks, and a story that evokes the classics of the ‘80s…
Posted on April 28, 2007 by Mike Watt
THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT
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Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 80 minutes |
A star-studded “The Absence of Light” is, without a doubt, one of the most ambitious independent movies I’ve seen in a long time…
Posted on April 4, 2007 by Mike Watt
“BUMP”-ING INTO ROBERT KURTZMAN
As most fans know by now, filmmaker/effects master Robert Kurtzman was one of the original founders of special effects company KNB, Inc. Now directing his feature film sophomore effort, an adaptation of Mark Kidwell’s comic, “Bump,” Kurtzman talks to Film Threat’s Mike Watt…
Posted on February 12, 2007 by Mike Watt
EASTER BUNNY, KILL! KILL!
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Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
SCREENING AT THE ARCLIGHT IN LOS ANGELES, OCTOBER 21ST! It’s grim, shocking and very well-done. Proof that there are filmmakers out there who take their horror very seriously, have a vast pool of talent to draw from, and are not afraid to take risks…
Posted on October 16, 2006 by Mike Watt