TWO TOWNS OF JASPER
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  Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
SXSW FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW! June 7, 1998 saw the worst racially-motivated murder since the Civil Rights movement in Jasper, Texas…
Posted on March 9, 2002 by Ron Wells
REVOLUTION OS
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  Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
IN THEATERS IN LIMITED RELEASE! Screening at NYC’s Cinema Village! JTS Moore’s new documentary may seem important only to computer geeks, but its subject has as much importance for our culture and economy as it does for the computer industry…
Posted on February 21, 2002 by Ron Wells
REVOLUTION OS: HOW MICROSOFT CAN LOSE THE WAR
DOCUMENTARY IN THEATERS CHALLENGES MICROSOFT! “Revolution OS” explores the birth and adolescence of the computer world’s Free Software and Open Source movements until they came of age with the creation and release of the LINUX operating system…
Posted on February 14, 2002 by Ron Wells
SCOTLAND, PA.
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Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 95 minutes |
IN THEATERS IN LIMITED RELEASE IN NEW YORK! This should have been a black comic masterpiece. The cast is certainly up to the task, even in the small roles…
Posted on February 7, 2002 by Ron Wells
VARSITY BLUES
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  Year Released: 1999 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 110 minutes |
FILM THREAT’S TRIBUTE TO THE SUPER BOWL! In New Canaan, Texas, only ONE thing matters: The Coyotes, the high school football team…
Posted on February 3, 2002 by Ron Wells
THE WATERBOY
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  Year Released: 1998 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 96 minutes |
FILM THREAT’S TRIBUTE TO THE SUPER BOWL! Adam Sandler is 31 year-old Bobby Boucher, waterboy to the University of Louisiana football team for the last 18 years…
Posted on February 2, 2002 by Ron Wells
NOON BLUE APPLES
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Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 122 minutes |
SUNDANCE AMERICAN SPECTRUM! You know what I like to see in independent movies? Ideas…
Posted on January 28, 2002 by Ron Wells
SENORITA EXTRAVIADA
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Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 74 minutes |
SUNDANCE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE! You know, we’ll readily crack jokes about a film, ANY film. This time, however, there is absolutely, positively NOTHING funny about what’s up on the screen…
Posted on January 28, 2002 by Ron Wells
TABOO
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  Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 81 minutes |
SUNDANCE MIDNIGHT MOVIE! Normally, I’d enjoy a tale about a bunch of snotty, spoiled rich Republican kids offing each other…
Posted on January 28, 2002 by Ron Wells
TADPOLE
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  Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 78 minutes |
Here’s something you don’t see everyday: A whimsical teen comedy with adult complexity shot on digital video…
Posted on January 28, 2002 by Ron Wells
I AM SAM
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Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 120 minutes |
IN THEATERS! All the film needs is a dying gay man, a mystical Negro, a troubled undercover cop, some British accents and a war and we’d have the entire decathalon of clichéd horse-shit…
Posted on January 25, 2002 by Ron Wells
METROPOLIS
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Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 107 minutes |
IN THEATERS IN LIMITED RELEASE! This might be the best animation to come from Japan since “Akira”…
Posted on January 24, 2002 by Ron Wells
THAT’S MY FACE
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Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 56 minutes |
SUNDANCE AMERICAN SPECTRUM! Now while this all sounds like a great spiritual journey, there are a few problems…
Posted on January 20, 2002 by Ron Wells
ALIVE
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Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 95 minutes |
SUNDANCE WORLD FEATURE! The story of a young woman’s struggle to live on following a brutal gang-rape…
Posted on January 14, 2002 by Ron Wells
SHIRI
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Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 120 minutes |
COMING TO THEATERS IN LIMITED RELEASE! “Shiri” actually reminds me how I felt the first time I saw John Woo’s work…
Posted on December 29, 2001 by Ron Wells
