WENDIGO
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  Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
IN THEATERS! “Wendigo” wants to be a monster movie for the art-house crowd, but it falls into the trap of pretention almost every time…
Posted on February 15, 2002 by Tim Sanger
FOOTBALL
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  Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 7 minutes |
FILM THREAT’S TRIBUTE TO THE SUPER BOWL! “Football” is tight visually and narratively, with sweeping innovative style and lots of humor…
Posted on February 2, 2002 by Tim Sanger
GO TIGERS!
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Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 103 minutes |
FILM THREAT’S TRIBUTE TO THE SUPER BOWL! “Go Tigers” isn’t about million dollar commercials. It’s not about Nike shoes, or free agents or super bowls. It’s about football, and how the sport defines America as a country…
Posted on February 2, 2002 by Tim Sanger
SCOUT’S HONOR
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  Year Released: 1999 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 58 minutes |
SIDEWALK MOVING PICTURE FESTIVAL REVIEW! “Scout’s Honor” isn’t flashy or energetic, but it is a competant and engaging look at an issue going on today — the place of homosexuals within the Boy Scouts of America…
Posted on October 1, 2001 by Tim Sanger
THINGS BEHIND THE SUN
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  Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 115 minutes |
ALLISON ANDERS MOVIE SHOWING ON SHOWTIME THIS SATURDAY! The film rings the question of “What if?” around a single horrible moment in time, making it resonate with power for everyone involved…
Posted on August 14, 2001 by Tim Sanger
UNDONE
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Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 15 minutes |
FLORIDA FILM FESTIVAL SHORT FILM REVIEW! One of the characters in the film asks if another has ever had a night where everything goes wrong, and “Undone” seems like a nugget of that night, and then some…
Posted on June 17, 2001 by Tim Sanger
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE CHICKEN
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  Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 56 minutes |
WATERFRONT FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW! Before you chow down that KFC extra-crispy, you’ll have to remember Valerie, the chicken who was resuscitated by mouth-to-beak CPR…
Posted on June 7, 2001 by Tim Sanger
TOGETHER
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Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 106 minutes |
FLORIDA FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW! The words “Swedish comedy” don’t exactly set the heart afire, but the surprise is just how well the film works…
Posted on May 31, 2001 by Tim Sanger
SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET
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Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 110 minutes |
NODANCE 2001 PREMIERE! “Skeletons in the Closet” works best when it tries to break free from it’s “movie-of-the-week” melodrama that chains it too often…
Posted on February 10, 2001 by Tim Sanger
THE OLD MAN AND THE GOBLINS
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Year Released: 1998 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 5 minutes |
SLAMDANCE 2001 SHORT FILM! Each night, a group (flock? pride? herd?) of mischievous goblins kidnaps a poor old hermit and drags him off to their creepy mountain lair…
Posted on February 8, 2001 by Tim Sanger
ONE BIG TRIP
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  Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 104 minutes |
NO STARS! NODANCE 2001 DOCUMENTARY! “One Big Trip” is like that drunken video you make with your friends, then watch the next day and question what the hell you were thinking. Do you really want a bunch of white, rich suburban film students telling you how you should live your life?
Posted on February 1, 2001 by Tim Sanger
DOGTOWN AND Z-BOYS
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Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 87 minutes |
SUNDANCE 2001 DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION WINNER! “Dogtown and Z-boys” spits in your face, makes you give a shit about people who don’t give a shit about you…
Posted on January 29, 2001 by Tim Sanger
THE COLLECTOR
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Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 7 minutes |
NODANCE 2001 COMPETITION SHORT! “The Collector” is a sharp, b&w film that unnerves and disturbs, as if David Cronenberg had to cram a horror film into seven minutes…
Posted on January 28, 2001 by Tim Sanger
STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
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Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 20 minutes |
SCAMDANCE 2001 SHORT FILM! Crass and enjoyable, with the spirit of a kick-ass kegger, “Stairway to Heaven” may just be an exercise in decadence, but that’s why it’s fun…
Posted on January 28, 2001 by Tim Sanger
URBAN CHAOS THEORY
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Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 21 minutes |
NODANCE 2001 COMPETITION SHORT! Shot with an exacting eye, good soundtrack and a cool, cold veneer, “Urban Chaos Theory” chronicles the jolting morning of ten people whose lives are touched and spin out of control…
Posted on January 28, 2001 by Tim Sanger
