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FILM THREAT’S FRIGID 50: THE COLDEST PEOPLE IN HOLLYWOOD 2008

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BEST OF 2008! Unlike those “power” lists that brown-nose their way into some pampered celebrity’s good graces, the annual Frigid 50 details the least-powerful, least-inspiring, least-intriguing people in all of Tinseltown. Find out who made this year’s list…

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FILM THREAT’S FRIGID 50: THE COLDEST PEOPLE IN HOLLYWOOD 2008

Originally ran on FilmThreat.com on 11/18/08 It's Fall, so it must be time to check the value of all the players in Hollywood. Power list after ranked...

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MAKIBEFO (DVD)

British filmmaker Alexander Abela certainly deserves credit for originality: his 1999 film version of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” was reconfigured to...

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HOSPITALITY

At two o’clock in the afternoon on his twenty-fifth birthday, Ted (Gian-Murray Gianino) wakes up to find himself nearly alone in his family’s expensive...

WALK THE LINE: INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR JAMES MARSH

Originally ran on FilmThreat.com on 07/23/08 Don’t mistake “Man on Wire” with “Man on Fire.” You won’t find a gun slinging Denzel Washington...

THE SLEAZE PARADE: “SHOCK FESTIVAL” AUTHOR STEPHEN ROMANO

Originally ran on FilmThreat.com on 10/28/08 Horror buffs are probably already familiar with the name Stephen Romano. After all, he scripted the first...

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RIGGED

Much like its main character Michael Dublin, a small-time con man played by Chad Ortis, the film RIGGED is more sizzle than steak. Following Dublin as he...

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FREE FOR ALL

Free For All is a political documentary by John Wellington Ennis, who does his best to come across as a thinner and better looking Michael Moore. He is...

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THROWAWAY

Brian James Fitzpatrick and Dennis Widmyer’s Throwaway begins as such an effectively creepy home-invasion story that its eventual degeneration into...

FROST BITE: DIRECTOR TOMAS ALFREDSON ON “LET THE RIGHT ONE IN”

Originally ran on FilmThreat.com on 10/22/08 Dog-tired of Beverly Hills Chihuahuas? Bored senseless by all things Big Brother, Middle East espionage, and...

MOVIE VACATION AT THE 2008 SAN DIEGO ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL

Originally ran on FilmThreat.com on 10/21/08 It’s been a long time. I missed going to the San Diego Asian Film Festival the past couple of years because...

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