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EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: DO STUDIO EXECUTIVES DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?

By | May 2005

Think of all the romantic comedies that fail, yet there are new ones on an almost monthly basis. Why aren’t there more sci-fi and fantasy films out there?

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EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: DO STUDIO EXECUTIVES DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?

Years ago I remember reading about an American Ultraman movie that was supposed to be written by author Alan Dean Foster. Actually, my memory of the...

LETTER FROM CHINA: “12 MONKEYS” STARRING BLUE WILLIS

I hadn’t been in China long when a student asked me if we might watch her newly-purchased copy of "Harry Potter" (or "Halibut", as they pronounce it here...

TALKING PICTURES: BIG BANG

“I rarely go to movies, because I don’t like the whole. . . I don’t really care for the . . . I don’t actually like theaters,” admits...

Bootleg Files Features

THE BOOTLEG FILES: “A TASTE OF HONEY”

BOOTLEG FILES 076: "A Taste of Honey" (1961 feature film from Tony Richardson). LAST SEEN: We cannot confirm the last public exhibition of this...

EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: KIDNAPPING CROWE

When I heard the news that Russell Crowe had been targeted by America’s bogeymen -- the Al-Qaida -- for a kidnapping, I had to wonder why. I mean,...

MOVIE MARKETING MADNESS: HOUSE OF WAX

You know, half of the fun of writing this column is had when there are worthy movies out there that I genuinely want to help spread the word about. Off The...

FILM THREAT’S TOP 10 LOST FILMS, PART 3

6. "Naughty Dallas: The Jack Ruby Footage" (1964). When Texas-based exploitation filmmaker Larry Buchanan wanted to shoot his stripper feature "Naughty...

PLEASE LEAVE THE THEATER: THE FLESH TRILOGY

Before the advent of the much maligned MPAA, an organization going by the name of the Legion of Decency was at the helm of trying to keep filmmakers in...

THE STAR WARS REPORT: FROM A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW

We’ve all heard the news by now: Kevin Smith, he of Clerks and…Clerks the Animated Series fame, has seen “Revenge of the Sith” and was apparently...

THE STAR WARS REPORT: FROM A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW

COME TO THE DORK SIDE Confession time: I’ve seen Episode I four times. Oh, I know it doesn’t sound all that bad. And in and of itself, I suppose...

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