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FREE WINONA!

By | February 2002

AN OPEN LETTER TO WINONA RYDER! There was a time when Winona Ryder couldn’t get arrested in Hollywood. Times have changed…

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FREE WINONA!

AN OPEN LETTER TO WINONA RYDER: ^ In one of my pettier moments, I said that Winona Ryder couldn't get arrested in Hollywood these days. Well, you proved...

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE “SECAUCUS SEVEN?”

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FILM THREAT’S TOP 10 LOST FILMS

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WAKE UP! DO THE RIGHT THING RECONSIDERED

It bothers me when people get ticked off at Spike Lee's public persona, because I think that he does himself and his work a disservice by falling into the...

NOT ANOTHER ENVELOPE — PLEASE!

I could have sworn the past half decade had been a middling one for movies overall but evidently I was mistaken. Apparently Hollywood has been producing so...

NOT ANOTHER ENVELOPE — PLEASE! (part 3)

The honoring was still far from over though. With the Golden Globes just days away, the National Society of Film Critics (all 52 of them) grabbed the...

NOT ANOTHER ENVELOPE — PLEASE! (part 2)

In April, for example, you've got your annual Italian Film Awards based in Los Angeles and honoring excellence in Italian and Italian American filmmaking....

DOES “ALI” FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY AND STING LIKE A BEE?

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THE DEATH OF THE SPECIAL EDITION DVD

It's a scary, worrisome time for DVD lovers. Maybe it was simply my ignorance to what was already an oncoming trend, or the forced blindness of a film...

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