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WEAR”ING” THIN (part 1)

By | September 2001

There have been many regrettable trends in Hollywood over the last decade. Most have been chronicled and analyzed to a merciless extent. Except one. The Following is a list of a hundred or so recent film titles Using a familiar formula…

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WEAR”ING” THIN (part 1)

There have been many regrettable trends in Hollywood over the last decade. Most have been chronicled and analyzed to a merciless extent. Except one. The...

WHY WE STILL NEED MOVIES

As of last Tuesday, I still owed Film Threat some movie reviews. But after the destruction of the World Trade Center and what looks to be the death of at...

WHY WE STILL NEED MOVIES (part 2)

It felt as if the world was somehow ending, but all that had really happened is that America has now been placed on the same level as the rest of the...

DID IT SEEM LIKE A MOVIE?

THE CRITIC DOCTOR EXAMINES TERRORIST ATTACK ON AMERICA: In a display of true horror, terrorists hijacked two planes and crashed them into the World Trade...

WEAR”ING” THIN (part 3)

Well, perhaps you're Noticing a pattern by now. If not, below are some variations on the "theme": Being Human ^ Breaking the Rules ^ Breaking the Surface ^...

WEAR”ING” THIN (part 2)

Avenging Angelo ^ Becoming Colette ^ Being John Malkovich ^ Boxing Helena ^ Burning Annie ^ Calling Bobcat ^ Chasing Amy ^ Chasing Billy ^ Chasing Buddha ^...

SHE KEPT IT AMIDST THE MEDIOCRITY (part 2)

For starters, take the typical misconceptions about her influential anti-auteurist essay, "Circles and Squares," published in Film Quarterly in 1963: it's...

SHE KEPT IT AMIDST THE MEDIOCRITY (part 3)

It's now popular consensus that as awe-inspiring a talent as Orson Welles was, Kane was still the collaborative creation of himself, Mankiewicz, Gregg...

SHE KEPT IT AMIDST THE MEDIOCRITY (part 4)

And as easy as it was to assume how established and fine a writer she was, Pauline Kæl's greatness came in the fact that she's not just possibly the...

SHOULD “JAY AND SILENT BOB” COME BACK?

CRITIC DOCTOR EXAMINES: Ron Wells (filmthreat.com), Mark Caro (Chicago Tribune), Eric Harrison (Houston Chronicle), Eric Lurio (gvny.com), Roger Ebert...

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