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IS "THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE" GROOVY?

By | January 2001

This week, our resident Critic Doctor Herb Kane takes a look at “The Emperor’s New Groove.” The Critic Doctor examines other movie critics and their views. The bottom line? Read on…

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IS "THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE" GROOVY?

CRITIC DOCTOR EXAMINES: Chris Gore (filmthreat.com), Terry Lawson (Detroit Free Press), Bob Strauss (Los Angeles Daily News), Susan Stark (Detroit News),...

WAKE UP! DO THE RIGHT THING RECONSIDERED (part 4)

So why does Mookie throw the garbage can through the window? It's not Sal's fault that Bill Nunn's Radio Raheem is dead. Trashing Sal's is by no means...

WAKE UP! DO THE RIGHT THING RECONSIDERED (part 5)

Raheem tells Mookie that there are no two ways about it. "If I love you I love you, but if I hate you I hate you." Every issue is black and white to Raheem...

FILM THREAT'S TOP 10 LOST FILMS (4-6)

4. HUMAN WRECKAGE (1923) ^ One of the great Hollywood tragedies of the early 1920s was the death of virile leading man Wallace Reid in a sanitarium...

FILM THREAT'S TOP 10 LOST FILMS (7-10)

7. OKLAHOMA! -- THE JAMES DEAN AUDITION (1954) ^ In casting the screen adaptation of the Broadway musical landmark "Oklahoma!", director Fred Zinnemann...

WAKE UP! DO THE RIGHT THING RECONSIDERED (part 2)

It must be admitted that Spike Lee didn't do much to help his audience understand the film. In fact he was so appalled that it was misunderstood and at the...

WAKE UP! DO THE RIGHT THING RECONSIDERED (part 3)

Danny Aiello's Sal argues quite elegantly that insurance money does not replace the sentimental value of the pizzeria that he literally built himself. He...

THE DUDE'S SUNDANCE LOVE RANT

Here is the unedited, real e-mail (not that fake crap you read on some film sites) that Jeff "The Dude" Dowd sent out just before the Sundance 2001 Film...

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE "SECAUCUS SEVEN?" (part 3)

"Acting is cheap," explains Sayles. "I knew I couldn't afford lots of moving cameras, and cranes and dollies, so I needed to get movement into the film,...

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE "SECAUCUS SEVEN?" (part 2)

It's hard to believe it's been over twenty years since this film came out. Really hard. "Return of the Secaucus Seven" has no real conflict, except the...

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