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By | October 2001
DANCER IN THE DARK! MOULIN ROUGE! HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH! The movie musical is back!
Any art form, unless a particular artistic style can remain relevant, has great difficulty remaining alive, or at least active. This is particularly true...
"Very few films are as prophetic as 'Class of 1984,'" intones it's creator, writer-producer-director Mark L. Lester, a grim reminder of how the landmark...
"Roller Boogie" starred Linda Blair as a young skater who along with her friends teams up to stop the closure of their favorite rink from an evil magnate. ...
Then Lester was associated with "The Funhouse." It all began with a thousand dollars and a piece of paper. "A writer friend of mine, Larry Block, he came...
Joining King and Van Patten in the cast were former Lester collaborator Merrie Lynn Ross, as Norris' wife, who gets a little too close to Stegman and his...
Lester never got the chance to make "Year of the Dragon," which was later made into an excellent film by director Michæl Cimino. But DeLaurentis was...
"It was something I'd always thought of," says Lester of the 1990 film. "Then, Vestron Pictures, they'd finally had a hit with 'Dirty Dancing' and they...
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...
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...
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...
