AltWeeklies Wire
Like Father, Like Sonsnew
Lost boys look for missing dads in the brutal City of Men.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Cindy Fuchs |
03-04-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: City of Men, Paulo Morelli
Nanking's Ransomnew
Nanking revisits a dark moment in the history of China and Japan.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Cindy Fuchs |
01-29-2008 |
Reviews
Crash Landingnew
Contrived and conventional, The Kite Runner fails to fly.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Cindy Fuchs |
12-18-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Marc Forster, The Kite Runner
Troops, I Did It Againnew
Brian De Palma's Redacted shows war imagery because the media won't.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Cindy Fuchs |
11-20-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Brian De Palma, Redacted
Thug Love?new
American Gangster both condemns and lionizes drug kingpin Frank Lucas.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Cindy Fuchs |
11-06-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: American Gangster, Ridley Scott
'Reservation Road' Hits a Dead Endnew
Men have a hard time with feelings. This seems to be the major revelation in Reservation Road, a big ol' masculine melodrama about loss, grief and guilt.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Cindy Fuchs |
10-30-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Reservation Road, Terry George
'Interview': Beat of the Nightnew
Steve Buscemi and Sienna Miller flirt, fight and grill each other to pieces.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Cindy Fuchs |
08-07-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: interview, Steve Buscemi
'Goya's Ghosts': Art of Darknessnew
The Spanish Inquisition targets Goya and his subjects in Milos Forman's biopic.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Cindy Fuchs |
07-24-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Goya's Ghosts, Milos Forman
Family Valuesnew
First released in 1962, Mafioso reveals Nino's dilemma through a combination of neorealist, comic and modernist aesthetics, its black-and-white compositions so ahead of their time that they're still more inventive than those in many of today's films.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Cindy Fuchs |
03-13-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Alberto Lattuada, Mafioso
American Uglynew
Ungrown adults protect their children from themselves.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Cindy Fuchs |
10-24-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Little Children, Todd Field
Love Among the Ruinsnew
Post-9/11 New Yorkers screw their way to self-healing in Shortbus.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Cindy Fuchs |
10-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: John Cameron Mitchell, Shortbus
