AltWeeklies Wire
Big Brother Is Listening, Too
Not only did Germany’s The Lives of Others win the Oscar last week for best foreign film, it also bagged the unofficial prize for biggest upset.
Boulder Weekly |
Thomas Delapa |
03-05-2007 |
Reviews
Horror-scope
Working from two books by Robert Graysmith, Fincher and screenwriter James Vanderbilt straightforwardly recreate the case, effacing melodramatic traces of the typical Hollywood production -- the results are intriguing, but not totally arresting.
Boulder Weekly |
Thomas Delapa |
03-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: David Fincher, Zodiac
It's Not Rocket Science
The Astronaut Farmer is a sputtering retro rocket that takes off on October Sky and crash-lands into a Field of Dreams.
Boulder Weekly |
Thomas Delapa |
02-26-2007 |
Reviews
A Bridge Too Farnew
An ill wind is blowing through the children's film, and its coming straight out of Walden Media, the Hollywood production company backed by Denver billionaire Philip Anschutz.
Boulder Weekly |
Thomas Delapa |
02-19-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Bridge to Terabithia, Gabor Csupo
Oscar Rules
Ever since the nominations came out for Sunday's 79th Academy Awards, even voters were asking themselves, "Who stopped the music?"
Boulder Weekly |
Thomas Delapa |
02-19-2007 |
Movies
March of the Oscars
Come Sunday, the stars will line up in Hollywood for the annual Oscar bash, which is shaping up as a head-on collision between Brokeback Mountain and the dark-horse Crash.
Boulder Weekly |
Thomas Delapa |
03-01-2006 |
Movies
Tags: The Oscars
Hollywood, We Have a Problem
The typical Hollywood release wasn’t simply mediocre this year; it was downright miserable. In the ongoing war between intelligent design and dumb and dumber writing, the latter is way ahead on points.
Boulder Weekly |
Thomas Delapa |
11-29-2005 |
Movies
Tags: Various Directors, Various Films
'New Hollywood' Down for the Count
If the re-election of George W. Bush proved once and for all that the 1960s are dead, look no further than last Sunday night's Academy Awards for the polished nails in the coffin.
Boulder Weekly |
Thomas Delapa |
03-08-2005 |
Movies
Tags: The Oscars in Review
Hollywood's Main Event
The movies of 2004 could muster only a few streaks of brilliance, among them Jamie Foxx's stellar performance as Ray Charles in Ray. In Sunday’s main event, The Aviator, Sideways and Million Dollar Baby will slug it out for best picture.
Boulder Weekly |
Thomas Delapa |
02-23-2005 |
Movies
Making Wavesnew
Too long out of the movie mainstream, Judy Davis triumphantly surfaces in Swimming Upstream, a powerhouse Australian drama that teams her with the Oscar-winning Geoffrey Rush.
Boulder Weekly |
Thomas Delapa |
02-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Russell Mulcahy, Swimming Upstream
Nixon's the Onenew
With apologies to Arthur Miller, Niels Mueller's thoughtful drama might be advertised as Death of a Furniture Salesman.
Boulder Weekly |
Thomas Delapa |
01-28-2005 |
Reviews
Order in the Courtnew
For those in need of an uplifting story in our dumbed-down times, Coach Carter is a slam dunk.
Boulder Weekly |
Thomas Delapa |
01-21-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Coach Carter, Thomas Carter
Who's Your Daddy?new
What makes a knockout movie? Astonishingly, if you ask just about every critic in America, here's the winning combination: 1) A rope-a-dope melodrama set in the boxing world; 2) a two-fisted heroine on her deathbed; 3) a punchy veteran director; 4) lots of talk about God.
Boulder Weekly |
Thomas Delapa |
01-14-2005 |
Reviews
The Good, Bad and the Uglynew
The latest in Hollywood, art and indie films: Capsule reviews that say, "We're as mad as hell, and we're not going to take it anymore."
Boulder Weekly |
Thomas Delapa |
01-05-2005 |
Reviews
Schlock and Awe -- 2004 at the Moviesnew
Whatever your state's color, 2004 was a pale year at the movies, marked by such busts as The Alamo (forgettable) and Alexander, Oliver Stone's not-so-great epic on the Greek conqueror.
Boulder Weekly |
Thomas Delapa |
01-05-2005 |
Reviews
