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'Rocket Science': A Contest Between Truth and Cutenessnew
At its best Rocket Science shakes off its influences and offers original perception -- but the movie is not always at its best.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
08-16-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Jeffrey Blitz, rocket science
'Superbad': Fastest Kids Alivenew
Superbad isn't as thoughtful a movie as Knocked Up, but it may be more important, because it's looser, less polished and more indicative of what we can expect from this generation of entertainers.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
08-16-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Greg Mottola, Superbad
'No End in Sight': They Do Quagmires, Don't They?new
Here, finally, is a chart of where Iraq went wrong.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
08-08-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Charles Ferguson, No End in Sight
Saving Parker Posey in 'Broken English'new
It makes for a sort of poetic justice that Posey's best performance in years is as a woman who needs saving.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
07-30-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Broken English, Zoe Cassavetes
'Broken English': Saving Parker Poseynew
That Posey finds some of the finest, most affecting displays of vulnerability I've ever watched on a screen, and that Cassavetes captures them, means that two artists are doing something wonderfully right.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
07-25-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Broken English, Zoe Cassavetes
Bad Toys IInew
The movie that's kind of awesome until your head starts to hurt from all the Michael Bay-ness.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
07-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Bay, Transformers
'Sicko': Physician, Heal Thyselfnew
A kinder, gentler Michael Moore still stings a little.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
06-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Moore, Sicko
'A Mighty Heart': Jolie Warnew
Waiting -- bored and anxious -- for Daniel Pearl's second death.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
06-21-2007 |
Reviews
'Knocked Up': OB/GYNIUSnew
The uncertain feelings of Judd Apatow's babymakers.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
05-30-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Judd Apatow, Knocked Up
Pirates Franchise at World's Endnew
Death can't stop the Pirates franchise -- or make it any good.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
05-23-2007 |
Reviews
The Devil in Peter Parkernew
Spider-Man finally gets mean -- well, kind of.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
05-02-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Sam Raimi, Spider-Man 3
LOL. WTF? RIP.new
The Internet makes a stupid reporter even stupider in Perfect Stranger.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
04-11-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: James Foley, Perfect Stranger
Ain't That a Brick in the Headnew
Life gives Joseph Gordon-Levitt some Luvlee Lemons.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
03-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Scott Frank, The Lookout
Radio on the TVnew
It's Showtime for This American Life.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
03-22-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
The Naked Truthnew
In 1945, Charis Wilson stopped posing for Edward Weston's iconic photographs -- half a century later, Ian McClusky has revealed her again.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
03-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Eloquent Nude, Ian McClusky
