AltWeeklies Wire
Suicide Missionnew
Clint Eastwood takes the Japanese view, directing one of the most powerful war movies ever.
Missoula Independent |
Andy Smetanka |
02-22-2007 |
Reviews
Bloody Nonsensenew
What happens when Mel Gibson goes native?
Missoula Independent |
Andy Smetanka |
12-14-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Apocalypto, Mel Gibson
Been There, Done Thatnew
Christopher Guest's same-old same-old shtick runs out of gas.
Missoula Independent |
Andy Smetanka |
11-30-2006 |
Reviews
Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Dumbnew
We're living on plundered time.
Missoula Independent |
Andy Smetanka |
07-13-2006 |
Reviews
Safe Travelsnew
At long last, Adam Sandler makes another watchable movie.
Missoula Independent |
Andy Smetanka |
06-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Click, Frank Coraci
Point of Entrynew
The foreign language Academy Award winner opens a window on black Africa.
Missoula Independent |
Andy Smetanka |
06-08-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Gavin Hood, Tsotsi
Trail of Beersnew
Woody Kipp's self-portrait is essentially Act I in the story of his life, from his birth and immediate adoption to his participation in the American Indian Movement and the siege at Wounded Knee, S.D.
Missoula Independent |
Andy Smetanka |
01-06-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Water for the Wavesnew
Wes Anderson sets Bill Murray adrift.
Missoula Independent |
Andy Smetanka |
12-30-2004 |
Reviews
Still Ranting After All These Yearsnew
Spoken-word firebrand Jello Biafra is the punk man's Noam Chomsky.
Missoula Independent |
Andy Smetanka |
12-09-2004 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Maculate Conceptionnew
Saved! falls short of its mark. It's not bad, but uses its intermittent satire as a Trojan horse to deliver a message about intolerance.
Missoula Independent |
Andy Smetanka |
09-30-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Brian Dannelly, Saved!
In Space, No One Can Hear You Laughnew
For a synopsis, read a different review. It’s enough to know that a bunch of walking lunchboxes in a confined space (OK, a giant subterranean pyramid) in the middle of nowhere (all right already, half a mile under Antarctica) find out the hard way that they’re not alone.
Missoula Independent |
Andy Smetanka |
08-20-2004 |
Reviews
A Retrospective of Animation Pioneersnew
Before there was Pixar, before there were even computers, animators were making artistic strides independent of technology. Many still are.
Missoula Independent |
Andy Smetanka |
08-07-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: animation
Forensic Pathologists Work to Solve Mystery of Human Remainsnew
No one ever thinks their bones are going to come to rest in a ditch by the highway, or in the pit of an outhouse. But it happens. And when it does, the bones begin a second journey.
Missoula Independent |
Andy Smetanka |
06-01-2004 |
Science
