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A Pimp Seeks Redemptionnew
Writer/director Craig Brewer offers a harsh, credible portrayal of low-level Memphis criminality and reveals the importance hip-hop can play in "the Life."
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-22-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Craig Brewer, Hustle & Flow
Film Crashes at the Intersection of Clever and Clichenew
Happy Endings, Don Roos' comedy of love, sex and parental instincts, joins Crash, Short Cuts and Magnolia as one of those films that trails countless intersecting characters across sprawling Los Angeles.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Don Roos, Happy Endings
Horror Movies Run Rampant This Summernew
Throughout cinema history, films have preyed on our nerves, from plumbing society's paranoia to giving us excuses to hold hands with our dates. Today, ghost stories and gore-fests have become almost enshrined at the cineplex.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-07-2005 |
Movies
Budapest Subway System Is Out of Kontrollnew
The subway trains don't just run on time in the Hungarian film Kontroll. They run in time to a propulsive techno-pop soundtrack and the rhythm of an over-caffeinated heartbeat.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-30-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Nimród Antal, Kontroll
Spielberg Presents Post-9/11 War of the Worldsnew
In this War of the Worlds, Spielberg has more on his mind than roller coaster thrills, despite visually accomplished destruction. The film reveals a preoccupation with Sept. 11, both through its story and its symbols.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-30-2005 |
Reviews
It's Zombie Nation in Land of the Deadnew
George A. Romero's latest film proves that the new generation of zombie auteurs has exceeded their teacher.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: George A. Romero, Land of the Dead
Bewitched Wastes Its Ironic Premise With Romantic Clichésnew
On the big screen, TV plots feel at once thin and overinflated. Yet Hollywood keeps making them.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Nora Ephron, Bewitched
Old Show's Nature Seems Rickety Vehicle for Featurenew
It's just like the 1950s series, only with an African-American cast, a modern setting and lame jokes.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Movie Magic Keeps Howl's Castle Movingnew
What sticks with you are the film's moments of delicate epiphanies, like seeing a fire demon cook bacon and eggs, or watching a hopping scarecrow hang clothes to dry.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Batman Begins Examines the Man Behind the Masknew
Batman Begins breaks from tradition by compellingly tracing the motives that lead a brooding billionaire to pick fights dressed as an airborne rodent.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Christopher Nolan, Batman Begins
Mr. & Mrs. Smithnew
John and Jane Smith (Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie) are actually freelance assassins unaware of each other's occupation. When they discover each other's double lives, they embark on a series of deadly cat-and-mouse games.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-09-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Doug Liman, Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Some Aspects Give Film Unsportsmanlike Conductnew
The authority-defying premise and violent punchlines still click, but the gay-bashing humor gives The Longest Yard penalties for unsportsmanlike conduct.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-02-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Peter Segal, The Longest Yard
Cinderella Man's Fight Scenes K.O. Clichesnew
The boxing biopic Cinderella Man offers a sweat-dripping, rib-cracking, tooth-loosening version of the famous fairy tale. Instead of a humble beauty meeting a noble prince with a glass slipper, Cinderella Man shows a humble bruiser who finds his destiny through an ignoble prizefighter with a glass jaw.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-02-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Cinderella Man, Ron Howard
Restored Film Remains Flawlessnew
For Major Dundee's 40th anniversary, Sony Pictures Repertory presents a re-edited, extended version of the film with new music and 12 minutes of restored scenes that more closely match director Sam Peckinpah's intentions.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
05-26-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Sam Peckinpah, Major Dundee
Tame Madagascar Fails to Captivatenew
Though brand new, Madagascar feels stale, and its most clever ideas play second banana to tired, TV-friendly shtick.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
05-26-2005 |
Reviews
