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Girl Powernew
We haven't seen the last of Lisbeth Salander.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
11-17-2010 |
Reviews
Allen Ginsberg Rocks the Literary World in Howlnew
This is not the soup-to-nuts version of Ginsberg's life but instead a tone poem of what Ginsberg meant to the age he lived in — and to successive ages.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
11-03-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Howl
Hilary Swank Fights For a New Causenew
In Conviction, brother and sister Kenny (Sam Rockwell) and Betty Anne Waters (Hilary Swank) have the kind of fierce devotion to each other more often seen in movie lovers or mafioso.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
10-27-2010 |
Reviews
A Film Unfinished Exposes a Nazi Propaganda Filmnew
In 1942, the Nazis created a shocking documentary, labeled Ghetto, that depicted this cruel purgatory. Ghetto was discovered after the conclusion of World War II in an East German archive and was initially taken as a straight document of life in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
10-25-2010 |
Reviews
Never Let Me Go is Beautiful in its Sparse Sadnessnew
Even before seeing Never Let Me Go, divisiveness reared its head. I heard of walk outs and accolades, cries that the film was nowhere near the caliber of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
10-18-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Never Let Me Go
It's Kind of a Funny Story Needs Some Xanaxnew
It's Kind of a Funny Story reunites the team of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, though this go-around they are telling a story (working from a beloved novel by Ned Vizzini) that feels, frankly, beneath them.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
10-07-2010 |
Reviews
The Founders of Facebook Get in a Poke Warnew
The Social Network feels like a strange and satisfying blend of two worlds.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
09-29-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: The Social Network
Gordon Gekko Returnsnew
How do you make a sequel to the strutting, chest-beating capitalism thrill ride of Oliver Stone's 1987 Wall Street in post-bailout America? Very carefully.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
09-22-2010 |
Reviews
A crazy ole coot throws his own funeral in the kitschy Get Lownew
Felix Bush (Robert Duvall) is the kind of man children fear and men tell stories about. He's the most notorious hermit in 1938's East Tennessee. He even has a sign nailed on his property warning "No damn trespassing. Beware of mule." In case anyone misses the point, Bush fires off a shot after hanging the sign, a gunpowder punctuation mark that declares he means business.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
08-24-2010 |
Reviews
Spike Lee's latest New Orleans doc premieres on HBOnew
The American media tends to take a pit-bull approach to news. It grabs on, digs its teeth in, and then tosses the lifeless carcass to the wind when the sensation has run its course. Follow-through is not always the media's forte. Thank goodness, then, for documentary filmmakers who make sustained and methodical reportage their strong suit.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
08-23-2010 |
Reviews
'The Men Who Stare at Goats' Falls Short of Strangelovian Laughsnew
Grant Heslov's film is so intent on being funny and ironic that it erodes any audience investment in the characters and their plights. We spend so much time laughing at their travails that when it's time to root for their victory, it's just too damn late.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
11-04-2009 |
Reviews
Clint Eastwood's Changeling is All Tell, No Shownew
Eastwood may be aiming for a more restrained and dignified sort of period drama with Changeling, but here he's all surface, preferring the familiar scheme of evil and good, crime and punishment, over delving deeply into character or meaning.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
11-05-2008 |
Reviews
Lonely Beast: Ben Kingsley Nimbly Carries 'Elegy'new
Elegy's satisfying complexity comes from this honest appreciation of men's fears informed by a woman director's touch.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
09-24-2008 |
Reviews
After 'No Country,' 'Burn After Reading' is a Letdownnew
What does a lackluster project matter, coming off four Academy Awards and a devout fan base? Like Wal-Mart and obesity, the Coens are an American institution with no chance of going away despite anyone's protests.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
09-17-2008 |
Reviews
You'll Get Drunk Watching 'Bottle Shock'new
The story is perfect timing for our foodie-obsessed age, showing the backstory behind something we take for granted -- global wine culture -- while also delving into the finer points of winemaking, like the potential disaster of too much oxygen in producing a winning chardonnay.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
08-27-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Randall Miller, Bottle Shock
