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Class of '79new
B-Movie king Roger Corman goes back to "Rock 'n' Roll High School" in a wide-ranging interview about his career and the current state of the industry.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
12-15-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Groans For The Holidays
The hardly sly "Family Stone" squanders a great cast on a manipulative dramedy of slapstick highs and maudlin lows.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
12-15-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: The Family Stone, Thomas Bezucha
Return of the King
After "Lord of the Rings" made him the 800 pound gorilla of the film world, Peter Jackson finally tackles his dream project, and for film fans, it's a dream come true.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
12-15-2005 |
Reviews
Liberty and Justice For Oil
Stephen Gaghan gives the oil industry the Traffic treatment in a well-made, well-cast Gordian knot of a film.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
12-08-2005 |
Reviews
Say Anything
Sarah Silverman and director Liam Lynch try (and mostly fail) to do something fresh with the comedy concert format, but, like its star, Jesus Is Magic is much funnier than it looks
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
Raiders of a Lost Artnew
DIY filmmakers Eric Zala and Chris Strompolos are the men who were the kids behind the painstaking, backyard remake of the first Indiana Jones flick.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
12-01-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
La Boneheaded
Serial adapter Chris Columbus gives Rent-heads exactly what they want, and everyone else the last thing they could possibly want in this out-of-touch, irrelevant relic.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
11-24-2005 |
Reviews
Back In Black
Phoenix and Witherspoon bring the appropriate fire to the epic love story of Johnny Cash and June Carter, but director James Mangold's film never ignites.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
11-17-2005 |
Reviews
It Died Trying
The problem with this 50 Cent biopic glamorizing the grit of the rapper's life isn't so much that the star is a bad actor as he isn't any kind of actor at all.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
11-10-2005 |
Reviews
The Waiting Game
Sam Mendes' timely adaptation of a marine memoirist's timely book focuses on the impotent frustration of warriors waiting to wage war, and the aura of unfinished business they leave in their wake.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
11-03-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Jarhead, Sam Mendes
Wily Capote
Philip Seymour Hoffman gives one of his best performances, as manipulative writer Truman Capote, in one of the year's best films.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
11-03-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Capote, Bennett Miller
The Truman Shownew
Capote star Philip Seymour Hoffman discusses reviving the creator of "In Cold Blood" and steering clear of caricature.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
11-03-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Z-Movie
As far as this belated Zorro sequel is concerned, better never than late.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Forecast: Gloomy
Gore Verbinski and Nicolas Cage suffer a mid-film crisis.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Gore Verbinski, The Weather Man
Good Is The Operative Word
George Clooney's thrillingly topical film about the McCarthy vs. Murrow battle is as much about today's media as yesterday's...just replace the word "Communist" with "terrorist."
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
