AltWeeklies Wire
'In Bruges': Canal Zonenew
Tough guys play at being tourists while waiting for their next job.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
02-14-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: In Bruges, Martin McDonagh
On the Busnew
Vince Vaughn takes his friends on a Wild West Comedy Show with neo–Rat Pack results.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
02-07-2008 |
Reviews
Nakednew
Alex Gibney's documentary Taxi to the Dark Side shows us the road to Abu Ghraib.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
02-07-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Alex Gibney, Taxi to the Dark Side
Close Encountersnew
Cinequest documentary Sputnik Mania recalls how the world almost scared itself to death on the way to the Space Age.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
02-07-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: David Hoffman, Sputnik Mania
The Procedurenew
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days looks at life in a world without legal abortions.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
01-31-2008 |
Reviews
Beyond Rangoonnew
Sylvester Stallone's Rambo aims to please by wiping out the brutes of Burma.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
01-31-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Rambo, Sylvester Stallone
The 2008 Oscar Racenew
Handicapping this year's nominations, all the way from Best Picture (anybody can do that) to Best Editing (where else can you get odds on that?).
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
01-24-2008 |
Movies
'Cassandra's Dream': Guilt Tripnew
Good and bad talk it out in new Woody Allen film.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
01-17-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Woody Allen, Cassandra's Dream
'Persepolis' Turns a Graphic Novel into Animation Classicnew
The film does a first-rate job of outlining what it is like to be a teenager in a religious dictatorship, and it addresses this slow suffocation in a way any self-obsessed American teen could understand.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
01-10-2008 |
Reviews
'Sweeney Todd' Goes to the Dark Side of Musicalsnew
Tim Burton is certain to dominate the holiday's cutthroat competition.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
12-20-2007 |
Reviews
The Musical Bio-Pic to End All Musical Bio-Picsnew
John C. Reilly makes a better Johnny Cash (and Roy Orbison) in musical satire Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
12-20-2007 |
Reviews
'Charlie Wilson's War': The Great Gamenew
Making a hero out of Charlie Wilson is like making a hero out of Oliver North. Scriptwriter Aaron Sorkin's West Wing-bred populism is too slick for its own good; the film insists that our leaders only lie to us for the best reasons.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
12-20-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike Nichols, Charlie Wilson's War
Woody Harrelson Prowls D.C. in 'The Walker'new
Harrelson's molassesy drawl and polished surface make this a most ingenious performance. One is willing to stick with him, drifting through the carelessly written plot and ignoring the occasional clinking line.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
12-13-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Paul Schrader, The Walker
'Shooting War' Does Have a Pointnew
While critiquing the self-importance of the blogosphere, Anthony Lappe and Dan Goldman's graphic novel Shooting War perpetrates some of the sphere's worst customs: the self-importance, the self-pity, the lazy writing.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
12-13-2007 |
Fiction
Spalding Weaves Herself Into Crime Narrativenew
Every bit as fraught as its title, Linda Spalding's Who Named the Knife is a glassine web of Didionesque passive sentences, re-creating a crime in Hawaii in 1978.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
12-06-2007 |
Nonfiction
