AltWeeklies Wire
Allen and Costner Are Upside's Upsidenew
This movie belongs to Joan Allen, who plays Terry Wolfmeyer, a wife abandoned by her husband and left to pick up the pieces and collect them in a giant bottle of vodka. Terry's is the cold, composed visage of a woman struggling to keep it together.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
03-21-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike Binder, The Upside of Anger
Sundance's Biggest Deal Was No Big Dealnew
At the Sundance Film Festival, studios spend dollars on the penny in the thin mountain air -- like the $9.5 million Paramount Pictures paid for director Craig Brewer's film Hustle & Flow.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
02-08-2005 |
Movies
Andre Lewis Adjusts to Life After Death Rownew
Hours before convicted murderer Andre Lewis was scheduled to die in 1993, he was granted a reprieve. His relatives' testimony about the negative circumstances of his childhood eventually saved him but distanced him from them as well.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
12-20-2004 |
Crime & Justice
No Dicking Aroundnew
Condon's movie, faithful to several texts about Kinsey, may be set decades ago, but it feels as relevant as tomorrow's news. In the 1940s, Professor Kinsey fostered a discussion that has turned into a shouting match. No longer startled by his discoveries, we're now aghast at the implications.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
11-19-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Bill Condon, Kinsey
Scars and Barsnew
John Dullaghan's documentary gathers Charles Bukowski's old friends and admirers and publishers to share their tales, but most of all it lets the dead poet tell his own story in archival footage that makes him seem more alive now that he's a beloved ghost who can harm no one else, especially himself.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
11-02-2004 |
Reviews
Captain Kirk Sets Album to Stunnew
Shatner enjoys a third act afforded few in show business. He still has a film career, still writes best-selling sci-fi, still breeds award-winning horses and has a shiny new Emmy on his mantle. Yet lately he's become obsessed with mortality, disappointment, grief -- all the Big Stuff that a man eventually confronts.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
10-22-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Has Been, William Shatner
Mind Gamesnew
Some who see the Dallas software engineer's creation will argue that his time-travel riddle doesn't amount to much of a film. Others will lavish upon it hearty praise reserved for visionaries who leap suddenly from the shadows to the spotlight.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
10-12-2004 |
Reviews
The Right's Stuff: Conservative Warriors Attack Left on Its Own Turfnew
The sign being carried in front of Halliburton headquarters reads, "Uncle Osama wants you to vote for John Kerry." What the hell? The right-wing group Protest Warrior is protesting anti-Halliburton protesters from the Dallas Peace Center.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
09-13-2004 |
Politics
Old Rock Documentary Gets Performers Back on Tracknew
The long-lost audio and video from a little-known concert tour that took place in Canada in 1970 has been recovered and made into a film. The footage included performances from the Grateful Dead, The Band, Buddy Guy and Janis Joplin, who would die but three months after the tour rolled into its final stop in Calgary.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
08-30-2004 |
Movies
More Bushwhacking: Filmmaker Sets Her Sights on the Presidentnew
Rose's documentary is truly effective in its firsthand accounts from people accosted and detained by police officers and FBI and Secret Service agents for doing little more than exchanging anti-Bush e-mails or speaking out against the war on terror in public places.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
08-23-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
