AltWeeklies Wire
Eminent Edwardiansnew
There's magic to the Peter Pan story, but precious little insight into its repressed magician.
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
11-18-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Marc Forster, Finding Neverland
Take It All Off, Alfrednew
Biopic tells us too much about America's sexual habits, too little about what motivated its erotic expert.
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
11-18-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Bill Condon, Kinsey
Books: Red and Blue Inknew
The worst things that the right and left can say about each other are sticking—and selling like hotcakes.
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
10-13-2004 |
Politics
Kerry's Best Campaignnew
Will his new biopic make John Kerry president? Not likely, but it's one of the very best of the Democrat-friendly docs stampeding in the wake of "Fahrenheit 9/11."
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
09-29-2004 |
Reviews
Report from Telluridenew
I can't remember a more consistently stimulating festival. Even movies that were practically guaranteed to be ghastly—a no-budget first film shot in the subways of Hungary, anyone?—turned out to be a gas, and even the occasional failures were ambitious and honorable.
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
09-15-2004 |
Movies
Zhang, He’s Good!new
A Chinese master’s swashbuckling epic kicks airborne ass in rainbow shades.
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
08-25-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Zhang Yimou, Hero
NASCAR's Corporate Hillbillies Are Taking Over American Culturenew
NASCAR's fans are traditionally viewed as gun-owning, car-muscling, Republican men's men. Will NASCAR Dads peacefully co-exist with Soccer Moms as part of the "Dixiefication" of America? Or is this a sport of rugged individuals, fueled by dispossessed, angry outcasts?
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
06-30-2004 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Terminally Trappednew
Steven Spielberg masterfully makes the airport terminal a character in its own right, a bright, bland emporium of name-brand culture—not the ’60s pleasure palace in "Catch Me if You Can," but an inescapable enclosure, a bit like the haunted house in "Poltergeist" or the totalitarian dystopias of "AI" and "Minority Report."
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
06-16-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Steven Spielberg, The Terminal
