AltWeeklies Wire
'The Women' Remake is Disjointednew
Director Diane English's remake of George Cukor's 1939 adaptation of Clare Boothe Luce's satiric play keeps the men almost literally out of the picture.
Baltimore City Paper |
Wendy Ward |
09-16-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Diane English, The Women
'Elegy' Captures the Pathos of Love Lostnew
Elegy, based on the Philip Roth novel The Dying Animal, is a funeral song not just for a lost love, after all, but a lost man.
Baltimore City Paper |
Wendy Ward |
08-26-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Elegy, Isabel Coixet
'Nim's Island' Stays Focused on Its Girl Heronew
Living out many a young person's fantasy, preteen Nim Rusoe occupies a tropic island with her scientist father, Jack, and assorted domesticated beach/forest/sea animals such as lizards, pelicans, and seals, but no monkeys--nor anyone else, since her beloved mother died at sea.
Baltimore City Paper |
Wendy Ward |
07-29-2008 |
Reviews
'September Dawn' Just Feels Made-upnew
The story of the Fancher party's massacre at the hands of the Utah Mormon militia, with help from manipulated local Indians, needs nothing more than a deft telling of fear and discrimination in an innocent field -- unfortunately, here it receives unnecessary melodrama.
Baltimore City Paper |
Wendy Ward |
08-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Christopher Cain, September Dawn
