AltWeeklies Wire
Cinematic Representations of Female Athletes Evolve Alongside Women's Sportsnew
What do tricked-out bikes, Canadian roller derby, prepubescent soccer players, and cops playing a 4,000-year-old Southeast Asian sport have in common? All are the subjects of documentaries screening at the Baltimore Women's Film Festival's Women in Sports shorts program.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raven Baker |
10-28-2008 |
Movies
Filmmakers Turn Lens On Baltimore's Growing Latino Populationnew
Viva El Cine Latino, a Latino short film festival, is a long-overdue examination of Baltimore's Latino culture through language and how linguistic misunderstandings can lead, through pain and confusion, to growth and catharsis.
Baltimore City Paper |
Robbie Whelan |
10-14-2008 |
Movies
Digital Video Has Become as Unreliable a Narrator as Celluloidnew
Hollywood has finally started to respond to the success of YouTube and other online video sites. Cloverfield, Redacted, and Diary of the Dead purported to be "found" videos, made by someone who didn't plan for their footage to wind up in a movie theater. But video looks too good to be "real."
Baltimore City Paper |
Martin L. Johnson |
06-24-2008 |
Movies
Launching Legacy Film Festivalnew
Last fall, Jasmine Richardson and Laura Green decided to launch a minority film festival in Baltimore. Some six months later and the pair has realized it's not only possible, but it's happening.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
03-04-2008 |
Movies
Tags: Legacy Film Festival
Zombie Nationnew
It's the living that's unsettling about The Living Dead.
Baltimore City Paper |
John Berndt |
02-19-2008 |
Movies
'The Wire' Goes On the Recordnew
David Simon turns an unblinking eye toward daily journalism with its fifth and final season.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
01-08-2008 |
Movies
Top Ten: The Year in Moviesnew
La Vie en Rose, Control, and I'm Not There didn't merely rescue the music biopic from Hollywood; they represent the best of what 2007 movies offered: an explosion of cinematic craft.
Baltimore City Paper |
Staff |
12-18-2007 |
Movies
Confessions of a Neocon TV Fannew
Or, how I learned how to stop worrying if watching torture condones torture and enjoy prime time American television.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
12-18-2007 |
Movies
No Money, No Funnynew
If you can't muster up any sympathy for the Writers Guild, then perhaps you deserve to watch The Biggest Loser. There's your irony for you.
Baltimore City Paper |
Brian Morton |
11-20-2007 |
Movies
Novelist Thomas Long Hits The Big Screennew
Long's book A Thug's Life, a novel about a pair of West Baltimore drug dealers turned into a direct-to-DVD movie adaptation, 4 Life, on a big screen with celebrity guests, radio personalities, and fans.
Baltimore City Paper |
Jason Torres |
07-31-2007 |
Movies
Tags: 4 Life, Tony Austin
The Last of the Strongmennew
Gordon Scott was a hero wherever he went -- from Hollywood to Italy to South Baltimore.
Baltimore City Paper |
Chris Landers |
05-08-2007 |
Movies
Splice Worldnew
Film program takes a considered look at an often overlooked film technique: the edit.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
01-03-2007 |
Movies
Coming Soonnew
The box-office battle between Baltimore's independent movie theaters turns on the imminent arrival of a new national player.
Baltimore City Paper |
Van Smith |
07-11-2006 |
Movies
Networked Overnew
Film critics are mad as hell, and they'll just have to take it.
Baltimore City Paper |
Ian Grey |
03-01-2006 |
Movies
The Original Kings of Cinemanew
Looking at early African-American filmmakers through today's eyes.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
02-10-2006 |
Movies
