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Holiday Movies 2007new
Dissecting this season's new releases.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
12-19-2007 |
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
Striker's Guiltnew
St. Louis-area writer Paul Guyot feels isolated from his fellow picketers in Hollywood.
Riverfront Times |
Aimee Levitt |
12-14-2007 |
Movies
Last Man Standingnew
Once a cautionary tale about human folly, has the doomsday myth become just more fun and games?
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
12-14-2007 |
Movies
2007: The Year Cinema Got the Music Rightnew
This may be the year that showed making movies about rock 'n' roll -- particularly some of its most iconic figures -- need not be overburdened by formula, deification or condescension.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
David Lee Simmons |
11-28-2007 |
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
Big Studios to Oscar: 'Love Me'new
It's getting to be that time of year again, when vast amounts of magazine space and precious internet bandwidth are consumed by laughably early Oscar picks and predictions.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Sean Burns |
11-19-2007 |
Movies
Hollywood Schmoozer Meets Internet Geeknew
Agents 2.0: The new generation of dealmakers at UTA Online.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
11-16-2007 |
Movies
The Dilemma of the Literate Picketnew
While I won't lower the red flag or hang-up my IWW T-shirt, I confess to mixed emotions about the strike by the Writers Guild of America.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Mick Farren |
11-16-2007 |
Movies
Strike?! What's a TV Columnist to Do?new
I'm forming a NEW union called the TV Critic and Watchers Guild (TCWG), and we're going to start making a few demands of our own!
The Portland Mercury |
Wm. Steven Humphrey |
11-15-2007 |
Movies
Scabby TV Writers Outed By Fake Craigslist Adnew
While 12,000 WGA members walk the picket lines, 80 New York writers email us to take their jobs.
New York Press |
Matt Elzweig |
11-15-2007 |
Movies
Struck Downnew
Four tips for surviving the Writers Guild of America strike.
Weekly Alibi |
Devin D. O'Leary |
11-13-2007 |
Movies
Scenes from the Strikenew
"It's not going to be as much fun in two months, I'll tell you that," says John Carlen, a veteran Writers Guild member carrying a union placard.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
11-09-2007 |
Movies
Little Children in the Moviesnew
My 9-year-old daughter's interest in boys is largely confined to whether she can outrun them, and yet she has acquired a precise, if mercifully abstract, grasp of the contemporary arts of seduction.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
11-02-2007 |
Movies
