AltWeeklies Wire
Oscar Hangovernew
This five-step program will end the misery of the most incoherent, inchoate and just plain stinko Oscar telecast in recent memory.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikke Finke |
03-09-2006 |
Movies
Tags: The Oscars
Paradise Nownew
Feverish fans of The New World turn Terrence Malick's box office bust into a cult film.
The Village Voice |
J. Hoberman |
03-08-2006 |
Movies
Where Is the Love?new
Brokeback Mountain perfectly captures our ambivalence about marriage -- gay and straight.
Boston Phoenix |
Michael Bronski |
03-03-2006 |
Movies
Tags: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
The Two Faces of Jonnew
Which Jon Stewart will host the Oscars -- the savage satirist or the chickenshit phony?
Tags: The Oscars
Swag Hagsnew
To the companies who lavish gifts on Oscar attendees, a $65,000 bling bag is just the high price of celebrity love.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Judi Jordan |
03-03-2006 |
Movies
Tags: The Oscars
Filmmakers Learn to Fear-Mongernew
Whether you like it or not, the country's political climate is driving this year's Oscars.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
03-01-2006 |
Movies
Tags: The Oscars
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
Bitching About the Oscarsnew
Fewer and fewer people are willing to leave their home to see a movie, so why should they even care about the Oscars on TV, or what critics think?
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo and Brian Miller |
03-01-2006 |
Movies
Tags: The Oscars
If I Ran Hollywood …
As the Oscars approach, a handful of writers say what they would do if they were behind the wheel of the Hummer that is Hollywood.
The Inlander |
Various |
02-27-2006 |
Movies
Tags: The Oscars
'Crash' From the Pastnew
Despite being the only Best Picture nominee set in the present, Crash already feels old.
Birmingham Weekly |
Hugh Merrill |
02-27-2006 |
Movies
Tags: Oscars
How Gay Will Oscar Go?new
Handicapping who'll win, who'll lose and who'll just jerk off.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
02-03-2006 |
Movies
The Dark Lord Speaksnew
George Lucas discusses how Sith compares to Vietnam-era foreign policy in a story filed by film critic Rob Nelson from the Cannes Film Festival.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Rob Nelson |
05-18-2005 |
Movies
The New Romanticsnew
Lying, cheating, swapping, memory erasing, and attempted homicide -- these days, date movies are not for the faint of heart.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Lynn Rapoport |
02-09-2005 |
Movies
Stuntman Turns to Roach Wranglingnew
Most people try to get rid of roaches, but stuntman Alan Hutton welcomes them. The actor, stuntman, fight choreographer, pyrotechnician, historical adviser and weapons master has to be a jack-of-all-trades, and he's even wrangled roaches and delivered them to filmmakers.
Houston Press |
Michael Serazio |
01-03-2005 |
Movies
New American Romanticism Wins Hearts of Alt Criticsnew
Before Sunset, directed by Richard Linklater, was the decisive winner of the 2004 poll of alternative press film critics, as the new American romanticism bucked electoral disaster.
The Village Voice |
J. Hoberman |
12-29-2004 |
Movies
