AltWeeklies Wire
Connecticut Tax Dollars Subsidize a Film Industry That Doesn't Need the Helpnew
The state is betting a small fortune on Connecticut becoming a viable home to the film industry, offering production companies the most generous tax breaks in the country and paying film union members upwards of half a million dollars to train a hundred or so people to do film jobs they may never get.
New Haven Advocate |
Andy Bromage |
08-26-2008 |
Movies
What's in a Skin Color? The Perils of Ethnic Impersonation in Moviesnew
Why is it that Robert Downey Jr. is celebrated for his clever meta-performance in Tropic Thunder, while Ben Stiller is attacked for denigrating a whole group of people in the same film? The line between respect and offense in cases like these is razor-thin, and it's not always easy to see where it should be drawn.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Josh Bell |
08-22-2008 |
Movies
The Bollywood Connection: Local company ReelSports, like Sylvester Stallone and Snoop Dogg, is on the vangaurd of India's global ascentnew
What's fueling this fusion of East and West? Partly the desire of Westerners to seize the opportunity to work in an interesting and hospitable environment. Far more important, though, has been the desire of Bollywood to impress Western audiences and to make larger forays into savvy and lucrative Western markets.
Charleston City Paper |
Dan McCue |
08-20-2008 |
Movies
Tags: Chakde! India, Shimit Amin
The 2008 Alternative Fall Film Preview
There's no question that autumn is the best season for movies. While most audiences will only see a few titles from the list of 120 movies distributed between Labor Day and Christmas, alt weekly readers tend to be a more ravenous bunch of filmgoers, cramming in excess of twenty movies in the last four months of the year.
The YoungCuts Film Fest Pulls Together Consistantly Good Shortsnew
Chalk it up to the digital revolution or well-funded film schools or the willingness to take on credit card debt, but the festival films' production values are impressively high, all told.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
08-18-2008 |
Movies
Does the Recent Surge of Stoner Movies Mean America is Going to Pot?new
Marijuana movies are a hot genre right now -- Knocked Up, Harold & Kumar (both Go to White Castle and Escape from Guantanamo Bay), and Superbad have made piles of green at the box office. Just this past week, Pineapple Express topped the box office at $12.5 million, a record for a Wednesday opening in August. And those are just the obvious offenders.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
08-14-2008 |
Movies
Eccentric Crispin Glover Wants to Show You His Taboo-filled Filmnew
Glover chooses to screen his films personally, instead of going through the normal distribution model of using movie theatres, because he wants to emphasize the interactive element of entertainment. Consider it a throwback to the days of vaudeville.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Michelle Kay |
08-08-2008 |
Movies
What We Demand from Our Movie Heroes Says as Much About Us as Themnew
As the villains move closer toward the state of amoral blank slates -- less monsters and more unknowable black holes of pure negativity -- they have opened the ground for heroes to step more squarely into the chasm the bad guys have left behind. That shift is why, of late, the heroes actually have the better roles; why, fittingly, Batman remains a more compelling character than the starkly one-dimensional Joker.
Las Vegas Weekly |
T.R. Witcher |
08-01-2008 |
Movies
Vancouver Queer Film Fest Tells Fairy Talesnew
From August 14 to 24, Out on Screen’s 20th annual film extravaganza will showcase 114 shorts and features that reflect the LGBT communities.
The Georgia Straight |
Craig Takeuchi |
08-01-2008 |
Movies
Brendan Fraser Ruins Everythingnew
With this week's release of a third Mummy movie following Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D, we've been cursed with an unholy attack no other generation has had to endure: Two Brendan Fraser movies in a single month.
The Portland Mercury |
Erik Henriksen |
07-31-2008 |
Movies
First Shotnew
It’s official: Movies are still your best entertainment value. Especially if you stop counting everything else.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-31-2008 |
Movies
Where are the Girls in Stoner Flicks?new
Other than Greg Araki's Smiley Face (featuring the totally underrated Anna Faris), which Rickey mentions, I can't think of any female stoner taking point in a movie.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Molly Eichel |
07-31-2008 |
Movies
Labor Dispute at Movie Theater Hinges on Skills of Projectionistsnew
As projectionists picket to get a contract at the landmark Alameda Theatre, some patrons lose faith.
East Bay Express |
Rin Kelly |
07-30-2008 |
Movies
Filmmaker Craig Brewer's Latest Project Brings Reality TV (of a Sort) to Memphisnew
It's a Friday night at the New Daisy Theatre on Beale Street, the first night of shooting on $5 Cover, Brewer's new web-based MTV series about Memphis music.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
07-25-2008 |
Movies
Batman and the Audacity of Hopenew
For a guy whose business card could read “Guardian of Gotham City,” Batman sure spends lot of time hanging around Camelot. Twice in the last four decades, an outpouring of Batmania has reflected the public’s desire for political renewal; the first time, as that dream collapsed, and now as its latter-day incarnation teeters on the precipice between victory and disillusionment.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-24-2008 |
Movies
