AltWeeklies Wire
Witch Girl and Home Boynew
"Beautiful Creatures," the Richard LaGravenese film that sequesters acting giants Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson and Viola Davis into the shadows, is for audiences who can lose themselves in a southern Gothic romance between Happy Home Boy and Hormonal Witch Girl.
Jackson Free Press |
Anita Modak-Truran |
03-01-2013 |
Movies
Anita's Oscar Picksnew
If movies provide a lens into our cultural soul, what do this year's Academy Award nominees say about the past year?
Jackson Free Press |
Anita Modak-Truran |
02-21-2013 |
Movies
Cinematic Wedgienew
Dr. Jonathan Banks (Jude Law) searches for answers for his patient’s ailments with a controversial drug in “Side Effects.”
Jackson Free Press |
Anita Modak-Truran |
02-15-2013 |
Movies
Elevator Muzaknew
“Playing for Keeps” is a blasé work spiked with trifling comic bits and smoothed out with a mellow dilemma that works to limp the film to a predestined conclusion of awkward family bliss.
Jackson Free Press |
Anita Modak-Truran |
12-13-2012 |
Movies
Blurring Linesnew
In “Life of Pi,” a tiger named Richard Parker and 16-year-old Pi (Irfan Kahn) struggle to survive—and coexist—on a lifeboat.
Jackson Free Press |
Anita Modak-Truran |
12-10-2012 |
Movies
Thirteen Creepy Moviesnew
'Tis the season to get creeped out. Here are 13 movies guaranteed to make you scream like a little girl.
Jackson Free Press |
Anita Modak-Truran |
10-26-2012 |
Movies
Tags: The Shining
Accepting the Legacynew
On the 50th anniversary of James Meredith's enrollment at Ole Miss, Mississippi Public Broadcasting presents "Integrating Ole Miss: James Meredith and Beyond," a film about how the event shaped the future of the university.
Jackson Free Press |
Matt Bolian |
10-01-2012 |
Movies
Seven Minutes, Two Daysnew
The 48 Hour Film Project is no walk in the park. On the weekend of Aug. 17-19 when filmmakers gather in the capital city to participate in this exhaustive competition, they will have no idea what's ahead for them.
Jackson Free Press |
Sara Sacks |
08-16-2012 |
Movies
Fitting Togethernew
Quvenzhane Wallis stars as Hushpuppy in "Beasts of the Southern Wild," set in the fictional town of Bathtub in the Louisiana bayou.
Jackson Free Press |
Anita Modak-Truran |
08-13-2012 |
Movies
The Ones They Haven't Made, Yetnew
Nigel Havers played Lord Andrew Lindsay in what many believe is the best film about Olympic athletes: 1981's "Chariots of Fire."
Jackson Free Press |
Anita Modak-Truran |
08-03-2012 |
Movies
