AltWeeklies Wire
The Delayed Gratification of 2009's Movie Awards Seasonnew
Surveying a couple hundred year-end lists by movie reviewers and entertainment writers can be a soul-squishing thing, particularly if you read the reasoning and rationales, the dithers, the doubts, the demurrals, the dishing and dashing to and fro, recurring, recurring.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
01-07-2009 |
Movies
Why So Serious?: A Holiday Movie Previewnew
This year tragedy for tragedy's sake is on the front burner. It's nothing new, releasing dead-serious pictures at the dead of Christmas.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
12-17-2008 |
Movies
Will a Critics' Dearth Hurt Hard Films?new
What if a movie like Stop-Loss falls in the forest and there are no crickets there to chirp its praises?
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
04-02-2008 |
Movies
Where is the Glamour?new
At Oscar time, there's subterranean industry at work with every appearance, at every instant of elegant display: fashion designers, dressers, hairstylists, makeup artists, so that George Clooney gleams and Nicole Kidman absorbs no light.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
02-20-2008 |
Movies
Holiday Movies 2007new
Dissecting this season's new releases.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
12-19-2007 |
Movies
Antonioni and Bergman: Life after Lifenew
Deaths, life and a "Killer of Sheep."
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
08-01-2007 |
Movies
Fighting for the Future of the Picture Palace in iPhone Eranew
How can film exhibition survive and subsist in a world of broadband internet and handheld devices with wireless connections and downloads?
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
06-27-2007 |
Movies
Always at the Crossroadsnew
Critics are listening to crickets as modern media evolves.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
02-21-2007 |
Movies
Acting Outnew
Why are 2006 movies (especially holiday ones) full of blood and guts?
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
12-20-2006 |
Movies
