AltWeeklies Wire
The Dogs of Warnew
Letters From Iwo Jima and The Good German are both turkeys -- though of an interestingly similar sort.
Oriented Sexualitynew
Adulterous women are at the center of two new films set in China -- Curse of the Golden Flower and The Painted Veil.
One of Bollywood's Bestnew
A straightlaced cop teams with a bad boy cycle racer in a breathlessly entertaining movie of monumental silliness.
Tags: Dhoom 2, Sanjay Gadhvi
An Epic Messnew
The film adaptation of Perfume took years to make -- Stanley Kubrick considered it unfilmable -- and the result is a gory mess.
Tags: Tom, Perfume: The Story of A Murderer, Tom Tykwer, Alan, Kubrick, Lola, Rickman, Run, Stanley, Tykwer
Ready for the Countrynew
This tale of two men in the woods is one of the best films of 2006, and its reminiscent of the best films of the 1970s as well.
Eyes of the Tigernew
Underdogs go over the top in three holiday releases -- Dreamgirls, Rocky Balboa, and We Are Marshall.
Got Faith?new
Catholic kitsch from Mexico (Guadalupe) makes one appreciate Mel Gibson's showmanship in Apocalypto.
Warming Up?new
Al Gore is not going to run for president again -- not in 2008, not ever.
When Bondage Was Innocentnew
Two films inspire nostalgia for sexual discretion.
Wild Turksnew
The gutter punk romance Head On reinvigorates European cinema.
Tags: Fatih Akin, Head-On
Black Woman Risingnew
Tyler Perry, a star of the black gospel theater circuit, plays three roles in this tale of a woman's liberation from a vicious, no-good, two-timing rascal of a husband.
The Year of Mel Gibson and Michael Moorenew
Was this really the year when the two most significant movies -- though hardly the best -- were a pious Biblical epic and a caterwauling political broadside? Yep, it was.
