AltWeeklies Wire
Bobcat Goldthwait's God Bless America sheds a light on tastelessnessnew
For a movie that starts off with a man fantasizing about killing his annoying neighbors and their baby, Bobcat Goldthwait's God Bless America has a very hippie underbelly.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
05-24-2012 |
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Marley is a touching portrait of the reggae idolnew
In Kevin MacDonald's documentary, Marley, the famous Rasta is seen in a light rarely witnessed before, with all the pain, love, and desire encompassed therein.
Charleston City Paper |
Ryan Overhiser |
05-18-2012 |
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Tags: Kevin MacDonald, Marley
Steve Jobs lives on in The Lost Interviewnew
Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview is an hour-long look into the charismatic and plain-spoken nature of one of this generation's most enduring figures.
Charleston City Paper |
Ryan Overhiser |
05-11-2012 |
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Filmmaker explores an outsider’s view of My Americanew
The oil-hungry, debt-loaded America of today is no longer the big-action Reagan-driven America that Hegedus fell so in love with, and in My America, Hegedus has to come to terms with this realization.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
04-04-2012 |
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Tags: My America
The Hunger Games is a toned-down version of the dystopic booknew
At its best, this successful, though not overwhelming film adaptation of The Hunger Games lampoons the tawdry neon shades, effusive razzle dazzle, and spectacles of debasement and triumph in contemporary American entertainment.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
03-26-2012 |
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Hilarity Does Not Ensue in Friends with Kidsnew
No matter where you fall on the reproductive continuum -- married, unmarried, childless, or with child -- you'll likely find something to relate to in the egg-meets-sperm romantic comedy Friends with Kids.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
03-26-2012 |
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Emotionally stunted siblings connect in Jeff, Who Lives at Homenew
The perpetually stoned Jeff's mojo kicks in when he gets a "random" phone call that promises to jumpstart his destiny.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
03-18-2012 |
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21 Jump Street is a successful rebootnew
Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller make their live-action feature film debut here, clearly taking a page from the playbook of The Brady Bunch Movie and crafting a modern-day tale while winking satirically at the core tenets of the old TV show.
Charleston City Paper |
Isaac Weeks |
03-18-2012 |
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Tags: 21 Jump Street
The Other F Word shows what happens to punks when they have kidsnew
The Other F Word, a documentary by Andrea Blaugrund Nevins, explores a very specific facet of aging and what occurs when men with forehead tattoos and their own daddy issues procreate.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
02-01-2012 |
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The Artist recalls a time of cultural changenew
Movies don't get much more ebullient, charming, and heart-skippingly cute than the romantic comedy The Artist, which has edged its way into many critical best lists.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
01-18-2012 |
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Carnage is Roman Polanski’s real-time brawl between flawed parentsnew
Roman Polanski's film is the real-time encounter between two sets of parents — the bordering-on-mediocrity Penelope (Jodie Foster) and Michael (John C. Reilly) Longstreet and the obviously wealthier Nancy (Kate Winslet) and Alan (Christoph Waltz) Cowan — following a scuffle between their sons.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
01-11-2012 |
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Tags: Roman Polanski, Carnage (2011)
Meryl Streep’s Iron Lady is fiction laced with truthnew
British director Phyllida Lloyd, who worked with Streep on Mamma Mia!, takes an interesting, occasionally misguided track in their new collaboration, documenting Thatcher's life in reverse.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
01-11-2012 |
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Tags: Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo remake has same badass heroinenew
Nothing in David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo quite lives up to the menacing, ambiguous, death-metal rapturous credit sequence that opens the director's adaptation of the best-selling Stieg Larsson novel of the same name.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
12-22-2011 |
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In Young Adult, Charlize Theron Doesn’t Want to Grow Upnew
A toxic spin on all of those cutesy chick flicks where career girls yearn for marriage, the latter film is the convention-busting story of semi-slovenly, semi-slatternly 37-year-old Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron), who is hellbent on busting up a marriage.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
12-15-2011 |
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In Take Shelter, Michael Shannon Defines Slow-burn Agonynew
Set in a rural Ohio of backyard rubbish piles and church suppers, Take Shelter is a skin-crawling heartland thriller in which visions of disaster haunt family man Curtis (Michael Shannon).
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
12-08-2011 |
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