AltWeeklies Wire
Forecast: Gloomy
Gore Verbinski and Nicolas Cage suffer a mid-film crisis.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Gore Verbinski, The Weather Man
Good Is The Operative Word
George Clooney's thrillingly topical film about the McCarthy vs. Murrow battle is as much about today's media as yesterday's...just replace the word "Communist" with "terrorist."
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
A Horse Of A Similar Color
An inspirational, true-story sports movie screenwriter makes the jump to directing...with an inspirational, true-story sports movie.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
This Whole Courtroom Drama's Out Of Order!
An Oscar-baiting tale of the country's first class-action sexual harassment suit goes from gritty to squishy on the stand.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: North Country, Nikki Caro
Should You Stay Or Should You Go Now?
Finding Neverland's director Marc Forster's slick execution of one of the dumbest ideas ever put to film.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Marc Forster, Stay
The Rock In A Hard Place
Not even the normally engaging wrestler-turned-actor seems half-alive in Doom, the based-on-a-videogame movie that gives based-on-a-videogame movies a bad—well, worse—name.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: doom, Andrzej Bartkowiak
9021Woah!
Self-consciously cool hyphenated heist hybrid Domino is utterly and consistently ridiculous, just one of the main reasons for the film's relentless awesome-ness.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
10-13-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Tony Scott, Domino
If The Shoe Fits...
Chick lit to chick flick adaptation almost can't help condescending, but at least its leads manage to keep their dignity.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Escapist Velocity
Buffy creator Joss Whedon graduates from the small screen to the silver screen with Sci-Fi/western Serenity, and proves there's no such thing as bad genres, just bad genre films.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-29-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Joss Whedon, Serenity
American History Icks
David Cronenberg takes the "graphic" part of this graphic novel adaptation deadly serious, creating an incredible challenge of our acceptance of violence and sex as entertaining spectacle.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
09-29-2005 |
Reviews
Insane On The Airplane
Jodie Foster loses her daughter, her mind and probably her luggage in Flightplan.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
09-22-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Flightplan, Robert Schwentke
Re-Animator
Tim Burton's nightmare after Christmas maybe more of the same, but it's still a delightful Day of the Dead celebration in animated form.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-22-2005 |
Reviews
Nicolas Cage Fares Well With Arms
The sardonic star of this gun-running Goodfellas helps maintain its manic momentum, but he can't save it all by himself.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
09-15-2005 |
Reviews
Just Like Hell...But Worse
Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo are better off dead in this rote rom com with a euthanasia twist.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-15-2005 |
Reviews
Who's on Top?
An ass-obsessed buddy cop comedy is predictably crappy.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Les Mayfield, The Man
