AltWeeklies Wire
Cannes Comebacks: Our Midfestival Reportnew
Call Mike Tyson, Jerzy Skolimowski and Terence Davies the comeback kids.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
05-27-2008 |
Movies
'The Children of Huang Shi': Epic Borenew
Spottiswoode is hardly alone in distilling a distant country's pain into the story of one white Westerner, armed with a similarly pale romantic interest and wry native sidekick, making a difference while world history rages around him.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
05-27-2008 |
Reviews
Uwe Boll Goes 'Postal'new
Notorious German director spars with his critics, makes an intentional comedy.
L.A. Weekly |
Luke Y. Thompson |
05-27-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Parenting Off the Grid and Off the Reservation in 'Surfwise'new
Halfway through Surfwise, a mesmerizingly ambivalent documentary about an itinerant family of Jewish surfer-dude health nuts, we meet the 84-year-old patriarch, "Doc" Paskowitz showing director Doug Pray a blown-up photo of a Nazi preparing to shoot a Jewish mother and child at close range.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
05-27-2008 |
Reviews
Paranoid Transit Agency Tries to Censor Bloggersnew
Southern California commuter-rail line Metrolink spends public money threatening critical websites.
L.A. Weekly |
Max Taves |
05-27-2008 |
Tech
Indiana Ford ... and the Kingdom of Lucas and Spielbergnew
A proudly analog artifact exhumed and dusted off for our digital age, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is no less of a search for lost time on the part of its primary creators, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, but likely for much of the audience too.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
05-27-2008 |
Reviews
The Week McCain's Not-So-Straight Talk Met Clinton's Funny Number-Crunchingnew
During the same week that Barack Obama clinched the majority of pledged Democratic Party delegates, the presidential mash-up was more frenzied than ever. It was a knockdown, blood-on-the-floor, caged grudge match between Clinton and McCain to see who could more brutally beat the American process into utter stupidity.
L.A. Weekly |
Marc Cooper |
05-27-2008 |
Commentary
Manson Clan Body Dig Underwaynew
Law enforcement agencies and scientists, shadowed at a distance by a small army of local and international reporters, descended on Barker Ranch this month in hopes of getting to the bottom of a persistent rumor that Manson Family murder victims are buried there.
L.A. Weekly |
Christine Pelisek |
05-27-2008 |
History
California GOP: The Queer Enablers of Gay Marriagenew
How Republicans accomplished what the Dems could not.
L.A. Weekly |
Patrick Range McDonald and Matthew Fleischer |
05-27-2008 |
LGBT
The Beginning of a No Agenew
Simply put, the best punk album of the 21st century.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
05-09-2008 |
Reviews
Harmony Korine's Waynew
The director on flying nuns and his Mexican Michael Jackson.
L.A. Weekly |
Joshuah Bearman |
05-09-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mister Lonely, Harmony Korine
Behind the Scenes at the Sundance Labsnew
I'm headed up to the peaceful resort that houses Robert Redford's Sundance Institute and plays host every January to eight Fellows, handpicked from a pool of more than 2,000 applicants, for the coveted five-day Sundance Screenwriters Lab.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
05-09-2008 |
Movies
Clinton Defeats Clinton: After North Carolina and Indiana, a Postmortem on Hillary's Campaignnew
It's all over now, Baby Blue, as Barack Obama wins the presidential nomination for the third or fourth time.
L.A. Weekly |
Marc Cooper |
05-09-2008 |
Commentary
'Fugitive Pieces' Adaptation Sucks the Poetry Out of a Holocaust Survival Talenew
Canadian filmmaker Jeremy Podeswa has given it the old college try, but in pursuit of tact and sensitivity, he has hollowed out the novel's urgency -- its unflinching confrontation with the horrors of 20th-century history -- in favor of a vaguely spiritual morbidity that slides into mere pathos.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
05-02-2008 |
Reviews
Jon Favreau's 'Iron Man' Has a Heartnew
Rather than cutting directly to the chase, it takes its time to involve us in the characters, who are relatively three-dimensional as comic book movies go, and who are played by the kinds of actors who know how to make a lot out of not very much.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
05-02-2008 |
Reviews
