AltWeeklies Wire
Family Members and Lawyers Describe Assaults of Teens in Prisonnew
Wayne Boatwright Sr. couldn't hold back tears as he told legislators about the death of his 18-year-old son, Wayne Boatwright Jr. He was strangled to death in February at Lee Arrendale State Prison, where children between the ages of 13 and 17 found guilty of one of seven violent felonies are sent. Once there, they often are preyed upon by the prison's older population, documents show.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
08-13-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
A Story of Spam, Spyware and Second Chancesnew
Rob Martinson may be seen as an unavoidable pest of the Internet age -- the kind who infiltrates your computer, who hijacks your homepage, who makes surfing the Web more pain than pleasure.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Steve Fennessy |
08-13-2004 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Home Makes It Hard Not to Be Movednew
First-time director Michael Mayer's flawed, at times superficial, but nevertheless affecting adaptation of Michael Cunningham's novel explores anew the profound effect relationships -- either nurturing or truncated -- can have on his characters.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
08-05-2004 |
Reviews
A Fable about Public Fear and Homeland Securitynew
The director knows exactly how to prey on our innate fears of spooky forests and unseen bogeymen, but shows too much confidence in his directing and screenwriting abilities.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
08-05-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: M. Night Shyamalan, The Village
Cabbie Becomes Pawn of Backseat Drivernew
Collateral's subject matter makes it the ideal collaboration for Tom Cruise and Michael Mann, two of cinema's most driven perfectionists.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
08-05-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Mann, Collateral
Open Water Will Make Viewers Afraid to Swim in Oceannew
Open Water isn't a "thrill ride" movie with polished jokes, dramatic speeches or set pieces that try to top each other. Chris Kentis is more interested in sustaining a mood of sheer dread and succeeds superbly on that level, giving the film the tension of a masterful short story.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
08-05-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Chris Kentis, Open Water
Revisionist Rockers Metallica Go Deep in Fascinating Documentarynew
You don't have to be a Metallica or heavy metal fan to get lost in Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's captivating documentary.
In a final effort to prevent a breakup, the group calls in $40,000-a-month psychotherapist Phil Towle.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
08-05-2004 |
Reviews
Writers Say It's Time to Ride GOP Scalawags Out on a Railnew
My fellow travelers also were writers, whatever their day jobs, and we had trekked over from the Carter Center where the group had celebrated the publishing of a book of their essays, Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent.
Even the title is pretty risky. After all, dissent is endangered in this nation.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
08-05-2004 |
Commentary
Scooping Litterbox More Pleasant Than Watching Catwomannew
From fashion statements and the flesh factor to money shots and pop references, film critic Curt Holman runs down the good and bad of Halle Berry's latest flick.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-29-2004 |
Reviews
Critics battle for 'Ultimate Film Fanatic'new
Creative Loafing's film critics Curt Holman and Felicia Feaster are put to the test in three rounds of a version of IFC's "Ultimate Film Fanatic" game show.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Heather Kuldell |
07-29-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV, Ultimate Film Fanatic
Marijuana Comedy Comments on Being Minority in Americanew
I'm not stoned: There's actually some serious racial-political subtext rolled up in the half-baked comedy Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-29-2004 |
Reviews
Brotherhood of the Wave Binds Surfers Together in Riding Giantsnew
Stacy Peralta's breathtaking, exhilarating history of surfing and its personalities traces the sport's 1,000-year-old origins to its current incarnation as the province of extreme sportsmen towed into Hawaii's epic six-story waves.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-29-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Stacy Peralta, Riding Giants
Film Evokes Symbols of Blooming Femininity, Spiritual Wiltingnew
Maria Full of Grace is an intimate rendering of what it might feel like to be one of the faceless, disposable people on the bottom of the economic food chain.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-29-2004 |
Reviews
Corporate Culture Indicted in New Documentarynew
The Corporation is one of the most insidiously disturbing documentaries in the recent windfall of films. It blames the American philosophy of profit for the erosion of national values and morality.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-29-2004 |
Reviews
Director Demme Updates Manchurian Candidate for War on Terrornew
Like one of the shadowy, brainwashing scientists that populate both films, Demme takes the story of John Frankenheimer's suspenseful Cold War satire and instills new marching orders for the war on terror.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-29-2004 |
Reviews
