AltWeeklies Wire
Poultry, sexual awakening make for queasy brewnew
The Mudge Boy is about a sexual rite of passage with as much murky, disturbing content as stories of female sexual awakening, but Mudge's tale of chicken-fried yokels and brutal life down-on-the-farm shows a fairly conventional, crude view of rural life that never quite jibes with its art film trappings.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
06-24-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Burke, The Mudge Boy
The Notebook is a hokey bag of Southern clichesnew
Everything from set design to dialogue to historical detail in The Notebook feels fake in this adaptation of crybaby novelist Nicholas Sparks' best-selling book.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
06-24-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Nick Cassavetes, The Notebook
Fahrenheit challenges post-9/11 politicsnew
Addressing material that Hollywood has taken pains to avoid, Fahrenheit 9/11 lights a fire under its viewers and challenges the sacred cows of 21st-century America.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-24-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Moore, Fahrenheit 9/11
Falun Gong-ites Would Like a Little Help in Ending Torture and Murdernew
Becky Yao, a practitioner of Falun Gong meditation, was one of the organizers of the only effective protest aimed at the recent South Georgia summit of world leaders, also know as G-8.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
06-24-2004 |
Commentary
San Francisco Quintet Has Grown Thick As Thievesnew
Formed seven years ago and taking immense time to record its first self-financed album, Evening makes Other Victorians a testament to time well spent.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Nikhil Swaminathan |
06-24-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Evening, Other Victorians CD
Mario Van Peebles Follows in his Father's Footsteps With Baadasssss!new
Three decades after Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song became an instant cult classic, Melvin's son, actor and director Mario Van Peebles (New Jack City, Posse), has made a tribute and expose of the long road to making Sweet called Baadasssss!.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
06-23-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Baadasssss!, Mario Van Peebles
Formidable Field of Women Seek Congressional Seatnew
Cynthia McKinney, who wants to regain her seat in Congress, is a favored candidate among the five women and one man who will face off in the July 20 Democratic primary. Once regarded as a loose cannon, she's now seen as an outspoken advocate for the oppressed.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Scott Henry |
06-16-2004 |
Politics
Monster Movie is One Moronic Mashnew
Remember when you were a kid and you, or maybe your brother, would put all the monster toys on the floor and make them fight? "Van Helsing" amounts to basically a $148 million version of that.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
05-07-2004 |
Reviews
Prostitute Says She Killed Three to Prove Love for Pimpnew
"When you're out there and you're living that fast life, you can never say what you wouldn't do," says Falicia Blakely, a nude dancer and mother who committed multiple murders at age 18.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mara Shalhoup |
04-27-2004 |
Crime & Justice
