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Don't Quit Now
What does Harvey Pekar still have left to reveal about himself? How about his secret origin?
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
10-27-2005 |
Original Work
Tags: Harvey Pekar, The Quitter
Canonizing Morrissey
"MetroDaddy" Mark Simpson offers a unique sortabiography of the former Smiths frontman -- one worth reading.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
10-27-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Mark Simpson, Saint Morrissey
Rhyme & Reasonnew
Ursula Rucker insists she’s a poet, not a "spoken-word" artist.
Columbus Alive |
Nikki Davis |
10-27-2005 |
Performance
Tags: Poetry, spoken word
Z-Movie
As far as this belated Zorro sequel is concerned, better never than late.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
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
Inside The Marginsnew
Filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan unravels the stubborn knot of aberrant human behavior in his latest look at people society doesn't typically like to look at.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
10-20-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Taste Of Honey
With her .38 and 38-inch bust, '50s pulp fiction heroine Honey West returns to bookshelves in a reprint of her first adventure.
Columbus Alive |
Bob Starker |
10-20-2005 |
Fiction
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
From Kiev, With Lovenew
Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hutz jumps from stage diving to scene stealing in Everything is Illuminated.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
10-13-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Special Deliverynew
Hip-hop is all about representing where you're from and making it cool, even if, like Columbus, Ohio's witty and wily Envelope, you're from the aging hippie residential part of town.
Columbus Alive |
Stephen Slaybaugh |
10-13-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
