AltWeeklies Wire
Too Violent for Kids
This movie is skewed toward authoritarian attitudes and fear.
Tags: Steve Oedekerk, Barnyard
Women Spelunkers Find Out What’s In The Cave
Traumatizing terror serves as the ultimate right to passage for surviving the horrors of the real world in British writer/director Neil Marshall’s (“Dog Soldiers”) gory and cathartic horror film about a group of six women adventurers on a doomed spelunking journey.
Tags: Neil Marshall, The Descent
Scarlett Gets Scoopednew
I sat down with Scarlett at Manhattan's Waldorf Astoria Hotel on a balmy Sunday morning to find out more about the New York-based actress.
Maui Time |
Cole Smithey |
07-24-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Scoop, Woody Allen
An Unpolished Vehicle For Scarlettnew
Scoop may not rise to the narrative ingenuity of Match Point but it does capture Scarlett Johansson paraphrasing Allen's signature amusing rhythms.
Tags: Scoop, Woody Allen
M. Night Shyamalan Sinks To The Bottom
Inflated from an impromptu “bedtime story” that Shyamalan invented for his children, “Lady In The Water” is a hackneyed story about a water nymph inappropriately named “Story” (Bryce Dallas Howard) who resides at the bottom of an apartment complex swimming pool.
Wilson Carries The Comedy
You, Me and Dupree subsists purely on vibe, namely Owen Wilson's ever-boyish vibe of an innocence that has overstayed its welcome long into adulthood.
Linklater Pushes The Envelope
Richard Linklater gives an audacious cinematic adaptation of Philip K. Dick's 1977 novel about corporate/government surveillance of a public led by their noses with drug addictions similarly fueled and fed by the "system."
America's New Saddam
A new video proves what survivors of the Andijon massacre have known all along: America's "strategic partnership" with Uzbek president Islam Karimov is a deal with the devil.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
06-27-2006 |
Commentary
The Man of Steel Bears A Heavy Heart
Superman Returns is a sumptuous cinematic experience where its necessary spectacle never takes a front seat to the drama's emotional core.
Tags: Bryan Singer, Superman Returns
'So Frustrating'new
Pacific biodiesel has earned international acclaim for its environmentally friendly fuel, but now some of its best customers are complaining about expensive engine repair bills.
Maui Time |
Anthony Pignataro |
05-04-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Drinking in a Kabul Barnew
In August 2005, the author hung out at a Kabul bar with drunken soldiers, military contractors and a few other shady types -- and gained unusual insight into an already forgotten war.
Maui Time |
Barukh Shalev |
08-24-2005 |
International
Tags: international
Take Back the Flag!new
Conservatives always seem to wave the flag and denounce liberals as "America-haters," yet they're the ones who trample American principles of freedom and justice. That's why liberals need to take back the flag and start asserting that they're the ones who truly love America.
Maui Time |
Dave Wielenga |
07-01-2005 |
Commentary
Touring Monsanto's Secret GMO Farmnew
Monsanto is one of the world's most powerful producers of Genetically Modified foods. At a tour of one of its Hawaii seed farms, friendly company officials and scientists offer rhetoric that doesn't come close to matching reality.
Among the Hebrews of Maui
When Orthodox Jews known as Chabadniks get married, some of them choose to be slichim, which means that they go to live in a distant outpost -- like the Hawaiian island of Maui -- and dedicate their lives to helping Jews live Jewish lives.
Tags: religion
Ralph Nader Descends on Mauinew
The independent candidate doesn't really make speeches--he strings together general quotes and statistics that ridicule the military and corporate power centers that run American politics today.
