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Glory Dazenew
Televisions newest nod to the '80s.
Boise Weekly |
Amy Atkins |
11-29-2010 |
TV
Tags: Glory Daze
Dark Chapternew
The fine cast carries the penultimate Harry Potter flick.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
11-29-2010 |
Reviews
Back in Black: Natalie Portman Soars and Swoons En Pointe
Darren Aronofsky's voyeuristic psychological thriller about an upstart prima ballerina's descent into madness employs the same subjective dancer's-point-of-view that gave "The Red Shoes" its sense of frenetic authenticity.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
11-29-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
Last Train Home is a Stellar Doc About Chinese Internal Migrationnew
Chinese-Canadian director Lixin Fan's documentary is an intimate treatment of the lives of ordinary people in a fast-changing China.
Tale of Endurancenew
James Franco and Danny Boyle amazingly film an ordeal that should be impossible to film.
Tucson Weekly |
Colin Boyd |
11-24-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: 127 Hours
Burlesquenew
In the wake of Moulin Rouge!, Chicago and Nine before it, Burlesque, the next sequin-clad jaunt to tempt the fates of the holiday box office, has a bit of a tightrope walk before it.
Dig Boston |
Charlotte Shirley |
11-24-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Burlesque
Firth's Finestnew
I've already made up my mind on 2010's best performance by an actor. In fact, I knew in early September, when I first saw Colin Firth in The King's Speech at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
11-24-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Tom Hooper, The King's Speech
Crash Out with The Next Three Days and 127 Hoursnew
Two movies about escape.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
11-23-2010 |
Reviews
Inimitable, Indomitable, Indefatigable Dino De Laurentiis: A Giant Gallsnew
The name Dino De Laurentiis always meant something special. It didn’t always mean good, but it meant big. Mind-boggling. Jaw-dropping. A spectacle in every sense of the word.
YES! Weekly |
Mark Burger |
11-22-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Holiday Film Previewnew
There's nothing like a bad economy to boost ticket sales for the movies. Here are some reasons to hit theaters this season.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Matthew Schniper |
11-22-2010 |
Movies
Countdown to Zero: Rent This Film!new
I'm Still Here: Avoid this film!
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
11-22-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Countdown to Zero
Sex Sells: Social Satire Comes Up Wanting
Drawn from the same murky well of Hollywood ethical ambiguity that gave us "Thank You for Smoking" and last year's "Up In the Air," "Love & Other Drugs" audaciously defines its slick anti-hero protagonist as beyond reproach.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
11-22-2010 |
Reviews
The Projector: Movies Opening Friday, Nov. 19new
Harry Potter is back; Tamara Drewe is an ugly duckling; and Naomi Watts and Sean Penn discover that in politics, everything is Fair Game; and a raft of special screenings. It's all at the movies.
Boise Weekly |
Boise Weekly Staff |
11-19-2010 |
Reviews
Fighting Gravitas: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1new
This Potter falls somewhere between ambitious and momentous in its own way, yet never quite as powerful as it wants to be.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Scott Renshaw |
11-18-2010 |
Reviews
Tamara Drewe is a Lively, If Flawed, Thomas Hardy Updatenew
This bustling country comedy achieves the goal of both invoking a certain English literary tradition and lightly satirizing our nostalgia for it.
