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Deliverance Turns 40new
Will the South ever live down 'Squeal like a pig'?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-12-2012 |
Movies
Banksy is One Artful Dodgernew
Exit Through the Gift Shop excels in prankish creativity.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
05-04-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Banksy, Exit Through the Gift Shop
'Kells', Yeah!new
The Secret of Kells illuminates virtues of hand-drawn animation.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
04-27-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: The Secret of Kells, Tomm Moore
Ghostly Scenes Don’t 'Eclipse' Subtle Irish Dramanew
Aidan Quinn enlivens The Eclipse’s paranormal activity.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
04-27-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Conor McPherson, The Eclipse
Hit-Girl gives 'Kick-Ass' Its Super-Powersnew
A few dips into crime fighting clichés can’t keep this film down.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
04-20-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Kick-Ass, Matthew Vaughn
'When You’re Strange' Overdoses on Doors Dramanew
Writer/director Tom DiCillo keeps a tight focus on Jim Morrison’s shenanigans in When You're Strange.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
04-13-2010 |
Reviews
HBO’s ‘Treme’ Shows New Orleans Keeping Head Above Waternew
Where David Simon's The Wire showed a city in the midst of a slow-motion collapse, Treme finds post-Katrina New Orleans at the bottom, trying to get back up.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
04-13-2010 |
TV
Tags: David Simon
'Chloe' Gives Erotic Thrillers a good namenew
Director Atom Egoyan uses insightful dialogue to induce heavy breathing.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
04-13-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Atom Egoyan, Chloe
Sapfest Makes 'Nights in Rodanthe' Look Like 'Antichrist'new
Best line: "There's a neverending stream of curse words in my mind," Savannah none-too-convincingly tells John in Dear John, to counter her goody two-shoes, don't-drink-don't-smoke image. (In fact, apart from a couple of "frickins," nobody ever swears.)
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
02-09-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Dear John, Lasse Hallstrom
'The Providence Effect' Stands, Doesn’t Delivernew
Thanks to films like Dangerous Minds and Stand and Deliver, the "inspirational teacher" movie genre has become one of Hollywood's most predictable formulas. The Providence Effect proves that educational documentaries can succumb to clichés just as easily.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-26-2010 |
Reviews
'Hideous Men' Transcribes Interviews With Jerksnew
John Krasinski’s adaptation comes off awkward and obvious. Krasinski (of "The Office") wrote, directed and co-stars in his adaptation of the book by the late David Foster Wallace, but wastes his cast's manpower on themes that could fit on the average tweet, with letters to spare.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-26-2010 |
Reviews
Heath Ledger’s Death the Least of Dr. Parnassus’ Problemsnew
The most impressive thing about The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus is its very existence. About a third of the way through filming the mind-bending fantasy, leading man Heath Ledger died of a tragic drug overdose. Director Terry Gilliam ingeniously cast three of Ledger's A-list friends to play Ledger's character.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-12-2010 |
Reviews
Robert Downey Jr. Summons a Fightin’ Good Sherlock Holmesnew
Robert Downey Jr.'s scruffy, comedically nimble turn goes a long way to redeem the half-coherent storytelling and occasionally elephantine production. The game's afoot, even though it's not so fresh.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-12-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Sherlock Holmes, Guy Ritchie
Despite Forceful Colin Firth, 'A Single Man' Oversimplifies Grieving Processnew
Most actors build their careers on expressing emotions. Colin Firth has become a star based on the artful suppression of feelings, wittily conveying that stiff-upper-lip struggle to contain impulses that eventually escape against his roles' better judgment.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-12-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: A Single Man, Tom Ford
'Broken Embraces' Turns Cameras on Visionary Filmmakersnew
Two new films about filmmaking put plenty of talent on display – and share Penélope Cruz at her most attractive – without fully engaging their audiences. Pedro Almodóvar's melodrama Broken Embraces turns out to be a little too personal, while Rob Marshall's musical head-trip Nine may not be personal enough.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-12-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Broken Embraces, Pedro Almodóvar
