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Metro Phoenix May be the Next Porn Capital of the Worldnew
The adult business isn't what it used to be, especially in the San Fernando Valley outside Los Angeles, the long-reigning capital of porn in America. But luckily for Taryn Thomas, her new company's based in a place considered the next big hotspot for pornography: metropolitan Phoenix.
Phoenix New Times |
Niki D'Andrea |
08-18-2009 |
Movies
Filmmakers Page and Pomerenke Ask the Ultimate Musical Questionnew
There's probably no better way of describing music's regenerative powers and fleshing out its abstract properties than through the equally powerful and abstract medium of film.
Phoenix New Times |
Serene Dominic |
02-03-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Wheel World of 'American Body Shop'new
Comedy Central's new show is straight out of Phoenix -- and Sam Greene's head.
Phoenix New Times |
Michele Laudig |
07-10-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Primal Furnew
Disney parades its pooches.
Phoenix New Times |
Bill Gallo |
02-21-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Eight Below, Frank Marshall
Last Laughnew
A Palestinian filmmaker finds the humor in suicide bombing.
Phoenix New Times |
Luke Y. Thompson |
12-09-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Hany Abu-Assad, Paradise Now
Senior Momentnew
This Flemish film about a hit man with a conscience and the cop who's always a step or two behind him as they pursue the same villains is full of familiar Hollywood reference points.
Phoenix New Times |
Luke Y. Thompson |
11-08-2005 |
Reviews
Played for Foolsnew
The film offers such a pretty story of the 1913 United States Open, and one that's completely bogus.
Phoenix New Times |
Bill Gallo |
10-04-2005 |
Reviews
Mind Gameynew
A tricked-up mental exercise that may intrigue the most impressionable film school students and a philosophy major here and there, Dot the I is more a pretentious load of crap.
Phoenix New Times |
Bill Gallo |
08-22-2005 |
Reviews
Swamp Thingnew
Though probably not intended, The Skeleton Key is one of 2005's funniest films, bested only by the first two-thirds of Wedding Crashers, all of The Aristocrats, and that part in Stealth where the airplane starts sassing Josh Lucas.
Phoenix New Times |
Robert Wilonsky |
08-15-2005 |
Reviews
Overkillnew
Critics are wetting themselves in praise of this documentary depicting the world of quadripilegic rugby. But it's easy to recognize the ways in which the film is manipulative and predictable.
Phoenix New Times |
Robrt L. Pela |
07-26-2005 |
Reviews
Never Been Funniernew
The framework of this indie masterpiece is an upcoming fan convention to be hosted by the Mesa Frozen Entree Enthusiasts Club, a collection of young losers who obsessively collect frozen TV dinners and hold meetings to discuss them.
Phoenix New Times |
Robrt L. Pela |
04-19-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Shock Treatmentnew
Adrien Brody tries to uncover the mystery of his impending death in this high-concept film.
Phoenix New Times |
Luke Y. Thompson |
03-08-2005 |
Reviews
Same Old Songnew
A kindly teacher wins over his wayward students in this syrupy, hackneyed French film.
Phoenix New Times |
Melissa Levine |
02-01-2005 |
Reviews
The Man Behind the Man Behind the Moog Synthesizernew
By the end of this documentary, you realize that although electronic music has been pegged as distant, impersonal or even alien -- because of unique sounds generated by the Moog -- the deeply spiritual man behind the machine sees his creation as nothing less than a device to channel human emotions.
Phoenix New Times |
Michele Laudig |
12-06-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hans Fjellestad, Moog
Peter Panachenew
In adapting Allan Knee's play The Man Who Was Peter Pan, Forster indulges in broad, maudlin melodrama via his favorite topics (lost children, family wreckage), but gradually, to his credit, he rises from the plentiful syrup to deliver touching poetry.
Phoenix New Times |
Gregory Weinkauf |
11-24-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Marc Forster, Finding Neverland
