AltWeeklies Wire
The Horrornew
Mark Patton, star of Nightmare on Elm Street 2, on acting, horror and his 'scream queen' status.
The Pitch |
Abbie Stutzer |
10-12-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Shawn Edward's Isn't Just a Blurb Whorenew
The nationally known film critic for Kansas City's Fox 4 News prefers the term "reviewer." But he also seems something else: a film celebrant, a champion of movies unchampioned.
Girl on Filmnew
Filmmaker Lisa Marie Evans has recorded whats inside a transsexuals pants, but turning the camera on herself isnt so easy.
Screen Testnew
With his Sundance-bound First Date, Kansas City's Gary Huggins discovers a new leading man.
Tags: First Date, Gary Huggins
Crash Landingnew
A film starring Jodie Foster as a mother who's either lost her daughter or her mind during a flight from Berlin to New York soars for an hour, then ends with a tailspin.
The Civil War Parodiednew
The faux documentary C.S.A. is funny, but to appreciate the humor, audiences must summon the courage to laugh at the absurdity of enslaving an entire race of people.
The Pitch |
Justin Kendall |
09-13-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Reality Bitesnew
When a Kansas City man landed a role on the reality TV show Rebel Billionaire with the intent of raising money for a local nonprofit, he found out that TV is just not that feel-good.
Tags: Kansas City, Solace House
A Sampler of Love and Desirenew
Eros is three films joined in a common goal, a tribute not merely to the entangled concepts of romantic love and sexual desire but to Antonioni himself.
Death Warmed Over Againnew
Whatever kudos go to writer/director Dan Harris for the length of his reach in this family-crisis drama tend to be overshadowed by inexperience and enslavement to genre.
Out Like a Lambnew
Set, for the most part, in the underground Berlin bunker where Adolf Hitler spent his last days, Downfall is a grim and sometimes guilt-ridden examination of the Third Reich in collapse. But it's also weirdly sympathetic.
Movies That Heated Up Cinemas in 2004new
Not one of the political documentariess distributed this year made a fraction of Fahrenheit 9/11's earnings, and deservedly so, because not one outraged, engaged or entertained the way Michael Moore's film did.
Celebrating the Underhyped Movies of 2004new
Plenty of fine films opened to little or no fanfare this year. New Times reviewers pick their favorite movies that didn't draw the adulation they deserved.
The Pitch |
Bill Gallo, Melissa Levine, Jean Oppenheimer, Luke Y. Thompson and Robert Wilonsky |
12-27-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Various Directors, 2004's Best Films, Control Room, I Heart Huckabees, Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut, Kitchen Stories, Mean Creek, My Architect, Overnight, She Hate Me, Silver City, Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War, Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space, The Corporation, The Manchurian Candidate, The Mother, The Story of the yearinreview 2004, The Terminal, The Twilight Samurai, Tokyo Godfathers, Weeping Camel
Small Movies Came Up Big in 2004new
New Times critics pick as their top film of the year Alexander Payne's Sideways, which juxtaposes a wine freak's brittle angst with his friend's doofy recklessness.
