AltWeeklies Wire
Family Ties Trump Tough Times for Barry Corbin, a Vagabond at Restnew
Actor Barry Corbin spent years in New York and Los Angeles during his well-traveled life. In 1990, however, he got a call that brought him to North Texas, where he’s put down some of the deepest roots he’s ever planted.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Jeff Prince |
03-19-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Barry Corbin
On the Strange Symbiosis Between Publicists and Film Criticsnew
Greenberg, the big-budget mumblecore movie by Noah Baumbach, should enter the language as Woody Allen’s Zelig did — a title that goes beyond ethnic specificity to stand for a particular social disorder: the tendency toward vanity, suppression and censorship.
New York Press |
Armond White |
03-18-2010 |
Movies
'Alice in Wonderland' is Not So Wondrousnew
Tim Burton is heavy on visuals but light on story with Alice in Wonderland.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
03-17-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton
For This Werner Herzog Film, the Title Says It Allnew
Werner Herzog uses an amateurish script and bizarre acting to create a film that makes it seem like he lost a bet.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
03-17-2010 |
Reviews
Forest Whitaker Stinks Up This Unfunny, Unoriginal Wedding Movienew
Every so often in a bad movie, there's one good scene just dying to get out. Clearly, it's the aberration, because there's nothing else to recommend the film—but for a fleeting moment, everything just goes right.
Tucson Weekly |
Colin Boyd |
03-17-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Our Family Wedding, Rick Famuyiwa
Lacking Intelligence: Even the Ever-Cool Matt Damon Can't Salvage Thisnew
It's admirable when a director tries to go beyond just blowing things up in a war movie (as Kathryn Bigelow did successfully with The Hurt Locker) — but good intentions are never enough. Witness the thrown-together optical assault that is Green Zone.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
03-17-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Green Zone, Paul Greengrass
'Sweetgrass' is a Raw, Open-Eyed Elegy for the American Cowboynew
Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Ilisa Barbash, the husband-and-wife filmmaking team behind Sweetgrass, apparently prefer the term “recordist” over the term “director.” Once you see the documentary, you might be inclined to agree.
Weekly Alibi |
Devin D. O'Leary |
03-16-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Sweetgrass
Tim Burton-Johnny Depp Combo Comes in Colors and Whimsy, but Lacks Tensionnew
Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is everything you hoped it would be. Plants with human faces, checkerboard landscapes, forced perspective, day-glo colors and macabre pranks abound in his recasting of Lewis Carroll's classic as a warped tale of Victorian-age feminist empowerment.
Metro Times |
Jeff Meyers |
03-16-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton
Chaos Contained: Review of 'Green Zone'new
As long as you don't enter Paul Greengrass' Green Zone expecting Bourne 4 or a totally accurate history lesson, you should emerge sufficiently entertained and possibly even enlightened with regard to the real reasons behind America's involvement in the Iraq war.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jeff Sneider |
03-16-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Green Zone, Paul Greengrass
Swedish Exploitation Mystery: Stieg Larsson Gets Posthumously More Famous
The first film adaptation of the late Swedish novelist Stieg Larsson's posthumously published "Millennium Trilogy," "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" is an enigmatic mystery thriller fired by the growling intensity of its goth-girl heroine Lisbeth Salander (ferociously played by Noomi Rapace).
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
03-15-2010 |
Reviews
Hello Daddy, Hello Mom: Girl Rock Band Comes Alive, Again
Based on Cherrie Currie's poorly written memoir "Neon Angel: The Cherrie Currie Story," about her crash-and-burn experiences with producer Kim Fowley's manufactured all-girl rock band, "The Runaways" is a textbook guilty pleasure.
City Pulse |
Hello Daddy, Hello Mom: Girl Rock Band Comes Alive, Again |
03-15-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: The Runaways, Floria Sigismondi
'Prodigal Sons,' a Documentary by Writer-Director Kimberly Reednew
Even if this riveting documentary holds back some key information for as long as it can, no review of Prodigal Sons can avoid the central thrust of writer-director Kimberly Reed’s multiple returns to her hometown of Helena, Montana.
The Georgia Straight |
Ken Eisner |
03-15-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Kimberly Reed, Prodigal Sons
You Liked Them, You Really Liked Them: The Alternative Academy Awardsnew
Sure, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has a long and venerable tradition of rewarding the film community’s artistic accomplishments. But here at the Mirror, we’ve got an institution of our own, “honouring” the best.
Montreal Mirror |
Jeffrey Malecki and Mark Slutsky |
03-12-2010 |
Movies
'The White Ribbon,' Reviewednew
Michael Haneke is a creator of puzzles who doesn’t believe solutions are particularly important. In such critically acclaimed films as The Piano Teacher, the director has left us to choose from a menu of resolutions.
Seven Days |
Rick Kisonak |
03-12-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke
Zoe Kazan, an Indie Starlet on the Verge of Fame, Doesn't Need More 'Friends'new
Zoe Kazan is contemplating suicide. No, not in real life, where she’s doing just fine, thank you very much. But she’s had it with that dubious realm of interactivity known as Facebook. So it may be time for online suicide.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
03-11-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
