AltWeeklies Wire
'The Hurt Locker' Shows a Slower, but No Less Scary, Side of Warnew
With fierce performances by a largely unknown cast and restrained and effective direction, The Hurt Locker helps complete a picture the nightly news cannot hope to show.
Boise Weekly |
Jeremiah Wierenga |
07-29-2009 |
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'Outrage' Explores a Caucus of Closetsnew
Our tabloid culture loves to know who's doing who and where. But is this exposure -- often made at the expense of one's privacy -- a social imperative? In the case of closeted homosexual politicians who vote against gay issues, Kirby Dick would say yes.
Boise Weekly |
Jeremiah Wierenga |
07-22-2009 |
Reviews
'Summer Hours' is a Simple Film, but That's its Greatest Strengthnew
The Musee d'Orsay commissioned four directors to create films that feature both the gallery and living French treasure Juliette Binoche. Olivier Assayas' Summer Hours is the second in this series.
Boise Weekly |
Jeremiah Wierenga |
07-08-2009 |
Reviews
'Away We Go': Turbulence and Travelnew
The dialogue is prone to the same sort of meandering "look at me" monologues that pepper Dave Eggers' books. The monologues work here, mostly because of the excellent cast and because they are voiced by different characters, but they occasionally threaten to beat you over the head with "no-duh" messages about love and family.
Boise Weekly |
Jeremiah Wierenga |
07-02-2009 |
Reviews
'Little Ashes' Burns Time Instead of Blazingnew
Little Ashes is as pretty as an illustrated picture book, with wind-blown fields of Andalusian grass and gorgeous cliff-side seascapes, but has only about as much to say.
Boise Weekly |
Jeremiah Wierenga |
06-24-2009 |
Reviews
'Sita Sings the Blues' is a Rare Jewelnew
This adult-oriented animation rarely feels like a gimmick and never appears cheap. It would be a tragedy if this bold retelling of the Ramayana were to disappear into the deep and fragmented history of its innumerable ancestors.
Boise Weekly |
Jeremiah Wierenga |
06-17-2009 |
Reviews
The Demigods of Canadian Metalnew
Anvil! The Story of Anvil picks up two decades after Canadian metal group Anvil's career, and the band is right back where it started--in Toronto, playing the odd gig and working day jobs to get by.
Boise Weekly |
Jeremiah Wierenga |
06-11-2009 |
Reviews
'The Soloist' Serves As a Career Warm-Upnew
Given the number of films in which the basic plot could be summed up as "homeless person unaccountably turns out to be a musical genius,," it might be expected that little else could be wrung from such a dirty, tattered rag of a scenario. Fortunately The Soloist is an interesting, visually rapturous tale based on a true series of events.
Boise Weekly |
Jeremiah Wierenga |
05-01-2009 |
Reviews
'Transsiberian' Runs Off Tracknew
The dissolution of the Hollywood Production Code in favor of the more lenient MPAA Rating system led to an upping of the ante in regards what was required of a film to consternate the modern, habituated movie buff and, in this climate, a straightforward thriller such as Transsiberian simply lacks the punch that most audiences expect.
Boise Weekly |
Jeremiah Robert Wierenga |
10-14-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Brad Anderson, Transsiberian
Know Thy Spouse?new
A bizarrely complicated love triangle that unfolds during the film's 90 minutes. To get technical, the shape of the affairs that ensue is much more amorphous than a triangle, but "love polygon" has less of a ring.
Boise Weekly |
Travis Estvold |
04-30-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Ira Sachs, Married Life
Man of Many Facesnew
Bill Plympton on his new release, Hair High.
Boise Weekly |
Amy Atkins |
07-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bill Plympton, Hair High
Fresh Tracksnew
Despite celebrity status, snowboarder Nick Perata will always call Boise home.
Boise Weekly |
Travis Estvold |
01-05-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Real-Life Dollnew
The Dolls were a boozy breath of air in a bleak, almost non-existent music scene. They sired New York City's punk movement, but a band is not a movement, and sometimes the parts are greater than the sum because those parts are, quite simply, people.
Boise Weekly |
Amy Atkins |
11-18-2005 |
Reviews
Mann Is Still the Man
This is how a movie about assassins should be: dark, impersonal, loud like a gunshot and full of palpable dread.
Boise Weekly |
Nicholas Collias |
08-12-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Mann, Collateral
"Secret Things" Leaves Nothing to the Imaginationnew
For "Shrek 2" and French director Jean-Claude Brisseau’s "Secret Things" to simultaneously show in the same theater complex feels appropriate—albeit only in a highly perverse way.
Boise Weekly |
Nicholas Collias |
08-07-2004 |
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