AltWeeklies Wire
Crossoverkill
True TV plots the ultimate CBS crossover event: 19 shows in one week.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
10-25-2005 |
TV
Tags: TV
The Moore, The Merrier
The Legend of Zorro recalls the preposterous fun of 1970s James Bond.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
10-25-2005 |
Reviews
Taking Issue
North Country’s stylish filmmaking can’t overcome emphasis on a societal ill.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Niki Caro, North Country
Not of This World
Elizabethtown feels as if it's based on a life spent watching other Cameron Crowe movies.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
10-07-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Cameron Crowe, Elizabethtown
Adapted Sisters
In Her Shoes winds up both better and worse than its chick-lit source.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
09-28-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Curtis Hanson, In Her Shoes
Deep Space
Joss Whedon again defies expectations of shallow genre adventure in Serenity.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
MaryAnn Johanson |
09-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Joss Whedon, Serenity
Motion Slickness
The fanciful world of Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride doesn’t need much story.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
09-16-2005 |
Reviews
Rush to Fall
The season’s new TV shows, rated with the Geddy, Alex & Neil (of Rush) system.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
09-14-2005 |
TV
RomCom 101
Just Like Heaven serves as a case study for the romantic comedy formula.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
09-09-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mark Waters, Just Like Heaven
Now a Major Motion Picture
A critic previews fall movies through the literature that inspired them.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
09-07-2005 |
Movies
Tags: Various Titles
Snap Judgmentnew
Commercial real estate photographer Tanya Ortega de Chamberlin is constantly harassed by hyper-vigilant terror foes for photographing government buildings and an oil refinery. Wanting to make her job a bit easier, she spoke out--and lost it.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Ted McDonough |
09-01-2005 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
Mayoral Payolanew
Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson offers to release public documents to the local dailies before statutorily required--for a price. The Deseret Morning News took the mayor's Faustian bargain, agreeing to give ink to his pet project.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Shane Johnson |
09-01-2005 |
Politics
Spout at the Devil
Random observations on the randomly constructed silliness of The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
09-01-2005 |
Reviews
Third Whirled
Despite noble intentions, The Constant Gardener eventually starts running in circles.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-23-2005 |
Reviews
Sometimes a Fantasy
Terry Gilliam comfortably treads familiar surreal ground in The Brothers Grimm.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Terry Gilliam, The Brothers Grimm
