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The Interconnected Humanity of 'The Edge of Heaven' Edges on Clichenew
Is it just me, or is "the inevitable, tragic interconnectedness of all humankind" currently in danger of replacing "wise-cracking hitmen" as the most overworked arthouse cliche of our time?
Philadelphia Weekly |
Sean Burns |
08-04-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Fatih Akin, The Edge of Heaven
Why Aren't There More Musical TV Shows?new
Like RENT or Carousel or Pippin or Moulin Rouge or whatever, but in televised episodic form.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Caralyn Green |
07-28-2008 |
TV
'Brideshead Revisited' Doesn't Want to Follow Its Sourcenew
Any adaptation ought to be its own thing, but the film's hesitation to follow its source to the end produces a confused, schizophrenic work.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Matt Prigge |
07-28-2008 |
Reviews
'Love Songs' Offers Perverse Entertainmentnew
The film takes a sudden nosedive into a deep, deep funk, vying to becoming the most depressing musical since Cabaret.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Matt Prigge |
06-23-2008 |
Reviews
'Zombie Strippers' Lives Down to Its Namenew
Writer/director Jay Lee's Zombie Strippers is a fascinating whatzit, and presumably the first cheeseball boobie-filled gore-fest ever to be based on a Eugene Ionesco play.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Sean Burns |
04-28-2008 |
Reviews
'Unhitched' is Alternately Slick & Soulless and Sloppy & Hammynew
This would be the most repulsive Fox sitcom since The War at Home if not for healthy competition from Back to You and 'Til Death.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Doug Wallen |
04-07-2008 |
TV
Shooting the President's Never Been So Boringnew
Temporal gimmicks aren't exactly an innovation in the world of motion pictures, but nobody told the makers of the crummy, incredibly annoying Vantage Point.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Sean Burns |
02-25-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Pete Travis, Vantage Point
'In Bruges': Limbo Shticknew
The film is a delightful mixture of the sacred and profane.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Sean Burns |
02-19-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: In Bruges, Martin McDonagh
Not So Pleasurable 'Pleasure for Sale'new
Take HBO's softcore Cathouse, suck out all the fun and frivolity, throw in a bunch of traumatic sexual baggage and you have Pleasure for Sale, the six-part documentary series on the Sundance Channel.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Craig D. Lindsey |
02-11-2008 |
TV
Enemy of the Statenew
Director Cristian Mungiu discusses his acclaimed film about illegal abortion in Communist Romania.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Matt Prigge |
02-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Just Forget About 'T3'new
Whether or not you attribute its pilot’s big ratings to the current dearth of scripted shows, The Sarah Connor Chronicles mostly deserves its early success.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Doug Wallen |
02-04-2008 |
TV
Mitchell Lichtenstein is Half-Cockednew
Teeth takes a horror premise (chick with a toothed vagina that chomps off male members) and plays it just as much for satire as it does for genre thrills.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Matt Prigge |
01-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mitchell Lichtenstein, Teeth
The Nostalgia of 'American Gladiators'new
Viewing American Gladiators as a parody of over-the-top American sports coverage makes an already fun show even better.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Daniel McQuade |
01-22-2008 |
TV
Tags: TV
'Persepolis': A Good But Unnecessary Adaptationnew
While its minimalist black-and-white drawing style makes it a prime candidate for a translation from comics to film, Persepolis runs into a bit of a snag.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Matt Prigge |
01-22-2008 |
Reviews
Porn Supremacynew
Philly-bred Paul Fishbein's "Oscars of adult" turns 25.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Anthony Layser |
01-14-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
