AltWeeklies Wire
The Boston Underground Film Festival: Now with More Gravitasnew
This year's slate of films, while remaining faithfully campy and exploitative, takes a stab at bigger, more profound topics.
Dig Boston |
Harry Vaughn |
03-20-2008 |
Movies
'The Bank Job': A Well-paced, Crackling Little Filmnew
New Zealand director Roger Donaldson is a competent helmsman who too often seems to hit on crappy, not very original scripts. The Bank Job isn't going to add much to his resume, but it's not all bad.
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David Wildman |
03-05-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Roger Donaldson, The Bank Job
'The Other Boleyn Girl' is Mediocre at Bestnew
A flimsy and foolish adaptation of Philippa Gregory's novel surrounding the scandalous affair between Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII.
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Harry Vaughn |
03-05-2008 |
Reviews
Oscar Autopsynew
The academy delivers the final blow.
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David Wildman |
02-28-2008 |
Movies
'The Spiderwick Chronicles': A Surprising Addition to a Saturated Genrenew
Shockingly, watching Nickelodeon Movies' latest release is much like a newborn baby's very first breath of air.
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Josh Elmets |
02-13-2008 |
Reviews
Animation Block Party's Boston Stopnew
This exclusive Boston engagement is the only stop outside of Brooklyn for Animation Block Party, the premiere animated short festival in the Northeast.
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Mark Polanzak |
02-06-2008 |
Movies
Tags: Animation Block Party
'In Bruges': Hitmen on Holidaynew
The presence of Colin Farrell in a film usually has a number of possible outcomes, none of them good.
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David Wildman |
02-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: In Bruges, Martin McDonagh
'Teeth': Worse than Consequential Pre-Marital Sexnew
It's hard to decide which is more disturbing: a movie about a cock-chomping vag with a razor-sharp bite, or the fact that somebody thought making said movie was a good idea in the first place.
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David Wildman |
01-24-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Mitchell Lichtenstein, Teeth
'27 Dresses': A Tulle Catastrophenew
Here are some things to do on a Friday night that are preferable to seeing 27 Dresses: get a colonoscopy, file tax forms, stab yourself repeatedly in the eyes.
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Polly Furth |
01-16-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: 27 Dresses, Anne Fletcher
'Alvin and the Chipmunks' is Really Not Badnew
It's damned near impossible to look at those furry CGI rodents and not want one for your own.
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Josh Elmets |
12-13-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Alvin and the Chipmunks, Tim Hill
Soprano James Gandolphini Sings Tenor ... or Somethingnew
Yes, Romance and Cigarettes is a musical, falling somewhere between the impossibly bleak Pennies From Heaven and, at the other end of the genre spectrum, the weirdly meta cheeseball antics of Moulin Rouge.
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Shaula Clark |
11-28-2007 |
Reviews
'Lions for Lambs' Offers Bumper-Sticker Platitudesnew
The next time Robert Redford decides to make a film about Iraq and the Bush administration, I really wish he'd run the script by me first. Or at least show it to Joe, the bum that hangs out in front of Starbucks. Or my cat Pearl. Because any of the above could easily have told him that this well intentioned muddle of mediocrity misses the mark by a mile and half.
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David Wildman |
11-07-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Lions for Lambs, Robert Redford
'Dan in Real Life' Is Pure Evilnew
You have to see it to appreciate how awe-inspiringly awful it all is -- But wait! Don't do it!
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David Wildman |
10-24-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Dan in Real Life, Peter Hedges
Ben Affeck, Natural Director?new
It's easy to forget that Affleck won an Oscar for the Good Will Hunting screenplay. With his latest release he's rediscovered the perfect role for himself, one that he probably should have been playing all along: the guy behind the camera.
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David Wildman |
10-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Ben Affleck, Gone Baby Gone
'30 Days of Night' = Half-assed Horrornew
Though it's based on the gloriously grotesque graphic novel by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith, director David Slade and his screenwriters don't appear to be up to the task of transforming the source material into a viable horror film.
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Shaula Clark |
10-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: David Slade, 30 Days of Night
