AltWeeklies Wire
Down To 'The Wire'new
On crime, corruption and journalism.
Shepherd Express |
Evan Rytlewski |
01-25-2008 |
TV
Tags: TV
A Boy and His Monsternew
The Water Horse rises well above the level of most contemporary family films. It's moving and amusing, addresses the concerns of adulthood and childhood and is intelligent rather than merely smart allecky or even clever.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
01-11-2008 |
Reviews
Minds Not Wastednew
An admirable spirit of social uplift animates The Great Debaters.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
01-11-2008 |
Reviews
From Texas to Afghanistannew
Directed by Mike Nichols and written by Aaron Sorkin, Charlie Wilson's War would be farcical if it weren't close to the truth.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
01-04-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike Nichols, Charlie Wilson's War
Corn-fed Americanew
King Corn, an amusing and entertaining documentary, traces the sources of the food problem displayed in Super Size Me.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
11-19-2007 |
Reviews
It Came From Lake Michigan Film Fest Features Blood, Blood and Bloodnew
The sky is overcast, foreboding, as dark clouds quickly roll in and a thunderclap is heard in the near distance. It is a bleak day for we, the aggrieved.
Shepherd Express |
Tea Krulos |
10-22-2007 |
Movies
'Bamako' Puts World Bank on Trialnew
The film is a devastating and eloquent indictment of the world's careless disregard for an entire continent.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
09-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Abderrahmane Sissako, Bamako
'The Banquet' Serves Shakespeare with a Chinese Twistnew
Openly borrowing from two of The Bard's darkest plays, Hamlet and Macbeth, The Banquet gluts itself on vicarious human passions.
Shepherd Express |
Aisha Motlani |
09-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: The Banquet, Xiaogang Feng
The Internet Haunts in 'Tell No One'new
Director Guillaume Canet explores the dark side of the Internet, with its potential for stripping users of their privacy and of transmitting unwanted messages.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
09-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Guillaume Canet, Tell No One
Director Usama Alshaibi on Wartime Iraqi Lifenew
Alshaibi was born in Iraq, but his parents were able to flee the country with their children while Saddam Hussein was in power. After the 2003 invasion, he went back to see how his relatives were doing.
Shepherd Express |
Lia Kaiser |
09-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Nice Bombs, Usama Alshaibi
AIDS Beginsnew
Director André Téchiné dramatizes the onset of AIDS through the lives of four interconnected people, two of them gay, one uncertain and the other heterosexual.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
09-10-2007 |
Reviews
Danny DeVito Preps for 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'new
He measures 4-foot-11 on his tiptoes, is pudgy, balding and has a face that would never be confused with that of a matinee idol -- hardly the attributes of a modern-day celebrity.
Shepherd Express |
Nathan Lerner |
09-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Milwaukee Tries to Lure Filmmakers with New Tax Creditnew
Filmmakers are already filming a pilot that would make the city a TV setting for the first time since the Laverne & Shirley and Happy Days nostalgia series of the 1970s.
Shepherd Express |
Dennis A. Shook |
09-10-2007 |
Movies
'Star Wars' and Afternew
The movie that redefined Hollywood.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
06-01-2007 |
Movies
Rear Endednew
Disturbia is Hitchcock's Rear Window transposed from Eisenhower-era Manhattan to the leafy confines of contemporary, Generation Z suburbia.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
04-09-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: D.J. Caruso, Disturbia
