AltWeeklies Wire
Unforgettable Tale Celebrates 50th Anniversarynew
Few films have punched as wide a hole through America’s self-image of incorruptibility as On the Waterfront.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
12-16-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Elia Kazan, On the Waterfront
Little Sugar but Lots of Ham in Lemony Snicket new
The film adaptation puts director Brad Silberling in a position as precarious as any the Baudelaires ever face. Silberling struggles to resist Hollywood's knee-jerk love of happy endings while staying faithful to Snicket's cheerful contempt for upbeat material.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
12-16-2004 |
Reviews
Patronizing Spanglish Requires Suspension of Beliefnew
This film is pure pidgin entertainment. Communicating badly in either tongue, Spanglish is a mutation of comedy and drama that makes you want to cringe and laugh in all the wrong places.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
12-16-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Spanglish, James L. Brooks
A Very Long Engagement is no Amelienew
A Very Long Engagement sports a benign, romantic-sounding title, but arrives with the shocking force of a mail bomb, not a love note.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
12-16-2004 |
Reviews
Karma Cleanser: Should I Try to Find Lost Friend?new
Not keeping in touch with her is the only regret I have in my past. I'm one paycheck away from hiring someone to search for her. I'd really like her friendship back, or should I just stop wondering and forever let it go?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tray Butler |
12-16-2004 |
Advice
Tags: advice columns
Don't Panic: Is Pakistan Still an Ally in the War on Terror?new
"Friend." That's what President Bush called Pakistan's military dictator, President Pervez "the Perv" Musharraf during the lovey-dovey, grip-and-grin mini-press conference the two held in the White House earlier this month.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Andisheh Nouraee |
12-16-2004 |
Commentary
Tags: terror
Student Rebels Against GOP Instructor's Conflictnew
A student accuses a high school teacher of using her school post to funnel students into gigs as Republican foot soldiers.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
12-16-2004 |
Politics
Georgia Still Behind in Implementing Olmstead Rulingnew
Advocates thought Georgia -- the birthplace of the case -- would be among the first to implement the monumental change.
But it hasn't been. Today it ranks among the slowest states to de-institutionalize those capable of living outside institutions.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
12-16-2004 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Flanking Action: Arlen Specter Makes his Bargainnew
Arlen Specter is a moderate, pro-choice Republican with a not-undesirable history of coloring outside partisan lines. That recurrent independence upsets hardcore partisans and especially administration operatives for whom absolute fealty to the "official" agenda trumps everything.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Bob Barr |
12-09-2004 |
Commentary
T.I. Is Poised to be the Next Dirty South Superstarnew
Atlanta rapper T.I. has spent a lot of time earning the title of his just-released album, Urban Legend. Some hijinks gave the formerly underground MC a level of press attention that he had never before received.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Ronda Racha Penrice |
12-09-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: T.I., Urban Legend
Rolling with Kaine of the Ying Yang Twinsnew
Like every other Ying Yang release, the new album offers a view of Atlanta from where-the-girls-scrub-the-ground on up. It's an aural expression of their groundedness.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
12-09-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ying Yang Twins
The 12 Annoyances of Christmas Defy Moderationnew
Check out the ways wine can mellow holiday annoyances.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Taylor Eason |
12-09-2004 |
Food+Drink
Six Books to Sate a Smorgasbord of Appetitesnew
These six books cover a wide sweep of tastes and price ranges, but they each make for nourishing reading -- whether you're cranking up the stove or not.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Bill Addison |
12-09-2004 |
Food+Drink
Providing the Minimum Requirement of Movie Mayhemnew
Debut director David Goyer wrote all three Blade films and improves on the sleek, empty music video of the first, but falls short of the gothic, propulsive video game of the second. Though more gritty and humorous, Blade Trinity tries too hard to be edgy.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
12-09-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Blade Trinity, David Goyer
The Inheritance Portrays the Sapping of a Soulnew
The family dynasty storyline and wife vying with mama for sonny boy's affection can give The Inheritance a mildly soapy, "Dallas" groove. But it's that hollow angst at the center that gives the film its final air of sadness and resignation.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
12-09-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Per Fly, The Inheritance
