AltWeeklies Wire
Film's Resemblance to Video Game is Uncannynew
Nicotina is a heist film so bland and uninspired, the filmmakers give up almost immediately on the details of its conventional deal-gone-haywire plot, focusing instead on tangential storylines and characters.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
09-23-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Hugo Rodriguez, Nicotina
Director Needs to Grow Up Alreadynew
Some milestone has surely been marked when the latest John Waters film doesn't shock so much as make you wish the director would grow up already. At 58, Waters is still fixated on the kind of bathroom humor and sexual material that seems puerile.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
09-23-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: John Waters, A Dirty Shame
Film Creates Atmosphere of Gnawing, Unrelenting Tensionnew
With the possible exception of Spike Lee's 25th Hour, no recent film has distilled the post-Sept. 11 sense of anxiety and dread better than iconoclastic Austrian director Michael Haneke's The Time of the Wolf, a gripping, brilliantly conceived post-apocalyptic drama.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
09-23-2004 |
Reviews
Fry's Film Shines With Social Satirenew
His experiences prepped Fry for writing and directing the satiric social X-ray of London's glitterati in the 1930s. He takes some liberties with Evelyn Waugh's second novel, but he lives up to the book's precise comic timing and scalding satire.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
09-23-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Bright Young Things, Stephen Fry
English Comedy-Thriller Reanimates Zombie Genrenew
While drawn-out sieges prove a mainstay of the zombie genre, this film builds to moments of anguished intensity that play against the deadpan comedy that came before. Wright and his actors handle the heavy dramatics better than you'd expect.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
09-23-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead
Columnist Hides From Storm Near Gracelandnew
Graceland. Elvis. Sounds good. This is a road trip about the South, after all. People, their thoughts, icons, passions. This is the first part of a series, culminating Oct. 28.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
09-23-2004 |
Commentary
New Releases Celebrate Bryan and Briannew
Within glam, Roxy Music succeeded thanks to a dynamic tension established between principal players Bryan Ferry and Brian Eno.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
09-15-2004 |
Reviews
What to Expect From New Reissues by Music Trailblazersnew
Inaccurately lumped into the punk genre because of their affiliation with CBGB, New York City's Talking Heads proved much more resilient, eclectic and arguably more creative than their thrashing contemporaries.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Hal Horowitz |
09-15-2004 |
Reviews
Mixmasters Signify and Sixtoo Like Their Hip-Hop Weirdnew
Somebody spiked the punch and hip-hop is mingling and tingling. With similarly informed albums and a jointly headlined tour, producers Signify and Sixtoo are chaperones working overtime to keep hip-hop -- as they see it -- from slipping from its experimental roots.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
09-15-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Signify and Sixtoo
Mono's Music Sounds Like Hell. (That's a Good Thing.)new
Mono's music is not without precedent. In the mode of Chicago post-rock, Mono explores loud-soft dynamics shrouded in bristling musings and melancholic orchestration.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
09-15-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Can Wilco Ever Live Up To -- or Live Down -- its Myth?new
Wilco has gone from a small band with a cultish following to a heavily hyped, critically loved behemoth. And rock critics are heaping praise -- a little more than is warranted -- on the band's latest album, A Ghost Is Born.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Kevin Forest Moreau |
09-15-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Wilco, A Ghost Is Born
Karma Cleanser: Suck My Negative Feelings Outnew
What do you do when you get sucked out of $55 by the vacuum repair shop?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tray Butler |
09-15-2004 |
Advice
Tags: advice columns
Don't Panic: What's the Lowdown on Afghanistan's Upcoming Elections?new
Campaigning has officially begun for Afghanistan's first-ever free presidential election on Oct. 9. The duties of the Afghan president, as spelled out in the Afghan constitution ratified earlier this year, are similar to the duties of an American president, with a touch of European-style prime minister thrown in.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Andisheh Nouraee |
09-15-2004 |
Commentary
Corkscrew: California is Making Cheaper Wine Betternew
Blending juice from various places around the state -- what the "California" appellation means -- really separates the fearless from the fearful. What consumers gain from this gumption is good wine for a reasonable price.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Taylor Eason |
09-15-2004 |
Food+Drink
Sky Captain Needs Work on Charactersnew
The soft-focus, Technicolor-inspired footage offers an incredibly lush fantasy world, but filmmakers fell into the Star Wars prequel trap by paying so much attention to the digital effects that they forgot to work on the slow-moving story and undeveloped characters.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Heather Kuldell |
09-15-2004 |
Reviews
