AltWeeklies Wire
Film Takes On Zen Qualitiesnew
Difficult life lessons prove beautiful in Kim Ki-duk's meditative tale.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
MaryAnn Johanson |
08-07-2004 |
Reviews
Seacrest, Out!
On-Air With Ryan Seacrest canceled; national holiday declared.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
08-02-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Walken in L.A.
Tom Cruise tries to bring philosophical hit man panache to Michael Mann's stylish Collateral.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
07-29-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Mann, Collateral
Shark and Awe
A little nerve-wracking real-life terror carries Open Water only so far.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
07-29-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Chris Kentis, Open Water
Burning Bridges
All hail Jeff Bridges -- the new Greatest Living American Actor -- in The Door in the Floor.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
07-29-2004 |
Reviews
Pretend Candidates Fake the Nation
Showtime’s American Candidate is the story of 10 candidates who find out what happens when they stop being political and start getting real … or is it stop being real and start getting political?
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
07-22-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Reality Nadir
Two new shows, Fox's Trading Spouses and UPN's Amish in the City, could make future filler for the Fox Reality Channel set to debut next year.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
07-15-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Cable, Ready?
It turns out the new summer season is actually xeriscape: dry, barren and really only succeeding in annoying the neighbors. Frost reviews hot-to-not new summer series, including "Stargate Atlantis," "Entourage" and "The Grid."
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
07-09-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Time Drama
Is the USA Network’s The 4400 sci-fi or soap opera? All that and more, geeks and girls.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
07-02-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
When Whitey Goes to Prisonnew
Consultant David Novak pads the landing as white-collar crooks fall from grace.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Shane Johnson |
07-01-2004 |
Crime & Justice
"Before Sunset" Shows the Sorrow of the Road Not Taken
The sequel to "Before Sunrise" finds a beautiful romantic memory re-cast as a tragic shadow.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
06-21-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Richard Linklater, Before Sunset
"Napoleon Dynamite" Laughs with Its Characters, Not at Them
Forget condescension: There's something deeply affectionate in the hilarious private Idaho of director Jared Hess.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
06-21-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Jared Hess, Napoleon Dynamite
Jonathan Demme Loses His Documentary Touch in "The Agronomist"
Once upon a time in the 1980s, director Jonathan Demme’s made some of the decade’s best non-fiction features, but if "The Agronomist" is any indication, he’s forgotten every instinct for documentary subtlety he once possessed.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
06-21-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Jonathan Demme, The Agronomist
"Jackass" Meets Public Health in "Super Size Me."
Morgan Spurlock makes a stunt documentary that goes down easy.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Greg Beacham |
06-21-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Morgan Spurlock, Super Size Me
"Fahrenheit 9/11" Presents a Good Message from a Bad Messenger
How do you respond to Michael Moore's film when you want to agree with the message, but have come to doubt every word that comes out of the messenger’s self-aggrandizing mouth?
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
06-21-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Moore, Fahrenheit 9/11
