AltWeeklies Wire
Puppy Lovenew
It's not a banal tale about a boy and his dog, but a fresh one about an older woman and hers. Who knew Molly Shannon playing a petulant nutjob could be so moving?
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
04-26-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike White, Year of the Dog
Cheese It, the Cops!new
"Have you ever fired two guns whilst jumping through the air?" Well, it's a darn fine way to pay homage -- and have a few laughs -- at the typical action-fest cop film.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
04-23-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Edgar Wright, Hot Fuzz
Cheese It, the Cops!new
"Have you ever fired two guns whilst jumping through the air?"
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
04-19-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Edgar Wright, Hot Fuzz
Schlock and Awenew
Tarantino sets movies back 30 years -- too bad for Rodriguez.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
04-12-2007 |
Reviews
Watch and Waitnew
In the latest this-kid-is-good movie, Joseph Gordon-Leavitt reminds us that he's the actor you'd get if you could scour all the vanity from Robert Downey Jr., or reverse Keanu Reeves' lobotomy.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
04-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Scott Frank, The Lookout
All the Things That Make Us Laugh and Crynew
Seth McFarlane's success with Family Guy and American Dad might make him a contender to succeed Kurt Vonnegut as America's resident ironic wit -- if it weren't for The Winner.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
03-22-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Markymanshipnew
Shooter is plainly concerned with some of those base human appetites to which the cinema has proven so conducive over the ages -- namely voyeurism and murderous violence -- but mysteriously unconcerned with squandering them.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
03-22-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Antoine Fuqua, Shooter
The Zodiac is Backnew
Who was Northern California's most notorious serial killer? Despite what a new major motion picture suggests, no one really knows.
Sacramento News & Review |
R.V. Scheide |
02-23-2007 |
Movies
A Strange Kind of Lovenew
Peter O'Toole's still got it -- his performance as a "dirty old man" in Venus is a sly reminder of the obvious yet overlooked point that many a distaste may be defeated with a helping of the highly tasteful.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
02-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Roger Michell, venus
Throw it Backnew
Could a truly feminist, non-patronizing romantic dramedy even exist today, or ever?
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
01-26-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Catch and Release, Susannah Grant
Joe Carnahan's Crossroadsnew
Could it possibly stand to reason that Smokin' Aces, amounts to one big style-piled, guns-blazing, caper-circus metaphor for Carnahan's own creative life?
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
01-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Joe Carnahan, Smokin' Aces
Cold, Fashionednew
An experiment without any urgency or resistance, it came too easily; Soderbergh has slackened with privilege.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
01-18-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Steven Soderbergh, The Good German
Owen's Runnew
Children of Men is basically V for Vendetta for grownups. Logan's Run with post-9/11 sensibilities. Blade Runner for -- yeah, OK, you get it: dystopia du jour.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
01-04-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men
Stallone Again, Naturallynew
This might be the best Rocky movie since the first Rocky movie -- but if that sounds like a rave, just think of all the others.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
12-21-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa
See Spot's Karmanew
Watching The Cave of the Yellow Dog does sometimes feel like eating your vegetables -- but given its Buddhist leanings, condemning this film for emptiness really seems like missing the point.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
12-14-2006 |
Reviews
