AltWeeklies Wire
Serve and Follynew
Woody Allen's Cannes-hyped, Brit-inflected latest is a mildly pretentious mediocrity. The performances Allen gets, with his puppet hand permanently up his cast's colons, suggest an undergrad film adaptation of Dreiser.
The Village Voice |
Michael Atkinson |
12-29-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Woody Allen, Match Point
Hanukkah Outrocks Christmasnew
This year's Hanukkah could beat out the Christmas competition in New York, thanks to a burgeoning wave of musicians recording and performing individual takes on Jewish identity.
The Village Voice |
Elena Oumano |
12-27-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
A New York Porn Empirenew
Joanna Angel, poster child for alt-porn, is building a mountain of fame directing one sex comedy at a time.
The Village Voice |
Tristan Taormino |
12-27-2005 |
Sex
Bush Impeachment Not Out of the Questionnew
Even as President Bush accuses the Democrats of imperiling national security by revealing his secret spying program, both he and Vice President Cheney move closer to a serious confrontation with Congress over constitutional power.
The Village Voice |
James Ridgeway |
12-22-2005 |
Politics
Catch Them If You Cannew
Steven Spielberg's dour tale of assassination gets lost in a morass of moral ambivalence.
The Village Voice |
J. Hoberman |
12-21-2005 |
Reviews
Bush Had No Choice on Torture Bannew
No matter what the president said, too much evidence had piled up that the United States was, in fact, engaging in torture,
The Village Voice |
Nat Hentoff |
12-16-2005 |
Politics
The Spying Gamenew
New York cops and civil libertarians have resumed their fight over political surveillance.
The Village Voice |
Jarrett Murphy |
12-16-2005 |
Politics
The Village Voice's Favorite 25 Books of 2005new
The top books of the year cover subjects from teen sex diseases and Aztec slaughterhouses to Kiss riffs and juvenile tambourinists.
The Village Voice |
Staff Writers |
12-14-2005 |
Books
Master and Sacramentnew
In Tribeca, the greatest bluesman standing teases, withholds, and then whams his differentiations all the way home.
The Village Voice |
Robert Christgau |
12-05-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Hillary Gets Two Surprise Challengersnew
The anti-war movement now has two candidates pledging to dog Hillary Clinton throughout the 2006 Democratic primary for senator of New York State, forcing her to keep explaining her vote on Iraq.
The Village Voice |
Kristen Lombardi |
12-05-2005 |
Politics
Prisons of Darknessnew
The CIA leads the United States in "researching for the low moral ground" in the war against terrorism.
The Village Voice |
Nat Hentoff |
12-05-2005 |
Commentary
Vanity Farenew
This week brings two tales of transformative bonds between adults and children: TransAmerica and The Kid & I. Both are issue movies that encourage viewers to hug the outcasts in their midst, but TransAmerica is by far the better of the pair.
The Village Voice |
Ben Kenigsberg |
12-02-2005 |
Reviews
The President's Handlers Lose Their Balancenew
George W. Bush, who has announced a plan for victory in Iraq, is at the tipping point. The lives of Iraqis hang in the balance.
The Village Voice |
Ward Harkavy |
12-02-2005 |
Politics
Dante's Infernonew
In this horror film that should especially horrify Republicans, dead veterans crawl out of their graves and stagger single-mindedly to voting booths so they can eject the president who sent them to battle.
The Village Voice |
Dennis Lim |
12-02-2005 |
TV
Top 10 Career Moves for Judith Millernew
Among the possible next steps for the retired New York Times reporter is to found a First Amendment Center for reporters who are covering for government sources conspiring to attack whistleblowers.
The Village Voice |
Jason Vest |
11-10-2005 |
Media
Tags: satire
