AltWeeklies Wire
Middle-Aged Identity Crisis is a Post-Graduate Experiencenew
King of the Corner is a mellow, shaggy, post-Graduate existential crisis in which an ordinary middle-aged man wakes up to his own life and wonders if that's all there is.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: King of the Corner, Peter Riegert
Film Crashes at the Intersection of Clever and Clichenew
Happy Endings, Don Roos' comedy of love, sex and parental instincts, joins Crash, Short Cuts and Magnolia as one of those films that trails countless intersecting characters across sprawling Los Angeles.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Don Roos, Happy Endings
Tim Burton's Latest Film Is Sweetly Sinisternew
Tim Burton's remake matches the original film's tone of whimsy laced with rat poison, but in a vastly more entertaining retelling of the Dahlian classic.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Horror Movies Run Rampant This Summernew
Throughout cinema history, films have preyed on our nerves, from plumbing society's paranoia to giving us excuses to hold hands with our dates. Today, ghost stories and gore-fests have become almost enshrined at the cineplex.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-07-2005 |
Movies
Sexual Intrigue Defines Lives in Heightsnew
New York City is the unbilled big star, second only to Glenn Close, in Heights. It's the place where secret lives can be indulged and where sex charges the air.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-07-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Chris Terrio, Heights
Emperor Penguins Hook Up in Antarctic Adventurenew
As human commitment to "downsizing" the environment intensifies, our interest in its charms appears to be on the rise.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-07-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Luc Jacquet, March of the Penguins
U.N. General Returns to Rwanda in Shake Hands with the Devilnew
Peacekeeper Romeo Dallaire documents the Rwandan genocide through interviews and personal experience.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
06-30-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Budapest Subway System Is Out of Kontrollnew
The subway trains don't just run on time in the Hungarian film Kontroll. They run in time to a propulsive techno-pop soundtrack and the rhythm of an over-caffeinated heartbeat.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-30-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Nimród Antal, Kontroll
Spielberg Presents Post-9/11 War of the Worldsnew
In this War of the Worlds, Spielberg has more on his mind than roller coaster thrills, despite visually accomplished destruction. The film reveals a preoccupation with Sept. 11, both through its story and its symbols.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-30-2005 |
Reviews
It's Zombie Nation in Land of the Deadnew
George A. Romero's latest film proves that the new generation of zombie auteurs has exceeded their teacher.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: George A. Romero, Land of the Dead
Film Does Justice To Romantic Wanderlustnew
This French drama is delightful and rare for addressing marriage's lonely, fragile dimensions.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
06-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Happily Ever After, Yvan Attal
Sexual Abuse Haunts Boys in Devastating Filmnew
Mysterious Skin is a depressingly vivid look at the trauma of childhood molestation.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
06-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Gregg Araki, Mysterious Skin
Bewitched Wastes Its Ironic Premise With Romantic Clichésnew
On the big screen, TV plots feel at once thin and overinflated. Yet Hollywood keeps making them.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Nora Ephron, Bewitched
Old Show's Nature Seems Rickety Vehicle for Featurenew
It's just like the 1950s series, only with an African-American cast, a modern setting and lame jokes.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Another Road Home Is a Journey Both Personal and Politicalnew
Another Road Home has echoes of the sharp divide between black and white experience in the United States, and how one race can be oblivious to discrimination, and the other, daily, painfully aware of it.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Another Road Home, Danae Elon
