AltWeeklies Wire
Open Water Will Make Viewers Afraid to Swim in Oceannew
Open Water isn't a "thrill ride" movie with polished jokes, dramatic speeches or set pieces that try to top each other. Chris Kentis is more interested in sustaining a mood of sheer dread and succeeds superbly on that level, giving the film the tension of a masterful short story.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
08-05-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Chris Kentis, Open Water
Revisionist Rockers Metallica Go Deep in Fascinating Documentarynew
You don't have to be a Metallica or heavy metal fan to get lost in Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's captivating documentary.
In a final effort to prevent a breakup, the group calls in $40,000-a-month psychotherapist Phil Towle.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
08-05-2004 |
Reviews
Scooping Litterbox More Pleasant Than Watching Catwomannew
From fashion statements and the flesh factor to money shots and pop references, film critic Curt Holman runs down the good and bad of Halle Berry's latest flick.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-29-2004 |
Reviews
Critics battle for 'Ultimate Film Fanatic'new
Creative Loafing's film critics Curt Holman and Felicia Feaster are put to the test in three rounds of a version of IFC's "Ultimate Film Fanatic" game show.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Heather Kuldell |
07-29-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV, Ultimate Film Fanatic
Marijuana Comedy Comments on Being Minority in Americanew
I'm not stoned: There's actually some serious racial-political subtext rolled up in the half-baked comedy Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-29-2004 |
Reviews
Brotherhood of the Wave Binds Surfers Together in Riding Giantsnew
Stacy Peralta's breathtaking, exhilarating history of surfing and its personalities traces the sport's 1,000-year-old origins to its current incarnation as the province of extreme sportsmen towed into Hawaii's epic six-story waves.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-29-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Stacy Peralta, Riding Giants
Film Evokes Symbols of Blooming Femininity, Spiritual Wiltingnew
Maria Full of Grace is an intimate rendering of what it might feel like to be one of the faceless, disposable people on the bottom of the economic food chain.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-29-2004 |
Reviews
Corporate Culture Indicted in New Documentarynew
The Corporation is one of the most insidiously disturbing documentaries in the recent windfall of films. It blames the American philosophy of profit for the erosion of national values and morality.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-29-2004 |
Reviews
Director Demme Updates Manchurian Candidate for War on Terrornew
Like one of the shadowy, brainwashing scientists that populate both films, Demme takes the story of John Frankenheimer's suspenseful Cold War satire and instills new marching orders for the war on terror.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-29-2004 |
Reviews
Outfoxed Charges News Channel with Partisan Reportingnew
Home screening parties were encouraged and gathered momentum for Outfoxed, a film that builds a case about how Murdoch uses his vast media reach not as a news organization but as a partisan soapbox for the Republican Party.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Heather Kuldell |
07-22-2004 |
Reviews
Pull the Shade on Genre-Bending Facing Windowsnew
Keep the audience guessing, Facing Windows suggests, and maybe no one will bother to ask where the hell it's all going.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-22-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Facing Windows, Ferzan Ozpetek
Restored Godzilla Reveals Big G's Staying Powernew
The untouched original Godzilla, featuring 40 minutes cut from the Americanized version, gets its first U.S. theatrical release as a 50th birthday present to the Japanese monster.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-22-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Ishiro Honda, Godzilla
Anchorman Builds to Outlandish Laughsnew
Of all those countless comedies that star Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, the Wilson brothers or some combination thereof, this is the funniest.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-15-2004 |
Reviews
Director Updates Classic Bruised, Bitter Film Noirnew
You don't need to know what London criminal Will Graham (Clive Owen) saw or did to understand him in I'll Sleep When I'm Dead. Will is hardwired by the rules of the film noir genre -- which Hodges honors with due reverence -- for revenge.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-15-2004 |
Reviews
Cold Porter: Film Never Attains Effervescencenew
The biopic De-Lovely strains so hard to capture songwriter Cole Porter's elegant sophistication that you appreciate his effortless music all the more.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-15-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Irwin Winkler, De-Lovely
