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Independence Day as Prestige Pic

Spielberg's War of the Worlds is the quintessential Hollywood movie, for better and worse.

Columbus Alive | Melissa Starker | 06-30-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Steven Spielberg, Stephen Spielberg, War of the Worlds, Tim Robbins, Tom Cruise

Summer Day Dreaming

The director offers a thoughtful, impressionistic take on a salacious topic: one heated summer between two teenage girls in Yorkshire.

Columbus Alive | Melissa Starker | 06-23-2005 | Reviews

Tags: My Summer of Love, Emily Blunt, Nathalie Press, Paul Pavlikovsky, salacious

Undead and Loving It

The father of the zombie movie returns to the genre he created to teach these whippersnappers a thing or two about gore and horror.

Columbus Alive | Melissa Starker | 06-23-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Land of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Dennis Hopper, George Romero, Geroge Romero

Hex Crimes

Not content to make another terrible romantic comedy or another terrible based-on-TV-show movie, the Ephrons create the ro-meta-ntic comedy; disaster ensues.

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 06-23-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Nora Ephron, Bewitched, Bewtiched, Delia Ephron

The Wrong Duff

The Perfect Man is perfectly frabricated pap.

Columbus Alive | Melissa Starker | 06-16-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Hilary Duff, Mark Rosman, The Perfect Man, Heather Lockleary, Styx

Once More, From the Beginning...

Batman Begins sails over the exceptionally low bar of not sucking as bad as Batman and Robin.

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 06-16-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Christopher Nolan, Batman, Batman Begins, Christian Bale

Return to Vietnam

Landmark 1974 documentary "Hearts and Minds" finds new relevance in its re-release.

Columbus Alive | Melissa Starker | 06-09-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Gulf of Tonkin, Hearts and Minds, Peter Davis, Vietnam War

Night Lifenew

Brooklyn collective e-Xplo's installation exploring the biggest "non-space" of them all -- night time

Columbus Alive | Melissa Starker | 06-02-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Sleeping Dogs Lie, Columbus, e-Xplo, Wexner Center

The Road Less Travelednew

Off the Map director Campbell Scott and star J.K. Simmons try to explain the film's unusual, indescribable appeal.

Columbus Alive | Melissa Starker | 05-05-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Campbell Scott, Joan Allen, J.K. Simmons, Joan Ackermann, Off the Map, Sam Elliott

(X-)File Under F, for Freaky

David Duchovny's directorial debut is way too much of his best thing -- a sense of strangeness.

Columbus Alive | Melissa Starker | 04-28-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Erykah Badu, David Duchovny, House of D, Robin Williams, Anton Yelchin, David Duchovy

XXX Cubed

A new star and director turn an action franchise into a heavily veiled look at the state of the United States.

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 04-28-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Willem Dafoe, Ice Cube, Lee Tamahori, XXX: State of the Union, Rumsfeld, Vin Diesel, XXX

Rude Awakeningnew

A documentary by animators Tony West and Dan Lund chronicles the downsizing that put more than 1,300 Disney animators, artists and craftspeople out of work.

Columbus Alive | Melissa Starker | 04-28-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Disney, Dan Lund, Dream on Silly Dreamer, Tony West