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Solar Perplexus: 'Sunshine'new
Sunshine fails to illuminate Danny Boyle's murky ideas about the future of humanity.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
08-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Danny Boyle, Sunshine
Big Girl Now: 'HairSpray'new
The kind of exuberant, fast and funny musical that has seemed extinct since the 1950s.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
08-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Adam Shankman, Hairspray
Green Hell: 'Rescue Dawn'new
Christian Bale insists that heroism is a function of a bottomless simplicity; it's not a larger-than-life attitude one carries around everywhere.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
08-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Rescue Dawn, Werner Herzog
'The Simpsons Movie': Peasants under glassnew
Transforming the densest, most daring TV show ever made was even more of a risk. Happily, The Simpsons Movie is everything that was advertised.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
08-01-2007 |
Reviews
'Sunshine': Solar Perplexusnew
Ultimately, the film fails to illuminate Danny Boyle's murky ideas about the future of humanity.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
07-26-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Danny Boyle, Sunshine
'Rescue Dawn': Green Hellnew
Herzog has made the kind of movie that can't be made anymore without second-guessing and second thoughts -- it's a first-rate adventure movie without theatrical machismo.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
07-26-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Rescue Dawn, Werner Herzog
'Interview': Battle of the Q&Anew
A journalist duels with a celebrity in Steve Buscemi's latest.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
07-18-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: interview, Steve Buscemi
'Goya's Ghosts': Brush With Fatenew
The story of Milos Forman's latest film is the story of an idea changing over the years, formless and finally molded by the pressure of current events.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
07-18-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Goya's Ghosts, Milos Forman
The Life of Refugees in the U.S.new
Could you make it in the USA if you were not born here? This devastating film describes a year in the life of two friends who are refugees from south Sudan.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
06-03-2004 |
Reviews
