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A Chilly Reception for Sundance
In cold, snowy Park City, Sundance 2008 delivered few hot films.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
01-28-2008 |
Movies
Mitchell Lichtenstein is Half-Cockednew
Teeth takes a horror premise (chick with a toothed vagina that chomps off male members) and plays it just as much for satire as it does for genre thrills.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Matt Prigge |
01-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mitchell Lichtenstein, Teeth
How to Avoid Bad Movies
There are some clues you can look for to help limit your exposure to crappy films. While this condensed list won't insure that you never spend another two hours in a darkened cinema bored to tears, it does represent some shortcuts that I use as a critic in deciding which movies to avoid.
Sundance: A Midwinter Night's Dreamnew
Finding gems in the snow at 2008's festival.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
01-25-2008 |
Movies
Tags: Sundance
'Everybody's Got an Inner Porn Star'new
Notes from the Adult Video News convention.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Adrian Zupp and Jennifer Grafiada |
01-25-2008 |
Movies
The 2008 Oscar Racenew
Handicapping this year's nominations, all the way from Best Picture (anybody can do that) to Best Editing (where else can you get odds on that?).
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
01-24-2008 |
Movies
'4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days': There Will Be Abortionnew
Romanian filmmakers haven’t reinvented realism, but most American film critics are too afraid to disagree.
New York Press |
Armond White |
01-24-2008 |
Reviews
Supercriticsnew
With something resembling the Oscars coming up, our critics share their teenlike angst regarding 2007 films.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna and Bob Grimm |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
'Cloverfield''s 9/11 Infelicitiesnew
Last weekend's $46-million top-grosser essentially says that its characters and, by extension, its paying audience, deserves to be killed: New Yorkers, Americans, Abrams' target demographic. I never thought I would see a movie made in the United States that was so gung-ho about 9/11.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Cloverfield, Matt Reeves
Ground Zeronew
Cloverfield turns attacking New York into mass-market Hollywood entertainment.
Baltimore City Paper |
Evan Guilfoyle |
01-22-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Cloverfield, Matt Reeves
'The Merry Gentleman': A Job for Batmannew
When a ruptured appendix put Chicago director Ron Lazzeretti in the hospital, Michael Keaton stepped in to save the day. Now their project hits Sundance.
Chicago Reader |
Ed M. Koziarski |
01-22-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Blood, Sweat and Tearsnew
There Will be Blood director Paul Thomas Anderson on making his masterpiece, and how baseball may have saved him.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
01-18-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Oscars Go to Hellnew
We don't need Mike Huckabee to tell us the Oscars have become the handiwork of Satan and benchmarks of the coming Apocalypse.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
01-18-2008 |
Movies
Frank Langella Learns Serenity Latenew
He is now in the midst of a comeback that includes a recent Tony for the play Frost/Nixon and a reinvigorated career that will see him star in four movies scheduled for release in 2008.
The Georgia Straight |
Ian Caddell |
01-18-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Monster Movie Magicnew
Investigating the J.J. Abrams ploy behind Cloverfield.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
01-17-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Cloverfield, Matt Reeves
