AltWeeklies Wire
Swing Your Pardnernew
Brokeback Mountain is the perfect date movie for straight guys.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
01-04-2006 |
Movies
Tags: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
King of Heartsnew
Love conquers CGI in Peter Jackson's retelling of the great ape story.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
12-15-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: King Kong, Peter Jackson
Lies Per Gallonnew
This damning petro-thriller rambles like an SUV on a Sunday drive.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
12-07-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Stephen Gaghan, Syriana
In Like a Lambnew
The effects are effective in this mild but pleasing Christian allegory. So why couldn't they have replaced those bloody kids with CGI?
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
12-07-2005 |
Reviews
Broadway Boundnew
For once, keeping a movie musical tied to the stage serves the audience best.
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
11-25-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Chris Columbus, Rent
Hogwarts and Hormonesnew
The dancing lessons are as scary as the dragons for our pubescent wizards.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
11-16-2005 |
Reviews
Larger and Smaller Than Lifenew
This scathing family fictionalization draws flaws more boldly than virtues.
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
11-02-2005 |
Reviews
An Interview with Anthony Swoffordnew
Times have changed, and the wars with them, and the erstwhile college teacher who wrote the book Jarhead takes a suitably long view of the literature of war.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
11-02-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jarhead, Sam Mendes
Unsure Shotnew
A new film depicts how a kid became a killer, almost, during the frustrating first Gulf War. Its main achievement is to get us inside Anthony Swofford's "empty vessel," the mind of a Marine, a "jarhead," as it is first formed by hardship, then filled with horror.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
11-02-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Jarhead, Sam Mendes
Love in the Late Afternoonnew
Steve Martin stretches his novella into a modest, melancholy and affecting film.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
10-26-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Steve Martin, Shopgirl
Head Casenew
Both patient and shrink could use some meds. So could the movie.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Marc Forster, Stay
Publish and Perishnew
The writer will do anything to get his book. The film shows at what a profound moral cost.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Capote, Bennett Miller
An Interview With David Strathairnnew
"There could never be an Edward R. Murrow today," says the man who portrays him in George Clooney's documentary.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
10-12-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
See It Now, All Over Againnew
Don't believe the liberal media, George Clooney powerfully reminds us -- unless you're prepared to live with the grim alternative.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
10-12-2005 |
Reviews
Better Than Chicken Run or Corpse Bridenew
Helena Bonham Carter also stars in the other, infinitely more technically advanced stop-motion animation hit, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, but she's a snore in that, a scream in Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
10-05-2005 |
Reviews
