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The Long and Winding 'Road Rules'new
I am now too old to get away with regularly watching MTV, which makes The Real World/Road Rules Challenge perfect for me. Let me explain.
Willamette Week |
Staff |
01-30-2008 |
TV
Toothed-vagina Ladies are Getting Away with Murdernew
I'm perfectly willing to accept that growing up next to a nuclear reactor might cause a girl to develop interlocking incisors in her vagina. (Things happen.) But I'm a little more skeptical that a year and a half of sexual abstinence will turn a teenage boy into a rapist.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Mitchell Lichtenstein, Teeth
Contrasts are 'Youth Without Youth''s Strengthsnew
At first blush, Francis Ford Coppola appears to be having a late midlife crisis.
Willamette Week |
Saundra Sorenson |
01-09-2008 |
Reviews
Thicker Than Waternew
Paul Thomas Anderson brings out the devil in Daniel Day-Lewis.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
01-09-2008 |
Reviews
The Gloomy Cinematic Gifts of Christmasnew
Ah, the holidays -- that time when our thoughts naturally turn to slashed throats, drug addiction, child rape and putting dad in a nursing homes. Hence Sweeney Todd, The Kite Runner, Walk Hard and The Savages.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
12-19-2007 |
Reviews
'I Am Legend': Apocalypse Nahnew
The biggest problem -- the one that prevents the film from rising above mediocrity -- is that it sometimes grabs you by the balls, yet it's afraid to twist like an apocalypse should.
Willamette Week |
Ap Kryza |
12-12-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Francis Lawrence, I Am Legend
'Juno' Turns on a Heroine's Choicenew
I walked into Juno expecting to love it, and halfway through was beginning to think I didn't care for it very much. But the film soldiers on, and develops a gravity to match its gravidity.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
12-12-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Juno, Jason Reitman
What Does 'The Golden Compass' Have Those Other Fantasy Flicks Didn't?new
To put it briefly, Nicole Kidman, polar bears and a boycott from the Catholic League.
Willamette Week |
Ben Waterhouse |
12-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Chris Weitz, The Golden Compass
Tone Deafnew
Joe Wright doesn't have a clue how to film Ian Mcewan's novel, Atonement.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
12-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Atonement, Joe Wright
Director Richard Kelly's Sophomoric Sophmore Filmnew
Once upon a time, writer-director Kelly gave us the fine and sensitive Donnie Darko, a work that succeeded in building eeriness and foreboding with minimal violence. Not so in Southland Tales.
Willamette Week |
N.P. Thompson |
11-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Richard Kelly, Southland Tales
'King Corn': The Quiet, Scary Documentarynew
King Corn feels like a tonic not only for the ills of American food production, but for the shrillness of the nation's documentaries as well.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
11-07-2007 |
Reviews
Denzel vs. Russell: The Winner Gets All the Heroinnew
American Gangster is a blunt brick of a movie; neither very stylish nor terribly complex, it still takes 157 minutes to batter home its muscular tale of men who speak softly and carry big guns.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
10-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: American Gangster, Ridley Scott
'Lake of Fire' Elevates Abortion Debatenew
It's strange to describe an abortion documentary as a labor of love, but Lake of Fire -- an elegant film, exhaustive in scope -- is precisely that.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
10-24-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Lake of Fire, Tony Kaye
Lars and the Fake Movienew
At first blush, it's hard to believe Craig Gillespie has directed both Lars and the Real Girl and Mr. Woodcock in the same year. The movies share slightly risque premises but otherwise couldn't appear more contradictory.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
10-24-2007 |
Reviews
The Best New Show of 2007new
Getting to the point: Pushing Daisies the best new series of the season, and another idiosyncratic triumph for Bryan Fuller who last produced the cancelled Wonderfalls.
Willamette Week |
Daniel Carlson |
10-17-2007 |
TV
