AltWeeklies Wire
The Dilemma of the Literate Picketnew
While I won't lower the red flag or hang-up my IWW T-shirt, I confess to mixed emotions about the strike by the Writers Guild of America.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Mick Farren |
11-16-2007 |
Movies
Comfortably Dumbnew
The directors of Southland Tales and Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium like 'em big and stupid.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-15-2007 |
Reviews
Strike?! What's a TV Columnist to Do?new
I'm forming a NEW union called the TV Critic and Watchers Guild (TCWG), and we're going to start making a few demands of our own!
The Portland Mercury |
Wm. Steven Humphrey |
11-15-2007 |
Movies
Reverend Billy Gets the Doc Treatmentnew
Rob VanAlkemade alternates between deconstructing the conceits behind Reverend Billy's wild-eyed demeanor and exploring the Church's message in a linear fashion. As a result, the movie offers both intriguing portraiture and probing cultural analysis.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
11-15-2007 |
Reviews
'Redacted' is the Low Point of a Great Artist's Careernew
The media's rush to validate a weak De Palma film continues last year's insanity that overpraised the TV-style docudrama United 93, misconstrued Oliver Stone's great elegy World Trade Center and overrated the outdated 1969 French import Army of Shadows.
New York Press |
Armond White |
11-15-2007 |
Reviews
Scabby TV Writers Outed By Fake Craigslist Adnew
While 12,000 WGA members walk the picket lines, 80 New York writers email us to take their jobs.
New York Press |
Matt Elzweig |
11-15-2007 |
Movies
The Freewheelin' Todd Haynes' 'I'm Not There'new
Hoping to write about Todd Haynes' new not-a-biopic of Bob Dylan almost feels like trying to write footnotes to footnotes, a circular exercise that would wind even the fabulist likes of Jorge Luis Borges.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
11-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: I'm Not There, Todd Haynes
Struck Downnew
Four tips for surviving the Writers Guild of America strike.
Weekly Alibi |
Devin D. O'Leary |
11-13-2007 |
Movies
John Pilger on American Malfeasance in Latin Americanew
The journalist and documentary filmmaker probes the uncomfortable truths of American influence in Latin
America in The War on Democracy.
Montreal Mirror |
Patrick Lejtenyi |
11-12-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: John Pilger, The War on Democracy
All the Pretty Carnagenew
Remorseless murder isn't all there is to No Country for Old Men, but it's all anyone seems to care about.
Chicago Reader |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
11-12-2007 |
Reviews
Scenes from the Strikenew
"It's not going to be as much fun in two months, I'll tell you that," says John Carlen, a veteran Writers Guild member carrying a union placard.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
11-09-2007 |
Movies
Why is Josh Brolin So Damn Happy?new
An Oscar-tipped turn in No Country For Old Men proves this Goonie is good enough after all.
NOW Magazine |
John Harkness |
11-09-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Plymped Outnew
Animator Bill Plympton draws naked people, flying jerks and music videos real, real fast.
Style Weekly |
Brandon Reynolds |
11-08-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
'No Country' is a Crime Movie for a World at Warnew
The way the Coen brothers' latest morphs from noir into contemporary-western moral struggle makes it deeper, funnier and even stranger than Fargo.
New York Press |
Armond White |
11-08-2007 |
Reviews
'Lions for Lambs' is Years Behind the Times
Overtly pedantic and overstrained, Tom Cruise's first undertaking as co-head of United Artists is a politically top-heavy triptych of simultaneous political conversations made all the more cumbersome due to its extravagant cast.
Tags: Lions for Lambs, Robert Redford
