AltWeeklies Wire
Bruisers on Vacationnew
Irish hitmen go medieval in funny debut.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
02-13-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: In Bruges, Martin McDonagh
Sort Of, Not Reallynew
Gen X ambivalence hooks up with romantic-comedy conventions.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
02-13-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Adam Brooks, Definitely, Maybe
The Shop Around the Cornernew
Romantic comedy celebrates the women of Beirut.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
02-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Caramel, Nadine Labaki
Road to Nowherenew
Alex Gibney documentary traces a lost soul.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
02-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Alex Gibney, Taxi to the Dark Side
Rich and Strangenew
HBO film connects a Duke to her man Friday.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
02-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Bernard and Doris, Bob Balaban
Guys will be Guysnew
Performance doc puts male behavior on stage.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
02-06-2008 |
Reviews
Hollywood Productnew
Sly Stallone gets jungle fever.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
02-01-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Rambo, Sylvester Stallone
Blue Notenew
1988 doc rediscovers the magic of Chet Baker.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
02-01-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Bruce Weber, Let's Get Lost
The Great Dividenew
The High's film series tries to bridge the gap.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
02-01-2008 |
Movies
Tags: Various, Films from the Arab World
Hollywood Product: 'Cloverfield'new
The bottom line: Cloverfield lives up to six months of online hype. Once the bad stuff starts going down, no one in the theater takes a breath for an hour. It even offers a fairly touching story of callow New Yorkers who find love and meaning in the teeth of disaster, amid all the holy-crap monster spectacle.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Cloverfield, Matt Reeves
'War/Dance' Tells a Harrowing Story of Hope & Survivalnew
By turns harrowing and cathartic, this documentary is about children caught up in the brutalities meted out by northern Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army, whose soldiers have raped, killed and brutalized the populace for the past 20 years.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
'Persepolis' Celebrates Power of Two Graphic Art Formsnew
It boggles my mind that a French and Persian filmmaking team beat Americans to the punch with such a definitive adaptation of a graphic novel.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
'Cassandra's Dream': Brother's Keepernew
Woody Allen's comeback hits the skids.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-17-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Woody Allen, Cassandra's Dream
'Honeydripper': Case of the bluesnew
John Sayles continues his slow descent into dull filmmaking.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
David Lee Simmons |
01-17-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Honeydripper, John Sayles
'Directed by Charles Burnett' Recalls a Legendnew
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Jan. 21), TCM will reaffirm its reputation for exceptionally idiosyncratic, film-savvy programming when it airs Killer of Sheep and a slate of Burnett's short films: The Horse, My Brother's Wedding, When It Rains and Several Friends.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
01-17-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Charles Burnett
