AltWeeklies Wire
Solar Perplexus: 'Sunshine'new
Sunshine fails to illuminate Danny Boyle's murky ideas about the future of humanity.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
08-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Danny Boyle, Sunshine
Green Hell: 'Rescue Dawn'new
Christian Bale insists that heroism is a function of a bottomless simplicity; it's not a larger-than-life attitude one carries around everywhere.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
08-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Rescue Dawn, Werner Herzog
'The Simpsons Movie': Peasants under glassnew
Transforming the densest, most daring TV show ever made was even more of a risk. Happily, The Simpsons Movie is everything that was advertised.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
08-01-2007 |
Reviews
Raised on Bart Simpsonnew
Everything I know I learned from The Simpsons.
New Haven Advocate |
Hugh "Jass" Elton |
07-31-2007 |
Movies
Tags: The Simpsons Movie
Think Bignew
With its twin themes of race and obesity, Hairspray has a lot on its mind, but it doesn't ever forget to have fun.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
07-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Adam Shankman, Hairspray
Patrice Leconte's 'My Best Friend'new
Leconte seems to be under the impression that he's making a serious movie, or at least one substantially less absurd than it ought to be.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Adams |
07-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: My Best Friend, Patrice Leconte
Lars Von Trier Puts the Camera in Chargenew
In The Boss of It All, the owner of a Danish IT firm has invented the titular Boss, an absent ogre who communicates with his underlings only through e-mail.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
07-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Lars von Trier, The Boss of it All
Grace Notesnew
Once is a different kind of musical romance.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
07-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: John Carney, Once
Rescue Dawnnew
Werner Herzog puts his actors through hell, with heavenly results
Weekly Alibi |
Devin D. O’Leary |
07-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Rescue Dawn, Werner Herzog
AMC's "Mad Men" - Clever and Well-madenew
This show is about the art of selling things—everything from department stores to political candidates—and it does so with a critical eye and a sly wink.
Weekly Alibi |
Devin D. O’Leary |
07-31-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Alt-Weekly Staffers Who Don't Watch the Simpsonsnew
Yeah, I didn't believe it either; but the San Diego's CityBeat has two.
San Diego CityBeat |
Staff |
07-30-2007 |
Movies
Tags: The Simpsons Movie
Simpsonsismsnew
These are a few of our favorite things.
San Diego CityBeat |
Staff |
07-30-2007 |
Movies
Tags: The Simpsons Movie
Listen Up — Don Cheadle is on the Micnew
Cheadle chews every last little piece of fat and gristle out of the role, painting a perceptive, sharp-nosed portrait that will probably garner him another Oscar nod.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
07-30-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Kasi Lemmons, Talk to Me
Lisa Simpson: Renaissance Girlnew
The heart and soul of the longest-running TV sitcom of all time.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
07-30-2007 |
Movies
Tags: The Simpsons Movie
Ziggy Stardust Shines in Re-issued Labyrinthnew
Bowie holds together this uneven but still diverting exercise in fantastical production design and critters.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dennis Harvey |
07-30-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Jim Henson, Labyrinth
