AltWeeklies Wire
How Gay Will Oscar Go?new
Handicapping who'll win, who'll lose and who'll just jerk off.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
02-03-2006 |
Movies
Malick's Naturenew
The films of Terrence Malick are an acquired taste, and The New World is not likely to gain him any new fans.
Illinois Times |
Marc Sigoloff |
02-03-2006 |
Movies
Particles of Truthnew
Illness documenataries, an unembedded Iraq expose and Al Gore vie for attention in a chilly Sundance market.
The Village Voice |
Rob Nelson |
02-02-2006 |
Movies
Friends Without Moneynew
The best fiction entries at Sundance 2006 were also the smallest.
The Village Voice |
Dennis Lim |
02-01-2006 |
Movies
Hollywood Gives Bush the Fingernew
Lefty films look good for this year's Oscars.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
01-30-2006 |
Movies
Bubble Economynew
Steven Soderbergh's latest ushers in a new era of narrowing release windows.
The Village Voice |
Anthony Kaufman |
01-25-2006 |
Movies
Tags: Steven Soderbergh, Bubble
Glorified Roadnew
Former Texas Western University basketball player Nevil Shed says Bruckheimer's film is more truth than fiction.
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
01-25-2006 |
Movies
Tags: Glory Road
Screen Testnew
With his Sundance-bound First Date, Kansas City's Gary Huggins discovers a new leading man.
Tags: First Date, Gary Huggins
On 'the Loss to My Own Heart'new
As Roe v. Wade turns 33, Speak Out: I Had an Abortion wrestles with the experience of abortion.
The Village Voice |
Courtney E. Martin |
01-23-2006 |
Movies
Lights, Camera, Play!new
They're not exactly Pixar, but a crew of Texas teens find fame -- not fortune -- making machinima movies on the Xbox.
Dallas Observer |
Glenna Whitley |
01-23-2006 |
Movies
Open Sesamenew
They don’t give out awards for best titles, otherwise Albert Brooks’s Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World would be in the running. Instead, all it got him was trouble with the studio.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
01-19-2006 |
Movies
A Silver-Lined Screen?new
What happens when an artsy film guy who has gone way into debt hooks up with a school that doesn't know how to run a nonprofit theater?
Riding the Rangenew
The Chronicle's reviewers run down the best films of 2005.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten, Steve Davis, Kimberley Jones and Marc Savlov |
01-05-2006 |
Movies
Tags: yearinreview2005
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
Politics as Usual for Movies in '06?new
Hollywood's focus on real-life problems in 2005 might explain one of the biggest box-office dips in ages. Will filmmakers return to tried-and-true sequels, remakes, and out-and-out fluff?
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
12-30-2005 |
Movies
