AltWeeklies Wire
Radiation Powernew
All four aren't fantastic, but at least two are pretty good in this latest Hollywood take on a classic from Marvel Comics.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
07-07-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Tim Story, Fantastic Four
French Ticklernew
Two of France's top actors pair up for this wishful farce about good deeds and their consequences.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
07-07-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Après Vous, Pierre Salvadori
All Aboardnew
Hungarian writer-director Antal is like the conductor of a midnight express: Grab a rail and hold on while he whizzes through montages and extreme angles of impossibly precipitous escalators in the Budapest subway system.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
07-07-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Nimród Antal, Kontroll
D.O.A.new
This Australian horror film arrives at the tail end of a recent and very substantial cinematic zombie overdose. Unfortunately, there are only so many ways to slice the walking dead.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
07-07-2005 |
Reviews
Sexual Intrigue Defines Lives in Heightsnew
New York City is the unbilled big star, second only to Glenn Close, in Heights. It's the place where secret lives can be indulged and where sex charges the air.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-07-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Chris Terrio, Heights
Hoop Hellnew
Martin Lawrence proves he's not leading-man material in this family-friendly failure.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
07-07-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Steve Carr, Rebound
Painful Realitynew
Cameras follow as a man confronts the church that allowed him to be abused.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
07-07-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Kirby Dick, Twist of Faith
Emperor Penguins Hook Up in Antarctic Adventurenew
As human commitment to "downsizing" the environment intensifies, our interest in its charms appears to be on the rise.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-07-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Luc Jacquet, March of the Penguins
The Wedding Stingernew
A young Turkish/German woman controlled by her strict Muslim family decides that marriage to a self-destructive alcoholic is her only way out.
Riverfront Times |
Melissa Levine |
07-06-2005 |
Reviews
It Could Be Versenew
A solemn political parable calculated for post-9/11 sensibilities is written and performed almost entirely in rhyming iambic pentameter -- Shakespeare's measure -- and it means to tell us everything we need to know about love, war, God and cross-cultural antagonism.
East Bay Express |
Bill Gallo |
07-06-2005 |
Reviews
Worth Far More Than 60 Seconds of Your Timenew
A documentary provides a slice of the early punk scene through the rough and tumble tale of the Minutemen.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
07-06-2005 |
Reviews
Irreconcilable Similaritiesnew
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie face off nicely in Doug Liman's latest, which (sometimes clumsily) tries to juggle the genres of romantic comedy and action-adventure with little atonal moments of dramatic wistfulness.
Tags: Doug Liman, Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Image Makernew
With his feature-film debut, fashion/glamour photographer and video director David LaChapelle takes a look at a subculture that, like the vogue-ing drag queens of "Paris Is Burning," blossoms out of desperation and a need for survival.
Tags: David LaChapelle, Rize
24-Hour Pouty Peoplenew
Writer/director Chris Terrio has no fear of the big questions in life but where he might have cracked wise, he tends to mope.
Dancing in the Streetsnew
Celebrity photographer David LaChapelle casts his lens toward the newest L.A. dance craze.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
06-30-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: David LaChapelle, Rize
