AltWeeklies Wire
'Balls of Fury': Made for Walken
Like its deadpan costar, the film often settles for what's funny in theory.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Balls of Fury, Robert Ben Garant
'The 11th Hour': Hour of Powernew
If the movie's presentation is unexciting (and thus a lot less likely to excite major media and make inroads on shopping malls), the ideas it puts forth are both more frightening and more energizing than those in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Adams |
08-28-2007 |
Reviews
'The Devil Came on Horseback': Devil Advocatesnew
Brian Steidle, the former U.S. Marine whose chilling photographs brought the horrors of Darfur region to the American public, serves as a compelling a central figure through whose eyes the audience can forge a connection with a complex and sometimes confounding subject.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Adams |
08-28-2007 |
Reviews
Final Exit Volunteers Call it Assisted Suicidenew
But prosecutors in Arizona may call it manslaughter.
Phoenix New Times |
Paul Rubin |
08-28-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Ferret Lovenew
They poop, they steal, they smell, they (sometimes) bite -- and they are adored.
Houston Press |
Richard Connelly |
08-28-2007 |
Animal Issues
Tags: animal issues
The Do-Something Connecticut State Legislaturenew
Like the majority of state governing bodies nationwide, the state's "citizen legislature" is comprised of lawmakers who presumably legislate for a few months per year and hold down jobs the rest of the time -- some are proposing going full-time.
New Haven Advocate |
Evan Brown |
08-28-2007 |
Politics
Philly Congressmen Get Serious About the Iraq Warnew
Philadelphia's Democratic representatives have led calls on Capitol Hill to end the war in Iraq -- now the area's lone Republican rep, Jim Gerlach, is also asking tough questions about the war.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Paul Fain |
08-28-2007 |
Politics
Remounting Ned Lamontnew
Is Lamont's re-emergence tied to a possible 2010 run?
New Haven Advocate |
Freda Moon |
08-28-2007 |
Politics
Mumbai, the Hard Waynew
Monsoons, shacks and nine percent growth: Reports from a subcontinent on the verge.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Michael Ryan |
08-28-2007 |
International
Tags: international
Rod Lurie Takes Jackson and Hartnett Nine Rounds
Lurie puts another feather in his directing hat with an absorbing character study about a daily newspaper writer who takes a shortcut to success only to discover that, like the subject of his career-saving article, he is not the man he thought himself to be.
Tags: Resurrecting the Champ, Rod Lurie
'King-Cat': Drawing Badly Wellnew
Bleak, elemental, funny, angry, melancholy genius is scrawled with deceptive skill across an anthology that includes strips from the first 50 issues of his popular self-published zine.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
08-27-2007 |
Fiction
'Ten Canoes': A Tale Well Toldnew
There was some worry near the beginning that the film would lurch toward a sort of distanced National Geographic-style anthropological framing of other cultures, but one is quickly drawn into a compelling story full of realized and engaging characters.
Montreal Mirror |
Jeffrey Malecki |
08-27-2007 |
Reviews
'The Nanny Diaries': More Adventures in Babysittingnew
Like The Devil Wears Prada, Diaries never does much more than indulge its audience’s happy willingness to feel superior to rich people, but that’s not to say that it doesn't have some fun doing it.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
08-27-2007 |
Reviews
'War': Violent Vendettanew
Those expecting the full-on martial arts thriller may be disappointed -- instead, we get a revenge-fuelled action movie that stays within the confines of its cliche-ridden genre, but it does so with impeccable style.
Montreal Mirror |
Jason Bogdaneris |
08-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: WAR, Philip G. Atwell
'Resurrecting the Champ': Fighting Wordsnew
A solid yet imperfect film about boxing and writing.
Montreal Mirror |
Jeffrey Malecki |
08-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Resurrecting the Champ, Rod Lurie
