AltWeeklies Wire
Bringing Gaming Back Home to Canadanew
Telefilm Canada's Great Canadian Game Competition aims to kick-start a wave of homegrown talent.
NOW Magazine |
Ian Daffern |
06-11-2007 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Keepers of the Chantnew
At St. Peter's Abbey in Solesmes, France, Gregorian chants still rule.
NOW Magazine |
June Chua |
06-11-2007 |
Travel
Tags: travel
'Once': Predictable Story, Whiny Songs
Music video masquerades as a heart-on-sleeve narrative featuring a charismatic, if musically limited and redundant, Glen Hansard of the Irish rock band the Frames.
Tags: John Carney, Once
'Jindabyne': Interesting Acting, Limited Material
Overwrought thriller-as-social-drama, loosely based on Raymond Carver’s short story, "So Much Water So Close to Home," slides around a morally slippery narrative area of four fishermen discovering a corpse.
Tags: Jindabyne, Ray Lawrence
'Crazy Love': A Fascinating Documentary
If you don't know the tale of Burt and Linda Pugach, then you're out of the loop on one of the biggest running tabloid stories in New York history.
Tags: Crazy Love, Dan Klores
'The Boss of it All': Light-hearted for von Trier
Lars von Trier takes a break from his trademark approach to polemics to induce snide laughs with an office satire about an actor hired by an IT company CEO to pose as its president in order to sell off the company.
Tags: Lars von Trier, The Boss of it All
Alt.Health: The Dripping Curenew
Is sweat detoxing or just dehydrating?
NOW Magazine |
Elizabeth Bromstein |
06-11-2007 |
Advice
Tags: advice columns
'Rocket Science': A Charming Narrative
Positively winning coming-of-age drama/comedy stacks the deck with newcomer Reece Daniel Thompson as Hal Hefner, a stuttering New Jersey High School student.
Tags: Jeffrey Blitz, rocket science
Two Fantasies, Oceans Apartnew
Ocean's Thirteen and Angel-A serve up dreamy urban pleasures -- just don't expect logical plots or serious thrills.
NOW Magazine |
Josh Harkness |
06-11-2007 |
Movies
'Fay Grim': Inarticulate and Grueling
Woe is he, or she, that goes in search of Hal Hartley, the mojo-handy director of Henry Fool.
Tags: Fay Grim, Hal Hartley
'ShowBusiness': The Work Behind the Curtains
Even audiences not enamored with Broadway musicals could find Dori Berinstein's documentary entertaining and informative.
'Death at a Funeral': Over the Top, Backwards
Director Frank Oz nearly redeems himself after his disastrous Stepford Wives remake with a British black comedy.
Tags: Death at a Funeral, Frank Oz
Benjamin Radford Works to Repel Pseudosciencenew
The managing editor of the Skeptical Inquirer quests after real info on our myths and monsters.
Weekly Alibi |
Marisa Demarco |
06-11-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
'Mr. Brooks': Jekyll and Hidenew
As a family man with a secret dark side, Kevin Costner makes bad look good.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Sean Burns |
06-11-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Bruce A. Evans, Mr. Brooks
Ed Hamell: Trial and Terrornew
For those unfamiliar, Hamell is Bill Hicks, Hunter S. Thompson and Joe Strummer all rolled into one sweaty, snarling, pugnacious pitbull of a man.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Neil Ferguson |
06-11-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ed Hamell
