AltWeeklies Wire
It Practices What They Preachnew
Cast into the spotlight by fugitive polygamist Prophet Warren Jeffs, the mainstream Mormon Church is trying to distance itself from its infamous cousin.
Phoenix New Times |
John Dougherty |
05-30-2006 |
Religion
Tags: polygamy
Running on Fumesnew
You've got to have balls to sell BioPerformance's hot product -- mothballs.
Dallas Observer |
Rick Kennedy |
05-30-2006 |
Business & Labor
Tags: marketing, multilevel
Mutant Pile-Upnew
This third outing in the franchise lays on the subtext even more heavily than its predecessors -- racial, gender, and sexual politics are all over the place, as are the multiple strands of the story line.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
05-26-2006 |
Reviews
The Dalai Lama Remasterednew
More a meditation than a traditional documentary, Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy beautifully employs direct cinema techniques to transport the viewer into the world of an exiled culture.
Austin Chronicle |
Toddy Burton |
05-26-2006 |
Reviews
The Parallels Between Spurt and Splatnew
Former porn auteur Gregory Dark advances to making this rote exercise in slasher-film tedium.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
05-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Gregory Dark, See No Evil
I, Jonathan
Art Brut is totally smart, totally stoopid, or both.
Washington City Paper |
Shannon Zimmerman |
05-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Art Brut, Bang Bang Rock & Roll
The Simian Line
This sounds as if it's coming to you live from a boom box located at the far end of the local tube station.
Washington City Paper |
Shannon Zimmerman |
05-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Field Music
Tibetan Trackersnew
A self-appointed game warden and his ragtag band of volunteers cross some treacherous Chinese landscape in search of poachers of Tibetan antelope.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
05-26-2006 |
Reviews
The Lady Punishes
Is there any difference between justice and revenge?
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
05-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Lady Vengeance, Park Chan-wook
Code Warriorsnew
This faithful adaptation of Dan Brown's bestseller treats the novel as if it were a sacred text, even though it's basically a Hardy Boys mystery dressed up in provocative attire.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
05-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Ron Howard, The Da Vinci Code
Not Subtle
The film's rhetorical excesses will make you long for the one quality that both the film and the former mayor lack: nuance.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
05-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Giuliani Time, Kevin Keating
Permanent Wavesnew
This documentary shows how real power flows not from the barrel of a gun but rather a can of hairspray.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
05-26-2006 |
Reviews
Flense With Benefits
All of this high-concept clutter just emphasizes that Barney has yet to learn how to use cinema to create illusions (or perhaps just doesn't care to).
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
05-26-2006 |
Reviews
The Man With the Olden Gun
Hillcoat wavers between gripping and ponderous.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
05-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: John Hillcoat, The Proposition
Add Eh to X
And you thought V for Vendetta was heavy-handed.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
05-26-2006 |
Reviews
