AltWeeklies Wire
Balancing Actsnew
Bring It On scribe Jessica Bendinger writes and directs this teen movie set in the world of competitive gymnastics, and features leotard-clad girls who learn to stick together to fight injustice.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Jessica Bendinger, Stick It
Town Without Pitynew
This eerie but ultimately unengaging film adaptation of Konami's smash series of video games has a pitch-perfect score and unnervingly nightmarish imagery.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Christophe Gans, Silent Hill
A Conspiracy in the White Housenew
This serviceable action thriller disintegrates into an implausible mess that's barely salvaged by the presence of old pros like Michael Douglas and Kim Basinger.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Clark Johnson, The Sentinel
Home Friednew
Steve Buscemi directs this story about a lovable loser who moves back in with his off-kilter family in Indiana.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Steve Buscemi, Lonesome Jim
Suck on Thisnew
Metaphorically speaking, Little Red Riding Hood eats Humbert Humbert in this story of an online predator and his jailbait, gamine prey.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: David Slade, Hard Candy
It Takes a Villagenew
This story about a girl from the ghetto who wins the national spelling bee has lofty if often unfulfilled goals, but is a rewarding tale nevertheless.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Akeelah and the Bee, Doug Atchison
Cops, Killers and Thugsnew
Nick Judin explains how Indigo Prophecy will make you run from yourself and how The Warriors will want you make to show them all who really owns the street.
Jackson Free Press |
Nick Judin |
04-28-2006 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Making the Nasty Goodnew
Pasta puttanesca from Italy's ladies of leisure is sure to hit the spot.
Jackson Free Press |
Crawford Grabowski |
04-28-2006 |
Food+Drink
Spinnin' Wheelnew
Pat Payback spins the wheel and the rich get richer.
Jackson Free Press |
Ken Stiggers |
04-28-2006 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
You Total Slantnew
Ali Greggs offers a media roundup and explains why it all makes her very, very tired.
Jackson Free Press |
Ali Greggs |
04-28-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
Variations on a Theme
Until we get a doom-metal disc that's as malignant as our doom-taunting age, Cisneros and Hakius' conference of doves will have to suffice.
Washington City Paper |
Brent Burton |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Conference of the Birds, Om
The Terror of History
It's probably fair to suggest that both Eli Roth and Zombi would be nothing without the 70s.
Washington City Paper |
Brent Burton |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Surface to Air, Zombi
Friend of a Friend of the Devil
"In all seriousness, one of the great archeological finds in our lifetime is the archive of Daniel Johnston."
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
04-28-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Straw Man
Feuerzeig's sober and intelligent documentary doesn't exploit the schizophrenic subject.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
String Cheese
This comedy of manners has no keen fix on manners and no hunger for true human comedy.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
