AltWeeklies Wire
Race to the Finish
It's weird that this story of love appears to be threaded with an undercurrent of hate.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
02-03-2006 |
Reviews
Feeble Attraction
Imagine this: that an all-consuming, 'til-death-do-us-part love affair gets under way in even less time than it takes the Brokeback boys to get it on.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
02-03-2006 |
Reviews
A Family in Need of Closurenew
More than five years after a young Nebraska woman was brutally murdered in Mississippi, her mother wants answers -- and her body back.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
02-03-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
The Bureaucracy of Fighting Terrornew
Millions of homeland security dollars flowing through new agencies and committees haven't been getting where they're needed .
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
G.W. Schulz |
02-03-2006 |
Politics
Faith Healingnew
The pages of historian Taylor Branch's third volume in his parallel biography of Dr. Martin Luther King and the civil-rights movement turn heavily.
Boston Phoenix |
Ted Drozdowski |
02-03-2006 |
Nonfiction
Tags: At Canaan's Edge, Taylor Branch
Shaggy-Corpse Storynew
The title of Tommy Lee Jones’s directorial debut gives fair warning of its weirdness.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
02-03-2006 |
Reviews
Fast Tonynew
As a Kiwi traveling to the Bonneville Salt Flats in hopes of setting the world's land-speed record, Anthony Hopkins projects more sex appeal than actors a third his age.
Boston Phoenix |
Brett Michel |
02-03-2006 |
Reviews
With Candor Comes Charmnew
Taking as your subject a sexual free-for-all might seem an exercise in excess, but in the case of this Joseph Lovett documentary, libido-on-display can serve as its own means for social change.
Boston Phoenix |
Colin Fleming |
02-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Joseph Lovett, Gay Sex in the '70s
Hustle and Snownew
At Sundance, the proving ground just got a lot more slippery.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-03-2006 |
Movies
Broom-Tailed Horsesnew
Should California's own wild mustangs ever return to Coyote Canyon?
L.A. Weekly |
Deanne Stillman |
02-03-2006 |
Animal Issues
Tags: animal issues
The Movie and the Realitynew
The documentary paints a visceral and disturbing cinematic portrait of our criminal-justice system in action -- yet if anything, After Innocence understates the problem.
Boston Phoenix |
Harvey Silverglate |
02-03-2006 |
Movies
Tags: After Innocence, Jessica Sanders
Not Quite a Movementnew
Slamdance features tenderness, anger, and a very steep slope.
Austin Chronicle |
Spencer Parsons |
02-03-2006 |
Movies
Ride Lonesomenew
Anthony Hopkins' great performance as Burt Munro, the real-life New Zealand codger and Indian motorcycle enthusiast who in 1967 set a land speed record that still stands today, is not enough to crash through this unabashedly sentimental wall of schmaltz.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-03-2006 |
Reviews
Trial and Errornew
The system is found guilty in After Innocence, a documentary on wrongful convictions.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
02-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: After Innocence, Jessica Sanders
Landscaping the Romantic Comedynew
Think Bridget Jones' lovelorn but marriage-obsessed single woman, only make her a neat-freak, not a basket case, and a comely African-American, not a plumpish, pasty Brit in this genre-tweaking romantic comedy.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
02-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Sanaa Hamri, Something New
