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Welcome to the Doll Factorynew
Soderbergh doesn't condescend to middle America, but he doesn't do much of anything else either.
The Village Voice |
Michael Atkinson |
01-25-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Steven Soderbergh, Bubble
Plantation Nationnew
Von Trier's redundant Dogville sequel dilutes the vitriol for a didactic tale of democracy gone awry.
The Village Voice |
J. Hoberman |
01-25-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Lars von Trier, Manderlay
A Brilliant Film That Sucksnew
There's no getting around the fact that The Intruder is an elliptical, and perhaps an even literally meaningless film.
Dig Boston |
Chris Braiotta |
01-25-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Claire Denis, The Intruder
The First Realistic Reality Filmnew
A truly amazing reality film (in every sense of the word), Bubble has produced a new approach: method acting taken to a different extreme -- call it "reality acting."
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
01-25-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Steven Soderbergh, Bubble
More Disturbing than Davey and Goliathnew
Live Freaky! Die Freaky! is set in a post-apocalyptic future, and is a claymation rendering of the Manson Family murders -- no, seriously.
Dig Boston |
Chris Braiotta |
01-25-2006 |
Reviews
Blood in the Waternew
The Sharking's debut is a nifty little 18-minute, six-song pop attack that will sneak right up on you, take a big bite and will not let go.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
01-25-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Sharking
An Exercise in Escapismnew
The band wrenches creaky waltzes and boneyard marches out of splintery wooden instruments and shout-along vocals.
Dig Boston |
Matt Parish |
01-25-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Humanwine
They Ain't Saying Shitnew
By not really paying attention to much else outside of what they do, the Walkmen have kept themselves worth paying attention to -- and for a band that dwells in the perpetual promotional din of NYC, that’s saying a lot.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
01-25-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Walkmen
Mellow Dramanew
Calla’s fourth full-length reflects their recent turmoil and trauma -- or more accurately, how they rose out of it.
Dig Boston |
Michael Kanin |
01-25-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Calla, Collisions
Gauntlet: Seven Sorrowsnew
Seven Sorrows, the eighth release in the Gauntlet series, has bucked tradition by introducing an elaborate storyline, turning a great game into merely a good one.
Dig Boston |
Adam Diamond |
01-25-2006 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Cabin Fervornew
Lost in the studio, Deerhoof swerves between impulse and control.
Baltimore City Paper |
Marc Masters |
01-25-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Deerhoof, The Runners Four
Shanghai Crimesnew
Ralph Fiennes doesn’t even phone in his role in this stilted 1930s period drama.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
01-25-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: James Ivory, The White Countess
Fuck Usnew
Former Charm City writer Tom D’Antoni has more than 10 things he hates about Baltimore.
Baltimore City Paper |
Gadi Dechter |
01-25-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Illegal Intentnew
A Baltimore activist makes an illegal trip to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to protest the U.S. war in Iraq.
Baltimore City Paper |
Edward Ericson Jr. |
01-25-2006 |
War
Civil Ritesnew
As a country and a culture, we don’t have the weight and heft of history that other societies do, and our traditions reflect that.
Baltimore City Paper |
Vincent Williams |
01-25-2006 |
Commentary
