AltWeeklies Wire
Cows, Roses, Geese and Speechnew
Armed with microphones, patches and processors, M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel, the two halves of the odd brain that is Matmos, have repeatedly demonstrated they can pull music from pretty much anything.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
01-19-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Matmos
Not A Bad First Draftnew
Editors play instantly familiar hand-wringing, doomsday dance-rock with pants-off disco beats, throat-slashing ninja guitars and a bass archer firing off sexy groove darts like Gay Cupid in too much eyeliner.
Dig Boston |
Luke O'Neil |
01-19-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Editors
Boy Meets Girl, Againnew
Instead of a great story about the conflicted origins of the American nation, Terrence Malick interrupts his transcendental observations for a dopey love story between John Smith and Pocahontas.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Terrence Malick, The New World
Prince Of Persia: Two Thronesnew
The final installment of the Sands Of Time series, Two Thrones, treats geeks to exciting new elements of gameplay, and leaves a glimmer of hope for the ever-popular trilogy expanding into multiple volumes.
Dig Boston |
Seth MCM. Donlin |
01-19-2006 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Going to the Wellnew
Unoriginal but pleasantly prosaic, Allen's latest is a diverting story of crime, love and luck that conducts itself with a refreshing absence of moral judgment.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Woody Allen, Match Point
Coming Up Emptynew
Albert Brooks again sallies forth where others fear to tread, although his comic results are more mildly amusing than riotously funny.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-19-2006 |
Reviews
Perplexing But Not Terrifyingnew
Although long on style and concept, this film lacks the primal urgency of Shimizu’s 2003 J-horror blockbuster Ju-on.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
01-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Takashi Shimizu, Marebito
Mainstream Just a Chorus Awaynew
Unlike her stylistic counterpart, Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, Jenny Lewis has proven herself capable of more than bleeding-heart ballads and twee indie rock.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mosi Reeves |
01-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Jenny Lewis, Rabbit Fur Coat
Song Remains the Samenew
Though talk of Buddhist philosophy sneaks into this musician's debut recording, it comes less from his personal faith than it does from planting his secular tongue firmly in his cheek.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
01-19-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
On the Hooknew
This delicately horrific yet artful documentary examines the destruction of Lake Victoria by the omnivorous Nile perch, and the dire consequences this causes the Tanzanian people.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Darwin's Nightmare, Hubert Sauper
La Vida Escovedonew
For someone who has put so much of his heart and soul into his music, it's good to see the fruits of Alejandro Escovedo's labor when the community gives something back.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
James Kelly |
01-19-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Alejandro Escovedo, Room of Songs
Brothers Need Another Shotnew
For their first cartoon feature, the Edwards brothers seem too cool to stoop to crafting likable or interesting characters.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-19-2006 |
Reviews
Woody Allen's Best Drama to Datenew
By swapping his trademark New York locales for London and ridding the film of neurotic wisecrackers, the director breaks his recent streak of pointless comedies and constipated dramas.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Woody Allen, Match Point
The Path of Democracy or Militarism
How different would America be if Martin Luther King, Jr. had not been shot down at the hands of an assassin?
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
01-19-2006 |
Commentary
The Growing Scandal
Some big media personalities were aboard the Abramoff train too.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
01-19-2006 |
Politics
