AltWeeklies Wire
Out of Breathnew
Ozone pollution is threatening the health of Pikes Peak area residents in Colorado. But does anyone care?
Colorado Springs Independent |
Terje Langeland |
11-11-2005 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Palestine Now?new
Even though there's an implied pacifist message in his film Paradise Now, the Nazareth-born filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad says he wants audiences to make up their own minds about how Palestinian rights might be achieved.
Boston Phoenix |
Gerald Peary |
11-11-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hany Abu-Assad, Paradise Now
Austen’s Powernew
To judge from Joe Wright’s adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen may have invented the tracking shot.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
11-11-2005 |
Reviews
The Trouble with Dribblesnew
NBA Live 06: Pretty colors, hard controls, really hard CPU.
Boston Phoenix |
Aaron Solomon |
11-11-2005 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
A Bird! A Plane! A Conservative!new
In the first-ever comic book explicitly by and for conservatives, patriotic superhero Captain America is irrelevant because, says co-creator Mike Mackey, "traditional American values are not traditional anymore."
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
11-11-2005 |
Fiction
Wiretapping With the Flip of a Switchnew
Nervous tech companies and educational institutions are waiting to see if they'll have to comply with a new rule requiring providers to overhaul their computer networks so the FBI can easily set up online wiretaps.
Orlando Weekly |
James Carlson |
11-11-2005 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
Incoming!new
The number of international graduate students enrolling in American universities appears to have rebounded slightly this fall following three years of decline.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-11-2005 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
Alien-Busting Adventuresnew
Jon Favreau's sort-of-sequel to Jumanji is full of nonsense physics and missed opportunities, though it almost redeems itself via its realistically fractious portrayal of brothers forced into a playtime gone weirdly cosmic.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Jon Favreau, Zathura
Hip-Hop Hypocrisiesnew
Determined to star in his own 8 Mile, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson comes up a day late and a dollar short.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-11-2005 |
Reviews
Another Adultery-Driven Adrian Lyne Knockoffnew
It's impossible to ignore what an unimpressive film has received the honor of being the first release from the newly formed Weinstein Co.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mikael Hafstrom, Derailed
Costume Dramanew
After umpteen film and TV translations, what reason can there be to take another whack at Pride and Prejudice?
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Joe Wright, Pride & Prejudice
Lying Downnew
Distributor ThinkFilm raised so much of a stink about its Where the Truth Lies receiving an NC-17 rating that one had to assume the movie was some sort of crusading artistic statement.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Atom Egoyan, Where the Truth Lies
Resurrectionnew
A new, single-disc compilation from Dead Can Dance is not exactly a stop-the-presses moment, but Memento is nonetheless an interesting document.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
11-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dead Can Dance, Memento
Opening Doorsnew
Mr. Lif says the music and concepts on his group's first album are significantly toned down from the fiery politics of his solo LPs.
Orlando Weekly |
Makkada B. Selah |
11-11-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Sounds Like Science, but ...new
The Bush administration creates an environment toxic for science, says journalist Chris Mooney.
Valley Advocate |
Andrew Varnon |
11-11-2005 |
Nonfiction
