AltWeeklies Wire
'Soul Men' is an Unintentionally Sad Comedynew
Any fan of Mac's knows the man was capable of making audiences laugh without having to stoop to an endless stream of mindless profanity. Were he and Jackson given sufficient breathing room, I'm certain any ad lib would've been exponentially funnier than what the dreadful script provided.
Montreal Mirror |
Christopher Sykes |
11-07-2008 |
Reviews
Probiotics Are the New Daily Fixnew
Yogurt vs. Apple: Which one really keeps the doctor away?
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Tricia Childress |
11-07-2008 |
Food+Drink
'Happy-Go-Lucky' Offers Good Cheernew
Thanks to Mike Leigh's lack of pretense and Sally Hawkins' perfectly modulated performance, Happy-Go-Lucky eventually compels rather than repels, with some sober encounters adding heft to what otherwise could have been dismissed out of hand as an airy confection.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
11-07-2008 |
Reviews
'What Just Happened?': Not Too Muchnew
What Just Happened? is only partly successful in its attempts to wallow in the wickedness of the motion picture industry, as a scattershot screenplay by veteran producer Art Linson (adapting his own memoir) perpetually keeps losing sight of the important targets.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
11-07-2008 |
Reviews
Clint Eastwood Changes Genres with 'Changeling'new
Like Mystic River and Flags of Our Fathers, Changeling is good, not great, although as far as emotional resonance is concerned, the latest from the consummate director certainly reverberates more strongly than either of those other features.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
11-07-2008 |
Reviews
Keeping it Simplifiednew
Ever heard that old saying, "K.I.S.S. — Keep it simple, stupid"? Not that any of the four members of Simplified are stupid by any means, but they've been keeping it simple, and it works. The band has created a solid fan base in Charlotte and is slowly growing in popularity in other Southeastern markets.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Jeff Hahne |
11-07-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
D.I.Y. Now for the Future in St. Louisnew
The Undertow Collective and Magnolia Summer are using technology to modernize their D.I.Y. creative vision.
Riverfront Times |
Annie Zaleski |
11-07-2008 |
Music
Can We Get Back to Something Besides Elections?new
Now that the election is over, perhaps the media will decide to tell us about the other important things going on in the world; better still, they may quit flogging the same tired stories we've seen over and over and over.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
John Grooms |
11-07-2008 |
Commentary
How George and Now Barack Mirror Our American Psychenew
When Barack Obama claimed his victory in Chicago's Grant Park, he thanked many people. But the one name missing from the list was the man who perhaps did the most to win Obama the presidency: George W. Bush. More than anyone else, he showed the disastrous downside of being born rich, white and well-connected.
L.A. Weekly |
John Powers |
11-07-2008 |
Commentary
Political Palates: Obama's Taste for Kine Grindznew
Like everyone else, I would like to think that the politicians I vote for have more discerning palates than the ones I happen not to support, but this is not always the case.
L.A. Weekly |
Jonathan Gold |
11-07-2008 |
Food+Drink
In California, the Mystery Voters Have Their Waynew
The record-breaking 13-million-plus voters proved to be a mercurial throng who followed no code or discernible ideology, placing into the state constitution a ban on gay marriage, even as they trampled a proposal to require notification of parents whose daughters seek abortions. It was an almost schizophrenic Coalition of Whatever.
L.A. Weekly |
Jill Stewart |
11-07-2008 |
Politics
'Ballast': Weight of the Worldnew
Taking measure of Lance Hammer's Sundance-awarded drama.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
11-07-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Ballast, Lance Hammer
Dirty Secrets of the Real Estate Collapsenew
There's lots of blame going around for this economic crisis. How we got here was simple: too much credit and too much debt for too many years. But why are hard-working people, many Hispanic, losing their houses?
Reno News & Review |
Madeline Zook |
11-07-2008 |
Housing & Development
Righteous Anger: Henry Rollins Plants His Black Flag on the World Stagenew
Anger gets a bad rap these days. If only the Left had Henry Rollins representing them on all these Sunday morning roundtables instead of the weak-kneed Nicholas Kristof's and Joe Lieberman's, then there might have been a check on the madness that hijacked our discourse for the past decade or so.
Boulder Weekly |
Dylan Otto Krider |
11-06-2008 |
Performance
Blisternew
I'm having a Mad Men moment of controlled tempers seething hazily through the keeping-up of appearances, just standing here in my Dream Kitchen with a gimlet and one momentous tear.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
11-06-2008 |
Comedy
