AltWeeklies Wire
'Mister Foe' Tries to Come of Age
Quirky for its own sake, Mister Foe (originally titled Hallum Foe) is an opaque attempt at a coming-of-age-via-modified-incest story that follows malcontent Hallam (Jamie Bell) after the suspicious death of his mother lands another woman (Claire Forlani) in his filthy rich father's bed.
Tags: David Mackenzie, Mister Foe
'The Women' Misses the Mark
Piecemeal and earnest to a fault, this remake of George Cukor's 1939 film relies so much on the elite world of humorless, filthy rich New York women that it excludes most of its would-be target fans.
Tags: Diane English, The Women
'Burn After Reading': The Coens Serve Up Laughs
The writing/directing team of Joel and Ethan Coen create a laugh-a-minute black comedy that pokes fun at America's surveillance-dominated existence, plastic surgery desires, and all out greed.
'Igor': A Monster Mash
John Cusack is the voice of Igor, a hunchbacked laboratory assistant to the doomed mad scientist Dr. Glickenstein (voiced by John Cleese) in this irresistible feel-good animated comedy that's rooted in early monster movie classics.
Brooklyn-based Singer Maiysha Refuses to Dumb It Downnew
Though she participated in numerous school musicals -- she was the lead in a production of The Wiz when she was 12 -- her musical career didn't truly begin until after she graduated from Sarah Lawrence, where she studied vocal performance, creative writing and race and gender studies.
New York Press |
Ernest Barteldes |
09-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Maiysha, This Much is True
Reunited Beachwood Sparks Burn Brighter Than Evernew
Hiatuses, as it turns out, sometimes fade as well, and when your former label asks really nicely whether you'd be interested in getting the old band back together to help celebrate its 20th birthday, those initial catalysts for dissolution sometimes seem less clear.
New York Press |
Brian Heater |
09-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Botox Bluesnew
After the the Endoscopy Center's hepatitis C scare, the way we use needles draws attention to the wrinkle industry.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Stacy J. Willis |
09-11-2008 |
Culture
I Watched My Ex-boyfriend Pork a Fem-botnew
Of course, I had seen him have sex before, so how different could it be? He agreed, so we set a date. The following week, I brought over his new robotic girlfriend, stuffed in the kind of silver briefcase you would normally see full of unmarked bills or bags of blow.
New York Press |
Laura Leu |
09-11-2008 |
Tech
Tarrus Riley's Jamaica Juicenew
Rastas and reggae have been a volatile cocktail since the 1970s when Bob Marley, who didn't invent either, popularized both. Last year, up-and-coming reggae Rastaman Tarrus Riley added a new element to the mix -- cranberry juice.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Grant Britt |
09-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Too Bad Diane English's 'The Women' Remake is So Difficult to Watchnew
English's modern sarcasm is why The Women fails.
New York Press |
Armond White |
09-11-2008 |
Reviews
Sarah Palin's White Female Privilegenew
White women have privileges that a black woman will never have. Take, for example, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. I could never run for vice president of the United States of America with her resume, scandals and daughter.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Nsenga Burton |
09-11-2008 |
Commentary
Alan Ball's 'Towelhead' is Predictably All Wetnew
Towelhead is the worst movie of its kind since Little Children.
New York Press |
Armond White |
09-11-2008 |
Reviews
The Coen Brothers' Love of Idiosyncrasy is at Its Best in This America-skewering Farcenew
Burn After Reading is a pie-in-the-face comedy. You don't know what hit you until it's over.
New York Press |
Armond White |
09-11-2008 |
Reviews
What's Up With All the Weird Names?new
What's up with all the weird-ass names — OK, "nontraditional" names — people are giving their kids these days? We no longer even blink when we're introduced to toddlers, teens or 20-somethings named Kaelyne, Mackenzie, or Fontina, despite the cheesy connotations.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
John Grooms |
09-11-2008 |
Comedy
Fall Books for Winners and Sinnersnew
Ah, fall, when Nobel Prize winners are announced -- and, now, when past winners turn up with more good reading.
Boston Phoenix |
Barbara Hoffert |
09-11-2008 |
Books
Tags: Books, fall preview
