AltWeeklies Wire
Here and Nownew
Shot in jittery black-and-white 16mm, this French film’s on-the-fly aesthetic captures the shiftlessness of bourgeois youth and some of the spirit of the French New Wave.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
09-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: A Tout de Suite, Benoit Jacquot
Teen Techno Horrornew
A tech-centric but bloodless teen horror thriller works best as a stinging critique of post-adolescent whininess.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Jeff Wadlow, Cry_Wolf
Unforgettablenew
A hitman who's losing his memory to Alzheimer's anchors this absorbing Belgian policier that's tightly wound and expertly unraveled.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-23-2005 |
Reviews
Roller Boogienew
Hot-wiring a penchant for sports film truisms to some seriously spot-on Seventies nostalgia, Bow Wow headlines this easygoing portrayal of teenage camaraderie and its attendant difficulties.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Malcolm D. Lee, Roll Bounce
Matrimonial Blitznew
New black comedy by Spanish absurdist De la Iglesia involves murder and the plight of a playboy blackmailed into marriage.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-23-2005 |
Reviews
Meet the Newlywedsnew
Burton's best work in ages is eye candy of the highest order and as eminently watchable as a hilltop Halloween pyre or a Día de los Muertos parade run amok.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-23-2005 |
Reviews
Deep Space
Joss Whedon again defies expectations of shallow genre adventure in Serenity.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
MaryAnn Johanson |
09-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Joss Whedon, Serenity
Columnist's Report of Threats Raises Questionsnew
Rocky Mountain News columnist Bill Johnson says an anti-abortion protester repeatedly threatened him over a two-year period, but a reader thinks the protester is fictional.
Send in the Clonesnew
Upset that the Koreans are kicking Americans' ass in pet cloning, a writer calls the Bay Area's Genetic Savings and Clone to see about duplicating a cat.
Stupid White Tricksnew
It's often embarrassing to be a middle-class Caucasian in San Francisco but the city's misguided response to Hurricane Katrina has made it excruciating.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
09-23-2005 |
Commentary
Ballpark of a Future Pastnew
The new ballpark for the Oakland A's may inject a dollop of real design innovation into baseball's wrongheaded fixation with nostalgia.
Weirdly Endearing Torture Musicnew
The quintet that grew out of the one-man band Skeletons is as bourgeois-averse as ever. Also reviewed: Petracovich's We Are Wyoming.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
09-23-2005 |
Reviews
State of Illinois Accused of Discriminationnew
Two groups representing minorities will ask state agencies to investigate what they believe is a pattern of discrimination at the state Department of Natural Resources.
Illinois Times |
R.L. Nave |
09-23-2005 |
Politics
Tags: African Americans, and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, DNR, Horseshoe Lake State Park, Illinois Association of Minorities in Government and the Illinois State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People a Attorney General Lisa Madigan, Ray Coleman, the Illinois Human Rights Commission
Mother Opposes Her Son's Warnew
A woman joining in this weekend's antiwar protests considers her son a trained killer and a mercenary, but she's proud of him, too.
Illinois Times |
Bruce Rushton |
09-23-2005 |
War
Silence Surrounds Spring Creek 'Runner'new
When teen Adrian Sanders tried to escape his handlers en route from a specialty boarding school in western Montana, he ended up semi-conscious at the bottom of a 30-foot cliff. Why is Sanders County silent about the who, what, when, where and why?
Missoula Independent |
John S. Adams |
09-22-2005 |
Science
