AltWeeklies Wire
Dark Waternew
This well-made remake of Hideo Nakata's Japanese ghost story unfortunately shares too many essential details with a whole host of not-so-well-made movies: embattled but valiant mom, endangered kid, mournful dead girl and water, water everywhere.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dark Water, Walter Salles
Wedding Crashers Crashesnew
A dick-swingin' standout in a field of flaccid mainstream comedies, the hoped-for runaway hit Wedding Crashers actually has enough honest laughs to fill a 90-minute picture. Too bad it runs closer to two hours.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: David Dobkin, Wedding Crashers
Global Summitnew
There are pop stars who are rich and famous. And then there's Khaled, a Moroccan-born singer who has moved beyond merely being "popular" and into something more along the lines of "omnipresent."
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-14-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
What Happened in Iran's Recent Presidential Election?new
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's victory defied conventional wisdom, but in the end the support of his country's powerful religious conservatives was enough to propel him to victory in an election marred by charges of voting irregularities.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Andisheh Nouraee |
07-14-2005 |
Commentary
Tags: WAR
Roman Holler Daynew
Whether or not you consider yourself in the market for an Italian Mean Girls with a stronger political slant, filmmaker Paolo Virzì has taken the concept about halfway down the road to genuine revelation.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Hating to be Herded, Even at IKEAnew
A trip to IKEA brings out this writer's true feelings toward the monster mega-store.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Hollis Gillespie |
07-14-2005 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire, moodswing
Before a Fallnew
Just as certain music critics will go gaga over the most pedestrian pop if it's sung through a mouthful of bad British teeth, so is the mediocre psychodrama My Summer of Love.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Make-Up-As-You-Go-Along Corn Saladnew
The following recipe is a guideline; see what kind of cobless corn salad you come up with.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Kim O'Donnel |
07-14-2005 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Kitchen Witch
Cheeseburger in Purgatorynew
Maybe you can't fight city hall and maybe you can, but the rousing documentary McLibel proves that you can at least stand up to Mayor McCheese and live to talk about it.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Franny Armstrong, McLibel
Food Deserves Good Winenew
Would you use rotten, stinky tomatoes for a marinara sauce or smelly fish for sushi? When you reach for a rancid bottle of wine, you're essentially introducing an equally undesirable component.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Taylor Eason |
07-14-2005 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Corkscrew
Director's Ego Gets in the Way of Burlesque Documentarynew
Featuring film clips and interviews with burlesque icons, Pretty Things makes a case for the difference between the show-and-tell stripping of contemporary times and the slow-burn tease of classic burlesque -- despite the director's need for attention.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Liz Goldwyn, Pretty Things
Terror Diary: The Media Blitz on the London Bombingsnew
From cable news and the pundit shows to the dailies, here's how the US media covered the London bombings.
Boston Phoenix |
Mark Jurkowitz |
07-14-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
The Winds of Warnew
There are obstacles -- including a whole lotta hot air -- to turning wind energy into a realistic alternative.
Boston Phoenix |
Deirdre Fulton |
07-14-2005 |
Environment
Middle-Aged Identity Crisis is a Post-Graduate Experiencenew
King of the Corner is a mellow, shaggy, post-Graduate existential crisis in which an ordinary middle-aged man wakes up to his own life and wonders if that's all there is.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: King of the Corner, Peter Riegert
Film Crashes at the Intersection of Clever and Clichenew
Happy Endings, Don Roos' comedy of love, sex and parental instincts, joins Crash, Short Cuts and Magnolia as one of those films that trails countless intersecting characters across sprawling Los Angeles.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Don Roos, Happy Endings
