AltWeeklies Wire
The Boston Underground Film Festival: Now with More Gravitasnew
This year's slate of films, while remaining faithfully campy and exploitative, takes a stab at bigger, more profound topics.
Dig Boston |
Harry Vaughn |
03-20-2008 |
Movies
Board Gamesnew
Gus Van Sant keeps watching -- and tormenting -- beautiful boys.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
03-20-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Gus Van Sant, Paranoid Park
A Non-History Lesson
The Tudors is fun. But remember: It's Showtime, not the History Channel.
Tags: TV
Adam Corolla Lays Down 'The Hammer'new
What if I told you Corolla has a new feel-good romantic boxing comedy coming out? Now, what if I told you that The Hammer is pretty good?
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
03-19-2008 |
Reviews
Reality Bytesnew
Director-editor Juan Carlos Pineiro
Escoriaza's Second Skin attempts to humanize Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing gamers who spend a significant portion of their lives hiding behind an avatar and handle.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
03-19-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Juan Carlos Pineiro, Second Skin
Protecting Our Precious Bodily Fluids with Pure Hokumnew
It is very difficult to overestimate the importance of water. Russian filmmakers Anastasiya Popova and Julia Perkul have done it.
Willamette Week |
John Minervini |
03-19-2008 |
Reviews
Teenage Wastelandnew
Gus Van Sant knows where Portland's skater kids have buried their feelings.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
03-19-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Gus Van Sant, Paranoid Park
Disc Closurenew
TV shows on DVD offer entertainment comfort food for the super-busy and the ultra-geeky.
Fairfield County Weekly |
Nick Keppler |
03-19-2008 |
Movies
Seattle Director Seeks Uplift in Slums of Manilanew
When the press notes tell you that a neophyte local director quit his job, sold his house, and cashed in his Boeing stock to make an uplifting tale about the power of love, faith, and family in the slums of Manila, a jaundiced critic can only respond that, well, Boeing stock doesn't look so valuable anymore, does it?
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
03-18-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Gil Ponce, Tall as Trees
Canadian Films Seek More Screen Timenew
A Canada-only theater? It's one possible solution to the ongoing problem of ensuring Canadian films a fair run on our own screens.
The Georgia Straight |
Craig Takeuchi |
03-17-2008 |
Movies
Gettin' Jiggy Wid It: International B-Boy Battle Buzzes Onscreen
The mid '80s urban dance form of breakdancing is alive and well in director Benson Lee's joyful celebration of the ingenuity and energy expressed by international "B-boy" dance crews competing in Braunschweig, Germany at the 2005 "Battle of the Year."
Tags: Benson Lee, Planet B-Boy
Paranoid Angelsnew
Two indie auteurs, David Gordon Green and Gus Van Sant, take different approaches to high school melodrama in Snow Angels and Paranoid Park.
Pasadena Weekly |
Carl Kozlowski |
03-17-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: David Gordon Green, Snow Angels
Michael Haneke Will Be Your Mirrornew
Don't blame him if you don't like what you see.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
03-14-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Funny Games, Michael Haneke
Paranoid Angelsnew
With Paranoid Park and Snow Angels, Gus Van Sant and David Gordon Green take different approaches to high school melodrama.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
03-14-2008 |
Movies
With New Film Project, Professor Griff Takes on African-American Media Stereotypesnew
Griff's most famous role in that long career is minister of communications for Public Enemy, but Griff (born Richard Griffin) has made his own name in the world as well, separate from but always in pursuit of the same agenda that drove Public Enemy: empowering black people, countering media dissembling, fighting the powers that be.
Artvoice |
Geoff Kelly |
03-14-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
