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Wes Anderson's Man-Boysnew
The thing that elevates The Darjeeling Limited, what makes it a movie well worth seeing, is how aware the director is of limitations -- in his characters and himself.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
10-10-2007 |
Reviews
The True Hollywood Story of a Band Apart Co-Founder Michael Bodnarcheknew
Bodnarchek had co-founded A Band Apart Commercials in the summer of 1995 with celebrated director Quentin Tarantino and producer Lawrence Bender Yet almost as quickly as A Band Apart grew, it tore asunder.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Peter S. Scholtes |
10-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Dexter' Killsnew
The show isn't perfect, but it's damn good, and the paradox of the citizen serial killer is executed with enough zest to keep me happy for another season or two.
San Antonio Current |
Luke Baumgarten |
10-10-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Tilda Swinton, Gangstanew
Director Tony Gilroy pulled in George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Sydney Pollack, and Swinton -- not exactly the chopped liver of the film world -- to bring the required tension to a somewhat dull script for Michael Clayton.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
10-10-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Clayton, Tony Gilroy
John August on His Directorial Debutnew
The acclaimed screenwriter talks about switching roles for The Nines.
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
10-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: John August, The Nines
Wes Anderson Gets Back on Tracknew
Anderson, the director-guru of hipsters everywhere, has returned with his best film since Rushmore.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
10-10-2007 |
Reviews
'Cavemen' Needs a Little Evolutionnew
The idea of a sitcom based on an ad campaign doesn't exactly create a fervor of anticipation. But there are actually some surprises -- including decent, timely, pop-culture jokes -- to be unearthed in Cavemen, which exists in a bizarro-world that includes real, hairy Neanderthals living and dating among us.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
10-10-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Long Duk Dong's Returnnew
Gedde Watanabe (of Sixteen Candles and ER fame) appears in the short film Fortune Hunters in San Diego Asian Film Festival. He thought the script both embraced and broke down the Asian stereotypes that often make their way into movies and that he himself has played on more than one occasion.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
10-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Fortune Hunters, Thom Harp
The Edward Scissorhands for South Carolinanew
Pearl Fryar's cavernous voice is a major reason this big-screen profile of the Bishopville, S.C., topiary artist is appealing.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Haire |
10-10-2007 |
Reviews
Cynthia Hill Examines the Plight of Low-paid Field Handsnew
In The Guestworker, the closest Hill gets to editorializing is juxtaposing images of a farmer eating a family meal in his house with those of the guestworkers' shoddier living conditions.
Charleston City Paper |
Nick Smith |
10-10-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Cyntha Hill, The Guestworker
Laboring with Childhood in 'My Kid Could Paint That'new
Amir Bar-Lev's excellent documentary starts out as a straight-up chronicle of a way-underage artistic phenomenon, until unforeseen developments suggest some sort of mass-media con job based on dreams of squeaky-clean white suburbia.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dennis Harvey |
10-10-2007 |
Reviews
'Friday Night Lights' Remains Grounded in the Everydaynew
The best show you didn't watch last year, this ratings-challenged small-screen adaptation of Buzz Bissinger's book zeroes in on dashed hopes and broken dreams in the town of Dillon, Texas -- where high school football is the be-all and end-all and about the only way most folks can muddle through.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Sean Burns |
10-09-2007 |
Movies
'The Jane Austen Book Club': The Slight Fluffnew
Underdeveloped, unbelievable women, borderline gross romances, and talky bits -- shh, it's not over yet!
Baltimore City Paper |
Anna Ditkoff |
10-09-2007 |
Reviews
Battle of the Multiplexnew
Hollywood unleashes a wave of films related to the war on terror, including In the Valley of Elah, The Kingdom and Rendition.
Pasadena Weekly |
Carl Kozlowski |
10-09-2007 |
Movies
Direction Finder
Michael Clayton misses a shot at greatness by having too much to say.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
10-09-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Clayton, Tony Gilroy
