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Fortunately, 'Traitor' Has Don Cheadle's Moral Heftnew
Now that Traitor is done, it seems like puffing this package up with commercial viability also was a way of watering its premise down.
Charleston City Paper |
Jonathan Kiefer |
08-27-2008 |
Reviews
You'll Get Drunk Watching 'Bottle Shock'new
The story is perfect timing for our foodie-obsessed age, showing the backstory behind something we take for granted -- global wine culture -- while also delving into the finer points of winemaking, like the potential disaster of too much oxygen in producing a winning chardonnay.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
08-27-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Randall Miller, Bottle Shock
Alex Holdridge on the Perils of Shoestring-Budget Filmmakingnew
The Midnight Kiss director explains the dark place where indie filmmaking meets Starbucks.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
08-27-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
So Long, Summer Movies -- Hello, Fall Filmsnew
Fall is the best time of year for film critics, because the award-oriented prestige films finally get trotted out for judgment. Here's a handy clip 'n' save list of movies I'm personally looking forward to.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
08-27-2008 |
Movies
'Elegy' Captures the Pathos of Love Lostnew
Elegy, based on the Philip Roth novel The Dying Animal, is a funeral song not just for a lost love, after all, but a lost man.
Baltimore City Paper |
Wendy Ward |
08-26-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Elegy, Isabel Coixet
Anna Faris Produces Her Way to Ditsy Comedic Successnew
The twist here is that Faris not only conceived of the idea but also produced the movie for Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions -- a feat sure to inspire legions of young women, who are rarely taken seriously in big-screen comedy, even a woman who is one of her generation's funniest actresses.
Baltimore City Paper |
Cole Haddon |
08-26-2008 |
Reviews
'The Longshots' Tosses an Incomplete Passnew
After a series of family vehicles, Ice Cube sticks to the all-too-familiar game plan of the underdog movie.
NOW Magazine |
Radheyan Simonpillai |
08-26-2008 |
Reviews
'Elegy' Deals with Issues That Actually Matternew
In a season dominated by comic book adaptations suitable for teenagers, along comes Elegy, the story of womanizing college prof David Kepesh, who gets more than he bargains for when he takes up with his ex-student, Consuela.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
08-26-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Elegy, Isabel Coixet
Runway Project Celebrates 'Project Runway'new
Runway Project is National Mechanics' screening party for the fifth season of Bravo's fierce reality TV show. Getting into the game is easy: Name your team (the more ProjRun-related the better) and name your "model," a hysterically disproportionate knockoff Barbie that gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "hot tranny mess."
Philadelphia City Paper |
Rebecca Grites |
08-26-2008 |
TV
Sweet Talking with the Film Banditsnew
The film collective of 15 or so just finished casting for Pinheads!. Their first short is the story of a group of second-rate villains — a pickpocket, a dine-and-dasher, a movie pirater and the aforementioned cupcake thief — who play in a bowling league against an equally unimpressive lineup of heroes.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Monica Weymouth |
08-26-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: film festivals, cupcakes
Steve Coogan Suffers the Slings and Arrows of Being a Dopey Shakespeare Hopefulnew
Coogan spends the film in a tug-of-war with the script; he's forced into some blatantly obvious humor, from the broad commercial parodies to the endless mangling of his character's consonant-heavy name. But he also maximizes the thinly veiled rage burbling under Marschz's veneer of undying optimism.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
08-26-2008 |
Reviews
'Father' is a Bittersweet Look Backnew
Dear old dad takes another left hook to the chin in When Did You Last See Your Father? -- well, not a hook so much as a series of jabs.
Connecticut Tax Dollars Subsidize a Film Industry That Doesn't Need the Helpnew
The state is betting a small fortune on Connecticut becoming a viable home to the film industry, offering production companies the most generous tax breaks in the country and paying film union members upwards of half a million dollars to train a hundred or so people to do film jobs they may never get.
New Haven Advocate |
Andy Bromage |
08-26-2008 |
Movies
'Baghead': The Sacknessnew
An ingenue, a diva, a chucklehead, and a seemingly regular guy who turns out to be a chucklehead go into the woods to write a movie for their struggling-actor selves. It sounds like the setup for a bad joke, but in fact it's the premise of Baghead.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
08-25-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Baghead, Jay and Mark Duplass
'The Rocker' and 'Hamlet 2': Stage Plightnew
The heroes of two new films struggle to find themselves—and an audience.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
08-25-2008 |
Reviews
