AltWeeklies Wire
'Henry Poole' is Too Uninspired to be Inspirationalnew
Hollywood doesn't often deal directly with issues of faith and spirituality, mainly because it wants to appeal to as many people as humanly possible. So it's too bad that when a movie like Henry Poole Is Here finally steps up to the pulpit, director Mark Pellington phones it in.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
08-15-2008 |
Reviews
'Bottle Shock': Stick a Cork in Itnew
French oenological hauteur is shattered in this true but dully told story about the international debut of Napa Valley's wines.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-14-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Randall Miller, Bottle Shock
Putting the Buzz in Buzz Aldrennew
The animated Fly Me to the Moon is a simple parable of spirited can-do-ism, in which a trio of young houseflies semiaccidentally tags along on the Apollo 11 moonshot.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-14-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Ben Stassen, Fly Me to the Moon
'Henry Poole': Finding God in the Cracksnew
Director Mark Pellington has turned soft with this corny, redemptive, and/or inspirational tale that stars Luke Wilson.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
08-14-2008 |
Reviews
'The Last Mistress': Controversy Becomes Hernew
The latest titillation from French provocatrice Catherine Breillat is a period piece starring the ever-alluring Asia Argento.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-14-2008 |
Reviews
'Clone Wars' Introduces Girl Powernew
The only important things in this new animated epic are that viewers be blown away by the endless and pointless laser battles and that girl power comes into its own.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
08-14-2008 |
Reviews
Take a Passnew
Take, with a very good performance by Minnie Driver, is a dreadfully misguided movie whose story of redemption is utterly irredeemable.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-14-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Charles Oliver, Take
'Tropic Thunder': Apocalypse, and How!new
Instead of entering the jungle to find the heart of darkness, Ben Stiller goes in to take aim at the Achilles heel of Hollywood: its utter pomposity and self-importance.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-14-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Ben Stiller, Tropic Thunder
'Vicky Cristina Barcelona': Girls in Every Portnew
Woody Allen's newest is by no means a bad film, but it’s irrefutable evidence that Allen has aged – or cloistered – himself into irrelevance.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
08-14-2008 |
Reviews
Does the Recent Surge of Stoner Movies Mean America is Going to Pot?new
Marijuana movies are a hot genre right now -- Knocked Up, Harold & Kumar (both Go to White Castle and Escape from Guantanamo Bay), and Superbad have made piles of green at the box office. Just this past week, Pineapple Express topped the box office at $12.5 million, a record for a Wednesday opening in August. And those are just the obvious offenders.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
08-14-2008 |
Movies
'Vicky Cristina Barcelona': Justify Their Lovenew
Woody Allen takes his affairs abroad again.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
08-14-2008 |
Reviews
More Star Wars?new
Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the franchise’s new animated feature, doesn't come within light years of the original entry's glory, but it's a welcome relief from the last three.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
08-13-2008 |
Reviews
The Vast Wastelandnew
What's so real about reality television?
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Nsenga Burton |
08-13-2008 |
TV
'Tropic Thunder' Wasn't the Expected Rambo-style Satirenew
What I got, and what I should have expected, was a rather well-produced and spectacle-driven broad action-comedy that should satisfy anyone not expecting a wealth of subtle or subversive humor. Duh, right?
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
08-13-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Ben Stiller, Tropic Thunder
'In Plain Sight' is Just Plain Badnew
After a half-decade of success as a station of lovable neurotics — Tony Shaloub's eponymous Monk; the idiosyncratic spies of Burn Notice, etc. — USA's thrown a curveball in the character of Mary Shannon, a neurotic who is quite the opposite of lovable.
San Antonio Current |
Luke Baumgarten |
08-13-2008 |
TV
