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Indiana Ford ... and the Kingdom of Lucas and Spielbergnew
A proudly analog artifact exhumed and dusted off for our digital age, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is no less of a search for lost time on the part of its primary creators, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, but likely for much of the audience too.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
05-27-2008 |
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'Son of Rambow' Celebrates Moviemaking Fever, Middle-school Stylenew
Why is it that kids playing dress-up in blockbuster tropes rarely gets old? Perhaps more to the point, why does the idea of rough-hewn DIY cinema seem so appealing now?
Nashville Scene |
Jim Ridley |
05-27-2008 |
Reviews
New Values: Corruption and Death in Cannes
The big movies at Cannes this year treated the subject of corruption, from betrayal of personal ethics for cash to systematic governmental abuse, with cinematic inoculations of hope for an equalizing justice for humanity.
The 61st Cannes Film Festival Awards its Favorites
CANNES, France May 25. At this year's Cannes Film Festival, the jury, presided over by Sean Penn, awarded the Palme d'Or to Laurent Cantet for his heavily work-shopped film about a French junior high school teacher in a tough neighborhood, whose teaching style is challenged by his difficult students.
'The World According to Monsanto' Investigates the Agricultural Giantnew
The extent of the Monsanto corporation's evildoing, and how they've been able to get away with it for so long, is the subject of the scrupulous, thorough and damning new film from French director Marie-Monique Robin, who's published a companion book of the same title.
Montreal Mirror |
Malcolm Fraser |
05-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Indiana Jones Wants You Damn Kids to Get off His Lawn!new
Harrison Ford is, once again, funny and tough and cool, able to crack a bullwhip and punch out a stooge with the best of 'em. But the film doesn't feel the same. There's CG and sci-fi.
The Portland Mercury |
Erik Henriksen |
05-23-2008 |
Reviews
'Prince Caspian' is Inappropriate for All Agesnew
Of the 144 minutes that the new fantasy-adventure film The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian runs, there isn't a single clever one to be found. There are, perhaps, three or four that sufficiently stimulate the eyes. This leaves at least 140 more to be bored by, to laugh at, to be further bored by and, finally, to plan an escape from.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Emiliano Garcia-Sarnoff |
05-23-2008 |
Reviews
'Flawless' Features One of Michael Caine's Best Performancesnew
Unfortunately, it also features a mediocre and occasionally limp performance by Demi Moore, who gets a lot more screen time than Caine, which seems unfair, because she's married to Ashton Kutcher, and Michael Caine's real name is Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr., so, honestly, who's more deserving: someone who's boffing Ashton Kutcher, or poor Maury Micklewhite?
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
05-22-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Flawless, Michael Radford
Indy is Back and As Exciting as Evernew
While it hits a few snags, the latest in this cherished film series is certainly worth the wait and contains enough big-wow moments to cancel out the negatives.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
05-22-2008 |
Reviews
First Shotnew
A decade ago, the big story was every studio's rush to acquire its own boutique indie imprint; now, with the battle of co-optation won and the concept of "independence" thus eradicated in the average moviegoer's mind, those same studios are dropping their junior divisions like they’re hot.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
05-22-2008 |
Movies
How to Stop Worrying and Love Lucas, Spielberg and 'Raiders'new
When I reviewed Raiders, I wrote not so much about its contents -- which struck me as aggressively inane -- but about the experience of seeing it at the Village Twin. To me, everything that night was of a piece, all of it depressing evidence of a tripartite decline.
'Mister Lonely' Moonwalks between Surreal and Melancholynew
Harmony Korine's latest -- his first feature since Julien Donkey-Boy -- is perhaps his most unusual effort to date, but not for the reasons seasoned Korine watchers might expect.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Cheryl Eddy |
05-22-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Mister Lonely, Harmony Korine
Uwe Boll's 'Postal' Fails to Comprehend Its Own Corrupt Naturenew
Based on the mindlessly violent series of first-person shooters, Postal contains the same intensely farcical bloodshed, but it's Boll's knuckleheaded misinterpretation of topical humor that really gets me.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
05-22-2008 |
Reviews
'The Children of Huang Shi' is Lovely to Look Atnew
But that's about it. The real star of Huang Shi is the cinematographer, Zhao Xiaoding, who was a camera operator on the breathtaking epic Hero and director of photography on House of Flying Daggers.
New York Press |
Raphaela Weissman |
05-22-2008 |
Reviews
The New Indiana Jones is More than Commercial Gimcracknew
The pressing challenge of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is for Spielberg to address the generation that grew up with Indiana Jones and may now feel they have outgrown him. But to avoid that fickle self-loathing, Spielberg has to raise their appreciation of action-movie tropes.
New York Press |
Armond White |
05-22-2008 |
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