AltWeeklies Wire
The Moviegoernew
Robert Osborne, who hosts this month's 31 Days of Oscar on Turner Classic Movies, represents the history of Hollywood. Up next: A new management team tries to shape the future of the Atlanta-based network.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
David Lee Simmons |
02-20-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tape Head
Be Kind Rewind director Michel Gondry talks shop ... video shop, that is.
Monday Magazine |
Bill Stuart |
02-20-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Michel Gondry, Be Kind Rewind
'Charlie Bartlett' & 'Vantage Point': Illusions of Powernew
Drug-dealing student quickly conquers high school. World peace might take slightly longer.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
02-20-2008 |
Reviews
Of Analogies and Alpha Dogsnew
Charlie Bartlett, fittingly, feels like a first film. It's flecked throughout with a decent store of genuine laughs and sweet, budding-romance moments, but these are offset too frequently by painfully conventional bits and notably odd directorial choices.
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
02-20-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Charlie Bartlett, John Poll
Let Us Cast the First Stonenew
For a show so tied to the possibility of a demonstrative God, Eli Stone has curiously little magic.
San Antonio Current |
Luke Baumgarten |
02-20-2008 |
TV
Can a Teen Pregnancy Flick Win the Oscar?new
It depends on how you look at comedy. Juno is the lone comedy among films that in retrospect might mark 2007 as the Year of Drear.
Charleston City Paper |
John Stoehr |
02-20-2008 |
Movies
Tags: Juno
Portland International Film Fest Saves the Best for Lastnew
The final weekend of the whirlwind globe-hopping that is the PIFF offers fresh and juicy material from people you've actually heard of before.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
02-20-2008 |
Movies
Where is the Glamour?new
At Oscar time, there's subterranean industry at work with every appearance, at every instant of elegant display: fashion designers, dressers, hairstylists, makeup artists, so that George Clooney gleams and Nicole Kidman absorbs no light.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
02-20-2008 |
Movies
'Be Kind Rewind': Utopian Tourette'snew
Michel Gondry says what's on his mind.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
02-20-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Michel Gondry, Be Kind Rewind
'In Bruges' Creates a New Kind of Hit-Man Humornew
Ostensibly a comedy, the film cracks its jokes with a heavy heart. It tries to laugh off what hit men do for a living and fails miserably.
Tags: In Bruges, Martin McDonagh
Orlando Wants to Resurrect 'Hollywood East'new
In its heyday, Hollywood East was supposed to turn our tourist-trap burg into a anchor of the film production world. Today, however, Central Florida suffers the humiliation of straight-to-DVD sequel infamy, reality television and commercials. Orlando is now trying to position itself as a real entertainment Mecca, but not so much as a place where artistic integrity reigns.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
02-19-2008 |
Movies
Zombie Nationnew
It's the living that's unsettling about The Living Dead.
Baltimore City Paper |
John Berndt |
02-19-2008 |
Movies
'In Bruges': Limbo Shticknew
The film is a delightful mixture of the sacred and profane.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Sean Burns |
02-19-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: In Bruges, Martin McDonagh
The Political Thriller Returns With a Vengeance
Director Pete Travis has turned debut screenwriter Barry Levy's Rashomon-inspired script, about an assassination attempt against a U.S. president on a visit to Salamanca into a dizzyingly complex puzzle that sits comfortably next to such great political thrillers as In the Line of Fire.
Tags: Pete Travis, Vantage Point
Philippa Gregory's Novel Gets Shackled
Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson make a handsome, if redundantly costumed, pair of 16th century English sisters in this half-hearted period drama set between King Henry VIII's noble court and his volatile bedroom.
