AltWeeklies Wire
Sundance Shufflenew
Everyone at the Sundance Film Festival this year agreed: It’s no easy task to tell a good story.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
01-31-2008 |
Movies
With or Without Younew
Don’t expect something profound, just unfettered fun during a U2 concert in 3-D.
New York Press |
Armond White |
01-31-2008 |
Reviews
The Procedurenew
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days looks at life in a world without legal abortions.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
01-31-2008 |
Reviews
Beyond Rangoonnew
Sylvester Stallone's Rambo aims to please by wiping out the brutes of Burma.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
01-31-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Rambo, Sylvester Stallone
Perception is Everything in 'How to Look Good Naked'new
Patterned after a popular British program of the same name, the American version features blond and boyish Carson Kressley from Queer Eye for a Straight Guy, this time directing his gaze to women’s bodies.
Port Folio Weekly |
Kathy Merlock Jackson |
01-31-2008 |
TV
Solid Cast Doesn't Helpnew
Over Her Dead Body is being sold as a light comedy but winds up giving you indigestion.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
01-30-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Jeff Lowell, Over Her Dead Body
There are Strengths, But Film is Overall Weaknew
There are surefire signs that this is one of Woody’s stinkers, right? Well, no. It’s not one of his best movies, either, but it’s an interesting failure.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
01-30-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Woody Allen, Cassandra's Dream
Eva Longoria's New Film May Help You Sleepnew
Uninspired writing and hackneyed scenarios prevent Over Her Dead Body from being anything more than a feature-length sleep aid.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Tasha Chemplavil |
01-30-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Jeff Lowell, Over Her Dead Body
Weirdsville Neither as Funny Nor as Serious as it Should Benew
An awkward cross between Requiem for a Dream and Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Weirdsville never achieves the balance it needs to work either as a dark portrait of petty crime and drug addiction or as a goofy, ramshackle stoner comedy.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Josh Bell |
01-30-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Allan Moyle, Weirdsville
Persepolis is Quite an Extraordinary Achievementnew
Though the film leaves out the subtle and complex political nuances of the book in favor of speed and brevity, it’s also a good deal livelier and funnier.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
01-30-2008 |
Reviews
Francis Ford Coppola Returns From Hiatusnew
I wish I could report that Youth Without Youth is a comeback of immense proportions and that Coppola has restored himself as a kind of genius auteur, but the film is far more difficult than that.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
01-30-2008 |
Reviews
Romania is Where the Action Isnew
When critics aren't whiling away their time discussing the merits of celebrity hairdos, one of their favorite occupations is "discovering" a neglected national film industry and championing it loudly. For the past two years, the hot international project has been Romania.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
01-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Not Up to Snuffnew
The problem Untraceable is it gives its hero little to do beyond tapping on computer keys and fretting in a maternal way about her daughter and the younger FBI agents under her care.
Charleston City Paper |
Maryann Johanson |
01-30-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Gregory Hoblit, Untraceable
Watching People at Computer is Boringnew
Untraceable, the new would-be cyber-thriller starring Diane Lane, misses this concept entirely.
C-Ville Weekly |
Devin O'Leary |
01-30-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Gregory Hoblit, Untraceable
D.O.A.new
Over Her Dead Body is billed as a romantic comedy, but if that is what this film is, then that means it’s possible that a movie without the slightest bit of romance or comedy can qualify as such.
San Diego CityBeat |
Todd Kroviak |
01-30-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Jeff Lowell, Over Her Dead Body
