AltWeeklies Wire
Uwe Boll Bores Againnew
In the Name of the King is long on visually confused, thrill-free action and short on everything else that makes a movie pleasurable. Except CGI-enhanced scenery.
NOW Magazine |
Andrew Dowler |
01-11-2008 |
Reviews
Jack Nicholson's Hospital Staynew
A few weeks before Nicholson was supposed to play a dying man who makes a friend in a hospital ward, he became ill and ended up spending eight weeks in a hospital.
The Georgia Straight |
Ian Caddell |
01-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Rob Reiner, The Bucket List
Wedding Crapper: Rom Com Coffin Gets Another Nail
Agonizing, flaccid, and about as romantic as bottle of flat champagne “27 Dresses” is a perfect example of the stereotypical Hollywood romantic comedies that Judd Apatow’s “40 Year Old Virgin” and “Knocked Up” successfully disemboweled.
Tags: 27 Dresses, Anne Fletcher
The New Bill Cosby: Ice Cubenew
He may tote a gun as First Sunday's desperate daddy, but Ice Cube saves his gangsta style for the hip-hop side of his career, not his kid-friendly flicks.
The Georgia Straight |
Ian Caddell |
01-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: David E. Talbert, First Sunday
Creator Marjane Satrapi on the Adapted 'Persepolis'new
"I always thought that was the worst idea in the world," Satrapi says with a grin. "To make comics and then to make a movie out of them I still think is not a very good idea."
The Georgia Straight |
Mark Leiren-Young |
01-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Persepolis
Hollywood Product: 'The Bucket List'new
The bottom line: Director Rob Reiner significantly improves from disasters such as Rumor Has It for this predictable yet good-natured comedy that makes dialogue like "Find the joy in your life" go down surprisingly easy.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-10-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Rob Reiner, The Bucket List
'The Orphanage': Spirited Awaynew
Spanish director's Casper is no friendly ghost.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-10-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Juan Antonio Bayona, The Orphanage
The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival's Identity Heftnew
Festival provides themes of belonging.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
01-10-2008 |
Movies
'There Will Be Blood': American Nightmarenew
Paul Thomas Anderson sees blind ambition in his latest epic.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
01-10-2008 |
Reviews
A Haunted Orphanage? No way!new
Screenwriter Sergio G. Sánchez and director Juan Antonio Bayona are content to dig up and exploit every worn-out horror cliché they can think of -- which'd be a problem if The Orphanage wasn't so goddamn scary.
The Portland Mercury |
Erik Henriksen |
01-10-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Juan Antonio Bayona, The Orphanage
The Films of Paul Thomas Andersonnew
Screening all of Anderson's feature-length films in order was something I'd never done, but in anticipation of his latest, There Will Be Blood, I started with Hard Eight, then hit Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and Punch-Drunk Love.
The Portland Mercury |
Ezra Ace Caraeff |
01-10-2008 |
Movies
Retroactive Revelationnew
It's possible that the greatest horror filmmaker in movie history never cried "Action" on a set. That's because Val Lewton, whose name recalls RKO Pictures' creepiest outings of the 1940s, always served as producer and screenwriter, not director.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
01-10-2008 |
TV
The Birth Monologuesnew
Producer Ricki Lake on the birth culture of the U.S.
New York Press |
Jennifer Merin |
01-10-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Need for New Scare Tacticsnew
Yet another boring J-horror translation proves we don't do horror right.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
01-10-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Eric Valette, One Missed Call
Korean Fusionnew
Though specific to his country's cultural situation, Korean director Hong Sang-soo's Woman on the Beach offers flavors of quarterlife angst and romantic insecurity for which American audiences clearly have an insatiable appetite.
New York Press |
Benjamin Sutton |
01-10-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Hong Sang-soo, Women on the Beach
