AltWeeklies Wire
'Bella' Offers Life Too Beautiful to be Believednew
Trite coincidence and obvious symbolism are compounded by absurd components of the story.
Style Weekly |
Wayne Melton |
12-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Alejandro Gomez Monteverde, Bella
Settle the Scorenew
Clément Virgo and Rossif Sutherland on Poor Boy’s Game, their Halifax-set story of boxing, violence and racial tension.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
12-04-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Clément Virgo, Poor Boy’s Game
Feel the Painnew
The drugs don't work for Hayden Christensen in the lousy thriller Awake.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
12-04-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Awake, Joby Harold
Old Schoolnew
The Cemetery Club focuses on the colourful characters in an Israeli seniors' learning group
Montreal Mirror |
Malcolm Fraser |
12-04-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Tali Shemesh, The Cemetery Club
Sci Fi Channel Boldy Goes to Oznew
An endlessly twisted riff on The Wizard of Oz, Tin Man takes L. Frank Baum;s classic story and puts it through a modern space-age blender.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Patrick Hildebrandt |
12-04-2007 |
TV
Das Lootnew
A documentary deftly explores the Nazi theft of thousands of works of art.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Matt Prigge |
12-04-2007 |
Reviews
James Marsden: Low Profile and Loving Itnew
"I'm more comfortable with the bar set low," he says with a flash of his milky-white smile. "If expectations are low, you can only impress people."
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
12-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Enough With Insider Hollywood ... Bring on the Fart Jokesnew
Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight and The Insider consistently air some of the least relevant content on television. A much more enlightening show is Comedy Central's newly acquired Kenny Vs. Spenny.
New Haven Advocate |
Doron Monk Flake |
12-04-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Tamara Jenkins Keeps It Realnew
Coming almost 10 years after Slums of Beverly Hills, her new movie, The Savages, mines a difficult time in Jenkins' early 30s, when she saw both her grandmother and her father succumb to senility.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
12-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Tamara Jenkins, The Savages
Savage Lovenew
Tamara Jenkins plumbs the depths of choosing a nursing home in her new film, The Savages, and jacks it up a few notches by asking what it's like to care for a demented father who never cared for you.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
12-04-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Tamara Jenkins, The Savages
Iron 'Butterfly'new
There is more directing per square inch of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly than one is likely to find in any other movie released this year.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
12-04-2007 |
Reviews
'The Rape of Europa': Shot Through the Artnew
How the Nazis looted and destroyed Europe's cultural treasures.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
12-04-2007 |
Reviews
So Respectable
Atonement delivers compelling filmmaking better analyzed than felt.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
12-04-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Atonement, Joe Wright
Be-yawned Belief
The Golden Compass isn't interesting enough to threaten anyone's soul.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
12-04-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Chris Weitz, The Golden Compass
'Cloudbreaker': Destiny's Childnew
Filmmaker Adam Garnet Jones relives youthful imagination and identity-seeking.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Sean Flinn |
12-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Adam Garnet Jones, Cloudbreaker
