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No Money, No Funnynew
If you can't muster up any sympathy for the Writers Guild, then perhaps you deserve to watch The Biggest Loser. There's your irony for you.
Baltimore City Paper |
Brian Morton |
11-20-2007 |
Movies
Corn-fed Americanew
King Corn, an amusing and entertaining documentary, traces the sources of the food problem displayed in Super Size Me.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
11-19-2007 |
Reviews
Big Studios to Oscar: 'Love Me'new
It's getting to be that time of year again, when vast amounts of magazine space and precious internet bandwidth are consumed by laughably early Oscar picks and predictions.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Sean Burns |
11-19-2007 |
Movies
'The Rape of Nanking' Finally Set to Filmnew
When U.S. author Iris Chang wrote The Rape of Nanking in 1997, she lifted a cloak of silence from one of the most violent events in modern history.
The Georgia Straight |
Jenny Uechi |
11-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Freddie Highmore on 'August Rush'new
Highmore's own gift, which has led to winning several child-acting awards, will not be on view much longer, he says. The actor has continually told reporters that he will not attempt to be an adult actor, preferring to find other ways to make a living when he gets older.
The Georgia Straight |
Ian Caddell |
11-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: August Rush, Kirsten Sheridan
Mike Newell on 'Love in the Time of Cholera'new
"Would I have had the confidence to make this movie if I hadn't done a Harry Potter?," Newell asked. "Absolutely. But the money is a whole other matter."
The Georgia Straight |
Ken Eisner |
11-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Darabont Turns King Novella into Instant-Classic Horror Picture
It took director Frank Darabont writing a better ending for Stephen King's 1980 novella before he could tackle making the best legitimate horror movie to come out in years.
'Southland Tales' Wastes an All-Star Castnew
This is perhaps the most self-indulgent film to come down the pike in more than a decade and is likely to be remembered in the same breath as such other costly debacles as Heaven's Gate and Cleopatra.
Pasadena Weekly |
Carl Kozlowski |
11-19-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Richard Kelly, Southland Tales
Princess Charming
Amy Adams sweetly embodies a human cartoon in Enchanted.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
11-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Enchanted, Kevin Lima
Angeleno Apocalyptonew
Two new films -- the sprawling Southland Tales and the focused Smiley Face -- roam our home turf.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
11-16-2007 |
Reviews
'Southland Diaries': Re-Cut but Not Improvednew
Richard Kelly seems to think that to merely mention Fallujah or global warming -- or to name a bank after Karl Rove -- is the same as actually having an opinion about them, and his all-you-can-eat buffet of cinematic in-references operates on pretty much the same superficial level.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
11-16-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Richard Kelly, Southland Tales
'Redacted' Never Flinches From the Casualties of Warnew
Brian De Palma is angry, about the war in Iraq and about the fact that his Iraq movie, Redacted, has fallen victim to the very censorship it is, in part, a reaction against.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
11-16-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Brian De Palma, Redacted
'Mr. Magorium': Small Wondernew
Like most Christmas movies, Mr. Magorium's stocking comes stuffed with PSAs (albeit well-written ones, by the spiritless current standards of the genre) alerting children to what they of all people already know.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
11-16-2007 |
Reviews
Back to the 'Futurama'
Four years after Fox left it for dead, Matt Groening and David X. Cohen's Futurama has a new life.
Tags: TV
'Mr. Magorium' is a Little Too Whimsicalnew
The film is cheesy and old-fashioned but not
entirely unsatisfying.
Montreal Mirror |
Malcolm Fraser |
11-16-2007 |
Reviews
