AltWeeklies Wire
Jonathan Demme Follows Our Busiest Ex-Presidentnew
Aside from the fact that it makes you feel like human scum, Jimmy Carter Man From Plains is an inspiring documentary.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
11-01-2007 |
Reviews
'Bee Movie': Jerry Seinfeld Gets Cutenew
In the animated film, some salt and some sting go down easy.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
11-01-2007 |
Reviews
'The Kite Runner' Makes Aghanistan's Politics Provocativenew
Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner gets the Marc Forster touch in its film adaptation.
New York Press |
Armond White |
11-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Marc Forster, The Kite Runner
Docs on Costume Wearers Highlight Universal Discomfortnew
Distinct patterns of psychological fragility emerge in Confessions of a Superhero and Darkon.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
11-01-2007 |
Reviews
Bizarro Jerrynew
It's nine years after Seinfeld, and Jerry still isn't master of his domain. What went wrong?
New York Press |
David Blum |
11-01-2007 |
Movies
Denzel vs. Russell: The Winner Gets All the Heroinnew
American Gangster is a blunt brick of a movie; neither very stylish nor terribly complex, it still takes 157 minutes to batter home its muscular tale of men who speak softly and carry big guns.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
10-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: American Gangster, Ridley Scott
Patrick Fugit Ends Things in 'Wristcutters'new
Wristcutters isn't the kind of suicide movie where the lead is saved, goes to therapy and support groups and eventually finds value in life again. No, Zia cuts his wrists -- and dies. But that's just the beginning.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
10-31-2007 |
Reviews
Actor Sam Riley on Portraying Ian Curtisnew
"He wasn't an idol of mine, so I didn't approach the character with any reverence, really," says Riley, adding that he developed "a lot of respect and admiration for the lyricist and performer I found he was once I started researching him."
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
10-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Control, Anton Corbijn
'American Gangster' Shows Crime Doesn't Paynew
The film is quite a high-caliber affair, with a star-studded cast and close attention to period details -- but it's overlong, a little too morally precise, and spends too much time on Russell Crowe's character, who is hardly as interesting as Denzel Washington's smooth, sinister schemer.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Cheryl Eddy |
10-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: American Gangster, Ridley Scott
A Conversation With the Godfather of Gorenew
Between 1960 and 1972, Herschell Gordon Lewis ruled the drive-in with a steady stream of exploitation movies, made on the cheap for crowds unafraid to experience the kind of special effects that earned him the nickname "the Godfather of Gore."
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Cheryl Eddy |
10-31-2007 |
Movies
The Great Actor Mix-up of 2007new
Ryan Gosling is David Arquette in Lars and the Real Girl, director Craig Gillespie's follow-up to his acclaimed (cough) debut, Mr. Woodcock.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
10-31-2007 |
Reviews
'King Corn' Examines What Health is Worthnew
This documentary follows the directors as they arrange to farm an acre of corn in Iowa, then follow the harvest as best they can as it flows into the whitewater river of agrocommerce.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Paul Reidinger |
10-31-2007 |
Reviews
The Worst of the Fall Seasonnew
Early fall is an exciting, disappointing time to be a TV fan. The best new shows won't show their true luster for weeks, but the worst are already totally obvious in their horribleness.
San Antonio Current |
Luke Baumgarten |
10-31-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
'Martian Child' Offers Lloyd Dobbler as a Widowernew
Frankly, it's the only way many of us will take our John Cusack, served up a la quirk, and his turn in Martian Child doesn't disappoint.
San Antonio Current |
Cynthia Hawkins |
10-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Martian Child, Menno Meyjes
'Lust, Caution' Offers Arty Escapismnew
When your choices are limited to the Dane Cook comedy, the depressing 9-11/Afghanistan/Iraq War film, the ubiquitous cops-mafia-drugs drama, and Sawstel, I say by all means bring on the World War II-era, foreign-language erotic espionage thriller by Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
10-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Ang Lee, Lust, Caution
