AltWeeklies Wire
Director Usama Alshaibi on Wartime Iraqi Lifenew
Alshaibi was born in Iraq, but his parents were able to flee the country with their children while Saddam Hussein was in power. After the 2003 invasion, he went back to see how his relatives were doing.
Shepherd Express |
Lia Kaiser |
09-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Nice Bombs, Usama Alshaibi
Desperate Houseswives with Dicks?new
Two shows -- Big Shots and Dirty Sexy Money -- shoot for the soap opera success of the housewives.
NOW Magazine |
Barrett Hooper |
09-28-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Emile Hirsch on 'Into the Wild'new
Filmed on more than 30 locations from Mexico to Alaska, Into The Wild casts Hirsch as doomed Kerouac- and Thoreau-wannabe Chris McCandless, a role that required the actor to kayak rapids, rock climb, stare down grizzly bears and, ultimately, to lose 40 pounds for the sake of emaciated verisimilitude.
NOW Magazine |
Barrett Hooper |
09-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Into the Wild, Sean Penn
Andrew Dominik's Jesse James Epic Digs Deepernew
Beyond the obvious reveal of the film's title, most of the major chronological turning points are either skipped in their entirety or divulged before the fact in narration culled from Hansen's elegiac prose, forcing audiences to abandon any traditional expectation of narrative linearity in favor of existential reflection.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Wade Major |
09-28-2007 |
Reviews
'Across the Universe': Ticket to Ridenew
Julie Taymor's Across the Universe celebrates Beatlemania.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Across the Universe, Julie Taymor
Love Among the Ruinsnew
King of California and Feast of Love embrace cliches.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
'In the Valley of Elah': War Without Endnew
Sorrow tempers rage in latest wave of Iraq war films.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Paul Haggis, In the Valley of Elah
'Feast of Love' Swaps Partners Like it's Going Out of Stylenew
Director Robert Benton emphasizes the physical side of love to pose a question: Is love just the disguise that biology wears?
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Feast of Love, Robert Benton
'Into the Wid,' Out with the Feelingnew
Sean Penn's overwrought direction elbows the feeling right out of adventure story Into the Wild.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Into the Wild, Sean Penn
'Trade' Has Vague Basis at Bestnew
There are more than 300 million sex slaves in the United States, and this number is all the more alarming because I just made it up. Kinda like the "1,000,000" being trafficked across borders (ours? all international borders?) cited at the end of the film Trade.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: trade, Marco Kreuzpaintner
'The Kingdom' Offers a Smackdownnew
It seems like a Hollywood blockbuster, but Peter Berg's latest induces a bit of shaming about cycles of hate and violence that we must be fully cognizant of if we're ever to break them.
Charleston City Paper |
Maryann Johanson |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Peter Berg, The Kingdom
Yuckiest Film Evernew
After getting off to an entertaining start, Good Luck Chuck enters gross-out hell.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Good Luck Chuck, Mark Helfrich
Nipples and Ass-Kickingnew
Hot chicks and Sony products dominate the post-apocalyptic world in Resident Evil: Extinction.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
'Across the Universe' isn't Audacious Enoughnew
Director Julie Taymor attempts to take the entire decade of the 1960s, fold it flat and slide it into the record sleeve of a Beatles LP.
Tags: Across the Universe, Julie Taymor
'The Kingdom' Has Powernew
Surprisingly, the best of this year's lot of war movies thus far is The Kingdom, an action movie with characters filled by Hollywood central casting.
Tags: Peter Berg, The Kingdom
