AltWeeklies Wire
'Self-Medicated' Worksnew
The film plays like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest crossed with Requiem for a Dream, tied together for the Facebook set.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
08-30-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Monty Lapica, Self-Medicated
The Men Who Would Be 'The King of Kong'new
In a battle for the world record of King Kong, being killed by a giant digital monkey or manipulated by a petulant, jealous rival is sometimes enough to make a grown man cry.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
08-30-2007 |
Reviews
The Natives Are Zestlessnew
A latter-day Mary Poppins confronts naughty, negligent and, most unforgivably, upper-crust parents.
Style Weekly |
Thomas Peyser |
08-30-2007 |
Reviews
Manhattan Mayhemnew
A strong cast elevates The Nanny Diaries above the usual end-of-summer dreck.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
08-29-2007 |
Reviews
'Once' is a Movie Miraclenew
This simple, low-budget, musical love story is positively captivating.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
08-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: John Carney, Once
'Revolution Summer' Runs on Anxietynew
Featuring a score by Jonathan Richman and real-life footage of protesters and riot cops, Montalbano's film is lightly plotted and heavily atmospheric.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Lynn Rapoport |
08-29-2007 |
Reviews
Emotion Trumps Class in 'Live-In Maid'new
The Argentinean film relies heavily on a very exact choreography between the two characters: a formerly famous and wealthy woman in decline and her maid.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Maria Komodore |
08-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Jorge Gaggero, Live-In Maid
Sweet 'Rocket Science'new
This is a funny, touching movie I would recommend to anyone.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
08-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Jeffrey Blitz, rocket science
Chris Eska's Atavistic Visionnew
The filmmaker takes indies back to their roots.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
08-29-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: August Evening, Chris Eska
'The Pickup Artist' Urges Men to Become Tools to Get Womennew
VH1's new reality show begins with eight self-described losers being shuttled to a mansion in Austin, where they will be educated in the ways of picking up women by Mystery and his two wingmen, who call themselves Matador and J-Dog.
Willamette Week |
Daniel Carlson |
08-29-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
'Balls of Fury': Who Needs Jokes? They've Got Ping-Pong!new
This movie is the sort of comedy in which things are not funny because they are ironic or funny because they're absurd or even funny because they're strangely juxtaposed, but simply funny because they're there.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
08-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Ben Garant, Balls of Fury
'Moliere': Acting Classesnew
Laurent Tirard's new romantic comedy endeavors to imagine the formative years in Moliere's life the way John Madden's Shakespeare in Love treated the great English bard in his youth.
Tags: Laurent Tirard, Moliere
Instead of 'Delirious,' How About 'Woozy'new
There are positive reviews of Delirious -- they are wrong.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
08-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Delirious, Tom DiCillo
'Ladron que Roba a Ladron': E Pluribus Pratfallnew
An American comedy for the other America.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
08-29-2007 |
Reviews
'September Dawn' Just Feels Made-upnew
The story of the Fancher party's massacre at the hands of the Utah Mormon militia, with help from manipulated local Indians, needs nothing more than a deft telling of fear and discrimination in an innocent field -- unfortunately, here it receives unnecessary melodrama.
Baltimore City Paper |
Wendy Ward |
08-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Christopher Cain, September Dawn
