AltWeeklies Wire
'Right At Your Door': Duct and Coverednew
The movie is so intense for most of its running time that the contrived conclusion may leave you scratching your head rather than desperately reaching for the Valium.
Tags: Chris Gorak, Right at Your Door
'Balls of Fury': Made for Walken
Like its deadpan costar, the film often settles for what's funny in theory.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Balls of Fury, Robert Ben Garant
'The 11th Hour': Hour of Powernew
If the movie's presentation is unexciting (and thus a lot less likely to excite major media and make inroads on shopping malls), the ideas it puts forth are both more frightening and more energizing than those in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Adams |
08-28-2007 |
Reviews
'The Devil Came on Horseback': Devil Advocatesnew
Brian Steidle, the former U.S. Marine whose chilling photographs brought the horrors of Darfur region to the American public, serves as a compelling a central figure through whose eyes the audience can forge a connection with a complex and sometimes confounding subject.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Adams |
08-28-2007 |
Reviews
Rod Lurie Takes Jackson and Hartnett Nine Rounds
Lurie puts another feather in his directing hat with an absorbing character study about a daily newspaper writer who takes a shortcut to success only to discover that, like the subject of his career-saving article, he is not the man he thought himself to be.
Tags: Resurrecting the Champ, Rod Lurie
'Ten Canoes': A Tale Well Toldnew
There was some worry near the beginning that the film would lurch toward a sort of distanced National Geographic-style anthropological framing of other cultures, but one is quickly drawn into a compelling story full of realized and engaging characters.
Montreal Mirror |
Jeffrey Malecki |
08-27-2007 |
Reviews
'The Nanny Diaries': More Adventures in Babysittingnew
Like The Devil Wears Prada, Diaries never does much more than indulge its audience’s happy willingness to feel superior to rich people, but that’s not to say that it doesn't have some fun doing it.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
08-27-2007 |
Reviews
'War': Violent Vendettanew
Those expecting the full-on martial arts thriller may be disappointed -- instead, we get a revenge-fuelled action movie that stays within the confines of its cliche-ridden genre, but it does so with impeccable style.
Montreal Mirror |
Jason Bogdaneris |
08-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: WAR, Philip G. Atwell
'Resurrecting the Champ': Fighting Wordsnew
A solid yet imperfect film about boxing and writing.
Montreal Mirror |
Jeffrey Malecki |
08-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Resurrecting the Champ, Rod Lurie
World Film Fest Previewsnew
A sampling of the 215 feature films and 194 shorts playing at this year's fest, including Confessions of an Innocent Man, Lady Chatterly, Dying in Athens, and more.
Montreal Mirror |
Jason Bogdaneris, Malcolm Fraser, Jeffrey Malaecki and Mark Slutsky |
08-27-2007 |
Movies
Satoshi Kon Discusses 'Paprika'new
Kon creates an imaginative and gorgeous world where images and characters follow a strange, but somehow comprehensible, dream logic.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
08-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Paprika, Satoshi Kon
Soap and Glorynew
Climbing the slippery slope to daytime TV fame.
Dallas Observer |
Andrea Grimes |
08-27-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Dave TV!new
Dave Navarro's chat show is part of a new ManiaTV! strategy to let the pros, not the people, program the site.
Tags: TV
Wake Up to AMC's Sleeper Hit 'Man Men'new
The Sopranos writer/exec producer Matthew Weiner creates a knockout series set in booze-soaked ad agency in 1960s.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Doug Wallen |
08-27-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
'The Devil Came On Horseback': Blood, Vet and Tearsnew
A documentary that serves as a call to arms as it follows former Marine Brian Steidle's work in Darfur.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Sean Burns |
08-27-2007 |
Reviews
