AltWeeklies Wire
Ghost townnew
Colma: The Musical joins a new movie movement
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
08-02-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Colma: The Musical, Richard Wong
Goya's Ghosts: Paint it blacknew
Milos Forman returns to political-history melodrama
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
08-02-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Goya's Ghosts, Milos Forman
Antonioni and Bergman: Life after Lifenew
Deaths, life and a "Killer of Sheep."
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
08-01-2007 |
Movies
Bourne, Baby, Bournenew
The Bourne Ultimatum is the most exciting movie of the summer by leaps and bounds.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
08-01-2007 |
Reviews
Pascale Ferran's 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'new
Nothing could be less like our popular idea of Lady Chatterley's Lover, of the unstoppable force of the working class meeting the immovable object of the ruling class.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
08-01-2007 |
Reviews
Solar Perplexus: 'Sunshine'new
Sunshine fails to illuminate Danny Boyle's murky ideas about the future of humanity.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
08-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Danny Boyle, Sunshine
Big Girl Now: 'HairSpray'new
The kind of exuberant, fast and funny musical that has seemed extinct since the 1950s.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
08-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Adam Shankman, Hairspray
Green Hell: 'Rescue Dawn'new
Christian Bale insists that heroism is a function of a bottomless simplicity; it's not a larger-than-life attitude one carries around everywhere.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
08-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Rescue Dawn, Werner Herzog
'The Simpsons Movie': Peasants under glassnew
Transforming the densest, most daring TV show ever made was even more of a risk. Happily, The Simpsons Movie is everything that was advertised.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
08-01-2007 |
Reviews
Raised on Bart Simpsonnew
Everything I know I learned from The Simpsons.
New Haven Advocate |
Hugh "Jass" Elton |
07-31-2007 |
Movies
Tags: The Simpsons Movie
'Rescue Dawn': The Sheltering Flynew
As usual, a Werner Herzog movie isn't what it looks like on the surface.
Baltimore City Paper |
Ian Grey |
07-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Rescue Dawn, Werner Herzog
Novelist Thomas Long Hits The Big Screennew
Long's book A Thug's Life, a novel about a pair of West Baltimore drug dealers turned into a direct-to-DVD movie adaptation, 4 Life, on a big screen with celebrity guests, radio personalities, and fans.
Baltimore City Paper |
Jason Torres |
07-31-2007 |
Movies
Tags: 4 Life, Tony Austin
Think Bignew
With its twin themes of race and obesity, Hairspray has a lot on its mind, but it doesn't ever forget to have fun.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
07-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Adam Shankman, Hairspray
Patrice Leconte's 'My Best Friend'new
Leconte seems to be under the impression that he's making a serious movie, or at least one substantially less absurd than it ought to be.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Adams |
07-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: My Best Friend, Patrice Leconte
Lars Von Trier Puts the Camera in Chargenew
In The Boss of It All, the owner of a Danish IT firm has invented the titular Boss, an absent ogre who communicates with his underlings only through e-mail.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
07-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Lars von Trier, The Boss of it All
