AltWeeklies Wire
The 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival: Mad Worldnew
Highlights from the 2007 film festival spotlight outspoken DJs, prisons, environmental damage, and ... Pac-Man?
'Nitro': Standard-issue Action Flick With a Quebec Twistnew
Quebec is written all over this Hollywood-style film, but it is a changing, modernized Quebec.
Montreal Mirror |
Jeffrey Malecki |
07-02-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Alain Desrochers, Nitro
'Eagle vs. Shark' is Relentlessly, Unbearably Quirkynew
This film doesn't even have the dubious benefit of originality.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
07-02-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Eagle vs. Shark, Taika Waititi
'Walking to Werner': Director Becomes Long-Distance Herzog Stalkernew
In more than one sense, this film is an act of endurance.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
07-02-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Linas Phillips, Walking to Werner
Selling Disaster: Michael Bay Fetishizes War for Youth
Transformers is a sickening force-feeding commercial frenzy to sell cars, toys and war in the same breath that it pawns itself off as "cinema."
Tags: Michael Bay, Transformers
Michael Moore is Sick of the Systemnew
Sicko takes aim at America's deadly health care industry.
Pasadena Weekly |
Carl Kozlowski |
07-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Michael Moore, Sicko
'Sicko': Dumb Like Menew
Michael Moore undercuts his own muckraking with his regular Joe act.
Chicago Reader |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
07-02-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Moore, Sicko
'Rescue Me' Has Become an Outlandish Pig-pile of Melodramanew
But still, every week I'm back again, barely stomaching the misogyny and melodrama, just waiting for those precious moments inside the firehouse, rewinding and replaying the ping-ponging, black Irish, "mine's-bigger" banter and savoring fragments of the show that could've been.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Sean Burns |
07-02-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Gorgeous Gorge
Science of Speed Eating shows how competitive eaters eat so fast and where the food goes.
Tags: TV
Herzog's Vietnam Escape Story Blisters the Screen
The sensational narrative version of the story he told in 1997's documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly is a wartime escape movie to top all others.
Tags: Rescue Dawn, Werner Herzog
Maybe Some Regrets ...new
The problem with La Vie en Rose isn't that it takes liberties with the facts of Edith Piaf's life. So did she. But the reverence for allegory leads to a film that feels as long as Piaf's life.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
06-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: La Vie en Rose, Olivier Dahan
On Call for Michael Moorenew
Dr. Jack Stanzler talks about being the medical consultant on Sicko.
NUVO |
Matthew Socey |
06-29-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Michael Moore, Sicko
The System is 'Sicko'new
Michael Moore takes aim at the U.S. health care industry.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
06-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Moore, Sicko
Bruce Almightynew
Somebody up there is protecting Willis in Live Free or Die Hard.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
06-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Len Wiseman, Live Free or Die Hard
'Sicko'-logical Warfarenew
Michael Moore brilliantly examines U.S. healthcare, but his film still suffers from a few familiar ills.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
06-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Moore, Sicko
