AltWeeklies Wire
How Neat the Soundnew
Amazing Grace certainly feels uplifting, so much so that we might forget that the Slave Trade Act neither abolished slavery in the empire nor ended the trade in the Atlantic.
Style Weekly |
thomas peyser |
03-07-2007 |
Reviews
Gorgeous to Look At, Thrilling to Watchnew
Putting the "graphic" in Frank Miller's graphic novel.
Dig Boston |
Shaula Clark |
03-07-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: 300, Zack Snyder
The Nader Strategynew
A new documentary suggests that the only way to make Democrats listen is to vote for someone like Ralph Nader.
Chicago Reader |
J.R. Jones |
03-06-2007 |
Reviews
Strike a Pose
300 burdens its exercise in style with too many righteous speeches.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
03-06-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: 300, Zack Snyder
Big Brother Is Listening, Too
Not only did Germany’s The Lives of Others win the Oscar last week for best foreign film, it also bagged the unofficial prize for biggest upset.
Boulder Weekly |
Thomas Delapa |
03-05-2007 |
Reviews
Horror-scope
Working from two books by Robert Graysmith, Fincher and screenwriter James Vanderbilt straightforwardly recreate the case, effacing melodramatic traces of the typical Hollywood production -- the results are intriguing, but not totally arresting.
Boulder Weekly |
Thomas Delapa |
03-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: David Fincher, Zodiac
Mark Ruffalo's Stars Align in 'Zodiac'new
It says something about the state of "stardom" these days that shortly before I head for L.A., at a non-film-related business lunch, I find myself trying to help my dining companions identify Mark Ruffalo.
NOW Magazine |
John Harkness |
03-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: David Fincher, Zodiac
TV/DVD Week: March 8-14
Fabulously witty previews of Las Vegas, Blood Ties, The New Adventures of Old Christine and The Riches on TV; reviews of Borat, Fast Food Nation and The Loop on DVD.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
03-02-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Not Exactly the Oscarsnew
Readers pick the year's sexiest, nastiest and lousiest movies in our 11th annual Alternative Academy Awards.
Montreal Mirror |
Hanako Hoshimi-Caines and Mark Slutsky |
03-02-2007 |
Movies
Going for Broke: Jude Law in 'Breaking and Entering'new
Anthony Minghella looks at big-city dynamics through small-time crime.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Tara Thorne |
03-02-2007 |
Reviews
Neighborhood Watchnew
Avenue Montaigne doesn't argue that all the world's a stage, just that a few blocks of Paris can be a setting that fully contains one charmed little world.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
03-02-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Avenue Montaigne, Daniele Thompson
Hot and Bothersomenew
Writer-director Craig Brewer hasn't exactly made a traditional grindhouse film, though -- you see, this one's a grindhouse film with heart.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
03-02-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Black Snake Moan, Craig Brewer
Numb and Numbernew
One expects more from Carrey, a comedian who until now has painstakingly chosen his forays into pathos.
Washington City Paper |
Justin Moyer |
03-02-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Joel Schumacher, The Number 23
Not-So-Jolly Ranchernew
If the movie were at least partially satirical, its implausibilities wouldn't nag -- but it isn't, and they do
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
03-02-2007 |
Reviews
Reel to Realnew
A theater owner who wouldn't show Stomp the Yard tries to make amends.
Illinois Times |
Dusty Rhodes |
03-02-2007 |
Movies
