AltWeeklies Wire
'Up' With Peoplenew
In showing the ongoing lives of regular people, Michael Apted has made a film that's incredibly sad.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
10-05-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Apted, 49 Up
Why Must I Be a Teenager in Love?new
Degrassi: The Next Generation and South of Nowhere put the dirt back in teen soaps.
Boston Phoenix |
Sharon Steel |
10-05-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
'The Queen' Reigns Supremenew
Helen Mirren's royal impersonations are majestic.
New York Press |
Jennifer Merin |
10-05-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Stephen Frears, The Queen
Inventing a Dictatornew
MacDonald relies on fiction to tell the true story of Idi Amin.
New York Press |
Armond White |
10-05-2006 |
Reviews
The Harder They Comenew
John Cameron Mitchell's sex-positive cheer has a subversive mainstream friendliness.
The Village Voice |
Jim Ridley |
10-04-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: John Cameron Mitchell, Shortbus
Bait and Switchnew
Martin Scorsese, hero of the Hong Kong New Wave, returns the compliment.
The Village Voice |
J. Hoberman |
10-04-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
'Infernal' Repairs
The Departed takes a Hong Kong thriller and gives it a masterful polish.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
10-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Citizen Soapnew
A new network recycles Latin American soap operas with lukewarm results.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Daniel McQuade |
10-02-2006 |
TV
Whitaker Makes the Ground Shake
The buzz is strong for a Best Actor Oscar nomination for Forest Whitaker for his profoundly nuanced and fearless performance in Kevin Macdonald's adaptation of Giles Foden's historical novel The Last King of Scotland.
Maui Time |
Cole Smithey |
09-30-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Scorsese's Lion Roars
With The Departed, Leonardo DiCaprio completes a trilogy of films under the direction of America's preeminent master filmmaker.
Maui Time |
Cole Smithey |
09-30-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Sleepwalkingnew
Michel Gondry's sweet, sad film about fantasy, imagination and love can't quite overcome its own meandering quirkiness.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
09-29-2006 |
Reviews
Humpty Dumptynew
All the King's Men pulls us in different directions until eventually it pulls itself apart.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
09-29-2006 |
Reviews
Surprisingly Intimatenew
Taking place over six decades in the vast, dusty hinterlands of Brazil's northern deserts, House of Sand is nothing if not expansive.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
09-29-2006 |
Reviews
Star Scores
Previews of Battlestar Galactica, Harvey Birdman, 12 Oz. Mouse, What About Brian, 30 Rock and Twenty Good Years on TV; Andromeda, Medium, Thank You for Smoking and X-Men 3 on DVD; CSI: Ay: Ay: on broadband.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
09-29-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
Channel Serf
A week of subsistence in TV's vast wasteland.
Washington City Paper |
Mario Correa |
09-29-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
