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Dead-On Visionnew
Mike Judge's comedy is the story of a man who awakes 500 years in the future to find a society so dumbed-down that he instantly becomes the smartest person alive.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-11-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Idiocracy, Mike Judge
An Ultimate Lack of Viewpointnew
Although Hollywoodland stokes the dying embers of uncertainty regarding the 1959 death of George Reeves, TV's Superman, it nevertheless seems that the result should be more provocative and scandalous.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-11-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Allen Coulter, Hollywoodland
100-Proof Bukowskinew
Charles Bukowski's Henry Chinaski is back, played by Matt Dillon in a low-key, gorgeously beery performance.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-11-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Bent Hamer, Factotum
Few Gaspsnew
Belgian horror romp Calvaire is so dead-set on being disturbing that it ends up tripping over its own hobbled feet.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-11-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Calvaire, Fabrice du Welz
Honest and Realnew
An astonishing twinning of wild imagination and drop-dead realism, Brothers of the Head is simply the most poignant and exciting mockumentary about (conjoined) sibling rivalry, revelry, and reversal of fortunes ever made.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-11-2006 |
Reviews
Contrived and Full of Clichenew
At first glance, the Toby Keith drama Broken Bridges is about reconciliations; really, though, the movie is about the cross-marketing potential of contemporary country music.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
09-11-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Broken Bridges, Steven Goldmann
Dig a Little Deepernew
A Louisville filmmaker's documentary expands the WTO's micro issues.
LEO Weekly |
Stephen George |
09-11-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Craig McClurkin, Down to the Wire
Opposing Elements Cancel Out De Palma’s Cinematic Flower
In spite of several momentarily propulsive eye-popping set pieces, suspense master Brian De Palma is unable to pry a cohesive movie from Friedman’s abstruse script.
Tags: Brian De Palma, The Black Dahlia
Lost Boy
The Wicker Man isn't so much a horror film as a skin-crawling mystery.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
09-08-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Neil LaBute, The Wicker Man
Shooting Stars
Somewhere along the way, this movie lost its original name, Truth, Justice and the American Way, and became Hollywoodland -- that the latter title is even more generic turns out to be entirely appropriate.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
09-08-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Allen Coulter, Hollywoodland
Transported
This is mindless entertainment of the most gleeful kind.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
09-08-2006 |
Reviews
Downers and Uppers
These compelling interviews with some of the world's greatest minds about the world's sorry situation show us it's sorrier than you think.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
09-08-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Nobelity, Turk Pipkin
Small Screen Bytes
Previews/reviews of Survivor, Talk Show, Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip, Smith, America's Next Top Model, Jericho and Kidnapped on TV; Grey's Anatomy, Las Vegas, The Office and Stella on DVD; Battlestar Galactica online.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
09-08-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
Cruz Controlnew
Penelope Cruz opens up about her reunion with Pedro Almodovar and her mind-blowing Cannes prizewinning turn in Volver.
NOW Magazine |
John Harkness |
09-08-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Pedro Almodóvar, Volver
Smoke and Mirrorsnew
Sloppy plotting and an apparent disinterest in larger questions about magic and power make The Illusionist more a fancy bit of trickery than a truly engrossing illusion.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
09-07-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Neil Burger, The Illusionist
