AltWeeklies Wire
It’s a Plain
The inner life of an icon remains blank in Superman Returns.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
06-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Bryan Singer, Superman Returns
Highly Anticipatednew
This collaboration between Jack Black, his School of Rock writer, Mike White, and Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess certainly doesn't equal the best moments of their respective oeuvres, but neither is it an outright atrocity.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
06-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Jared Hess, Nacho Libre
An Impressive Debutnew
Chinese filmmaker Xiao Jiang's extended flashback is about two cinema-crazed kids coming of age amid the communist revolution of the early 1970s.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
06-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Electric Shadows, Xiao Jiang
Mud, Blood and Contractsnew
Civilization rises in Deadwood's filthy streets.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-22-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
By the Numbersnew
Quick: What's an eight-letter word for "diverting"?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Patrick Creadon, Wordplay
Master Buildernew
Sydney Pollack sizes up architect Frank Gehry.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
06-22-2006 |
Reviews
Down for the Countnew
Jack Black runs roughshod in Hess-world.
Missoula Independent |
Nick Davis |
06-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Jared Hess, Nacho Libre
Return of the Iconoclastnew
Director Robert Altman discusses his elegaic new film.
Cincinnati CityBeat |
Jason Gargano |
06-22-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Tipton Three Todaynew
You'd think that after escaping the black hole of detention at Guantanamo, life would be pretty much downhill -- not necessarily so for the so-called Tipton Three, a trio of Brits caught up in the invasion of Afghanistan and incarcerated as Al Qaeda suspects in 2001.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
06-22-2006 |
Movies
Lust & Lamentnew
Lower City is an intense exploration of a Brazilian love triangle.
New York Press |
Jennifer Merin |
06-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Lower City, Sergio Machaco
Western Expansionnew
Director Walter Hill brings his new cowboy tale Broken Trail to commercial TV.
L.A. Weekly |
Robert Abele |
06-22-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
Man of Steelnew
Bryan Singer overcame a path paved with kryptonite to bring back Superman.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
06-22-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bryan Singer, Superman Returns
Pretty Punknew
The hood rats in Wassup Rockers learned to skate, rock, turn their world upside down ... and give Larry Clark the biggest wedgie of his life.
L.A. Weekly |
John Payne and Caroline Ryder |
06-22-2006 |
Movies
Tags: Larry Clark, Wassup Rockers
Love for the Agesnew
Though it's silly and kind of stupid, The Lake House makes people care.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
06-21-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Alejandro Agresti, The Lake House
Writing That Reeksnew
What is a talented guy like Jack Black doing in this racist, laugh-deficient flick?
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
06-21-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Jared Hess, Nacho Libre
