AltWeeklies Wire
Cut Off at the Legs
A clever/stupid horror movie gets a perfectly clever/stupid sequel.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Darren Lynn Bousman, Saw II
Z-Movie
As far as this belated Zorro sequel is concerned, better never than late.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Forecast: Gloomy
Gore Verbinski and Nicolas Cage suffer a mid-film crisis.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Gore Verbinski, The Weather Man
Gold Minersnew
A fictionalized account of the 1984 court case that revolutionized sexual harassment law and exposed the misogyny of Minnesota’s mining industry, this must-see drama is marked by understated, focused direction and assured performances.
Jackson Free Press |
Paul Dearing |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Niki Caro, North Country
Parasitic Cinemanew
Doom sucks less than other video-game movies, but it still kinda sucks.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: doom, Andrzej Bartkowiak
Pure Popnew
Kamikaze Girls takes Japanese pop culture and goes to the extreme.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Kamikaze Girls, Tetsuya Nakashima
The Revolution Will Be Televisednew
The Participatory Culture Foundation tunes into online TV -- ahead of the corporate curve.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
10-27-2005 |
TV
Sequel Taints Your Memory of First Filmnew
Despite reuniting Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones and director Martin Campbell, The Legend of Zorro proves so sloppy, silly and over-acted that the signature "Z" should stand for "Zero."
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Actors Hawk Shallow Goods in Filmnew
The mopey, exceptionally shallow Shopgirl most often suggests is the sleazy politics of a Pretty Woman directed at the New Yorker crowd.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Shopgirl, Anand Tucker
Midlife Crisis Turns Film Partly Cloudynew
Frequently running to the crowd-pleasing Hollywood formula, the director and the screenwriter have ambitions to make the character's midlife crisis into a pointed statement about the hollowness of American values. The film seldom proves as profound as it thinks it is, but you appreciate its attempt to be serious.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Gore Verbinski, The Weather Man
Asian Directors Join Forces For Filmnew
In a singular example of transnational artistic cooperation, cult filmmakers from Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan come together with the shared goal of messing with their audience's heads and turning their stomachs.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Film An Uneven But Rich Tapestrynew
Though Nine Lives' intent is not always clear and certain vignettes yield fewer rewards than others, the film ends on a transcendent high note, and gives a sense that in a reckoning of our own mortality and the short, precious time we have here, we are all truly connected.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Nine Lives, Rodrigo García
A Trio of Excellent Opportunities to Lose Your Lunchnew
Favoring the artsy side, but unafraid of a little muck, is the pan-Asian horror anthology Three ... Extremes, which ties together three short works by Hong Kong-based Fruit Chan, Korea’s Chan-wook Park, and from Japan, the gleefully disturbed Takashi Miike.
Dig Boston |
Chris Braiotta |
10-26-2005 |
Reviews
Singing Povertynew
Ben Schyan and Robert Matthews’ debut doesn’t try to hide that it’s a no-budget production.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
10-26-2005 |
Reviews
Partly Funny, With a 65 Percent Chance of Redemptionnew
Director Gore Verbinski tells a tale of yet another loner in the long line of hapless American-middle-class movie characters.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
10-26-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Gore Verbinski, The Weather Man
