AltWeeklies Wire
Black and White and Red All Overnew
George Clooney's sophomore directorial outing, Good Night, and Good Luck, could be the soberest look a former TV star has ever taken at the medium that put him on the map.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
10-21-2005 |
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Hustle and Flownew
Damn the national consensus that Florida is a freak state -- we're just special. And one of the things that make us so special is the flow of natural waters through our unique geography of underground caverns.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
10-21-2005 |
TV
Tags: TV
The Indeliblesnew
Movies to see at the Austin Film Festival include a flick about a mission to Montreal and another about a girl's criminal upbringing.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten, Nora Ankrum, Wells Dunbar, Marc Savlov, James Renovitch, Spencer Parsons, Josh Rosenblatt, Joe O'Connell, Mark Fagan and Shawn Badgley |
10-20-2005 |
Movies
Tags: Various Directors, Various Films, & Beers Runaway Severance The Special: The Story of an American Anthem Stomp! Shout! Scream! Walking the Line Azadi Boy-Next-Door The Braggart Holiday That Night, Backseat Bruce & Me Clear Cut: The Story of Philomath, Oregon Dirt Favela Rising Frozen Her Name Is Carla Life on the Ledge Muskrat Lovely The Outdoorsmen: Blood, Sweat
Hammett Meets Hughesnew
Writer-director Rian Johnson discusses high school noir and the Austin Film Festival highlight Brick.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-20-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Brick, Rian Johnson
To Cite Edward R. Murrow, 'See It Now'new
Director and co-screenwriter George Clooney strikes just the right tone of gripping entertainment and understated cautionary tale in this thoughtful portrait of newsman Edward R. Murrow's confrontation with Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Forecast Cloudynew
This hazy remake pales in comparison to John Carpenter's original fogbanks from 1980.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Rupert Wainwright, The Fog
Seabiscuit Juniornew
This horsey heartwarmer does something surprising in spite of its underdog sports-movie formula and shameless emotional manipulation: It manages to be an enjoyable movie about and for girls.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Game Overnew
Doom is not so much a film as a marketing tie-in, albeit one with some exceptional production values.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: doom, Andrejz Bartkowiak
Miner's Daughternew
Charlize Theron stars in this fictionalized, rousing, but nevertheless predictable account of the first class-action sexual discrimination suit.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Niki Caro, North Country
Life, Death, and Everything in Betweennew
With a script by David Benioff (25th Hour) and direction by Marc Forster of Monster's Ball fame, Stay is an ambitious experiment that never quite jells.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Marc Forster, Stay
Captive Audiencenew
This Venezuelan film about the kidnappings that are endemic in Caracas bursts with stylish technique and gruesome tension.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Improper Conductnew
North Country is a powerful film about sexual harassment. Charlize Theron is Oscar-worthy in her role.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Niki Caro, North Country
Down With Elizabethtownnew
Bad plot, bad dialogue, bad acting: It's Cameron Crowe's magnum opus!
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Cameron Crowe, Elizabethtown
Reality Bites
Cynics have suggested that Hollywood loves no subject more than itself. And Reel Paradise proves that you don't need a big studio--or even the pretense of fiction--to make a self-important movie about movies.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Sugarcoated Tale
This DreamWorks production about a little girl and a special horse is slow-moving and treacly, and--unless you actually buy that bit of marketing flimflam about being "inspired by a true story"--it yields no surprises.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
10-20-2005 |
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