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Lived to Tellnew
Bob Dylan looks back in Scorsese’s No Direction Home.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
09-22-2005 |
Reviews
Math Whiznew
Proof wields more talent than credence.
Boston Phoenix |
Carolyn Clay |
09-22-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: John Madden, Proof
In Cold Bloodnew
David Cronenberg defines the history of violence, though with such cold-blooded efficiency and cryptic detachment, his film may evoke more admiration than pleasure.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
09-22-2005 |
Reviews
Film Loses Something in Translation from Stage to Screennew
Ideas treated so passionately in David Auburn's play -- like the thin line separating madness and genius, for instance -- are hardly given the focus they deserve in John Madden's truncated Proof.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
09-22-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: John Madden, Proof
Thin Movie Has Some Lovely Bonesnew
Tim Burton's loose reenactment of a Russian folk tale seems a bit blase about mortality, treating it as no more menacing than an uninvited party guest.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
09-22-2005 |
Reviews
Moved to Tearsnew
Several memorable performances stuck out at this year's Toronto film fest.
Nashville Scene |
Noel Murray |
09-21-2005 |
Movies
Northern Exposurenew
Toronto Film Festival heralds a middling film season ahead -- but with a few striking exceptions.
Nashville Scene |
Jim Ridley |
09-21-2005 |
Movies
Dead Puppets Make Better Loversnew
Tim Burton knows how to tickle eyeballs with rich and playful visuals, but he can't carry an innovative plot to save his life.
Dig Boston |
Chris Braiotta |
09-21-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Tim Burton, The Corpse Bride
Moving Beyond Bug Powder, Car Wrecks and Porking Robotsnew
David Wildman sits down with David Cronenberg to get to the root of the director's extreme debauchery and weirdness.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
09-21-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
TV Commercials' Hired Handnew
A rival's blood blister paved the way for Bill Austin to become Silicon Valley's top hand model.
East Bay Express |
Justin Berton |
09-20-2005 |
TV
Good Shotnew
The story of a Ukrainian emigre in New York's violent Little Odessa is three-quarters of a great film, weakened by its moralizing.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
09-20-2005 |
Reviews
Least Valuable Facial Hair and Other Cheap Shotsnew
The road to pop absurdity takes many detours -- especially if your tour guides are ESPN Classic's clown princes of sports comedy, Randy and Jason Sklar.
Boulder Weekly |
Vince Darcangelo |
09-19-2005 |
TV
Geek Chicnew
Arrested Development director Paul Feig talks sex, nerds and Hollywood.
Boulder Weekly |
Joel Warner |
09-19-2005 |
TV
Tags: TV
Sundance Into the Sunsetnew
An Unfinished Life never transcends its simple storyline to charter original ground, but it is the kind of movie you cannot fault too terribly much, primarily because its heart seems to be in the right place.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
09-16-2005 |
Reviews
Comedy as Funeral Dirgenew
Less a movie than a longform, live-action Celebrity Death Match between its leads, this wheezing comedy may herald the death knell of the interracial buddy-cop farce.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
09-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Les Mayfield, The Man
