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Rush to Fall
The season’s new TV shows, rated with the Geddy, Alex & Neil (of Rush) system.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
09-14-2005 |
TV
The Civil War Parodiednew
The faux documentary C.S.A. is funny, but to appreciate the humor, audiences must summon the courage to laugh at the absurdity of enslaving an entire race of people.
The Pitch |
Justin Kendall |
09-13-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Call the Copsnew
What's truly galling about The Man is how its creators come from backgrounds that would certainly suggest they know better than to make such dreck.
East Bay Express |
Robert Wilonsky |
09-12-2005 |
Reviews
RomCom 101
Just Like Heaven serves as a case study for the romantic comedy formula.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
09-09-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mark Waters, Just Like Heaven
Love Interruptednew
At once tremendously dense and gossamer-thin, this period romance/sci-fi hybrid from Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-Wai is a riot of sight and sound that has an irresistible, elemental pull.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
09-09-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: 2046, Wong Kar Wai
Growth of a Franchisenew
For all its gimmicky mayhem, Transporter 2 is an improvement over the original, completely setting aside such yawn-inducing cinematic standbys as a romantic interest and realism.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-09-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Louis Leterrier, Transporter 2
Sweet Revengenew
South Korean horror cultist Park Chan-wook's 2002 film is the opening freshet in his bloody cinematic revenge triptych; it’s also a finely wrought and emotionally complex film of surpassing, stylized beauty.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-09-2005 |
Reviews
The Sound of No Hands Clappingnew
Abandoning any pretense of respect for the Ray Bradbury source material, this film manhandles the author’s delicacies into a lumbering and bewildered mess of grade-Z sci-fi clichés.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-09-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: A Sound of Thunder, Peter Hyams
Saying and Doingnew
Based on an eponymous 1996 erotic novel, Lila Says is the story of a French girl and an Arab boy who learns the difference between words and actions.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-09-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Lila Says, Ziad Doueiri
Save Yourselfnew
Earnest and well-intentioned Dallas-based cast and crew have created a puzzling and inauthentic youth drama that promotes teenage sexual abstinence.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
09-09-2005 |
Reviews
No Food Nation: A New Cable Comedy About Eating Disordersnew
If you're hankering for something edgy, look no further than FX's "Starved" or Showtime's "Weeds."
New Haven Advocate |
Emily Fox |
09-08-2005 |
TV
Who's on Top?
An ass-obsessed buddy cop comedy is predictably crappy.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Les Mayfield, The Man
Law & Order: Special Exorcism Unit
Is The Exorcism of Emily Rose as good as The Exorcist? No. Is it occasionally as scary? Yes.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-08-2005 |
Reviews
Trashy Beach Reading -- in Convenient Movie Form
It wasn't meant to be a romantic comedy, but this overheated romance gets so overwrought it's often laugh-out-loud hilarious.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
09-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: asylum, David Mackenzie
Discovering Secretsnew
Junebug amazes with its insightful portrayals of people.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
09-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Junebug, Phil Morrison
