AltWeeklies Wire
Taking Bollywood Out of Indianew
Dancing transvestites? Check. Elephants? Gospel choir? Check and check. This movie has a little bit of everything for stateside viewers hesitant to dip a toe into the mighty waters of Bollywood cinema.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
02-24-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Bride & Prejudice, Gurinder Chadha
Suds and Slapsticknew
The fitful story of how one black woman gets her groove back.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-24-2005 |
Reviews
New Wave Enigmanew
A documentary ode to the legendary outsider's outsider, Klaus Nomi – a singer, performance artist, and genuine human anomaly.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-24-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Andrew Horn, The Nomi Song
Rough Waternew
Moving chronicle of the real-life 30-year battle waged by paraplegic Ramón Sampedro (played by Javier Bardem) to end his life.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
02-24-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Alejandro Amenábar, The Sea Inside
Too Good To Be Truenew
When Paul Sturtz and David Wilson debuted their True-False Film Festival in Columbia, Missouri last February, their goal was to become the premier documentary film festival in the Midwest. Mission accomplished.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
02-24-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Multiple, True/False Film Festival
So predictablenew
Tips for adding a little drama and comedy to the Oscars
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
02-24-2005 |
Movies
Oscars, the Grouchesnew
Two curmudgeons offer a guide to the Academy Award nominees.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Cheryl Eddy and Kimberly Chun |
02-23-2005 |
Movies
Hollywood's Main Event
The movies of 2004 could muster only a few streaks of brilliance, among them Jamie Foxx's stellar performance as Ray Charles in Ray. In Sunday’s main event, The Aviator, Sideways and Million Dollar Baby will slug it out for best picture.
Boulder Weekly |
Thomas Delapa |
02-23-2005 |
Movies
Waste of Time
The Jacket tries to get too serious about an inherently goofy premise.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
02-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: John Maybury, The Jacket
The Man Who Shot Too Muchnew
What took octogenarian auteur Sidney Lumet so long to get an Oscar? He made too many movies.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Matthew Wilder |
02-23-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sidney Lumet
Last Laugh
Does Fox’s Arrested Development really need to continue on? Probably not.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
02-22-2005 |
TV
Tags: TV
The Ties That Bindnew
It’s an only-in-America tale about kids in the Tennessee hamlet of Whitwell and their "paper clip project” – a teaching tool meant to help them comprehend the dimensions of the Holocaust – but it grew into something much, much more.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-18-2005 |
Reviews
Perfectly Pleasant Poohnew
It’s not big and bright and busy and boffo, but it's a perfectly marvelous matinee option for young children. It’s a sweet little story, from a kid’s-eye view, about the anguish of being too little to do stuff.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
02-18-2005 |
Reviews
Porn Againnew
This documentary about the heady days of porn – when "deep throat" became a household expression and everyone viewed the film Deep Throat as a breath of fresh air – is informative yet lacking historical rigor.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-18-2005 |
Reviews
Comedy But No Chemistry in Hitchnew
What should be a battle of the sexes is more like a brief skirmish without any of the romantic tension that makes for an interesting – much less great – screen pairing.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
02-18-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Andy Tennant, Hitch
