AltWeeklies Wire
Cinematic Swoon Over Operatic Action Flicknew
In addition to its essential love story, House of Flying Daggers is a class tale of characters who are pawns in larger political forces and whose endless battles have a sad futility. The characters fight for their masters, squandering lives that should be spent in love.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
01-13-2005 |
Reviews
Hotshot Go-Getter Meets Family Mannew
Weitz's film is a soulful plea for a return to warm and fuzzy values like raising decent children and treating people with compassion in a world that has become hardwired for mercenary tactics born out of economic fear.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
01-13-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Paul Weitz, In Good Company
A Pedophile Hunts for Redemptionnew
By placing a pedophile at the center of the story, director Nicole Kassell enters uncomfortable territory. Fortunately, Kevin Bacon's controlled, empathetic performance makes The Woodsman into an honest bid to respect the sinner while hating the sin.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-13-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Nicole Kassell, The Woodsman
Bush II Could Inspire Another Indie Film Renaissancenew
As we enter George W. Bush's second term, the country's extreme rightward turn could ignite the type of movie renaissance not seen since eight years of nuclear proliferation, HIV discrimination, and materialist greed helped produce the American independent film movement of the late '80s and early '90s.
The Village Voice |
Anthony Kaufman |
01-13-2005 |
Movies
TV Highlights, January 20-27: Numbers Doesn't Add Up
The new drama Numbers reduces crime-solving to arithmetic. Also reviewed: Monk, Dirty War, Queer Eye for the Straight Girl and more.
Tags: TV
Lights, Camera, Gospel!new
San Francisco's Voice of Pentecost is a church with a mission to take on Hollywood. Its production company, Christian WYSIWYG Filmworks, is working on a retelling of the Bible story of Joseph, set in a science-fiction world of the future.
Amazing Gracenew
Grace under pressure is one of the key themes to Terry George's Hotel Rwanda, which chronicles Paul Rusesabagina's miraculous efforts in 1994 that saved the lives of some 1,200 people.
Tags: Terry George, Hotel Rwanda
Seattle PBS Channel Is Back in the Blacknew
Nearly insolvent two years ago, KCTS-TV raised more money in December than any public station in the country.
Seattle Weekly |
Nina Shapiro |
01-12-2005 |
TV
Tags: TV
Run, Dick, Runnew
If you know your history, you might suspect this film isn't quite a suspense thriller. Rather, it's a sort of updated Death of a Salesman.
Thanks to Deathnew
Javier Bardem aces the role of a charming quadriplegic who wants to die in this drama by Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Melissa Levine |
01-11-2005 |
Reviews
The Year of Mel Gibson and Michael Moorenew
Was this really the year when the two most significant movies -- though hardly the best -- were a pious Biblical epic and a caterwauling political broadside? Yep, it was.
Desperate Thespians
Real-life struggling Hollywood actors play themselves in HBO’s Unscripted.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
01-07-2005 |
TV
Tags: TV
Sock It ... to Me!?!new
So it wasn't enough for those Jews in Hollywood to kick Dick Nixon around in All the President's Men or commie-pinko fag Oliver Stone's Nixon or even the one that actually made me weep, Dick. Now comes The Assassination of Richard Nixon. ...
The Germ of Corruptionnew
Hilary Swank's Maggie is a heroine easy to root for, but Million Dollar Baby is Frankie’s (Clint Eastwood's) tragedy: the story of a man who against his better judgment and inclination gets involved with another human being and ends up paying for it. Three and a half stars.
Boston Phoenix |
Chris Fujiwara |
01-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tremendous Powernew
Hotel Rwanda is an important, gripping film, despite its low-budget production.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
01-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Terry George, Hotel Rwanda
