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Stuntman Turns to Roach Wranglingnew
Most people try to get rid of roaches, but stuntman Alan Hutton welcomes them. The actor, stuntman, fight choreographer, pyrotechnician, historical adviser and weapons master has to be a jack-of-all-trades, and he's even wrangled roaches and delivered them to filmmakers.
Houston Press |
Michael Serazio |
01-03-2005 |
Movies
Splish Splash, It's a Bathnew
The early reviews for Beyond the Sea have been so hateful that a latecomer to the bashing bash is tempted to head straight for the spiked eggnog and let the man pass without further abuse.
East Bay Express |
Robert Wilonsky |
01-03-2005 |
Reviews
Extended Sentencenew
Tackling a touchy subject, Nicole Kassell looks at Walter, a released pedophile, not as a case study but as a single human being under tremendous pressures, internal and external. In the process she stirs us to examine our own fears and prejudices.
East Bay Express |
Bill Gallo |
01-03-2005 |
Reviews
Top 10 List Recognizes Good Storytellingnew
Truth turned out to be less compelling than pure inventiveness in 2004, which explains the critic's No. 1 choice, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
01-03-2005 |
Reviews
This Film Soarsnew
The Aviator is an incredible movie -- now, would someone please give Scorsese an Oscar?
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
12-30-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Martin Scorsese, The Aviator
Well-Furnished Failurenew
Kevin Spacey's biopic, supposedly about Bobby Darin, ends up being more about Spacey.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
12-30-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Kevin Spacey, beyond the sea
Spacey Serves up Ham and Cheese in Darin Biopicnew
This insufferable vanity project is most excruciating for revealing that beneath the super cool, ironic distance of Kevin Spacey's actorly street cred beats the heart of a hambone.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
12-30-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Kevin Spacey, beyond the sea
The Worst of Times vs. the Best of Timesnew
A reviewer who found this year's films uninspiring debates with a colleague who asserts it's been an incredible year for movies.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman and Felicia Feaster |
12-30-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Water for the Wavesnew
Wes Anderson sets Bill Murray adrift.
Missoula Independent |
Andy Smetanka |
12-30-2004 |
Reviews
2004 Movies: Damaged Men and Second Chancesnew
With American authority at a low ebb, the movies of 2004 were full of damaged men struggling to define themselves in a world that seemed to have no use for them.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Adams |
12-30-2004 |
Movies
The Snow Globenew
Bay Area filmmakers who are bound for Sundance in January name some of their favorite films of 2004.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Bay Area producers and filmmakers |
12-29-2004 |
Movies
Discovery Channelnew
Our critic takes a look at some undiscovered and undistributed gems of 2004.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Bay Area filmmakers and critics |
12-29-2004 |
Movies
Taking Sidesnew
As Nov. 2 slopes away and Americans dig in for four more years, one wonders what to make of the innumerable hours documentary filmmakers spent parked at editing stations, determined to dethrone George W. Bush.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Max Goldberg |
12-29-2004 |
Movies
Behind the Celebritynew
The trouble with music documentaries today is they go behind the music instead of stay with it.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Kimberly Chun |
12-29-2004 |
Movies
Reasons to Disbelievenew
Torture reigned inside and outside movie theaters in 2004.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Susan Gerhard |
12-29-2004 |
Movies
