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Providing the Minimum Requirement of Movie Mayhemnew

Debut director David Goyer wrote all three Blade films and improves on the sleek, empty music video of the first, but falls short of the gothic, propulsive video game of the second. Though more gritty and humorous, Blade Trinity tries too hard to be edgy.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Curt Holman | 12-09-2004 | Reviews

Tags: Blade Trinity, David Goyer

The Inheritance Portrays the Sapping of a Soulnew

The family dynasty storyline and wife vying with mama for sonny boy's affection can give The Inheritance a mildly soapy, "Dallas" groove. But it's that hollow angst at the center that gives the film its final air of sadness and resignation.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Felicia Feaster | 12-09-2004 | Reviews

Tags: Per Fly, The Inheritance

Self-Indulgent Director Deflates Sex Is Comedynew

Breillat's latest offering, Sex Is Comedy, has a misleading title considering how much unfunny hand-wringing Breillat brings to her under-the-covers battleground.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Felicia Feaster | 12-09-2004 | Reviews

Tags: Catherine Breillat, Sex is Comedy

Sequel Takes High-Action Stakes on the Roadnew

The sequel to Ocean's Eleven unfolds as a complex heist picture that considers the honor among thieves and reveals plenty of their trade secrets. Each film offers a master-class on how to steal in plain sight.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Curt Holman | 12-09-2004 | Reviews

Tags: Steven Soderbergh, Ocean's Twelve

Transfer of Power Expected at William Morris Agencynew

The oldest, richest and stodgiest of Hollywood talent agencies is undergoing a seismic shift not unlike what’s happening beneath the San Andreas Fault.

L.A. Weekly | Nikki Finke | 12-08-2004 | Movies

Tags: Jim Wiatt and Dave Wirtschafter and Sam Haskell, Norman Brokaw

A South African Crime Legend Gets His Duenew

In Johannesburg, Canadian filmmaker Bronwen Hughes scrapped her original script for Stander and wrote a more subtle story about an ambitious career cop who turned from police work to a life of crime.

Montreal Mirror | Sarah Rowland | 12-08-2004 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: South Africa, Afrikaners, bank robbery, Bronwen Hughes, Stander, Stander Gang

Anatomy of a Sumbitchnew

This fascinating documentary is no mere instructional video about how to fail in show biz. It's about willful self-immolation, about letting raw ego and crazy delusion run amok, about driving friends and family into storms of rage.

SF Weekly | Bill Gallo | 12-06-2004 | Reviews

Tags: Overnight, Mark Brian Smith and Tony Montana

A Psychomagical Encounternew

In life, as well as film, Chilean-born director Alejandro Jodorowsky is avant-garde.

SF Weekly | John Mecklin | 12-06-2004 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Alejandro Jodorowsky

His Will Be Donenew

In this era of muckraking left-wing documentaries, The Inheritance offers a fascinating fictionalized look at what cutthroat capitalism can do to conscience.

Cleveland Scene | Luke Y. Thompson | 12-06-2004 | Reviews

Tags: Per Fly, inheritance

Closer to Finenew

Mike Nichols' new film might be taken for outright soap opera -- or soft-core porn -- were it not for the sophisticated gleam of its well-heeled London desperadoes and its viciously dazzling dialogue.

Cleveland Scene | Bill Gallo | 12-06-2004 | Reviews

Tags: Mike Nichols, Closer

The Man Behind the Man Behind the Moog Synthesizernew

By the end of this documentary, you realize that although electronic music has been pegged as distant, impersonal or even alien -- because of unique sounds generated by the Moog -- the deeply spiritual man behind the machine sees his creation as nothing less than a device to channel human emotions.

Phoenix New Times | Michele Laudig | 12-06-2004 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Hans Fjellestad, Moog