AltWeeklies Wire
Here's Looking at You, Americanew
A look at the eye in the pyramid and other symbols found in the current film National Treasure reveals their true cultural context.
Mountain Xpress |
Steve Rasmusen |
11-29-2004 |
Movies
Do Not Operate Heavy Machinerynew
Christian Bale lost 63 pounds in order to play this unsettling title character, a man who maybe has shed his sanity along with his weight.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-28-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Brad Anderson, The Machinist
The Sounds of Musicnew
Admiring documentary about Robert Moog, the inventor of the music synthesizer, reveals little that hasn't been heard before.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-28-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Hans Fjellestad, Moog
Sex and the Married Mannew
Kinsey enshrines the scientist at the expense of a more rigorous and more profound scrutiny.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
11-28-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Bill Condon, Kinsey
Holiday Pap and Circumstancenew
Christmas With the Kranks is a film so utterly denuded of genuine holiday charm that it ranks with Santa Claus Conquers the Martians as one of the most jaw-droppingly abysmal seasonal efforts yet released.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-28-2004 |
Reviews
You Can Call Me Alnew
Oliver Stone has achieved the impossible: He's made the life of Alexander the Great seem boring.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-28-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Oliver Stone, Alexander
Hollywood Product: Sponge Delights Adults and Kids Alikenew
Quippy snippets about the sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea include flesh factor (just about every character is seen in their underwear), cameo (David Hasselhoff) and best line ("You're a knuckle-headed spaz-a-tron").
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Heather Kuldell |
11-26-2004 |
Reviews
Atmospheric Thriller Loses Steamnew
The Machinist is the kind of story that probably sounded great on paper, with its mounting sense of dread and spooky flourishes like a refrigerator oozing some problematic fluid. But writer Scott Kosar's psychological thriller is relatively lifeless onscreen.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
11-26-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Brad Anderson, The Machinist
Alexander the Not So Greatnew
With Alexander, under the command of Oliver Stone, the resurgent genre marches to its Waterloo. At nearly three enervating hours, Stone's trudge through the life of Alexander the Great could put epic films in bad odor for years.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-26-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Oliver Stone, Alexander
Liam Neeson Gives Haunting Performance as Sex Expert in Kinseynew
The biopic Kinsey lays out just how much we didn't know before the Indiana professor began his explosive explorations. The film engrossingly shows how Kinsey's research resisted the forces of ignorance and moralism, breaking ground with the publication of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male in 1948 and its feminine follow-up in 1953.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-26-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Bill Condon, Kinsey
Welcome to the Dollhousenew
Strung out on poppets, puppets, and Seed of Chucky. It's the perfect double-bill match for the equally unholy Team America: World Police.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Kimberly Chun |
11-24-2004 |
Reviews
Paradise Foundnew
Finding Neverland features near-perfect performances and writing.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
11-24-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Marc Forster, Finding Neverland
The Golden Film of Ballooningnew
A clichéd stalker story benefits from some beautiful artistic vision in Enduring Love.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
11-24-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Roger Michell, Enduring Love
Holiday Films Focus on the Fixatednew
A round-up of opening throughout the holiday season.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-24-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Various Directors, Various Films
Peter Panachenew
In adapting Allan Knee's play The Man Who Was Peter Pan, Forster indulges in broad, maudlin melodrama via his favorite topics (lost children, family wreckage), but gradually, to his credit, he rises from the plentiful syrup to deliver touching poetry.
Phoenix New Times |
Gregory Weinkauf |
11-24-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Marc Forster, Finding Neverland
