AltWeeklies Wire
Spike Shoots Blanksnew
Spike Lee strikes out with his new "joint" about an unemployed whistle-blower who makes a living impregnating sperm-deprived lesbians.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
10-01-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Spike Lee, She Hate Me
Burning Sensation
FX’s Rescue Me is the best series on TV, cable or otherwise. Too bad it’s almost over.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
10-01-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Toothless Sharksnew
What in the hell is Jack Black doing wasting his time in lame kids' movies?
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
09-30-2004 |
Reviews
Major Networks Reject Advertising for Fahrenheit 9/11 DVDnew
Executives of Sony Pictures were stunned when CBS, NBC and ABC all refused Fahrenheit 9/11 DVD advertising during any of the networks’ news programming. The reluctance stems from the closeness of the release to the election, a Sony insider says.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
09-30-2004 |
TV
Pinnacle of Zombedynew
Shaun of the Dead is one of those rare films that works in all of its parameters.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
09-30-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead
Delightful, Dirty Watersnew
John Waters has influenced a generation of filmmakers with his trashy films, including his new A Dirty Shame. But what is trashy these days, anyway?
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
09-30-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: John Waters, A Dirty Shame
Nair's Fairnew
Reese Witherspoon gets her period piece.
Missoula Independent |
Nicole Panter |
09-30-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Mira Nair, Vanity Fair
Maculate Conceptionnew
Saved! falls short of its mark. It's not bad, but uses its intermittent satire as a Trojan horse to deliver a message about intolerance.
Missoula Independent |
Andy Smetanka |
09-30-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Brian Dannelly, Saved!
Portrait of a Revolutionary as a Young Mannew
The journey as metaphor is a familiar one, charted in legends from the Odyssey to Easy Rider. Along the way, we know the youths will have their eyes opened, their hearts broken or, in the more cynical road movies, wind up dead.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
09-30-2004 |
Reviews
Peppy Pieces of Propaganda Viable at Box Officenew
As Election Day draws near, going to the movies feels increasingly like switching on infomercials, and they're all selling the same thing: regime change in the White House.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
09-30-2004 |
Reviews
Che-Che-Che-Changesnew
This exercise in feel-good historical romanticism cannily exploits Che Guevara as icon by finding a quite legitimate context in which to ignore all the problematic aspects of his later life.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dennis Harvey |
09-29-2004 |
Reviews
Drew Barrymore Pops Her Political Cherrynew
Drew Barrymore admits that she was the kind of person who didn't know what the Electoral College was until she got invited to a rally encouraging young people to vote. Her documentary on her political self-education, The Best Place to Start, is showing on MTV.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
09-29-2004 |
TV
Kerry's Best Campaignnew
Will his new biopic make John Kerry president? Not likely, but it's one of the very best of the Democrat-friendly docs stampeding in the wake of "Fahrenheit 9/11."
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
09-29-2004 |
Reviews
Brothers in Armsnew
This is the kind of big-screen opus that Michael Bay only wishes Pearl Harbor could have been. Foreign films often feature intellectual alternatives to homegrown cinema, but rare is the foreign blockbuster that can go toe-to-toe with the big American studio action franchise flicks and clobber them on their own terms.
Houston Press |
Luke Y. Thompson |
09-28-2004 |
Reviews
Siamese Villagers Blast Burmese Oppressorsnew
Veteran Thai director Thanit Jitnukul arranges his version of this classic national tale in two stacks: humanity and warfare. Then he gradually topples them into one another. Those sensitive to graphic violence should note that he doesn't skimp on putting it all on the screen.
East Bay Express |
Gregory Weinkauf |
09-28-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Bang Rajan, Tanit Jitnukul
