AltWeeklies Wire
Love Me Tendernew
Zach Braff’s feature film debut is a zealously dreamy tale of love, loss and ecstasy among twentysomething misfits in the brackish wilds of modern New Jersey.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-20-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Garden State, Zach Braff
Chumming the Oceannew
Open Water amounts to 79 minutes of footage of a pair of petty, pretty people freaking out over having to go to the bathroom in their wetsuits, and in the end you find yourself rooting for the sharks.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-20-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Chris Kentis, Open Water
A Sight to Seenew
You may know a certain blind swordsman from the pulp novels of Kan Shimozawa and the films of Shintaro Katsu, but this ain’t your daddy’s Zatoichi.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
08-20-2004 |
Reviews
Body, But No Soulnew
From the "You Can’t Make This Stuff Up, Folks" files comes this unfeeling take on how Gram Parsons’ body went missing and reappeared a few days later in the desert, half-cremated.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
08-20-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: David Caffrey, Grand Theft Parsons
In Space, No One Can Hear You Laughnew
For a synopsis, read a different review. It’s enough to know that a bunch of walking lunchboxes in a confined space (OK, a giant subterranean pyramid) in the middle of nowhere (all right already, half a mile under Antarctica) find out the hard way that they’re not alone.
Missoula Independent |
Andy Smetanka |
08-20-2004 |
Reviews
Kilby Goes Down: Late Late Show Host Quits
Craig Kilborn -- preening, smug, insincere, womanizing playboy host of CBS' Late Late Show -- walks away. A nation (sort-of) mourns.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
08-19-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Cable Network Pans for Comedy Gold
Bravo’s looking for a few good sitcoms from regular ol' folks. How about one set in an alt-weekly newsroom?
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
08-19-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Networks Launch Two Spouse-Swapping Showsnew
ABC claims that Fox's "Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy" (Tuesdays, 8 p.m.) ripped off its upcoming "Wife Swap." But perhaps both networks' execs caught the episode of "Chappelle's Show" when the husbands of white and black families traded households.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Heather Kuldell |
08-19-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Spike Lee Blows His Credibilitynew
When Spike Lee was filming She Hate Me, a friend should have taken the filmmaker aside and told him he would better serve everyone's time -- that of his cast and crew, his audience, himself -- by turning the feature into a soft-core adult film.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
08-19-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Spike Lee, She Hate Me
Postmodern Infidelity Brewsnew
We Don't Live Here Anymore often feels like Reality Bites-brand slackers playacting at tweedy adulthood, trying to convey how, in the post-college, post-kids landscape, real ennui -- and real disappointment -- set in.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
08-19-2004 |
Reviews
Blend of Animation and Hard Science Spins Your Headnew
Interspersed with scenes of Amanda (Marlee Matlin) moping about are clips of interviews with top physicists, doctors, mystics and authors who attempt to explain radical ideas of alternate realities, quantum physics and the power of thoughts to change your life. It seems just the thing to snap Amanda out of her doldrums.
Monterey County Weekly |
Catrina Coyle |
08-17-2004 |
Reviews
Open Water is Jaws Droppingnew
Funny how slowly the recognition of disaster dawns on those with faith in normality and common sense. That’s one of the many chilling glimpses into the human survival mechanism that Open Water's ingenious and limpidly simple premise offers.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
08-16-2004 |
Reviews
View Masters: MK12 Creates Kansas City's Coolest Exportsnew
The five partners in MK12 have spent the past several years earning an international reputation as purveyors of trendsetting computer-generated realities.
Insert God Herenew
By aping Hollywood's greying action genre tropes so faithfully, this evangelical film manages the rather remarkable feat of being neither alternative nor all that useful as a proselytizing tool.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-13-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Jerry Jameson, Last Flight Out
All Sugar, No Spicenew
This modern-day fairy tale has a particularly high sugar content, but coasts by on the affability of its classy leads.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
08-13-2004 |
Reviews
