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Tuesday, October 07, 2008

The Small Picture

Director Marc Abraham Approaches Something Almost Universal Through His Very Slice of Life Drama

In Film

An Interview with Chuck Palahniuk

Film: Victor Mancini, the pathetic narrator of the satirical novel Choke, is desperate to be loved. Usually that means an endless quest for the anesthetizing buzz that comes from sex with strangers, but as by Violet Glaze

Blindness

Film review: Listless Characters Makes This Catastrophe Movie A Heedless Rumination by Jess Harvell

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Film review: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist is a late-teen romantic comedy equal parts Superbad and Bridget Jones's Diary. Nick (Michael Cera) is a soft-spoken alt-kid who plays bass in a band that can't deci by Cole Haddon

Appaloosa

Film review: Based on the Robert B. Parker Western novel, Appaloosa follows two mercenary lawmen, Virgil Cole (Ed Harris) and Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortenson), as they try to bring justice to the titular New Mexic by Cole Haddon

Battle in Seattle

Film review: An admitted attempt to emulate Haskell Wexler's brilliant Medium Cool, Stuart Townsend's directorial debut boasts an undeniable visceral intensity as it follows the five days of protests and riots th by Jeff Meyers

Flash of Genius

Film review: Robert Kearns (Greg Kinnear) is an ordinary college engineering professor in 1960s Detroit. His wife, Phyllis (Lauren Graham), takes care of their modest house and six kids, and their lives are, for by Bret McCabe

Hail the Conquering Hero

Film review: Ever since Saving Private Ryan and that damned Tom Brokaw book was released 10 years ago, we've been hearing on and on how great the greatest generation really was. The band of brothers manage to ove by Martin L. Johnson

Miracle at St. Anna

Film review: Spike Lee's latest, most ambitious joint distinguishes itself from other World War II epics in a few crucial ways: its focus on the all-black 92nd Infantry Division, its subtle, ambiguous air of magi by Al Shipley

Nights In Rodanthe

Film review: The stars of Nights in Rodanthe are not Diane Lane and Richard Gere, but an endless cavalcade of desirable things: scented candles, wicker caddies, fine china, and one of a kind driftwood curios--a f by Violet Glaze

Previous Film Reviews

Towelhead

Film: There's a difference between provocative and profound, and writer/director Alan Ball (American Beau... By Jeff Meyers [9/24/2008]

Girl Cut in Two

Film: Four decades after rejuvenating film through insouciant movie love, the surviving directors of the ... By Bret McCabe [9/24/2008]

Ghost Town

Film Clips: With Ricky Gervais finally taking the lead in a movie, you would hope that it would play to the Bri... By Jason Ferguson [9/17/2008]

Igor

Film Clips: First-time feature film director Tony Leondis' Igor is a painful exercise in tone-deaf children's f... By Jeff Meyers [9/24/2008]

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

Film Clips: The beloved Judd Apatow movie machine would be Nowheresville if not for Preston Sturges, and nowher... By Rahne Alexander [9/24/2008]

Choke

Film: Bloody awful--actually, that's being a tad harsh. Misguided and inert are more accurate assessments... By Bret McCabe [9/24/2008]

I Served the King of England

Film: To 1960s American audiences, Milos Forman and Jirí Menzel were the Czech new wave. And while F... By Bert McCabe [9/24/2008]

Eagle Eye

Film: A Wronged Man And Woman Are Cornered Into Terrorism In This Hitchcokian Thriller | By Cole Haddon [9/24/2008]

Boy A

Film Clips: So much about director John Crowley's Boy A works so well that it's tempting to forgive its manufac... By Bret McCabe [9/17/2008]

Lakeview Terrace

Film Clips: Can't we all just get along? Apparently not in Neil LaBute's universe, a singularly nasty realm whe... By Corey Hall [9/24/2008]

The Mindscape of Alan Moore

DVD Conquer: THE MOVIE Earlier this year Warner Bros. released the trailer for the upcoming movie Watchmen, an e... By Chris Landers [9/24/2008]

Brick Lane

Film Clips: Novelist Monica Ali's 2003 debut Brick Lane tells the story of a young Bangladeshi woman, Nazneen, ... By Jason Ferguson [9/17/2008]

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