AltWeeklies Wire
Movie Buzz: Seeing Stars
After a disappointing week for Nicolas Cage, Hollywood is luring viewers back to the box office with big name stars. Righteous Kill stars Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino. A new Coen Brothers flick features George Clooney and Brad Pitt; plus Tyler Perry and The Women hit theaters.
Metro Spirit |
Mariah Gardner |
09-08-2008 |
Movies
Does the Recent Surge of Stoner Movies Mean America is Going to Pot?new
Marijuana movies are a hot genre right now -- Knocked Up, Harold & Kumar (both Go to White Castle and Escape from Guantanamo Bay), and Superbad have made piles of green at the box office. Just this past week, Pineapple Express topped the box office at $12.5 million, a record for a Wednesday opening in August. And those are just the obvious offenders.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
08-14-2008 |
Movies
Is 'Bottle Shock' the New 'Sideways'?new
Bottle Shock centers on the Barrett family and their estate, Chateau Montelena, a great California cult winery that was having a hard time staying afloat in the mid-'70s. The Judgment at Paris actually helped them turn their business around.
INDY Week |
Arturo Ciompi |
07-10-2008 |
Food+Drink
Will the Hassle of Dealing with MLB Bury a Documentary About a Cubs Superfan?new
Just days before the Cubs season opener in 2005, amateur filmmaker Paul Hoffman premiered his documentary about Ronnie "Woo Woo" Wickers at a gala benefit at the Chicago Historical Society. Hoffman figured it was only a matter of time before Woo Life: One Life Saved by the Game of Baseball found a distributor and brought further attention to a cause near to his heart, the plight of Chicago's homeless. But in fact, in three years' time he'd be sitting on a thousand copies of the film.
Chicago Reader |
Jeff Carroll |
06-16-2008 |
Sports
Summer=Expensive, Derivative Movies. It's Almost Summer!new
Every summer, America presents to the world its greatest product: crappy movies. Because sometimes, we need to take a break from all of the wars we're fighting and the economies we're destroying and mortgages we're foreclosing on, and just have a really bad time at the theater.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
05-07-2008 |
Movies
Strap Yourself In for the Summer Movie Blitznew
Must be summer -- every movie I want to see in the next three months is either a sequel, a superhero movie, or a superhero movie sequel.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Cheryl Eddy |
04-30-2008 |
Movies
Have Movie Stereotypes Returned?new
Officially, stereotypes don't exist in Hollywood, only archetypes -- representative characters based on real people. To complain about movie stereotypes is to risk being labeled a humorless, P.C. crank.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
04-25-2008 |
Movies
'My First Movie: Take Two' Disappointsnew
In theory, this book should be a wet dream for would-be filmmakers.
Charleston City Paper |
Nick Smith |
04-09-2008 |
Nonfiction
The Varieties of American Experiencenew
The rights and duties of the American citizen are wobbly -- these essays reflect on what it means to be an American now.
San Antonio Current |
Staff |
10-11-2006 |
Immigration
Betty & Veronica
Previews of Ugly Betty, Veronica Mars, and other fall season shows, plus new TV on DVD and broadband.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
09-22-2006 |
TV
Welcome to Tamalewoodnew
There was Hollywood, then Bollywood, and now there's Tamalewood -- New Mexico has swiftly become the rising star in the movie-making business.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Nathan Dinsdale |
04-05-2006 |
Economy
Senator Calls on Republicans to Right the Shipnew
John Danforth, who says the GOP has become captive to Christian fundamentalists, discusses the role of religion in politics.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
09-27-2005 |
Politics
Highlights and Lowlightsnew
Here are 20 more reasons to race to -- or from -- the multiplexes and art houses this fall.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Johnny Huston and Cheryl Eddy |
08-25-2004 |
Reviews
NUVO of Indianapolis Offers Searchable Movie Guidenew
NUVO, Indianapolis's alternative weekly, offers capsule reviews of hundreds of films, searchable by movie name, actor name, keyword or MPAA rating. They can also be viewed alphabetically. Each capsule review is about 50 words.
A Partly Cloudy Look at the Summer Movies Aheadnew
June starts with the third Harry Potter movie, which finds our almost-adolescent heroes and hot older heroine smoking pot, having three-way sex, and road-tripping across Mexico. No, wait, that’s the last movie directed by Alfonso Cuarón, "Y Tu Mamá También," and we’d much rather see a sequel to that.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
08-07-2004 |
Reviews
