Blind Shaft Coal-Black Chinese Film Noir Digs Deep Into Economic Desperation Blind Shaft, a sparse film noir drama out of China, spends much of its time looking like a WPA photography project from the [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ May 27, 2004 Read More The new “proletarian wage slave” look from J. Crew.
Super Size Me Fast Food Documentary Gets To The Bottom Of An American Problem Last month, McDonald's dropped its long-standing “Super Size” promotion, featuring gigantic French fries and towering sodas. The company says the decision had nothing [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ May 27, 2004 Read More This town ain’t big enough for the both of us
Divan Divine Documentary Searches For The Holy Grail Of Couches Every family has a story. Every family has a couch. But very few have stories and couches like the family of Pearl Gluck. [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ May 20, 2004 Read More Couch-surfing
Troy Epic Action Flick Looks Great, Feels Too Analytical Way back in the day, heroes didn't need no stinkin' motivations. They were heroes. Pure and simple. They killed enemies, knocked over city [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ May 20, 2004 Read More War! What is it good for? Entertainment value.
Van Helsing Campy Monster Bash Should Have Bram Stoker, Et Al. Rolling Over In Their Graves Hopefully, Van Helsing is the stupidest movie of the year. If not, we're in for a long, dumb summer. Writer/director Stephen Sommers (The [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ May 13, 2004 Read More “Man
The Return Russian Parable Travels Dark Road With Fathers, Sons, Fears OK, so you're never going to remember a name like Andrei Zvyagintsev. But, with his first feature film outing, the Russian director makes [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ May 13, 2004 Read More “Aye
Rhinoceros Eyes Fantasy-Prone Protagonist Fuels Quirky, Cinema-Obsessed Debut The first film produced under the auspices of indie film chain Madstone Theaters, Rhinoceros Eyes is an appealingly offbeat genre-buster that effectively commingles [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ May 06, 2004 Read More Cripplingly shy
Dogville Danish Director'S Epic Parable'S A Brilliant But Torturous Journey Here's the short review of Dogville, the new film from Lars von Trier: Flip a coin. If it comes up heads, you'll totally [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Apr 29, 2004 Read More “Wait ... we both slept with Russell Crowe?”
Mayor Of The Sunset Strip Throughout Los Angeles, Rodney Bingenheimer is known simply as “Rodney on the Roq.” Since 1976, he has been a disc jockey for Los [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Apr 29, 2004 Read More Well
13 Going On 30 Derivative Body Swap Comedy Needs To Do A Little Growing Up Body swap comedies were a (thankfully) short-lived trend of the '80s. The success of Tom Hanks in Big led to a string of [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Apr 22, 2004 Read More Jennifer Garner gets all glammed up for her leading lady debut.
