Akeelah And The Bee Stand-Up-And-Cheer Drama Spells Success Hollywood is in the midst of a certified spelling bee craze thanks to films like Spellbound and ... well, Bee Season . That’s [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Apr 27, 2006 Read More “ Terraneous
Bullrider Competent Documentary Offers Cowboys For Christ For me, professional bull riding ranks somewhere between Olympic curling and women's billiards on the list of all-time favorite sports. In fact, like [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Apr 20, 2006 Read More “Yeah
La Mujer De Mi Hermano South American Drama Proves More Soapy Than Sexy You could say that Zoe and Ignacio Edwards are a happily married couple. Except that they aren't. At least not the “happily” part. [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Apr 13, 2006 Read More “Yeah
Lucky Number Slevin Cool Crime Film Aims For The Funny Bone Crime may not pay, but it almost always looks cool. At least in the movies. Back when James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Apr 06, 2006 Read More “So ... come here often?”
Videonasty Free Enterprise: Five Year Mission Extended Edition Back when I was a kid growing up in Colorado, my favorite time of year was winter. You see, unlike Albuquerque, winter in [...] Kurly Tlapoyawa \ Mar 30, 2006 Read More
Atl Inner-City Dramedy Mixes Historic Neorealism With Ghetto Fabulous Culture Of Today'S Gangsta Lean Scene ATL is, in the truncated argot of both hip-hop performers and airport baggage handlers, slang for Atlanta. Used as the title of this [...] Maxwell K. Lionidas \ Mar 30, 2006 Read More Though lacking the dadaist imagery of the 1980 skate opus Xanadu
Ask The Dust Depression-Era Melodrama Simply Depresses Occasionally, Hollywood filmmakers are allowed to engage in what is known as a “vanity project.” This is normally a film that an actor, [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Mar 23, 2006 Read More “ Sigh . I’m too depressed to have sex with Salma Hayek. ... Now there’s good angst!”
Tsotsi South African Gangsta Drama More Cute Than Cutting Edge The titular character in the Academy Award-winning foreign film Tsotsi is a dead-eyed teenage thug living the hard-knock life in a crumbling Johannesburg [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Mar 23, 2006 Read More “Sure
V For Vendetta Rebellious Action Film Goes For The Jugular Back in 1982, two angry young English lads named Alan Moore and David Lloyd channeled their hatred for Margaret Thatcher's regime into a [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Mar 16, 2006 Read More “Seriously
Why We Fight Clear-Eyed Documentary Exposes The Business Of War Why We Fight is among the most sober, clear-eyed and thought-provoking of America's recent spate of politically oriented documentaries. Directed by Eugene Jarecki [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Mar 16, 2006 Read More “Yeah