Features
Monday, August 30 2010
Part One: September 2010
With over 23 films to choose from, September is a smorgasbord of possibilities -- from intelligent thrillers to unusual chiller, creative kid flicks and the standard Tinseltown tripe.
Reviews
Friday, September 24 2010
'Waiting for ‘Superman’': Lack of Accountability
The young students' stories are surely Waiting for ‘Superman’'s most effective strategy, but it's hard not to wonder at how they are being used in such a slick enterprise.
Thursday, January 7 2010
It Might Get Loud
Guggenheim’s portraits of the three guitarists are meant to emphasize and reemphasize the guitar’s limitless possibilities.
Thursday, September 10 2009
It Might Get Loud
The structure ambles, providing long set-up segments with each of the three musicians in their home spaces, messing with their guitars, chatting about tradecraft.
Thursday, October 11 2007
Gracie
Gracie, a modest, likable little soccer movie that came and went quickly and quietly in theaters this past spring, plays to just about every sports movie cliché in the book.
Friday, June 1 2007
Gracie (2007)
Though the movie accommodates sports-movie conventions, Gracie is difficult to dismiss.
Blogs
Saturday, February 6 2010
Couples Retreat (2009): Blu-ray
When Swingers stumbled onto the scene back in 1996, it was championed as a brilliant piece of indie smarm. With Jon Favreau providing the script…
Friday, October 9 2009
'Loud' Loses Its Focus Early and Often
They represent three generations of guitar godliness, axmen supreme who helped helm The Yardbirds/Led Zeppelin, U2, and The White Stripes straight to the top of…
Friday, October 9 2009
'Retreat' Can't Compete with Current Comedies
When Swingers stumbled onto the scene back in 1996, it was championed as a brilliant piece of indie smarm. With Jon Favreau providing the script…
News
Sunday, September 13 2009
Documentary filmmaker found the convenient truth behind three guitar heroes
MINNEAPOLIS — He has rock-star hair, rock-critic glasses and a movie-star wife. Davis Guggenheim also has an Oscar for directing "An Inconvenient Truth," the Al…
Sunday, June 3 2007
Based on a real story, 'Gracie' is a Shue thing
SAN FRANCISCO -- In 1967, when the Boston Marathon was restricted to men, race officials angrily pushed Kathrine Switzer off the course after realizing she…
