There's something funny, not scary, about Cold Creek Manor
By Robert Wilonsky,
September 18, 2003
Never mind the trailers, which advertise Cold Creek Manor as some kind of horror-thriller, complete with the image of a hand emerging from the... More>>
In Matchstick Men,a father meets daughter and sets a paper moon ablaze
By Robert Wilonsky,
September 11, 2003
When Nicolas Cage plays still and sullen -- a man possessed by self-loathing and melancholy in Adaptation, say, or the landlocked angel in City... More>>
Most will deny it, but inside every grown man lurks a hypersensitive adolescent girl. Allow me to tell you all about mine and to share some of my... More>>
The 1990-'95 run of Saturday Night Live, when the show was a playground populated by the likes of Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Dana Carvey, Chris... More>>
Despite disquieting subtext, Jeepers Creepers 2 is a reasonably entertaining shocker
By Luke Y. Thompson,
September 04, 2003
As one who assesses creative works, you try to separate the individual artist from the output they produce. Watching Bedtime for Bonzo, you don't... More>>
Stranded in northern Scandinavia, three foreigners go Cuckoo
By Jean Oppenheimer,
August 28, 2003
Maverick Russian director Alexander Rogozhkin hit upon a clever idea for his idiosyncratic anti-war fable The Cuckoo (Kukushka in Russian). The... More>>
The Legend of Suriyothai gives 16th-century Thailand an epic identity
By Gregory Weinkauf,
August 21, 2003
If, in keeping with current fads, you seek movies featuring females kicking a bunch of ass, your appetite will be tended (and cultivated) at the... More>>
Camp charms, but it needs less talking and more singing
By Robert Wilonsky,
August 21, 2003
The praising of Hollywood summertime cinema is the pastime of pale critics who, come late July, start to wonder what the strange yellow orb is... More>>
Stephen Frears delivers accidental tourists caught up in Dirty Pretty Things
By Gregory Weinkauf,
August 14, 2003
It's a great pleasure to behold a chunk of art that's both dank and fresh at the same time, and this appraisal perfectly fits the superb Dirty... More>>
Ah, Paris -- City of Light, of Love, of Liver Damage and Lung Cancer. C'est formidable, non? Who in need of a posh vacation would turn down the... More>>
Ken Loach's look at working-class adolescents pulls no punches, and offers no happy endings
By Bill Gallo,
August 07, 2003
The hero of Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen is an isolated teenager mired in a gray Scottish slum with only a vague dream of family life to sustain... More>>
Jen and Ben get Gigli with it, and -- lucky us! -- we get to watch.
By Luke Y. Thompson,
July 31, 2003
For a few minutes, at least, things don't look so bad. Watching Ben Affleck swagger around as the thuggish title character of Gigli ("Rhymes with... More>>
Seabiscuit is a different breed of summer "ride" movie
By Jean Oppenheimer,
July 24, 2003
The novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald asserted that "There are no second acts in American lives." But a horse named Seabiscuit and the three disparate... More>>
Michael Bay's back with Will and Martin, and the result is exactly what you'd expect
By Luke Y. Thompson,
July 17, 2003
There's something to be said for a movie that's honest enough to transcribe dialogue that must have emanated from the director's mouth, and make... More>>
