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Somewhere Over the Date Line Somewhere Over the Date Line
Welcome to Baz Luhrmann's not-quite-marvelous land of Oz
You don't have to have been raised on colonial Brit lit, classic melodramas, Westerns, war movies, or Gone With the Wind to figure out the likely... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: November 27, 2008
Proposition Hate Proposition Hate
Gus Van Sant's Milk recaptures California intolerance at exactly the right time
Gus Van Sant has never been what you'd call a risk-averse filmmaker, but he directs his Harvey Milk biopic so carefully, there might be a Ming... More>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: November 27, 2008
Leashed Lightning Leashed Lightning
Disney's latest toon is a starry dog story
With his blazing-white coat and pig-pink ears, to say nothing of the zigzag of lightning cut into his flank, the eponymous canine lead of... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: November 20, 2008
Monster Mom Monster Mom
Kristin Scott Thomas shines as a child killer in middlebrow French melodrama
Kristin Scott Thomas has gotten so locked into playing tragic victims or frigid grandes dames that few remember that the actress got her big... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: November 20, 2008
Neither Shaken nor Stirred Neither Shaken nor Stirred
Marc Forster has a license to confuse and bore in Quantum of Solace
Those of us who adored Casino Royale, the 2006 reboot of the haggard, self-parodic James Bond franchise, had some trouble trying to decide where... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: November 13, 2008
The World Is a Stage The World Is a Stage
Art imitates life imitating art in Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York
If you traveled the length of John Malkovich's medulla oblongata, hung a sharp left at the desk where Beckett's Krapp recorded his last tape, and... More>>
By Thomas Francis
Published: November 13, 2008
Stick With It, Movie Fans Stick With It, Movie Fans
FLIFF: Sex, growing up, and a spurious comeback
These reviews are part of New Times' continuing coverage of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. Fling — Formerly called Lie... More>>
Published: November 06, 2008
Blues Brothers Blues Brothers
Soul Men pays fitting tribute to the late Bernie Mac
If the dream of every comic is to have his humor live on long after he's left the stage, then the late Bernie Mac has exited this world on a high... More>>
By Chuck Wilson
Published: November 06, 2008
Strictly Softcore Strictly Softcore
Kevin Smith blows his wad with Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Ostensibly, Zack and Miri Make a Porno should be money-shot Kevin Smith: Pals make a porn to pay the bills and, in the process of gettin' it on... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: October 30, 2008
Female Persuasion Female Persuasion
Happy-Go-Lucky's optimistic heroine might just convince you to cheer up
The protaganist of Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky is a modestly gaudy people's heroine industriously repairing the social world one frayed... More>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: October 30, 2008
FLIFF: The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival Guide FLIFF: The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival Guide
Our guide to the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival
The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival opened officially on October 17 — over 200 films in 29 days at three separate venues (Cinema... More>>
Published: October 23, 2008
Go Ahead, Make Her Day Go Ahead, Make Her Day
Angelina Jolie takes on a serial killer and the system in Clint Eastwood's latest
On a double bill with L.A. Confidential, Chinatown, or just about any film made after 1970 about institutional corruption in Los Angeles, Clint... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: October 23, 2008
Take It to the Bank
FLIFF wins one, then hits a downturn
These reviews are part of New Times' continuing coverage of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.The New Twenty — First-time... More>>
Published: October 23, 2008
We Rent the Night We Rent the Night
New York cop drama holds the audience hostage
Pride and Glory doesn't make any effort to disguise precisely what it is: a barely held-together string of vignettes lifted from every cop movie... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: October 23, 2008
Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival Preview Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival Preview
The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival opens officially on Friday, and it will close on November 11. In the intervening month, the... More>>
By Brandon K. Thorp
Published: October 16, 2008
Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival Schedule
Monday, October 6 Pre Fest Membership Party • at Blue Martini 6 p.m. — Martinis and Movies Madness Membership Party Free with... More>>
Published: October 16, 2008
The Youngest Candidate
Politics is always confusing, and in dangerous times, it's probably better to be knowledgeably cynical than gaily ignorant. All by itself, Jason... More>>
By Brandon K. Thorp
Published: October 16, 2008
Bush's Brain Bush's Brain
Oliver Stone assigns motive to Dubya's M.O., but at this point, who cares?
Oliver Stone's W. may be less frenzied than his typical sensory bombardment. But in revisiting the early '00s by way of the late '60s, this... More>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: October 16, 2008
Murder, Spies, & Voting Lies and Boogieman
Murder, Spies, & Voting Lies: The Clint Curtis Story is an exhaustively (and exhaustingly) thorough investigation of the claims of Clint Curtis,... More>>
By Brandon K. Thorp
Published: October 16, 2008
Neshoba
Any distance you might feel between yourself and the result of cheap politicking depicted in Boogieman is obliterated within the first half-hour... More>>
By Brandon K. Thorp
Published: October 16, 2008
Pussyfoot
Nothing curdles comedy more quickly than forced whimsy, which is what this would-be romantic comedy has in abundance. The story focuses on a... More>>
By Michael Mills
Published: October 16, 2008
An Unlikely Weapon
You probably don't know photographer Eddie Adams, though you know his work. His most famous picture is the one of South Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen... More>>
By Brandon K. Thorp
Published: October 16, 2008
Coyote
Filmmakers and novelists love to talk about American insularity and blundering naiveté. You know, that distinctive and ultimately... More>>
By Edmund Newton
Published: October 16, 2008
A Deal Is a Deal
The title transaction in this British comedy — a crime that's carried out with about as much gusto as the reluctant murder swap in... More>>
By Michael Mills
Published: October 16, 2008
Newcastle
For anybody who has tried to ride the often-blown-out waves of the Sunshine State, the glassy and perfectly rolling Australian surf in Newcastle... More>>
By Eric Barton
Published: October 16, 2008
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