Archive for September, 2006
Movie Review | ‘loudQUIETloud’: Celebrating the Triumphant Return of the Pixies
September 28th, 2006 by NATHAN LEESyndicated Reviews
Boring people who made extraordinary music, the Pixies are inexplicable. In attempting to demystify them, this backstage pass to their 2004 reunion tour achieves the...
Movie Review | ‘Broken Sky’: In an Epic of Nonverbal Desire, It Is the Details That Matter
September 28th, 2006 by NATHAN LEESyndicated Reviews
Boy meets boy like you’ve never seen in Julián Hernández’s sex-drenched, extravagantly minimalist...
Movie Review | ‘School for Scoundrels’: Sad Sacks Seek Instruction in the Ways of Courtship
September 28th, 2006 by MANOHLA DARGISSyndicated Reviews
Billy Bob Thornton's estimable talents are squandered in this shoddy comedy directed by Todd Phillips ("Old...
Movie Review | ‘Open Season’: An Oddball Army in a Cartoon Wilderness
September 28th, 2006 by LAURA KERNSyndicated Reviews
Periodic bursts of cleverness and eye-popping imagery canÂ’t disguise that this is just another movie full of jive-talking computer-generated animals with little new to...
Movie Review | ‘Be With Me’: Three Tales Revolving Around a Real Life
September 28th, 2006 by STEPHEN HOLDENSyndicated Reviews
Although four stories are folded together in Eric KhooÂ’s elliptical film, it's the true story of a deaf and blind Singaporean woman that gives the movie its...