Email Author Robert Wilonsky

2003 Stories by Robert Wilonsky

• Virtual Family

  published July 24, 2003

  Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over continues a fine tradition of turning third installments of film series into three-dimensional efforts;... More >>

• Con Heir

  published July 17, 2003

  The heist-film genre, especially in recent years, practices the most blatant brand of cinematic swindle. It's built on little more than pilfered... More >>

• The Vans Warped Tour

  published July 17, 2003

  Used to be 33 bands (by my count, anyway, but I was told there would be little math in this course) would play over two, maybe three days; used to... More >>

• Fountains of Wayne

  published July 17, 2003

  Here's where my anti-iTunes stance proves out, in the Concept Album about cubicle losers and middle-class yutzes and the forgotten schmoes out... More >>

• Sci-Fi High

  published July 10, 2003

  Locals who lament the loss of the late, great Dallas Fantasy Fair have been teased of late with word of a WizardWorld convention coming to... More >>

• Still Smilin'?

  published July 10, 2003

  Stan Lee, for better or worse the most recognizable face in the history of the comic book, insists he has no love for rehashing his past. He... More >>

• Minor League

  published July 10, 2003

  The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen—or LXG, as Fox refers to it, as though it’s the latest Lexus all-terrain vehicle—wo... More >>

• Very Sinbad

  published July 3, 2003

  DreamWorks' Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas pulls into port but a week before Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse... More >>

• Dumb Blonde

  published July 3, 2003

  ABC-TV has penciled into its 2004 schedule a series based on the 2001 film Legally Blonde, for which a pilot has been shot starring someone... More >>

• Can't Stop

  published July 3, 2003

  By now, it would seem, there is no story about Fleetwood Mac left to tell. No snort has gone undocumented, no betrayal unchecked, no... More >>

• Family Portrait

  published June 26, 2003

  Two years ago, a first-time filmmaker named Andrew Jarecki paid a visit to the Concord, Massachusetts, home of a man who might draw him a road map... More >>

• What's Left of the Dial

  published June 19, 2003

  She does not deserve all the credit, and she would not be comfortable accepting all the thanks. She knows she's but one soldier among many--a... More >>

• Family Affair

  published June 19, 2003

  I purposely avoided reading anything about Capturing the Friedmans till seeing the film, which has been no easy task. Andrew... More >>

• Dwight Yoakam

  published June 19, 2003

  You get the sense Dwight Yoakam's still "country" 'cause he needs the hat and looks good in leather pants that end in boot points; otherwise he... More >>

• Liz Phair

  published June 19, 2003

  She's a tricky one, this exile from the record bins. She tells truths, but never really makes clear whose, which confused those who loved her... More >>

• Idol Worship

  published June 19, 2003

  Kelly Clarkson is like you and me in at least one respect: She, too, is sick of Kelly Clarkson. "My friends are like, 'If I see you on one more... More >>

• Greek Out

  published June 12, 2003

  You need not leave the house to know what's playing in movie theaters in coming weeks. You've already seen these films, with titles consisting of... More >>

• Hammer of the Gods

  published June 5, 2003

  In November there will arrive on newsstands a music magazine edited by Alan Light, who left Spin to embark on his endeavor of publishing a... More >>

• Radiohead | Christopher O'Riley

  published June 5, 2003

  Dunno quite what those sobbing over the frigid mechanics of Kid A and Amnesiac were complaining about; I like Thom Yorke's voice for... More >>

• Dem Blues

  published May 29, 2003

  You've been warned: This is a column about politics wherein a popular-culture critic (dunno what that is either, but says so on my tax returns)... More >>

• Safe, Cracked

  published May 29, 2003

  Another week, another remake--summer, that season of air-conditioned originality, must be upon us. Only unlike The In-Laws, which creaked... More >>

• Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra

  published May 29, 2003

  Comps like this, containing scattershot offerings from the disparate likes of Ray Davies and, gads, Dionne Warwick, shouldn't be sent gratis to... More >>

• The Story of O-So

  published May 22, 2003

  Was a time when Hong Kong cinema was considered exotica by the mainstream, as wow as the most spaced-out sci-fi and as now as the... More >>

• Till Death. That's It.

  published May 22, 2003

  Occasionally I can be convinced it's the singer, not the song. I've no love for Britney Spears' "Baby One More Time," but can't get enough of Brit... More >>

• Blur

  published May 22, 2003

  Some albums shouldn't be reviewed till they've been out a while; some need time to simmer on the digital hotplate to allow for maximum flavor to... More >>