Between The Rock and a hard place, The Rundown isn't so bad
By Robert Wilonsky,
September 25, 2003
The script for The Rundown has lingered for more than a decade and was originally a Patrick Swayze vehicle, well before those wheels fell off.... More>>
Lázaro Ramos kicks literal and figurative booty as a legendary Brazilian drag queen
By Luke Y. Thompson,
September 25, 2003
It's no given that audiences will embrace a passionately homosexual, drug-abusing male prostitute-cum-drag-queen, especially if he happens not to... More>>
Lions tames Duvall and Caine with feel-good cornpone
By Robert Wilonsky,
September 18, 2003
Secondhand Lions is cornier than the cornfields spread out in front of the dilapidated rural Texas manse inhabited by Robert Duvall and Michael... More>>
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 of... More>>
Cabin Fever revisits the gore flick, with obvious results
By Gregory Weinkauf,
September 11, 2003
Once upon a time there was a guy named Sam Raimi. He grew up in Michigan and made amateur horror movies. He stuck with his hobby, and now he's a... 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, among others, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Dana Carvey,... More>>
Don't Tempt Me with this teasing battle for one man's soul
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August 21, 2003
Sin Noticias de Dios, retitled Don't Tempt Me for U.S. release, didn't fare too well in Spain upon its release there in December 2001, despite... More>>
Mondays in the Sun takes a whimsical look at unemployment on the coast of Spain
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August 21, 2003
Those who remember Javier Bardem as the heartthrob poet from Before Night Falls, or the distinguished detective in The Dancer Upstairs, may be... More>>
Campcharms, but it needs less talking and more singing
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August 14, 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>>
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>>
