Posts Tagged ‘shot’
An Ugly Business
A local man pushes back against the mug-shot muscle.JEFF PRINCE
Mug shot magazines such as Mugly! and Busted! and their online equivalents have become popular in recent years. Some people just can’t resist visiting web sites or paying a buck at a local gas station for a thin tabloid full ...
Butterfly Helps Illegal Gringo Crosser
Paul Edwards and Adam Dietrich hook up for a new comedy pilot.JIMMY FOWLER
A little more than two years ago, Paul Edwards decided that the time had come to chase his lifelong dream. He owned a successful safety food consulting business that brought financial security to his family. His two children we...
Unhappy Haneke
Funny Games tortures you to make a point. This review will save you some pain.Kristian Lin
When you watch slasher flicks and other movies that kill off innocent characters like ants, do you feel bad for those onscreen victims?
Maestro
KRISTIAN LINThe flawed, fabulous musical Nine is based on a Broadway show, which in turn was adapted from Federico Fellini’s film 8½. Set in 1965, it stars Daniel Day-Lewis as Guido Contini, a world-renowned Italian filmmaker who...
New York State of Mind
Big TicketBefore Dave Matthews and John Mayer, there was Billy Joel, a singer-songwriter who had the technical chops to satisfy progressive tastes and the ability to write the kind of simple, effective, no-nonsense lyrics that made mains...
Our Other Selves
Gayle ReavesShooting through thick glass into the narrow box of a prison interview cubicle, John Holbrook had few options as a photographer.
Hell in the Carpathians
Big TicketA few weeks back, The New York Times ran a piece in their Sunday magazine about the suddenly hot Romanian film industry.
A Lonesome Dove and a Yalid
KulturFilmmaker David H. Hickey is an oddity in these parts — he generally avoids making movies about dead teenagers.
Lord of the Wings
Big TicketWhen it came out in 1980, Airplane! was considered frenetically paced for a comedy film.
No Kids Under 18
The human race nears its end in the remorseless sci-fi thriller Children of Men.Kristian Lin
Two years ago, Alfonso Cuarón directed a luminous adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and revitalized a movie series that might otherwise have died prematurely.