Towelhead (Sydney Morning Herald)
A movie about a 13-year-old girl's emerging sexuality - and the men and boys who take advantage of it - ought not to be this funny.
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Blindness, Burn After Reading, and more (Creative Loafing Charlotte)
Capsule reviews of films currently playing... By Matt Brunson Current Releases BLINDNESS After the back-to-back helming of two excellent motion pictures – City of God and The Constant Gardener – Fernando Meirelles now goes for the gold (Oscar?) with his adaptation of Jose Saramago's Nobel Prize-winning novel Blindness. In this film's unnamed city (the country and characters similarly go ...
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Our critics recommend... (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Movies Opening Friday Body of Lies Leonardo DiCaprio stars as a CIA operative who is forced into an uneasy alliance with the head of Jordanian intelligence as he attempts to catch a major terrorist. Russell Crowe and Mark Strong also star.
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Cyber survey: Who won the vice presidential debate? (The Florida Times-Union)
Who do you think won the vice presidential debate? Joe Biden Sarah Palin [ View results ] ...
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Guerilla Theatre celebrates local playwrights (The Seahawk)
Guerilla Theatre, a group of local performance artists, gave its final performance of "Suburbia" at The Brown Coat Pub and Theatre's intimate stage Saturday night. The play, written by local playwright Eric Bogosian and directed by pub owner Richard Davis, is production number 36 and counting for Guerilla Theatre.
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Moving Midway / Family Name among new releases (Creative Loafing Charlotte)
Capsule reviews of films currently playing in Charlotte... By Matt Brunson New Releases MOVING MIDWAY / FAMILY NAME How coincidental that these two documentaries – both about North Carolinians grappling with their lineage – are hitting town at roughly the same time, one in theaters (Oct. 3), the other on DVD (Sept. 23). The new release Moving Midway, by film critic and Raleigh native Godfrey ...
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MOVIES (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Back in Las Vegas following its CineVegas showcase in June, this quirky black comedy (based on a novel by "Fight Club" author Chuck Palahniuk) focuses on a sex-addicted con artist (Sam Rockwell) who finances the care of his deranged mother (Anjelica Huston) by pretending to choke to death -- and playing on the sympathies of his rescuers.
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Fall movie preview: The season for serious films has arrived (Miami Herald)
The fall movie season arrives, which means the superheroes go on vacation, the sequels take a breather and the literary adaptations, costume dramas and Oscar-hopeful pictures start arriving at the multiplex. Here is a list of some of the 50-plus movies heading to theaters between now and Thanksgiving. Release dates are subject to change.
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A strong lineup of dramas could spell multiple Oscars for various films (The Argus Leader)
If it was a summer of super heroes at the box office, it's a fall and winter of just generally highly anticipated movies. If there is one through line though, it's the return of directors we love.
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Against the evidence (The New Statesman)
Throughout the 1960s, the tobacco industry famously spent millions promoting a small group of vociferous "sceptics" who, in the face of overwhelming evidence, continued to deny the link between smoking and cancer. The strategy paid off.
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