Reviews of Ghost Town, The Duchess 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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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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Stories from The Times (Times of Malta)
EU migration pact - Malta close to deal on burden sharing Substantial progress was reported to have been achieved yesterday in Malta's efforts to include a commitment on burden sharing in the EU's new...
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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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