Metro Weekly

Film

  • Summer Splash

    By on June 20, 2007

    Saturday, June 23 may go down as the ''day'' the Hillwood Gardens ''rocked'' when Pillow Talk screens on the Lunar Lawn of this sprawling estate...

  • Banal Bunch

    By on June 20, 2007

    Well... it's better than the first one. Faint praise, indeed, but it's really the best you can say for the second installment of the Fantastic...

  • Blood Bath

    By on June 13, 2007

    Blood and guts and gore. Oh my! Eli Roth's Hostel: Part II delivers everything that you would expect from the sequel to the 2005 original:...

  • Cutting Crew

    By on June 6, 2007

    Two films -- one a big budget Hollywood production with a massive marketing campaign, one an indie making its way around smaller theaters. One movie...

  • Shipwrecked

    By on May 30, 2007

    There is a terrifically clever moment in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, the third and unlikely final installment in the box-office blockbusting series,...

  • Time Misspent

    By on May 9, 2007

    Is there anything more dreadful than running into that ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend you just can't stand? Now there is. At least the unexpected ex sighting...

  • God Knows

    By on May 9, 2007

    Recounting her initial fears about launching a transgender choir, founder Ashley Moore says, ''Are people going to be able to stop laughing long enough to...

  • Moviegoing Maryland

    By on May 2, 2007

    The Maryland Film Festival kicks off a stunning four-day event today, Thursday, May 3, and runs through Sunday, May 6, with most of the screenings...

  • Web Head

    By on May 2, 2007

    The giddy anticipation of a movie is sometimes better than the movie itself. You enter more excited than you ultimately exit. Such is frequently the...

  • Hot Stuff

    By on April 25, 2007

    Hot Fuzz is a cross between Die Hard and The Full Monty. No, that's not quite right. Maybe it's more like Point Break meets Four...

  • Monsters and Mayhem

    By on April 11, 2007

    Wake up, moviegoing America! Right before your eyes last weekend came an original: a witty, exceedingly well-crafted tribute to the exploitation flicks of the '70s,...

  • Culture Club

    By on April 11, 2007

    A voice-over narration that condescends to the audience isn't the most auspicious start for a film, particularly for Boy Culture, the story of a Seattle...

  • Scene Stealer

    By on April 4, 2007

    I don't want to be premature about this, but it seems Joseph Gordon-Levitt has completely conquered the ''Curse of the T.V. Sitcom Child Actor.'' Many...

  • Switch Blades

    By on March 28, 2007

    To steal the tagline from another skating film, Blades of Glory is a movie about a love/skate relationship. What makes this one unique is that...

  • Long Life Journey

    By on March 21, 2007

    Five and a half years. Is it still too soon for a 9/11 themed movie? And, in the case of Reign Over Me, is this...