Metro Weekly

Film

  • Chilled Milk

    By on November 26, 2008

    Bio-pics are tricky things. Filmmakers who undertake them are required to balance narrative flow with documented real-life experiences. They often take liberties with the truth,...

  • Bonding Behavior

    By on November 19, 2008

    That dashing, debonair, heartthrob who can make the impossible seem easy is back. And the best part is that he's playing James Bond again. Daniel...

  • Money Shot

    By on October 29, 2008

    Pornography in the United States is a multi-billion dollar industry and director Kevin Smith is apparently trying to tap some of that revenue stream with...

  • Review | Noah’s Arc: Jumping the Broom

    By on October 22, 2008

    Just as things reach a feverish, high-pitched frenzy in Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom, you pray Mary J. Blige will pop up to tell everyone,...

  • Bush Whacked

    By on October 15, 2008

    is Oliver Stone's answer to the George W. Bush administration -- and actually the Bush dynasty as a whole, since Bush 1 makes a series...

  • Tune Town

    By on October 8, 2008

    Teenage waist-land:(L to R)Cera, Yoo, Dennings, Jonathan Wright, and Gavron The infamous mix-tape. Admit it, you've made one and given it to a crush. Though...

  • Deep Throat

    By on September 24, 2008

    Choke, based on a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, may be tough to swallow, but if you can get it down, it's really worth it. As...

  • Ball Bearing

    By on September 17, 2008

    ''It's a lot easier to get stuff made for TV than it is for movies,'' says Alan Ball. And he should know: The screenwriter of...

  • Feminine Imposition

    By on September 17, 2008

    There are only three groups who should willingly sit through The Women: females who nightly juggle TMZ.com, Haagen Dazs and Lifetime while wrapped in a...

  • Blurred Visages

    By on September 3, 2008

    If you think being a gay Republican is a tough dichotomy to reconcile, try being a gay Muslim. In concept, the idea of being gay...

  • Offending the Masses

    By on August 27, 2008

    Hamlet 2 is blasphemy, pure and simple. And it's not just the musical number ''Rock Me Sexy Jesus'' that's going to have people apoplectic; Shakespeare...

  • Getting a Woody

    By on August 20, 2008

    Imagine a summer of love and romance in Barcelona. There would be late nights filled with good wine, soft music and a sexy artist who...

  • Laugh Attack

    By on August 13, 2008

    Humor is subjective. What strikes me as funny may not be funny to you. There are, however, plenty of crossover areas that make us all...

  • Brit Lit

    By on August 6, 2008

    In high school, there were two ways to get out of reading a literature assignment -- watch the movie or get the CliffsNotes. For students...

  • Teen Spirit

    By on July 30, 2008

    Thirty-seven. That's how many times your heart might break during American Teen. It's high school-concentrate -- all the highs and lows and mistakes and inevitable...