Metro Weekly

Film

  • Haunted Mansion

    By on August 17, 2005

    Children shouldn't play with dead things: Hudson In The Skeleton Key, Kate Hudson plays hospice worker Caroline Ellis, a spunky, care-filled young woman whose curiosity...

  • Superteen Spirit

    By on August 3, 2005

    ''The kids who get bitten by a radioactive spider or fall into a vat of toxic waste, their powers usually show up the next day,''...

  • Foul Ball

    By on July 27, 2005

    First the good news: Michael Ritchie's wonderful, utterly un-PC 1976 little league romp, Bad News Bears, is available on DVD. Now the bad: Richard Linklater's...

  • Candy Corn

    By on July 20, 2005

    No everlasting gobstopper here: Depp confers with Roy I've heard from friends and readers that I was far too hard on Batman Begins. Perhaps, but...

  • Fantastic Flop

    By on July 13, 2005

    The Fantastic Four ain't. Bet you saw that train coming a mile away. But this train wreck of a superhero movie is very much a...

  • Martian Law

    By on July 6, 2005

    ''Take care of our kids,'' Mary Ann Ferrier says, somewhat warily, to ex-husband Ray as she drops them off before heading up to Boston for...

  • Skin Show

    By on June 29, 2005

    Let's get this out of the way. For those of you who attend gay films to see an abundance of sex and nudity and are...

  • Disenchanted

    By on June 29, 2005

    You know a romantic comedy is in trouble when the funniest line uttered is ''Hey there, I have Hepatitis C!'' It may not seem all...

  • Batting Zero

    By on June 22, 2005

    Origin of the species: Bale as Batman Maybe I'm getting long in the tooth. Maybe I lack the inner-fanboy spirit. Maybe I've seen this same...

  • Wild Boys

    By on June 8, 2005

    The one and only time I tried my hand at skateboarding was during the mid-seventies. I was a 16-year-old growing up in Ohio and a...

  • Moving Pride

    By on June 1, 2005

    It's Thursday and the French Riviera beckons. Trade the D.C. climate for a Mediterranean breeze and fields of lavender. If you're reading this, chances are...

  • Star Turn

    By on May 25, 2005

    So this is it. Barring Episodes VII, VIII and IX, we're done with Star Wars movies. That's not to say we're done with some Star...

  • I Remember Nomi

    By on May 18, 2005

    There is a cliché in the popular-culture lexicon: the German performance artist. Klaus Nomi is one of the pillars of this oft-parodied caricature, though his...

  • Wax Works

    By on May 11, 2005

    The only similarities that the new incarnation of House of Wax shares with its 1954 wellspring of inspiration that starred Vincent Price and was shot...

  • Martial Artistry

    By on April 27, 2005

    I went into Kung Fu Hustle with a massive headache, one of those throb jobs that nearly debilitates you. I left, 95 minutes later, with...