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  • Unhappy Together

    By on March 10, 2004

    It's fitting that Todd Phillips has been tapped to direct a spoof of The Six Million Dollar Man. Fitting because Phillips appears intent on mooring...

  • Hot Spot

    By on March 3, 2004

    It's 8:15 p.m. on a Friday night at the 18th & U Duplex Diner and the joint, as they say, is jumpin'. The bar area...

  • Bloody Pulpit

    By on March 3, 2004

    Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ can be summed up in a single word: obsessive. The movie, which concentrates on the final twelve hours...

  • Holiday Road

    By on February 25, 2004

    In order to fully enjoy Eurotrip, you need to be willing to completely shut off your mind and relax as you soak for ninety minutes...

  • Closed for Business

    By on February 25, 2004

    Nob Hill, the oldest gay bar in Washington and one of the oldest black gay bars in the country, closed its doors on February 1,...

  • Hair Cuttery

    By on February 11, 2004

    There are great haircuts. There are terrible haircuts. And then there are those haircuts that are so profoundly mediocre that they go virtually unnoticed. Those...

  • Giving Voice

    By on February 4, 2004

    Members of the LGCW in rehearsal. (Photo by Todd Franson) ''One of our guiding principles is that every voice matters. And that's very true in...

  • Vive la Chomet!

    By on February 4, 2004

    French animator Sylvain Chomet's The Triplets of Belleville is one of those movies that so thoroughly envelopes you in its own world, so thoroughly commands...

  • Torso Envy

    By on January 28, 2004

    If movies were air, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton would qualify as helium. Not that one expects substance from romantic comedies, but Robert Luketic's...

  • Puppy Love

    By on January 21, 2004

         ''I was born on the wrong end of the leash, '' bemoans Spot, the blue-furred canine protagonist of Disney's Teacher's Pet. ''I'm a dog...

  • The Woman Beneath

    By on January 14, 2004

    Talk about your extreme makeovers. Charlize Theron's alarming transformation into prostitute-turned-serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster is so remarkably convincing, you almost forget you're watching...

  • Play Time

    By on January 14, 2004

    ''This is a real boy beater.'' Patti Brown hoists a large wooden plank. The short end has been molded to comfortably fit the contours of...

  • Folk Lure

    By on January 7, 2004

    A few years ago, Tim Burton strayed into disappointing simian-minded territory with a fumble-fingered remake of Planet of the Apes. He must have learned his...

  • Mark Lee

    By on January 7, 2004

    Photography by Todd Franson If you have an e-mail account, chances are good you've gotten an Atlas E-mail Alert from Mark Lee. And if you've...

  • The Best and Worst Films of 2003

    By on December 24, 2003

    1. LORD OF THE RINGS: RETURN OF THE KING -- Peter Jackson's finale to the J.R.R. Tolkien classic was everything it needed to be: epic,...