Blindness, Burn After Reading, 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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MOVIES (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
"Airplane!" and "Naked Gun" co-conspirator David Zucker co-writes and directs this "Christmas Carol"-meets-Michael Moore spoof about a rabble-rousing filmmaker (Kevin P. Farley) who wants to abolish the Fourth of July -- until the ghosts of, among others, George Washington (Jon Voight) and George S. Patton (Kelsey Grammer) try to change his mind.
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Paramore post new track online (Kerrang.com)
Paramore have finished work on their track for the Twilight soundtrack and author Stephanie Mayer has posted it on her website. "Twilight is the first series of books I've ever read," said Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams. "I didn't get into the Harry Potter series, even though I love the movies.
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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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Movies (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Philip Roth's novella "The Dying Animal" inspires this drama of a renowned, skirt-chasing academic (Ben Kingsley), whose affair with a Cuban-American graduate student (Penélope Cruz) awakens his sense of sexual possessiveness, throwing his life into emotional disarray.
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