In such films as ‘The Soloist, the journalist is the message
McClatchy Newspapers
4/23/2009, by Carla Meyer
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - "The Soloist," opening Friday, tells the story of Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez's relationship to Nathaniel Ayers, a homeless, schizophrenic classical musician. It also, in a smaller way, tells the story of a newspaper industry in transition.
"As I watched ...
‘Fighting'
McClatchy Newspapers
4/22/2009, by Christopher Kelly
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Nothing seems real in "Fighting," Dito Montiel's sports melodrama set in a seamy New York City underworld of bare-knuckled boxing matches. That's exactly the point. Channeling both the old-fashioned "Will-the-boxer-throw-the-fight?" stories of the 1940s and '50s, most ...
‘The Soloist' is a real man-on-the-street story
McClatchy Newspapers
4/21/2009, by John Anderson
Newsday (MCT) - If Steve Lopez had written a blog about a homeless cellist living on the streets of Los Angeles, he would have had readers. And both of them would have said, "Yeah, this ought to be a movie." Instead, the Los Angeles Times writer devoted column after column to the plight of the ...
Earth
Catholic Media Review
4/17/2009, by Julie Davis
Dallas (Catholic Media Review) – "Earth" is an exquisitely photographed and presented film that promises to take us with three animal families through a year. However, this is simply the easiest way that they can market the movie. Actually, the movie does exactly what the name promises, which is to ...
‘State of Play'
McClatchy Newspapers
4/16/2009, by Colin Covert
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) - Congressional sex scandals, nefarious military contractors, political corruption, dying newspapers and mysterious serial murders are entangled in "State of Play," a solidly constructed thriller that recalls the paranoid conspiracies of the 1970s. The film opens ...
At your cineplex: Newspapers in peril (‘Soloist,' ‘State of Play')
McClatchy Newspapers
4/16/2009, by Roger Moore
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - In the new thriller "State of Play," a corporate-owned newspaper struggles with cutbacks, ethics and a changing media landscape to nail down and break an epic scandal of sex, politics and conspiracy in our nation's capital. In "The Soloist," a lone newspaper columnist ...
‘Spinning Into Butter'
McClatchy Newspapers
4/15/2009, by Cary Darling
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - "Spinning Into Butter," a stage production about the knotty issues of race at a liberal-arts university, was an acclaimed success when it debuted in 1999. A decade later and "Butter" has curdled into a well-intentioned but talky and overly obvious film that fees like ...
‘Gigantic'
McClatchy Newspapers
4/15/2009, by Cary Darling
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - First-time director Matt Aselton struggles to generate such an aura of indie cool in "Gigantic" that it's a shock the film doesn't come with a time share on a Brooklyn walkup. All the elements are here: a cast with both its mainstream and arthouse credentials intact ...
‘Paris 36'
McClatchy Newspapers
4/15/2009, by Roger Moore
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. Because, as always, those French can never seem to find a balance. The socialist Leon Blum was the new French prime minister. The leftists took heart and staged strikes. The rightists started wearing Chaplin ...
‘17 Again' relives an age-old movie theme
McClatchy Newspapers
4/15/2009, by Lewis Beale
Newsday (MCT) - Who wouldn't want to be a teenager once more? Or turn into hot teen star Zac Efron? That, at least, is what happens in the new film "17 Again," opening Friday, in which Matthew Perry accidentally falls into a river, emerges in Efron's body, and is miraculously whisked back to his ...
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