‘Trouble the Water'
McClatchy Newspapers
10/13/2008, by Joe Williams
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT) - The most amazing film of the year introduces us to a superhero _ in a documentary about Hurricane Katrina. Kim Roberts, aka Black Kold Madina, was an aspiring rapper in New Orleans' impoverished Lower Ninth Ward when the hurricane hit on Aug. 29, 2005. Kim and her ...
‘The Secret Life of Bees'
McClatchy Newspapers
10/13/2008, by Roger Moore
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - The thing about honey is that it's not just sweet, but awfully gooey. That goes for the new film "The Secret Life of Bees," too. Is the sweetness worth the stickiness in this maudlin "American Sisterhood of the Traveling Green Tomatoes"?
It's a writerly coming-of-age ...
‘Rachel Getting Married'
McClatchy Newspapers
10/13/2008, by Roger Moore
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - "Rachel Getting Married" is a magical wallow in excess, a too-happy, too-sad, too-indulgent plunge into an over-planned wedding. Jonathan Demme's gorgeously messy movie is shot and acted like real life _ real life that's over the top in its emotions, its family strife, ...
‘Morning Light'
McClatchy Newspapers
10/13/2008, by Roger Moore
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - It could have been a salty "Real World," or "The Hills at Sea." But for all its pretty young faces, prettier seascapes and moments of tension, "Morning Light," a new Disney documentary about a youthful crew training and competing in a sailboat race, is sorely lacking in ...
Capsule reviews of feature films
McClatchy Newspapers
10/9/2008, by Carrie Rickey and Steven Rea
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - AN AMERICAN CAROL 1 star. A Red State riposte that parodies Oscar-winning documentarian Michael Moore and his perceived lack of patriotism, from (formerly) funny parodist David Zucker. Jaw-droppingly lame reworking of Dickens' "Christmas Carol." 1 hr. 23 PG-13 ...
‘The Express'
McClatchy Newspapers
10/9/2008, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Sports movies, especially those based on a true story, are a cliche by definition. People deal with dramatic events through the fellowship, teamwork and strength they get through their selected sport. That was the case with "We Are Marshall," "Rudy," "Remember the ...
Industrialist's grandson channels young Billy Graham in new film
McClatchy Newspapers
10/9/2008, by Roger Moore
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - A couple of ironies are connected with the new Billy Graham film biography, "Billy: The Early Years." The first is that the Graham family has been sniping about the film in the pages of Christianity Today, with Franklin Graham, the heir and head of the Billy Graham ...
‘Blindness' hits close to home for Ruffalo — 2001 brain tumor changed actor's life
McClatchy Newspapers
10/6/2008, by Duane Dudek
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT) - If instead of "Blindness," you called the new film by Fernando Meirelles "Illness," you might be telling the life story of actor Mark Ruffalo. In "Blindness," based on the 1995 novel by Nobel Prize-winning writer Jose Saramago, Ruffalo plays an eye doctor who must ...
You don't have to be 16 to love ‘Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist'
McClatchy Newspapers
10/3/2008, by Rene Rodriguez
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - When authors Rachel Cohn and David Levithan decided to collaborate on the novel "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist," about two teenagers who meet and fall in love over the course of a single night in the New York City underground music scene, they took turns writing ...
Going legit: Why movie stars need live theater
McClatchy Newspapers
10/3/2008, by Chris Jones
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - Flushed and sweaty from his exertions, Daniel Radcliffe walked to the front of a Broadway stage and drank in the applause like an "American Idol" act on his first big gig. He grinned sheepishly, sighed with clear relief and closed his eyes, as if to better savor the ...
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