Metro Weekly

Film

  • Unfilmable

    By on October 25, 2012

    If there's anything worth praising in Cloud Atlas, the colossal adaptation of David Mitchell's nesting doll of a novel, it's the spectacle. Directors Tom Tykwer,...

  • Survival Instincts

    By on October 11, 2012

    I don't have to tell you that How to Survive a Plague is an important film. Nor do I have to tell you that it...

  • Killing Yourself

    By on October 4, 2012

    There's no such thing as time travel without plot holes. As characters jump backward and forward in a timeline, technical complexities multiply. Laws of physics...

  • Hot Mess

    By on October 4, 2012

    The Paperboy is a hot mess. ''Hot'' because it contrives to get Zac Efron out of his clothes as often as possible. ''Mess'' because it's...

  • Teenage Idols

    By on September 27, 2012

    We've all been there. Those moments -- almost always among friends -- when everything fits together in a fit of transcendental bliss. They're fleeting, of...

  • Cult Classic

    By on September 20, 2012

    The Master is a magnum opus of conflict. No man, attitude, sight or sound is immune to its discord. Paul Thomas Anderson uses every millimeter...

  • Mean Girls

    By on September 13, 2012

    Let's just get this out of the way: Leslye Headland's Bachelorette is not a Bridesmaids rip-off. Yes, both films revolve around women misbehaving at weddings,...

  • Sleeper Film

    By on September 7, 2012

    This much is obvious about comedian Mike Birbiglia: The guy knows how to brush off trauma. After taking a leap through a second-story window of...

  • Bootleg Beauty

    By on August 30, 2012

    Eight years ago, director John Hillcoat and artist Nick Cave made a brilliant movie called The Proposition. Set amid a battle between a gang of...

  • Hollywood ''Bra-mance''

    By on August 30, 2012

    What's a gay man doing directing the female equivalent of a bromance? ''I don't speak for all gay men when I say this,'' says For...

  • Generating Sparks

    By on July 26, 2012

    Socially inept boy meets cute, oddball girl. Boy woos girl. Despite his self-absorbed neuroses, girl loves boy just the way he is. Girl doesn't change,...

  • Magic Realism: 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'

    By on July 11, 2012

    I've never been to Louisiana. Not New Orleans, not Baton Rouge, not Grand Isle, not any of it. I can't begin to grasp what it's...

  • Stuck

    By on July 5, 2012

    Myths are a special kind of story. They're always changing, adding new colors and flavors to time-tested formulas. No two versions need be the same,...

  • Magic Tricks

    By on June 28, 2012

    Possibly you've seen the tiny synopsis for Magic Mike and you have groaned. One stripper, Mike (Channing Tatum), takes newbie Adam (Alex Pettyfer) under his...

  • Crock Rock

    By on June 17, 2012

    There are two kinds of people in this world: those who think hair metal is good, and those who realize it isn't. If you're allied...