Metro Weekly

Film

  • Raiding Spielberg

    By on March 5, 2008

    In 1982, three 12-year-olds living in Mississippi embarked on a movie-making mission: To recreate Raiders of the Lost Ark, scene by scene. Armed with a...

  • Pig Sty

    By on March 5, 2008

    Sometimes a story about a girl born with a pig's face is just that: a story about a girl born with a pig's face. And...

  • Choosing Oscar

    By on February 20, 2008

    Phew! We can all breathe a big, collective sigh of relief now that the writers' strike has come to an end. It means -- yes!...

  • Death Unbecomes Her

    By on February 6, 2008

    Perhaps everyone who goes to see Over Her Dead Body will leave the theater believing themselves psychic, because it's impossible not to see every plot...

  • Rampage

    By on January 23, 2008

    Ya gotta have a gimmick. Well, these days in the horror-film genre you do, if you want to cut through the movie marketing clutter and...

  • Creep Show

    By on January 16, 2008

    As the mysterious caller asked the isolated teenager: Do you like scary movies? If you do, then you've probably already seen everything that takes place...

  • Movie Heaven (and Hell)

    By on December 26, 2007

    Tim's Best Good movies make you cry, or laugh, or jump out of your seat in fear. Sometimes they just make you think. What makes...

  • Human Remains

    By on December 19, 2007

    Sweeney Todd It all seems so familiar. The first few notes are reminiscent of a tune you've heard before. Then Edward Scissorhands appears -- he's...

  • Tangled Kite

    By on December 12, 2007

    I'm not someone who cries easily. So when I do, and when I feel like it's because of some heavy-handed movie making, I get a...

  • Intimate Encounters

    By on December 12, 2007

    At first glance, Atonement appears to be your garden variety Merchant Ivory-style epic. It begins in the 1935 English countryside, all glowy and green and...

  • Holy Hate

    By on December 5, 2007

    Plan to get up extra early this Sunday, Dec. 9, and head over to the Washington Jewish Film Festival to catch a one-time screening of...

  • Dust Off

    By on December 5, 2007

    Great expectations can lead to great disappointments. As a fan of Philip Pullman's ''His Dark Materials'' series, I eagerly awaited the theatrical release of the...

  • Lion's Club

    By on November 7, 2007

    The other day I noticed a bumper sticker that read, ''If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.'' Robert Redford might have slapped the same...

  • Cat and Mouse

    By on October 24, 2007

    Cat and mouse games can be fun -- when you know who's the cat and who's the mouse. When you don't, it's like watching two...

  • Bite Night

    By on October 17, 2007

    ''I don't care what they are,'' barks an anxious Sheriff Eben Oleson (Josh Hartnett). ''I just care what they do about them!'' And well he...