Metro Weekly

Film

  • 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...

  • Law and Disorder

    By on October 10, 2007

    ''I'm not a miracle worker,'' scowls Michael Clayton (George Clooney) to a self-important client of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen, a corporate law firm for whom...

  • Spiritual Shenanigans

    By on October 3, 2007

    Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip... Maybe I have TV Land on the brain, but director...

  • Dangerous Liaisons

    By on September 26, 2007

    David Cronenberg's films have always been uneasy creations, disturbing excursions into the human psyche and its corporeal container. His earliest gore-enriched works, The Brood, Scanners...

  • Beatle Mania

    By on September 19, 2007

    Like space, Across the Universe has supernovas shining bright, and black holes that suck all matter into oblivion. In between, there are a lot of...

  • Super Duper

    By on August 22, 2007

    Since the early '80s, the high school male coming-of-age comedy has become almost as much a rite of passage as the actual event itself. Each...

  • Graceland

    By on August 15, 2007

    Next week I take my umpteenth trip to Provincetown. Why do I keep going back? Because there is something warm and comforting about returning to...