Metro Weekly

Film

  • Rock Hard

    By on October 1, 2003

    Jack Black What happens when a mainstream movie is infused with an independent sensibility? School of Rock, that's what. The feel-good surprise of the year,...

  • Club Flub

    By on October 1, 2003

    Culkin and Green Party Monster, which opens this weekend at Visions, is an oddly captivating yet not entirely successful journey into the creatively eccentric, drug-infused...

  • Up a Creek

    By on September 24, 2003

    About the best thing that can be said for Cold Creek Manor is that it isn't completely dull. You'd think it would be, given how...

  • Mucho Mexico

    By on September 17, 2003

    ''Are you a Mexi-CAN or a Mexi-CAN'T? '' a blue-spectacled, quirky fellow named Sands (Johnny Depp) asks a hired henchman near the start of Once...

  • Sugar and Spicy

    By on September 10, 2003

    ''I hear this wah-wah-wah in my head, '' giggles Tracy. ''It's your brain cells popping, '' her friend Evie, giggles back, before taking another hit...

  • Ordinary Pekar

    By on September 3, 2003

    American Splendor is a stunning achievement, a work of such magnificent ingenuity and so abundantly rich with heart and soul, that it is impossible not...

  • Requisite Requiem

    By on August 20, 2003

    The combining of popular movie horror icons to make a quick buck is a time-honored tradition in Hollywood. Anybody remember Frankstein Meets the Wolfman? But...

  • Freakin' Awesome

    By on August 13, 2003

    Whoever decided to cast Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in the Disney remake of Freaky Friday should be sent a box of expensive chocolates,...

  • Toiletries

    By on August 6, 2003

    Alyson Hannigan has American Wedding's funniest line. Watching in disbelief as the crass, crude, lewd, sexually motivated Steve Stifler (Seann William Scott) engages in an...

  • Blurred Vision

    By on July 30, 2003

    The gimmick worked. The addition of 3D to the apparently annual Spy Kids series of movies brought the film in at number one last weekend...

  • Agent Zero

    By on July 23, 2003

    Pity Rowan Atkinson. As gloriously funny as he is -- and he ranks up there with Sellers, Tati, Chaplin, and all the Pythons -- he...

  • Buccaneer Bust

    By on July 16, 2003

    Just the mere fact that the subtitle The Curse of the Black Pearl dangles below the title Pirates of the Caribbean like leads one to...

  • Demolition Derby

    By on July 9, 2003

    There's something really bothering me about Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, something that didn't bother me in the first two installments. Why do the...

  • Missing Persons

    By on July 2, 2003

    If Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later has a point beyond paying homage to the films of George Romero, I'm at a loss as to what...

  • Caught on Tape

    By on June 25, 2003

    It is a normal human tendency to rewrite our own personal histories as we would like to remember them. Moreover, it is not unusual for...