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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Movie Trailers / CL-TV Originals The Hurt Locker: A worthy Iraq War flick
Posted By Christian Yoder on Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Who knew that director Kathryn Bigelow was anything other than a Hollywood hack? Sure, sure, she's had her supporters, but practically all of her past projects have favored cold style over warm substance. The justly forgotten Blue Steel was one of the worst films of the 1990s, Point Break was merely daft masturbation fodder for fans of Patrick Swayze and/or Keanu Reeves, and the Harrison Ford dud K-19: The Widowmaker was so dull that just writing about it makes me ... zzzzzz.
For the full review, click here.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Movie Trailers / CL-TV Originals Adoration: Heavy issues, so-so treatment
Posted By Christian Yoder on Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:16 AM
By Matt Brunson
Chance encounters and other extraordinary circumstances of this nature are tricky beasts when it comes to their employment in motion pictures. We swallow them when we want to swallow them -- i.e. when the film in question has us completely in its grasp -- but spit them out without even bothering to chew when we find them too artificial, when they're employed merely for the sake of convenience by a filmmaker who lazily needs to connect Plot Point A to Plot Point B.
For the full review, click here.
Movie Trailers / CL-TV Originals The Merry Gentleman: Somber drama works
Posted By Christian Yoder on Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:15 AM
By Matt Brunson
If there's one fault to be found with the Coen Brothers' superb Oscar winner No Country for Old Men, it's that there simply aren't enough scenes featuring Kelly Macdonald, the wee Scottish lass who's previously appeared in such diverse works as Trainspotting, Gosford Park and Finding Neverland. Her No Country role as Josh Brolin's sympathetic wife is small but pivotal; to catch her in a part that's both large and pivotal, check out The Merry Gentleman, a low-simmer drama that marks Michael Keaton's directorial debut.
For the full review, click here.
Movie Trailers / CL-TV Originals Bruno worth knowing ... to a point
Posted By Christian Yoder on Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:15 AM
To paraphrase Sen. Lloyd Bentsen's smackdown of Sen. Dan Quayle during the 1988 Vice Presidential Debate: "Bruno, I screened Borat; I knew Borat; Borat was a review of mine. Bruno, you're no Borat."
For the full review, click here.
Movie Trailers / CL-TV Originals Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Magic Touch
Posted By Christian Yoder on Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:15 AM
By Matt Brunson
In terms of sustained quality, I daresay that the Harry Potter franchise trumps all other series featuring more than three entries. That other "Harry," Dirty Harry, falls just short, and even the entertaining James Bond canon has been subject to a few missteps over the decades. But Potter and friends have been delighting movie audiences since first taking their bows in 2001, and the individual works have been so consistently fine that it's no wonder more than one title has been tossed around as the best of the bunch (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban seems to be the slight favorite among buffs, although forced to choose, I'd have to go with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire). And now here's the sixth installment, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, to add more fuel to the fiery debate.
For the full review, click here.
Friday, July 24, 2009
CL-TV Originals Threat of the Week: Part 1
Posted By Carlton Hargro on Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 8:24 AM
Ripped straight from our popular regular crime column "The Blotter" — written every week by Ryan Pitkin — we bring you an in-the-flesh adaptation of the Threat of the Week. Enjoy:
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Found video / CL-TV Originals Video: Algebra (the singer not the math class I flunked)
Posted By Carlton Hargro on Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:58 PM
The Atlanta-based singer Algebra is in town tonight; she's set to play Tempo's 4th anniversary party (9 p.m. 4809 Wilkinson Blvd.)
Never heard of Algebra? She's dope. Trust me. Just take a look at these videos of her in action and judge for yourself. (Oh and Joi is hosting the show!)
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Found video / CL-TV Originals New ad says Sotomayor 'supports terrorists'
Posted By Web Editor on Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:01 PM
The Sonia Sotomayor hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee keep bringing the rightwing crazies out of the shadows and into the light of day. Earlier, we told you about Sen. Jeff Sessions, who has the gall to imply that Sotomayor is a racist when his own racist behavior has been public knowledge for years and caused him to be rejected for a federal judgeship. Now, an organization which Sessions has praised, the rightwing nut, oops, activist group Citizens for Justice, has put out an anti-Sotomayor ad in which it claims that the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund -- which Sotomayor belongs to (or “led,” as the ad erroneously claims) -- “supports violent Puerto Rican terrorists.” The PRLDEF is, in fact, a well-known, completely mainstream civil rights advocacy group that focuses on things like employment discrimination and bilingual education. The CFJ ad really goes off the deep end when it also tries to link Sotomayor with “Obama’s buddy Bill Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist who bombed American buildings in the seventies.” It’s so ludicrous, you’d think people would be ashamed to put out this kind of pure crap. But no. As ThinkProgress.com points out, Sen. Orrin Hatch, another member of the Judiciary Committee who has been critical of Sotomayor, supports the group, and was “a featured guest” at a fundraiser that collected $50,000 for CFJ, allowing the group to continue producing its outrageous commercials.
As the American right wing continues its ongoing mental breakdown, it seems that everyone they disagree with is now destined to be called a “terrorist,” or at least a “supporter of terrorism.” There’s sometimes a thin line between political zealotry and insanity (see: Nazi Germany). I’d say that unless the CFJ is the most cynical political organization in the U.S., its members are really getting close to crossing that line. Here's the ad in question:
— John Grooms
Movie Trailers / CL-TV Originals Management should be dismissed
Posted By Christian Yoder on Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Combining a jock's air of entitlement with a slacker's sense of detachment has allowed Steve Zahn to carve out a lengthy (if not exactly stellar) career in all manner of indie fare. Not charismatic enough to hold his own in major-studio efforts, Zahn can usually be found in supporting roles in small-scale efforts, sniffing around the edges while the top-billed stars soak up all the acclaim.
Click here for the full review.
Movie Trailers / CL-TV Originals Food, Inc.: Plenty to digest
Posted By Christian Yoder on Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:33 AM
The documentary Food, Inc. is the perfect bookend movie, adaptable to many double-feature bills. When paired with Super-Size Me, it serves as the "before" shot, showing how those hamburgers came into being (so to speak), and how they're made so tasty -- and unhealthy. When paired with The Corporation (still the scariest movie I have ever seen), it functions as a particular case study of the evils detailed in that earlier picture, which was all about how these United States of America have been reconfigured to operate as nothing more than the personal (and profitable) playgrounds of a few select conglomerates and their insidious overlords. Heck, it can even be paired with Howard Hawks' classic Red River, in which Wild West cowboy Thomas Dunson (John Wayne) delivers an impassioned speech about the personal satisfaction of herding cattle and feeding the populace ("... Good beef for hungry people. Beef to make them strong; make them grow ..."). Poor Thomas would (pardon the pun) have a cow if he could see the mechanical means by which animals are slaughtered today.
For the full review, click here.
