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DVD Reviews

Underworld: Awakening, Tim & Eric

Posted // May 7,2012  - New DVDs Tuesday, May 8 Selene (Kate Beckinsale) returns after years in lockdown to a world where humans are bent ...

DVD Reviews

Haywire, New Year's Eve

Posted // April 30,2012  - New DVDs Tuesday, May 1 A black-ops badass (Gina Carano) double-crossed on a job and left for dead sets out for re ...

DVD Reviews

Dark Tide, Contraband

Posted // April 23,2012  - New DVDs Tuesday, April 24 A “shark whisperer” (Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning actress Halle Ber ...

DVD Reviews

Bob's Burgers

Posted // April 16,2012  - New DVDs Tuesday, April 17 Bob Belcher (H. Jon Benjamin) and his weirdo family run Bob’s Burgers, the best (and ...

DVD Reviews

Eagleheart, Cook County

Posted // April 9,2012  - New DVDs Tuesday, April 10 U.S. Marshal Chris Monsanto (Chris Elliott) plays by his own rules and delivers justice wi ...

DVD Reviews

Death Valley

Posted // March 26,2012  - New DVDs Tuesday, March 27 Death Valley: Season 1The last real show on MTV, a Cops-style “reality” comedy ...

DVD Reviews

Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Posted // March 19,2012  - New DVDs Tuesday, March 20 A troubled journalist (Daniel Craig) and an even-more-troubled punkette hacker (Rooney Mar ...

DVD Reviews

The Descendants, Young Adult

Posted // March 12,2012  - New DVDs Tuesday, March 13 Guess what, Patricia Hastie? You’re going to play George Clooney’s wife in a s ...

DVD Reviews

Footloose, Jack & Jill

Posted // March 5,2012  - New DVDs Tuesday, March 6 A local preacher (Dennis Quaid) tries to keep local kids (like Kenny Wormald and Julianne ...

DVD Reviews

Bounty Hunters

Posted // February 27,2012  - New DVDs Tuesday, Feb. 28 A trio of broke bounty hunters (including tiny WWE star Trish Stratus—pictured actua ...

Film Festival

Sundance 2011 Wrap-Up

Posted // January 28,2011  - The optimism during the opening of Sundance 2011 matched the weather. There was something in the air in Park City as the 2011 Sundance Film Festival rolled thro ...

Film Festival

Latest Sundance Film Reviews

Posted // January 24,2011  -   The latest reviews of films now playing at the Sundance Film Festival from City Weekly fil ...

Film Festival

Sundance Showdowns

Posted // January 19,2011  - How to pick a winning movie when you have to make a choice. The Sundance Film Festival—running Jan. 20-30 this year in Park City and other Utah ...

Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival’s Sloan Foundation prize

Posted // January 18,2011  - The Science of Cinema: The Sundance Film Festival’s Sloan Foundation prize captures the link between movies and technology. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation—a nonprofit organization devoted to scientific advanc ...

Film Festival

Sundance Survival Manual

Posted // January 20,2010  - From movie buffs to star watchers: How to navigate the Sundance Film Festival. You`ve seen Sundance film-festival guides before — the ones that tell you where to g ...

Film Festival

Sundance: Wisest Walks

Posted // January 20,2010  - How to get from Point A to Theater B. The shuttle bus map on the festival catalog´s last page includes approximate walking ...

Film Festival

Sundance: Resources

Posted // January 20,2010  -   Helpful links to Sundance, Park City and Salt Lake City festival, transportation, emergenc ...

Film Festival

Sundance Music Guide

Posted // January 20,2010  -  

Film Festival

Music at Sundance

Posted // January 20,2010  - Audio Visual: Music at Sundance is as independent as the movies. Music and film have major history together, their relationship preceding the period when & ...

Film Festival

Sundance Survival Guide

Posted // January 20,2010  - How to experience the film festival There are many ways to Sundance, especially for locals. City Weekly’s contributors w ...

Film Reviews

Battleship

Posted // May 18,2012  - The same ol' destructo-porn Space nerds send a signal to a distant star system that looks a lot like ours in Battleshi ...

Film Reviews

The Dictator

Posted // May 16,2012  - Comedy without unwitting suckers With The Dictator, Sacha Baron Cohen finds himself addressing a situation no entertainer w ...

Film Reviews

Dark Shadows

Posted // May 11,2012  - The Burton/Depp joint goes sour Dark Shadows marks the eighth collaboration between director Tim Burton and Johnny Depp ov ...

Film Reviews

Undefeated

Posted // May 11,2012  - The simple power of affecting a life When Undefeated scored a victory in the Documentary Feature category at this year’s ...

Film Reviews

The Avengers

Posted // May 4,2012  - Wait for the ass-kickings to commence From Harry Potter to Twilight, from The Hunger Games to the new Marvel’s The Avenger ...

Film Reviews

Damsels in Distress

Posted // May 4,2012  - A lot of words, but not a lot to say Whit Stillman’s character always had plenty to say. So don’t blame the 14-year ...

Film Reviews

The Pirates! Band of Misfits

Posted // April 27,2012  - High-quality animation with a British twist America’s movie buffs have had a love affair with Aardman Animations—creators ...

Film Reviews

Safe

Posted // April 27,2012  - Bloody mayhem and a subtle grand sweep Those who crave the usual Jason Statham experience—as seen in Death Race, the Transp ...

Film Reviews

Bully

Posted // April 20,2012  - Rating aside, doc primarily appeals to parents For weeks, the story surrounding Lee Hirsch’s documentary Bully has been about not t ...

Film Reviews

The Deep Blue Sea

Posted // April 20,2012  - A piercing, painful study of real love Terence Davies’ adaptation of Terrence Rattigan’s 1952 play invites the kind o ...

True TV

Finale Fever 2012 Pt. 2

Posted // May 17,2012  - 30 season finales in seven days Thursday, May 17Community (NBC) In the 90-minute season finale (actually, three half-hours ...

True TV

Finale Fever 2012

Posted // May 10,2012  - 28 season finales in seven days Thursday, May 10 The Big Bang Theory (CBS) The gang rush to get Bernadette and Howard ma ...

True TV

2 Broke Girls, New Girl

Posted // May 3,2012  - Plus: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Sherlock Season Finale: Had high hopes for 2 Broke Girls when it premiered back in September, but 2 ...

True TV

Metalocalypse

Posted // April 26,2012  - 9 greatest hits from Dethklok Metalocalypse—the Adult Swim series about Dethklok, a heavy metal band so powerful t ...

True TV

Veep, Parks & Recreation

Posted // April 19,2012  - Plus: Alien Tornado, L.A. Complex Series Debut: “I’m a political leper and an emotional time bomb, so here&rsquo ...

True TV

Girls

Posted // April 12,2012  - Plus: Eagleheart,Titanic, NYC 22 It hasn’t even premiered yet, and star/creator/writer/director/producer Lena Dunham ...

True TV

The B in Apt. 23

Posted // April 5,2012  - Plus: Scandal, The Client List In the second new midseason series wherein ABC is afraid to use “bitch” in the ...

True TV

Mad Men, Luck

Posted // March 22,2012  - Plus: Whitney, Are You There Chelsea? The Season 4 finale of Mad Men aired (cabled?) Oct. 17, 2010—17 months ago! Squint h ...

True TV

Community, Fairly Legal

Posted // March 15,2012  - Plus: Missing, Walking Dead, Bent It’s only been off the air for three months; you’d think NBC dropped a trucklo ...

True TV

Game Change, Undefeated

Posted // March 8,2012  - Plus: Finding Bigfoot, Bob's Burgers If nothing else, Game Change should give you chills over the bullet ’Merica dodged i ...

Video Games

Rockstar Games: L.A. Noire

Posted // April 20,2011  - Rockstar Games reaches for a new sophistication in cerebral gaming. As a frequent player and fan of titles from Rockstar Games, I’ve pretty much kicked, ...

Video Games

Video Game Bits

Posted // February 28,2011  - Random nuggets of headlines from the gaming world. The new DC Universe massive multi-player game didn’t arrive in time for my deadline ...

Video Games

Tea Party Games

Posted // December 6,2010  - The shift to the right could mean a shift in rights for gamers. As I sat watching CNN’s election map turn redder by the minute on election night, my ...

Video Games

Addicted to Video Games

Posted // September 29,2010  - What do video game makers owe you for using their product? Finally, after years of labor, I won’t need to work ever again, and I’ll be fi ...

Video Games

Video Game Summer

Posted // July 21,2010  - How I Spent My Summer Game-cation: Tips for beating the summer video-game doldrums. Summertime may be great for those who enjoy swimming, baseball, picnics, fireworks and goi ...

Video Games

Boy Scout Video Game Merit Badge

Posted // June 9,2010  - Wii Prepared: Joystick prowess rewarded by youth organization. Playing video games is no longer a waste of time. It’s apparently a thrifty, brave a ...

Video Games

Nintendo's Competition

Posted // March 10,2010  - Yes, Wii Can: Can Nintendo fight off the new generation of motion-sensing systems? When you hear the cliché about imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, it's ...

Video Games

Video Game Industry Is Not Recession-Proof

Posted // February 3,2010  - Slumping sales could be good news for hardcore players. Companies like Electronic Arts, UBIsoft and Game Stop had such lousy 2009s that they&rsquo ...

Video Games

Video Games for Christmas

Posted // December 2,2009  - Reindeer Games: A look at what’s ahead to fill a video-gamer’s holiday stocking. If you’re a video gamer who still has a job, a home and money to spend on games, the ...

Video Games

Guitar Hero 5

Posted // September 16,2009  - This version finds Nirvana’s revered frontman singing— shudder—Bush. But as you make your way through the platter of nirvana, you see it sitting there, streami ...

 
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