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...offering me a beer. All I wanted was to see a nice Cirque du Soleil show, work my expense account at Le Cirque with my only famous friend, Robert Goulet, and crash at the new hotel at Mandalay Bay, where my standard room has two bathrooms and three flat-screen TVs. But New Vegas won't let me be. It needs to show me what a great time it's having, with its supersized, sanitized, nonintimidating version of the same sins I don't want when I'm at home. I am considering taking the beer so I can finally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lovin' Las Vegas | 7/25/2004 | See Source »

FROM PAGE TO SCREEN...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lehane's 'Mystic' Mind | 7/23/2004 | See Source »

Lehane—who did not write the screenplay for the film of Mystic River but said that he had been able to review the script before production began—also spoke about adapting his book to the big screen...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lehane's 'Mystic' Mind | 7/23/2004 | See Source »

...Outfoxed fails to translate its abstract ideas to the audience’s level. Michael Moore’s talent as a filmmaker is demonstrating how politics and policy affect the average Joe. Conversely, no apathetic viewer will be swayed by the statistics and wonkish experts Greenwald parades on screen. Without a dash of showmanship, the strains of Greenwald’s sermon will reach only the choir...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Movie Review: Outfoxed | 7/23/2004 | See Source »

...film’s structure, essentially a series of bullet points from “fear” to “O’Reilly,” is bland and dilettantish. The music is dramatic but tinny: the Fahrenheit 9/11 score for Nintendo. Worse, the on-screen graphics bring to mind the videos on acids and bases you used to watch in your high school chemistry class. Greenwald calls this “guerrilla” filmmaking; I call it “shoddy...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Movie Review: Outfoxed | 7/23/2004 | See Source »

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