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    Feb 13, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. 'The Spiderwick Chronicles' (a fantasy adventure) -- 3 stars

    Special to the Tribune
    Warping popular books into nearly unrecognizable forms is a grand old tradition in Hollywood, where few novels make it to the screen even remotely intact. But while Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi's best-selling series, "The Spiderwick Chronicles," hasn't...

    Tags: Animals, Nick Nolte, Martin Short, Movies, James Horner

    2. Feb 14, 2008 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  2. 'Spiderwick' is an honest fantasy

    <b>(B+)</b> Somewhere on Harry Potter's quest for the One Ring, the golden compass has led us astray. The rules changed. Fantasy films became all about the blockbuster, sequels, mountains of merchandise, all sold to a ready-made fan base, fans who, often as not, weren't the children these stories were originally intended for. These fans seem more worried about &quot;franchise" than fun.
    (B+) Somewhere on Harry Potter's quest for the One Ring, the golden compass has led us astray. The rules changed. Fantasy films became all about the blockbuster, sequels, mountains of merchandise, all sold to a ready-made fan base, fans who, often as not,...

    Tags: Nick Nolte, Martin Short, Movies, Roger Moore, Harry Potter

    3. Feb 14, 2008 |Story| Newsday

  3. 'The Spiderwick Chronicles'

    As movie fantasies go, &quot;The Spiderwick Chronicles" has a modest, almost ramshackle aggressiveness that, against all odds, manages to enchant, if not exactly transport. The movie nicely appropriates the unassuming, yet companionable tone of the series of books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black from which it's adapted. Even the "ick" factor - always an imperative with movies co-produced by Nickelodeon - is kept at a temperate, yet properly skin-crawling level.
    gene.seymour@newsday.com
    As movie fantasies go, "The Spiderwick Chronicles" has a modest, almost ramshackle aggressiveness that, against all odds, manages to enchant, if not exactly transport. The movie nicely appropriates the unassuming, yet companionable tone of the series of...

    Tags: Nick Nolte, Joan Plowright, Martin Short, Movies, Mary-Louise Parker

    4. Jan 13, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  4. Big name in little film enjoys that medium

    Special to the Tribune
    "You have to sit in that ridiculous little chair for a while because I had to," John Sayles said by way of greeting to his longtime producer, Maggie Renzi. There we all sat, or rather sprawled, on the low couches and toadstool chairs in the cocktail...

    Tags: Studs Terkel, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Danny Glover, Movies, Country Music

    5. Mar 21, 2008 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  5. 'Honeydripper' is a swinging good time

    <b>(B+)</b> From his home base in New Jersey to Louisiana, Texas, Alaska and Florida, novelist-turned-filmmaker John Sayles has crisscrossed the country weaving sprawling stories in such films as City of Hope, Passion Fish, Lone Star, Limbo and Sunshine State. Unique among his peers, Sayles travels his own road dramatizing an Americana streaked with social realism and a touch of the magical.
    (B+) From his home base in New Jersey to Louisiana, Texas, Alaska and Florida, novelist-turned-filmmaker John Sayles has crisscrossed the country weaving sprawling stories in such films as City of Hope, Passion Fish, Lone Star, Limbo and Sunshine State....

    Tags: Danny Glover, Movies, New Jersey, Music Industry, Mike Leigh

    6. Aug 19, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Seattle's Bumbershoot festival celebrates contemporary music and arts

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    Seattle's 37th annual Bumbershoot is said to be the biggest contemporary music and arts festival in North America. About 1,500 artists -- including musicians, literary and visual artists and comedians -- entertain at more than 20 indoor and outdoor venues...

    Tags: Festive Event, Panic at the Disco

    7. Dec 28, 2007 |Story| Newsday

  7. Homage to the blues in 'Honeydripper'

    Set in rural Alabama in 1950, John Sayles' latest is a golden-hued fairy tale about the moment when a jolt of electric current turned the front-porch blues into modern rock and roll. In this mythical version of the South, the freight trains moan like departing spirits, music seeps out of every gap-walled shack, and you can practically taste all those sweet, tangy guitar licks. Even the local preacher sounds like Paul Robeson.
    rafer.guzman@newsday.com
    Set in rural Alabama in 1950, John Sayles' latest is a golden-hued fairy tale about the moment when a jolt of electric current turned the front-porch blues into modern rock and roll. In this mythical version of the South, the freight trains moan like...

    Tags: Music, Charles S Dutton, Danny Glover, Paul Robeson Jr., Alabama

    8. Dec 28, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. 'Honeydripper'

    From his home base in New Jersey to Louisiana, Texas, Alaska and Florida, novelist-turned-hyphenated filmmaker John Sayles has crisscrossed the country weaving sprawling stories in such films as &quot;City of Hope," "Passion Fish," "Lone Star," "Limbo" and "Sunshine State." Unique among his peers, Sayles travels his own road dramatizing an Americana streaked with social realism and a touch of the magical.
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    From his home base in New Jersey to Louisiana, Texas, Alaska and Florida, novelist-turned-hyphenated filmmaker John Sayles has crisscrossed the country weaving sprawling stories in such films as "City of Hope," "Passion Fish," "Lone Star," "Limbo" and...

    Tags: Santa Monica, Danny Glover, Movies, New Jersey, Music Industry

    9. Aug 8, 2007 |Story| AM New York

  9. Movies for sports fans

    Have you made a dent in amNewYork's midsummer reading list? Well, your homework is not yet done. Here is our list of notable sports-themed movies. While there are some classics on our list, we omitted others (Rocky, Hoosiers, Caddyshack) in order to have...

    Tags: Penny Marshall, Windsurfing, Movies, Indiana Hoosiers, Muhammad Ali

    10. Feb 11, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Chris Cooper: Not content with clandestine

    HERE is how Chris Cooper knows he is doing his job well: Someone approaches him in the grocery store, gives him that don't-I-know-you? squint and says, &quot;Did we go to school together?" Probably not, Cooper says, but you might know me from films. "Nooo," is the invariable answer. "Are you sure we didn't go to school together?"
    Times Staff Writer
    HERE is how Chris Cooper knows he is doing his job well: Someone approaches him in the grocery store, gives him that don't-I-know-you? squint and says, "Did we go to school together?" Probably not, Cooper says, but you might know me from films. "Nooo," is...

    Tags: Movies, Celebrity, Billy Ray, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Academic Progress

    11. Feb 24, 2006 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. 'Street Fight'

    Times Staff Writer
    A refreshing shift from the red state-blue state paradigm that has marked most U.S. political documentaries since 2000, Marshall Curry's sharp-eyed, Oscar-nominated "Street Fight" maps the no-holds-barred battle between two African American Democrats...

    Tags: Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Movies, New Jersey, National or Ethnic Minorities, Al Sharpton

    12. Dec 8, 2005 |Story| Metromix

  12. Movie review: 'Machuca'

    Tribune movie critic
    3½ stars (out of four) "Machuca," from Chile, is a fine, exciting film that makes a bloody historical event live all over again by showing it through the eyes of children on the edges of the conflict. Portraying the coup d'etat that toppled the leftist...

    Tags: Movies, Family, Ken Loach, St. George, Salvador Allende

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