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TALKING PICTURES: MYSTERY MOTHMAN

By | March 2002

Writer David Templeton takes interesting people to the movies in his ongoing quest for the ultimate post-film conversation. This week a real-life monster hunter takes on “The Mothman Prophecies”…

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TALKING PICTURES: MYSTERY MOTHMAN

Loren Coleman wasn't all that frightened by The Mothman Prophecies, the odd new creepshow starring Richard Gere as a journalist on the trail of an eerie...

“CLONES” ATTACK SHOWEST

"'Star Wars' producer Rick McCallum talks about the digital filmmaking process," read the official program for the 30-minute March 6 pre- and post-dinner...

“CLONES” ATTACK SHOWEST: SPOILERS

*SPOILERS FOLLOW* ^ Some quiet FX images of spacecraft traveling toward a planet soon make way for the first fairly coherent stretch of the reel: a...

CARTOON MASTER CHUCK JONES DEAD

Saturday, February 23rd, 2002 will always be remembered as the night we lost a true original. I turned on the goggle box and was giving my remote control...

IS “COLLATERAL DAMAGE” A BOMB?

CRITIC DOCTOR EXAMINES: Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times), Maitland McDonagh (TV Guide), Mark Savlov (Austin Chronicle), Jeanne Aufmath (Palo Alto Weekly),...

REVOLUTION OS: HOW MICROSOFT CAN LOSE THE WAR

The new documentary Revolution OS explores the birth and adolescence of the computer world's Free Software and Open Source movements until they came of age...

WOMEN FILMING SEX: MARIELLE NITOSLAWSKA’S “BAD GIRL”

In the wake of such recent documentaries on the once-underground, now omnipresent porn industry as "Wadd" and Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy comes...

ARE “SAM” AND THE CRITICS MENTALLY CHALLENGED?

THE CRITIC DOCTOR EXAMINES: Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times), Charles Taylor (salon.com), Owen Gleiberman (Entertainment Weekly), Frank Lovece...

FREE WINONA!

AN OPEN LETTER TO WINONA RYDER: ^ In one of my pettier moments, I said that Winona Ryder couldn't get arrested in Hollywood these days. Well, you proved...

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE “SECAUCUS SEVEN?”

John Sayles debut film, "Return of the Secaucus Seven," gave birth to the modern independent film. Here's a film, shot in static locations, with no camera...

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