Let the Corpses Tan

Deliciously lurid crime drama is pulp in all the best ways

"...absurdities of an era of filmmaking that was both bleached out and super-saturated, that drew narrative cues from Left..."

Sept. 7, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Hoot

First-time producer Jimmy Buffett turns outs an eco-friendly coming-of-age movie based on Carl Hiassen's Newberry Award-winning young-adult novel.

"...the mystery boy, otherwise known as Mullet Fingers, a sun-bleached teen who sleeps in a boat, sprints his way..."

May 5, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Torremolinos 73

In this comedy set in Seventies Spain, a married couple makes porn movies for Scandinavian consumption.

"...an eye for Seventies-era Spain, with all the washed-out, sun-bleached images that this borderline situation comedy calls for, the..."

June 24, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Thirteen

Catherine Hardwicke directs her laser-beam gaze into the horrifically malleable soul of young girls caught in bad situations.

"...coming from. Shot with jittery handheld cameras and a bleached-out color palette that mirrors the onscreen meltdowns, Thirteen may..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sex and Lucía

Medem's film is a bleached-out beauty, hitting our most commanding human emotions – lust to love to grief to rage and back again – while only occasionally striking a wrong chord. – Kimberley Jones

"...get the ball rolling). Still, Medem's film is a bleached-out beauty, hitting our most commanding human emotions -- lust..."

Aug. 2, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Tea With Mussolini

"...is shortchanged in Tea With Mussolini -- David Watkin's bleached-out cinematography is probably intended for nostalgic effect, but it..."

May 14, 1999 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Trolls Band Together

Boy band antics with the big-haired, big-voiced toys

"...one thing to make small jokes about perms and bleached hair or other hallmarks of Timberlake’s boy band days,..."

Nov. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

Where The Devil Roams

Diabolical art horror rides into a Great Depression carnie hell

"...have created a mud-splattered phantasmagoria, switching from black-and-white to bleached out and underexposed color. The audience is trapped inside..."

Nov. 3, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Innocents

Norwegian "evil kids" horror delivers a sickening catharsis

"...dominant style in Scandinavian horror: handheld, in a slightly bleached-out daytime. That's a shame considering that it's Sturla Brandth..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Finch

Tom Hanks and his robot pal face the apocalypse with hope.

"...the last embers of humanity burn out in the sun-bleached future of Finch, it’s fitting that it’s Hanks who..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

South of Heaven

Jason Sudeikis and Evangeline Lilly hold on to love on the run

"...about loving curly hair as she sports a post-chemo bleached blonde buzzcut is a subtle reminder of that ticking..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Blow the Man Down

Slick and smart New England noir shows the women run the show

"...town is captured perfectly in dark tidal blues and bleached driftwood tones (with more than a nod by cinematographer..."

March 20, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Iron Orchard

Texas wildcatter literary classic is a sometimes too-faithful adaptation

"...the experience of West Texas oil money, from the sun-bleached dirt of the oil fields to the gauche aesthetic..."

March 1, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Summer of 84

Kids vs. serial killer, Eighties-style

"...Cop Car and Super Dark Times, but without the sun-bleached noir tones of the former, or the all-consuming dread..."

Aug. 10, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Traffik

Sleazy modern exploitation falls off its poorly staked moral high ground.

"...conversation with a druggy, unkempt young woman with perfectly bleached teeth in the ladies’ room of a roadside gas..."

April 27, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Luv Doc: Dog Luv

The corporate culture here at the brick bunker is that there are no bad ideas

"...no bad ideas, only ideas that haven't been thoroughly bleached by committee...."

May 26, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

SXSW Unloads Headliners

Avett Brothers, Weezer, Wu-Tang Clan plus 134 more

"...world sound DJ collective/band Thievery Corporation, pop-punk sister act Bleached, “Headstrong” nü-metal act Trapt, Mexican dark rockers Le Butcherettes,..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Magnificent Seven

Revisionist remake stars a diverse rainbow coalition

"...movie (even if Denzel’s pearly whites seem too modernly bleached for the Old West, and dialogue like “It is..."

Sept. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Music: Second Band List of 2016

Tommy Stinson, Thee Oh Sees, Mercury Rev, and 212 more

"...R&B wonder Autre Ne Veut, and Bangles-esque pop rockers Bleached...."

Nov. 17, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Fun Fun Fun Fest Femmes

The other “F” word at Auditorium Shores

"...Bleached Sat., Orange stage, 1:40pm..."

Nov. 7, 2013 Music Post by Abby Johnston

I Call B.S.

Playback hates on Grizzly Bear

"...night’s entertainment at Mohawk as opener for Hunters and Bleached. While the headliners – better live than on disc..."

April 15, 2013 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2011: Animation

Get a leg up on your Oscar pool by checking out all the nominees in this category.

"...and gears. An appealingly melancholy piece that marries a sun-bleached setting to a steampunk cast of characters, “The Lost..."

Feb. 11, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Whiteout

Kate Beckinsale plays a U.S. marshal who must investigate a murder in Antarctica and wrap it up quickly because winter is starting in three days.

"...Ado About Nothing, Kenneth Branagh’s athletic adaptation that was bleached with sun and sweat and all kinds of hormonal..."

Sept. 18, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Hangover

The Hangover is deliciously darker than Todd Phillips' previous comedies, Old School and Road Trip, but it isn't as thick with malice or drenched in the "bromance" creed of the present.

"...credits – dead-serious font set against menacing shots of bleached-out desert and garish Vegas nightscapes, tuned to a Danzig's..."

June 5, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Bamako

This Malian courtroom drama is like nothing you've ever seen: The people put the institutions of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund on trial.

"...the subtitles instead of allowing occasional sentences to become bleached out in the bright Malian sun. Also, a couple..."

June 22, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Number 23

Joel Schumacher and Jim Carrey combine their dubious talents to create an even more dubious movie in which a man becomes obsessed with the number 23.

"...of the book’s plot, which are shot like a bleached-out New Wave video from the early days of MTV..."

March 2, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Rumor Has It ...

Fans of The Graduate should skip this strange comedy, which posits that the real-life inspiration for counterculture icon Benjamin Braddock grew up to be a cheesy, brainless high tech zillionaire doing yoga and driving a Mercedes around Half Moon Bay.

"...for the wedding of her Barbie-doll sister (Suvari, all bleached teeth and tennis whites) with her dependable, great-guy boyfriend..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

To Marfa, on a Tuesday in December

When high art and hipness move in, what happens to a tiny Texas town?

"...Tuesday in December. The grass in the flats is bleached white, and the wind piles tumbleweeds in bulbous drifts..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Dan Keane

Assisted Living

Greenebaum's superstylized first feature attempts to mesh fiction with nonfiction while remaining a narrative, and it attempts to do it almost entirely in the confines of a nursing home, entirely in one day.

"...effort. Greenebaum is a talented writer/director, one with a bleached-out sense of setting and a certain boldness that might..."

April 8, 2005 Movie Review by Shawn Badgley

Laurel Canyon

"...simply is, in leather pants, washed-out T-shirts, and just-right bleached and tousled hair. The performance is remarkably subtle; Jane’s..."

April 11, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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