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Sept. 15, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar
The Daily Hustle: 8/30/10
Water (Treatment Plant) Torture
"...(and plain hell for council), as opponents of Water Treatment Plant No. 4 used the occasion to piss in..."
Aug. 30, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar
Jonah Hex
The disfigured Weird Western Tales antihero gets his own movie, which mixes elements of the Western and the supernatural.
"...Weird Western Tale with the X-treme/wicked/gnarly/"Dude, smash-cuts for everyone!" treatment. Directed by former Pixar animator-turned-replacement-director Hayward, the resulting film..."
June 25, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Kites
This Bollywood film made in America mixes elements from crime thrillers, love stories, and Westerns in a big flashy bundle designed to win over viewers dwelling far from the Indian subcontinent.
"...clear why Kites has been selected for this special treatment: Its storyline and visual look are already more Hollywood..."
May 21, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Semi-Pro
If basketball must be mocked, it deserves to be mocked well, and unfortunately, Will Ferrell's Semi-Pro isn’t up to the challenge.
"...entitled. But basketball … basketball doesn’t deserve the Ferrell treatment. Basketball is a sport of kings, a thing of..."
Feb. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Outsourced
When a Seattle man is transferred to India due to outsourcing, he overcomes his aversion and becomes the eventual poster boy for immersing, life-altering travel.
"...not one you’d expect to see getting the romantic-comedy treatment. Well, meet Todd Anderson (Hamilton), a sales manager at..."
Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
The Hitcher
This remake of Robert Harmon's original 1986 horror semiclassic serves as a primer in how not to generate suspense.
"...The first film was near-mythic in its tone and treatment of its characters, while this remake barely serves as..."
Jan. 26, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Idiocracy
Mike Judge's underrated comedy Idiocracy is the story of a man who awakes 500 years in the future to find a society so dumbed-down that he instantly becomes the smartest person alive.
"...word, is the recipient of the kind of asinine treatment that is commonplace in the dystopic future imagined in..."
Sept. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Over the Hedge
Canny casting and a sly anti-consumerist message give this animated feature extra adult appeal, but like a lot of animated fare it’s overly busy and splashy.
"...and a sly anti-consumerist message give this splashy big-screen treatment of the eponymous comic strip (by Austinite Michael Fry..."
May 19, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Inside Man
Although with Denzel, Jodie, and Clive in tow it would be difficult to go wrong, Spike Lee and screenwriter Russell Gewirtz have created a truly original film from various shopworn genre clichés.
"...takes pointed and well-deserved jabs at everything from post-9/11 treatment of nonwhites to, ultimately, a scheming cabal of backlogged..."
March 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Elizabethtown
Cameron Crowe's romantic comedy doesn't make the attraction between the characters played by Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom believable and then goes off in dozens more unprofitable directions.
"...cinematic also-rans. This hoary Hollywood trope has gotten the treatment from Frank Capra to Zach Braff, and while the..."
Oct. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
About AIDS
How can I make my HIV treatment as easy as possible –
fewer pills, fewer side-effects?
"...How can I make my HIV treatment as easy as possible – fewer pills, fewer side-effects?..."
Sept. 30, 2005 Column by Sandy Bartlett
La Vie Promise
Isabelle Huppert stars in this French road movie about a selfish streetwalker, her unwanted teenage daughter, and the escaped convict who befriends them both.
"...compulsive liar, thief, pill addict, and near-sociopath. Her rude treatment of Laurence (Forget), the illegitimate daughter she spurns, is..."
May 28, 2004 Movie Review by Steve Davis
About AIDS
Lunch with the doc: What's cookin' in HIV treatment?
"...here from Dallas to talk about current developments in treatment, plus a look at what to expect coming out..."
Nov. 28, 2003 Column
Shattered Glass
Before Jayson Blair there was Stephen Glass, a fabricator of magazine stories, whose fall from grace is told here.
"...may also recoil from the movie’s reverential and elitist treatment of The New Republic ("the in-flight magazine of Air..."
Nov. 21, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Whole
This documentary explores the hidden world of amputee fetishism.
"...be a boon to the medical understanding, acceptance, and treatment of this underexposed clinical fixation. General audiences are more..."
Oct. 3, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Anger Management
"...note to screenwriter). Little does it matter that Rydell’s treatment seems ill-designed for the quelling of anger and is..."
April 11, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
Colombani's debut features a finely nuanced and altogether striking performance by Tautou, whose wide eyes adroitly reflect an inner world that ricochets from hopelessly in love to simply hopeless.
"...Sophie Guillemin. The pathology of Eros gets the star treatment in this French film from the debuting Colombani, and..."
March 7, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Pumpkin
"...not improve much after a therapeutic zap of shock treatment. It's an odd and difficult pairing, like horror and..."
July 12, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Life as a House
"...filmmakers are dedicated to giving their material the Hallmark treatment, saturating it with Mark Isham's mawkish score and glossy..."
Nov. 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
"...“organics” makes less than no sense, and the film's treatment of story logic and plot points that ought to..."
June 29, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Reds
"...aspects of the story are weakened by their conventional treatment. Reds, however, won three Oscars: for direction, best supporting..."
Aug. 16, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Titus
Taymor creates a spectacularly imaginative piece of Shakespearean cinema set in a world out of time.
"...penned, few seemed less likely to win the Hollywood treatment than Titus Andronicus. The Bard's most ghoulish work, this..."
Feb. 11, 2000 Movie Review by Robert Faires
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen's third novel is infused with liberal doses of modern attitudes and autobiographical tidbits from the author's life.
"...Pinter. Jane Austen's third novel is given an odd treatment as writer-director Patricia Rozema infuses the story with liberal..."
Dec. 31, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Three to Tango
"...this one for some hearty laughs. Predictably, the film's treatment of complicated sexual politics is reductive, although Perry's struggle..."
Oct. 22, 1999 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola
The Muse
"...really takes off the kid gloves and gives Hollywood's treatment of its writers the unmitigated savaging it so richly..."
Aug. 27, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Haunting
"...Haunting of Hill House gets the full effects-laden, end-of-the-century treatment from action director De Bont (Speed, Twister), which essentially..."
July 30, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Doug's First Movie
"...Doug's 1st Movie, Doug and his gang get full-screen treatment, but with limited success. The movie's story is far-fetched..."
March 26, 1999 Movie Review by Steve Davis
The Borrowers
"...come to think of as the dreaded Home Alone treatment. Which is to say, the film makes the assumption..."
Feb. 13, 1998 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona
Stonewall
"...that gays fought back in response to the humiliating treatment inflicted under the color of law. Stonewall attempts to..."
