Megan Turner
The Archive
HO-HUM HOEDOWN; 'BALLAD' HO-HUM RUSSKY HOEDOWN
February 19, 2003 | 5:00amTHE BALLAD OF BERING STRAIT Russkies go to Nashville. Running time: 98 minutes. Not rated (nothing objectionable). At Loews State, 1540 Broadway (between 45th and 46th streets); and Village East,...
WATCHING AN IMPOSSIBLE DREAMER
January 31, 2003 | 5:00amLOST IN LA MANCHA [] An un-making-of documentary. Running time: 89 minutes. Rated R (language). At the Lincoln Plaza and Sunshine Cinemas. ------ FILMMAKER Terry Gilliam is such a rare...
FRENCH FEMMES SHINE OVER MEN
January 29, 2003 | 5:00amCHAOS [] Feminism made fun. In French with English subtitles. Running time: 109 minutes. Not rated (violence, sex scenes, language). At the Angelika, corner of Houston and Mercer streets, and...
MEN IN TIGHTS - NO ACTOR TOO BIG TO FILL SUPERHERO SHOES
January 28, 2003 | 5:00amGEORGE Clooney, Christopher Reeve and Tobey Maguire have done it, and now Ben Affleck is poised to parade around in his hosiery pretending to be a superhero. Kids' stuff? No...
SUNDANCE IS IN 'TOON WITH PRIZE
January 27, 2003 | 5:00amA crowd-pleasing biography of cult cartoonist Harvey Pekar took the top prize at the Sundance Film Festival over the weekend. "American Splendor," a winning potpourri of fiction, archival footage and...
BLOCKBUSTER : $40M MANSION BLOWN UP FOR H'WOOD ACTION FLICK PHOTO EXCLUSIVE
January 25, 2003 | 5:00amOne of the most explosive moments of Super Bowl Sunday will come during a commercial break. A $40 million Miami mansion was blown to smithereens for the Will Smith action...
SUNDANCE GETS DOWN TO THE ART OF THE DEAL
January 24, 2003 | 5:00amJ.LO, Britney and P. Diddy are there, the paparazzi are swarming and "TRL"-like mobs are squealing but beneath the celebrity hoopla, the real business of Sundance continues apace. Though lacking...
MOVE OVER SUNDANCE KIDS, THERE'S A NEW . . . STAR OF INDIES
January 23, 2003 | 5:00amEACH year, one actress emerges from Sundance unofficially crowned Queen of the Indies. Past winners of the title include Christina Ricci, Parker Posey and Maggie Gyllenhaal. This year, husky-voiced New...
THE DAY THE DANCING DIED - CATCHING UP WITH THE CLUB KIDS IN TRUE-CRIME INDIE
January 23, 2003 | 5:00amLIKE Andy Warhol before him, New York's notorious clubland killer Michael Alig played Pied Piper to a gaggle of fabulous creatures of the night. They dressed in outrageously garish costumes,...
THE NEXT BIG TEEN; WRITER, 14, FRAZZLES FEST WITH SORDID SAGA
January 22, 2003 | 5:00amA movie about 13-year-old girls who have threesomes with older men, get high on pot, prescription pills and nitrous oxide and wear outfits that would make Christina Aguilera blush has...
DOWNEY, BUT NOT OUT
January 20, 2003 | 5:00amJUDGING by the rapturous response he's received at Sundance this past week, formerly drug-bedeviled star Robert Downey Jr. is back with a vengeance. It was standing room only at Friday's...
THE MANY FACES OF MEL GIBSON
January 20, 2003 | 5:00amWHETHER he's playing an American patriot, a suicidal cop or even a man without a face, Mel Gibson has always been sexy onscreen - until now. With the addition of...
FESTIVAL FILMGOERS CATCHING AN EARLY BUZZ
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amIT'S the early days at the Sundance Film Festival, and official kudos won't be doled out until Saturday night, but after two days of back-to-back screenings, The Post has seen...
CLUB KID CULKIN ; GROWN-UP MACAULAY A SURPRISE IN SLAY TALE
January 19, 2003 | 5:00amWhen the body of 26-year-old club kid Angel Melendez, stuffed in a box, washed up on a beach on Staten Island in 1996, suspicion fell on Melendez's roommate, Michael Alig,...
'GOD' IS IN THE DETAILS
January 17, 2003 | 5:00amCITY OF GOD Mesmerizing.In Portuguese with English subtitles. Running time: 130 minutes. Rated R (strong, brutal violence, sexuality, drug content and language.) At the Angelika, Mercer and Houston streets. FIRST-TIME...
INDEPENDENTS' DAYS : FOR ALL ITS GLITZ, SUNDANCE MEANS MOVIES
January 15, 2003 | 5:00amWHAT drives marquee stars like Morgan Freeman, Kirsten Dunst, Holly Hunter and Billy Bob Thornton to work for peanuts in sub-zero temperatures making a little indie film with a first-time...
FOOTBALL FILM PLAYS BY DIFFERENT RULES
January 8, 2003 | 5:00amTHE SLAUGHTER RULE [ 1/2] Frontier football. Running time: 112 minutes. Rated R (language and sexual content.) At the Pioneer, 122 E. Third St., at Avenue A. ----- A football...
LIGHTS, SEQUELS & ACTION!
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amIF you're thinking the ubiquitous Jen and Ben surely canoodled themselves into oblivion during 2002 you'd be - bzzzz - wrong. With their two big-screen duets unspooling this summer -...
HAPPY WITH SOME BODY NEW
January 3, 2003 | 5:00amMOTHER of three Demi Moore is not taking her big-screen comeback lightly. Pictures from the set of "Charlie's Angels 2: Full Throttle," in which the 40-year-old actress plays a villainous...
YOU CAN IGNORAH SANDLER'S MENORAH
November 27, 2002 | 5:00amADAM SANDLER'S EIGHT CRAZY NIGHTS [ 1/2] Bah, humbug. Running time: 75 minutes. Rated PG-13 (frequent crude and sexual humor, drinking and brief drug references). At the Empire, the Lincoln...