Daniel Schwartz
ARTICLES
Pedaling to the Pretzel Palace
It’s a crisp mid-September Tuesday night and several dozen bikers are dawdling in front of the art museum steps.
Close Encounters in Bucks County
Denise Murter, an aging, blond bombshell, wouldn’t say her name on television because she feared “creeps” would contact her.
Film
Movie Magic
Captain Disillusion stares at the camera and utters, "Love with your heart, use your head for everything else." This post-enlightenment superhero, whose face is partially coated in metallic silver paint, is at once seriously goofy and playfully skeptical.
Film
'N' Is For Nollywood
The tides of globalization swept across Africa long before Kofi Annan joined the UN or Akon "smacked that". Wed to Asian, European and American influences, many of the continent's cultural practices are syncretic responses to outside technologies, politics and aesthetics.
Film
So Nice, So Spice
At the risk of losing respect and friendship, I would like to turn your attention to a movie that I thoroughly enjoyed watching: Spice World, or as some call it, "that stupid Spice Girls marketing device."
Those negative Nancies do have a point.
Film
Web Video of the Week
Sometimes we wonder what our high school friends have been doing with their lives. Recently, I checked up on two pals of mine, Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher, who were notorious comedians within our Atlantan community.
Film
Biting Where Few Have Bitten Before
I'm all about vagina empowerment. In my vocabulary, the word "feminist" is neither dirty nor derogatory.
Film
Of Profits and Prophets
We all get competitive. Whether it's GPAs, sports or the Academy Awards, there's always a fight to be won.
Film
Take 4
In the mood for mutilation this Halloween?
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Though this is a parody from across the pond - think Dawn of the Dead meets Harold and Kumar - British comedians Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright know how to splatter their way into movie history.
Film
A B.A. in Murder
To be honest, I had low expectations while sliding the Netflix DVD of Behind the Mask into my computer.
Film
Delhi-cious
Wes Anderson is a director of details. Of course, he's more than that; his past films like Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Life Aquatic are works that celebrate the quirkiness of dysfunction.
Film
Sky of blue, sea of green
If you choose to slip into the film's phantasmagoric and stunningly beautiful aesthetic, Across the Universe will transport you to a trippy 1960s dreamscape.
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Across the Univerise Interview
Julie Taymor, director of Across the Universe, strives to transcend. With roots in theater, opera, puppetry and television, her productions - like the hugely popular Broadway production of The Lion King - reflect a layered and dynamic artist.
Film
Woodcock rocks
If the man sitting next to me in the movie theater wrote this review, Mr. Woodcock would be getting a crotch-thrusting four stars.
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woodcock rocks
If the man sitting next to me in the movie theater wrote this review, Mr. Woodcock would be getting a crotch-thrusting four stars.
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