Tim Appelo

Yearly Archive

2008 (8 articles)
2007 (13 articles)
2006 (46 articles)
2005 (71 articles)
2004 (41 articles)
2003 (56 articles)
2002 (28 articles)

Big Fish - Dec 24, 2003

Given a rich, ripe topic with an autobiographical subtext, Tim Burton still can't sort out his feelings toward Dad. Or this movie.
Holiday Film 2003 By Tim Appelo

Oscar Battle of the Celebrity Exes - Dec 24, 2003

Holiday Film 2003 By Tim Appelo

The Last Samurai - Dec 3, 2003

Trading six-shooter for sword, Cruise stars in an action-packed Eastern that's emptier than Zen.
Film By Tim Appelo

The Book Wars - Nov 26, 2003

Prep-school novel reveals cutthroat literary competition.
Arts By Tim Appelo

Has Ron Howard Earned His Spurs? - Nov 26, 2003

Opie's homage to John Ford is better than a pig in a poke.
Film By Tim Appelo

Captain Courageous - Nov 12, 2003

Peter Weir turns swashbuckling clichés upside down.
Film Reviews By Tim Appelo

Sylvia - Oct 29, 2003

By steering clear of the lurid, the sordid, and the true, this new Plath biopic fails to live up the new Plath biolit.
Film Reviews By Tim Appelo

O Cascadia! - Oct 22, 2003

A new Northwest literary history reveals the enduring conflict between corny romantics and cranky realists.
Books By Tim Appelo

Punctual Madness - Oct 8, 2003

Steven Jesse Bernstein By Tim Appelo

Mystic River - Oct 8, 2003

On a drab, detective-show canvas, Eastwood creates a great story of crime and character.
Film Reviews By Tim Appelo

Dinner Is Served - Oct 1, 2003

The Still Life steps outside of the (lunch)box.
Food Review By Tim Appelo

The Glorious Devolution - Oct 1, 2003

Learning to love formula filmmakingfor now, at least.
Film Reviews By Tim Appelo

Out of Grasp - Sep 17, 2003

At the Telluride film fest, facts are slipping into thin air.
Film By Tim Appelo

Less Than This - Sep 10, 2003

Despite its charms and stars, Sofia Coppola's latest looks too intently inwardat herself.
Review By Tim Appelo

Boom Lit - Sep 3, 2003

Three years after the tech crash, Seattle authors are starting to mine their memories of the dot-com era.
Books By Tim Appelo

An Interview with Thirteen Director Catherine Hardwicke - Aug 27, 2003

The Sit-Down By Tim Appelo

Mondays in the Sun - Aug 20, 2003

Hope doesn't float in this glum Spanish unemployment drama.
Film Reviews By Tim Appelo

An Interview with Dan Ireland - Aug 13, 2003

The Sit-Down By Tim Appelo

Teat for Two - Aug 6, 2003

ACT's cast does brilliantly by The Goat, but it's only half a masterpiece.
Stage Reviews By Tim Appelo

Gigli - Jul 30, 2003

J.Lo plays a lesbian; Affleck plays dumbbut they're no less unconvincing than the rest of this Mafia flop.
Film Reviews By Tim Appelo

The Bread, My Sweet - Jul 16, 2003

A big fat Scott Baio snuff movie.
Film Reviews By Tim Appelo

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl - Jul 9, 2003

No rip-off, this pirate-ride movie is actually fun.
Film Reviews By Tim Appelo

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines - Jul 2, 2003

Arnold returns to form in this satisfying action flick, but something more important is missing.
Film Reviews By Tim Appelo

The Eye, House of Fools, and May - Jun 11, 2003

Film Reviews By Tim Appelo

The $183,000 Question - May 28, 2003

Why wait for midlife to buy a midlife-crisis car?
SW Behind the Wheel By Tim Appelo

L'Aaugerge Espagnole, Ichi the Killer, and The Italian Job - May 28, 2003

Film Reviews By Tim Appelo

What I Wanna See at SIFF - May 14, 2003

SIFF Guide 2003 By Tim Appelo

Club Clash - May 14, 2003

News By Tim Appelo

The Matrix Reloaded - May 14, 2003

Multiplying cast members clog up the reload, but this Matrix is still a killer.
Film Reviews By Tim Appelo

The Nerd - May 7, 2003

Makeover goes amok.
Film By Tim Appelo

Second Best in Show - Apr 16, 2003

Wind's satirical targets aren't quite fat enough.
Review By Tim Appelo

Christopher Guest - Apr 16, 2003

Interview By Tim Appelo

Cartoon Nation - Apr 9, 2003

Why Michael Moore and Michael Savage are the defining characters, and caricatures, of our political times.
Books By Tim Appelo

Iraq War: The Movie - Apr 2, 2003

You dont have to wait for the film version.
The War By Tim Appelo

Dead Ringer - Apr 2, 2003

Phone Booth really has the wrong number.
Film Reviews By Tim Appelo

Queens of Scots - Mar 26, 2003

Lynne Ramsay and Samantha Morton deliver an art-film masterpiece.
Review By Tim Appelo

Missing the Point - Mar 26, 2003

Film By Tim Appelo

My Pipe-Dream House - Mar 19, 2003

A former millionaire surveys what once might have been hisand might be again.
Turf: Guide to Urban Living By Tim Appelo

Honesty at the Oscars - Mar 19, 2003

What I'd like to see, but won't, on this Sundays telecast.
Film By Tim Appelo

Off the Map - Mar 19, 2003

Gus Van Sant gets lost, but beautifully.
Review By Tim Appelo

Philosopher Creeps - Mar 12, 2003

Playing with life, death, and reality, Cronenberg and No頰roduce the feel-bad movies of the year.
Reviews By Tim Appelo

Artificial Reality - Mar 12, 2003

David Cronenberg on madness.
Interview By Tim Appelo

Adolf the Aesthete - Mar 5, 2003

Daring to understand Hitler as an artist, and his hideous acts of creative imagination.
Review By Tim Appelo

Crimes of the Art - Feb 19, 2003

Kevin Spacey and Kurt Russell demonstrate why winter is the darkest time of the movie year.
Film By Tim Appelo

Kevin Who? - Feb 19, 2003

Film By Tim Appelo

Thelma and Louise - Feb 5, 2003

New on DVD By Tim Appelo

Pooh's Pendulum - Feb 5, 2003

Eleven scholars deconstruct the billion-dollar bear. (Oh, bother.)
Arts By Tim Appelo

Pizza Is Beautiful! - Jan 22, 2003

An honest-to-god Italian pizzeria grows in Belltown.
Food By Tim Appelo

Victimless - Jan 22, 2003

An honest, painful portrayal of a GI baby's Vietnam homecoming.
Film By Tim Appelo

The Marxist Brothers - Jan 15, 2003

Frenchman Chris Marker mourns the decline of the left, but Comrade Michael Moore is reraising the red flag.
Film By Tim Appelo

The Good Girl - Jan 15, 2003

New on DVD By Tim Appelo

Artful Downer - Jan 8, 2003

Despite three great performances, this Woolfian adaptation still adds up to one overrated mope-fest.
Film By Tim Appelo

True Grit - Jan 8, 2003

Narc's got that low-budget '70s style down.
Film By Tim Appelo

Signs - Jan 8, 2003

New on DVD By Tim Appelo

Hell Played Straight - Jan 1, 2003

Polanski's Holocaust saga is more vérité than cinema.
Film By Tim Appelo

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