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)

Twilight of the Gods? - Dec 22, 2004

Off his game, but we hope not out of the competition, Philip Roth can't sustain the premise of his audacious historical rewrite.
Books By Tim Appelo

Murder and Masks - Dec 22, 2004

Almodóvar takes a plunge into film noir, where false identities mean more than the criminal truth.
Holiday Film 2004 By Tim Appelo

No Great Shakes - Dec 15, 2004

The Snicket movie gets the books' look right, if not the fear.
Film By Tim Appelo

From MOMA to Moaning - Dec 8, 2004

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders photographs the adult-film industry.
Gift Guide 3: Books, Music, & DVDs By Tim Appelo

Is Bush the Antichrist? - Dec 8, 2004

The Christian right and the Christian left are engaged in a debate over who 'owns' Jesus—and whether Dubya is a force for good or evil.
News By Tim Appelo

The Antichrist Through the Ages - Dec 8, 2004

News By Tim Appelo

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl - Dec 1, 2004

Buena Vista Home Ent., $29.99
New on DVD By Tim Appelo

Tea Me Up, Calm Me Down - Dec 1, 2004

Forget the wassail. What you really need to get through the holidays are these potent Northwest brews.
Gift Guide 2: Mind, Body, & Spirit By Tim Appelo

Take It All Off, Alfred - Nov 17, 2004

Biopic tells us too much about America's sexual habits, too little about what motivated its erotic expert.
Film By Tim Appelo

Eminent Edwardians - Nov 17, 2004

There's magic to the Peter Pan story, but precious little insight into its repressed magician.
Film By Tim Appelo

The Rolling Stones - Nov 3, 2004

Also: Wire, Joni Mitchell
DVD Reviews By Tim Appelo

All in the Family - Nov 3, 2004

The superstrength of Pixar's latest animated smash lies deeper than its CGI costuming.
Film By Tim Appelo

Now We're Playing Pigball! - Oct 13, 2004

The worst things that the right and left can say about each other are sticking—and selling like hotcakes.
Fall Books/Politics By Tim Appelo

Videodrome - Oct 13, 2004

Criterion Collection, $39.95
New on DVD By Tim Appelo

Kerry's Best Campaign - Sep 29, 2004

Going Upriver capsizes Swiftboat Veterans for Truth.
Film By Tim Appelo

Down From the Mountain - Sep 15, 2004

A writer braves treacherous weather, high altitudes, and long lines to reach that mother lode of cinema, Telluride.
Film By Tim Appelo

Zhang, He's Good! - Aug 25, 2004

A Chinese master's swashbuckling epic kicks airborne ass in rainbow shades.
Film By Tim Appelo

An Open Letter to Courtney Love - Aug 18, 2004

Believe it or not, there are people who want her to make it.
The Drug Issue By Tim Appelo

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism - Aug 4, 2004

The Disinformation Company, $9.95
New on DVD By Tim Appelo

Calendar Girls - Jul 28, 2004

Enchanted April is a sunny escape at ACT.
Stage Reviews By Tim Appelo

Keeping Cool in an Overheated Market - Jul 7, 2004

How this writer actually bought a house and lived to tell the tale. And, no, I didn't just win the lottery.
Turf: The Panic Market! By Tim Appelo

The NASCARing of the Northwest - Jun 30, 2004

The nation's new favorite sport is headed to Puget Sound. Are we in for a major cultural collision as 'The Dukes of Hazzard' race through Ecotopia? Or is it all a part of a corporate-style 'Dixiefication' of America?
News By Tim Appelo

Terminally Trapped - Jun 16, 2004

Spielberg is smooth, Hanks is sweet, and The Terminal is . . . well, diverting.
Film By Tim Appelo

Raising Helen and A Slipping Down Life - May 26, 2004

This Week's Attractions By Tim Appelo

Off the Waterfront - May 19, 2004

Remembering the Moptops at Seattle's lost restaurant.
Food By Tim Appelo

Sad Songs, Manic Musicians, and Rogue Waves - May 19, 2004

Here are my six picks for SIFF, in all their oddball glory.
SIFF Guide 2004 By Tim Appelo

Two Out of Three Are Good - May 5, 2004

Same cast, different genres—I can't wait to see how the third installment of this triptych turns out.
Film By Tim Appelo

The Big-Tent Revival - Apr 28, 2004

Mel Gibson's Passion has made $360 million. The Da Vinci Code has sold millions. But a visiting scholar suggests monotheism is actually becoming less monolithic.
News By Tim Appelo

Dare to Dream - Apr 21, 2004

Of great food and fantastic theater at Teatro ZinZanni.
Food By Tim Appelo

His Town - Apr 14, 2004

Lars von Trier explains America to us—from sea to sociopathic sea.
Film By Tim Appelo

Future Cred - Apr 14, 2004

The Science Fiction Museum frames the past and present of glitzy and gritty futures.
News By Tim Appelo

Crass Act - Mar 31, 2004

A dirty book is back in print with a timely reminder of how decades before Jayson Blair, 25 'distinguished' journalists once hoaxed the publishing world.
Arts By Tim Appelo

Too Easy Money - Mar 24, 2004

The Coen brothers earn a Hollywood-size paycheck for revamping a classic. So why couldn't they afford to write a better script?
Film By Tim Appelo

Mild Oats - Mar 3, 2004

Aragorn—oops, I mean Viggo—takes to the desert, following some very unreliable tracks.
Film By Tim Appelo

The Sit-Down - Mar 3, 2004

Film By Tim Appelo

Gory, Gory Hallelujah - Feb 25, 2004

Never mind the sermons, Mel Gibson's Christ movie is long on blood, short on theology.
Film By Tim Appelo

Hawk and Dove - Feb 4, 2004

Thirty-one years after Vietnam, Robert McNamara is still fighting the same battle with himself.
Review By Tim Appelo

Reign of the Real - Jan 28, 2004

Even the best fiction films were indebted to documentarieswhich turns out to be promising for both kinds of movies.
Sundance Film Festival By Tim Appelo

Sundance Confidential - Jan 21, 2004

Forget the big picturethat'll come next week. Here's the dirt from my first five days in Park City.
Sundance Film Festival By Tim Appelo

Shameless Shaman - Jan 21, 2004

KEN KESEY: Two years after his death, the books are still coming. Are they evidence of genius, or a literary career wasted?
Arts By Tim Appelo

Victims and Victors - Jan 7, 2004

Charlize Theron's deglamorized star turn will earn her an Oscar nom, but the film wins no awards for fidelity to its nutcase subject.
Film By Tim Appelo

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