Articles by Carol Harrison
George Hickenlooper
George Hickenlooper
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
The title makes "The Man From Elysian Fields" sound somehow meaningful and literate. It isn't either. Fiction writer Byron Tiller (Andy Gar...
Angel Eyes
Luis Mandoki
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Nice movies seem to be the hardest to critique. They're sort of like meringue - sweet and nice but nothing to it. And so I attempt to criti...
With A Friend Like Harry
Dominik Moll
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Alfred Hitchcock once described good suspense was having a bomb under a table where the main character is sitting and only the audience can...
A Knight's Tale
Brian Helgland
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
There is a nugget of a good movie in "A Knight's Tale," which makes watching it that much more frustrating. The shortcomings are so blatant...
Swordfish
Dominic Sena
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
"Swordfish" is a tease. You settle in for an exciting evening that gets off to a raring start only to go limp. Not only limp, but it seems...
Flatlanders
Now Again
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
By all rights, the Flatlanders' Now Again would be up there in the mainstream country charts, if indeed those charts actually represented c...
Jane Waynes
Jane Waynes
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
Toronto's Jane Waynes are Lisa Silverman, Catherine Doherty, Murray Foster and Jason LaPrade, who play a version of alt-country they've dub...
Tift Merritt
Bramble Rose
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
What an apt title for Tift Merritt's debut CD, Bramble Rose. Something grows wild in your otherwise well-tended garden that blends right in...