Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'battle'
June 18, 2008
After the October 2007 murder of her father and her mother's arrest for his killing this past February, the Daily News checks in on 5-year-old Michelle Malakov to see how she's doing. According to her paternal grandmother, the little girl calls her uncle "Daddy," "She can't be without him for a minute." Michelle witnessed the fatal shooting of her father, well-liked dentist Daniel Malakov, in a Queens playground. (Her parents had been embroiled in a......
Continue Reading "A Little Girl with Father Murdered, Mother in Custody"May 9, 2008
Speed Racer, from the mysterious sibling filmmakers behind the Matrix trilogy, is opening to well-deserved critical derision. It’s a 135-minute insipid, soulless commodity that lifts some of the Japanese original’s storyline but absolutely none of the charm. The movie opens with a 34% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes; perhaps J. Hoberman’s pan gets it best: “Ideologically anti-corporate, previous Wachowski productions aspired to be something more than mind-less sensation; Speed Racer is thrilled to be......
Continue Reading "Weekend Movie Forecast: Speed Racer, Haditha, Vegas"
