Email Author Jim Ridley

Awards

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 24, 2005

  "Blown Opportunity"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 19, 2005

  "Lost in the Stars"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 1, 2005

  "Pulling Punch Lines"

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2008 Stories by Jim Ridley

• Film Highlight: Trouble the Water

  published September 17, 2008

  By following Scott and Kimberly Roberts, a couple from New Orleans's stricken Ninth Ward, through Hurricane Katrina and its... More >>

• Film Highlight: Bab'Aziz: The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul

  published September 10, 2008

  Even though one of the earliest appeals of cinema was the window it opened onto other cultures and continents, films that... More >>

• Film Highlight: The Animation Show

  published August 13, 2008

  Less hit-or-miss than the long-running Spike & Mike packages of drawn-to-the-dark-side filth, this touring animation program... More >>

• Film Highlight: Man on Wire

  published August 6, 2008

  Part caper movie, part real-life superhero saga, and entirely engrossing, James Marsh's documentary recounts in... More >>

• Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

  published July 2, 2008

  A tightly wound bundle of everything and its opposite—an anti-authoritarian who ran for sheriff of Aspen, a peace-loving gun nut, an... More >>

• Wanted has all of the fight with none of the guilt

  published June 25, 2008

  Of the summer's many revenge-of-the-nerd fulfillment fantasies—from The Incredible Hulk all the way down the megaplex food chain... More >>

• Film Highlight: The Grand

  published April 2, 2008

  THE GRAND area theaters, starts Friday As the convergence of two... More >>

• Film Highlight: 'The Signal'

  published February 20, 2008

  THE SIGNAL area theaters, starts Friday "Do you have the crazy?" a wild-eyed... More >>

• Chafing Dishes

  published February 13, 2008

  No Reservations (Warner Bros.)From its cheap, mid-'90s-looking package to its woefully scant extras (one... More >>

• Donkey Punch

  published January 30, 2008

  The King of Kong  More >>

• Film Highlight: U2 3D

  published January 23, 2008

  Three dimensions seem scarcely enough to contain the messianic impulses of the world's hardest-rocking humanitarian aid... More >>