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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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2006 Stories by Jim Ridley

• The Outsiders

  published December 20, 2006

  In a parallel universe of socially conscious dramas, there exists a movie in which a staid white British family moves into a lively community of... More >>

• The Whole World in His Hands

  published November 22, 2006

  For progressives lifted, however temporarily, by the swell of a turning tide, Bobby can be seen clearly for what it is — an... More >>

• Anchor Man?

  published November 8, 2006

  Once an actor gets big enough to take whatever kind of role he wants, it makes sense that the biggest stretch imaginable, given his current... More >>

• Communication Breakdown

  published November 1, 2006

  Time perhaps scrambling it's for Alejandro González Iñárritu to stop his narratives. After making an exciting debut in 2000... More >>

• Suicide Club

  published October 25, 2006

  The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco's most famous landmark — and possibly the country's — makes a lovely place to die. Only a 4-foot... More >>

• The Harder They Come

  published October 4, 2006

  The sex is real in John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus; only the setting — an animated New York cityscape, benignly watched over by a... More >>

• Slithering Heights

  published August 16, 2006

  Snakes on a Plane represents the ideal of contemporary major-studio filmmaking — which is to say, major-studio marketing. Who needs... More >>

• Absolutely Fabulist

  published August 2, 2006

  Opens Friday More >>

• Ain't No Sunshine

  published August 2, 2006

  Like the shambling VW van its hapless characters steer from Albuquerque to Redondo Beach, Little Miss Sunshine is a rickety vehicle that... More >>

• Prenuptual Aggrievement

  published July 26, 2006

  Farce is an ideal clearing ground for hostility. Like mystery, it's a genre that typically passes through disruption en route to the restoration... More >>

• Eating for Two

  published July 26, 2006

  Feed (TLA) Remember the old jokes about "What's grosser than gross"? The makers of Feed do, as they prove in the first... More >>

• All-Day Suckers

  published July 5, 2006

  Perhaps no one can pinpoint the exact moment vaudeville died, but there's a moment early in Strangers With Candy where you'd swear... More >>

• Bring in the Trash

  published June 14, 2006

  Valley of the Dolls Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Fox) Behold The Godfather and Godfather Part II... More >>

• Ford Tough

  published June 7, 2006

  The John Wayne/John Ford Film Collection (Warner Bros.) Featuring the most epic pairing of director and actor in Hollywood... More >>

• Kicking French Ass

  published May 31, 2006

  Let's trade, action fans. Give up all 126 minutes of Mission: Impossible III's digitized bloat and torture games, along with... More >>

• Letter Perfect

  published April 26, 2006

  Every year, when ESPN broadcasts the Scripps National Spelling Bee, a tiny flutter of hope rises in anyone who cherishes the life of the mind.... More >>

• Being Bettie

  published April 12, 2006

  If you can tell a society by its smut, America in the 1950s couldn't have been just a Frigidaire of repressive hysteria. Hidden somewhere in the... More >>

• Confessions of a Horndog

  published April 5, 2006

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