Email Author Bill Gallo

2006 Stories by Bill Gallo

• Ride the Legend

  published February 2, 2006

  Anthony Hopkins lends style points to any movie in which he appears. The thing might be a dog, but the actor who brought the gruesome psychopath... More >>

• After Innocence

  published February 2, 2006

  Jessica Sanders's disturbing documentary After Innocence (Special Jury Prize winner at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival) tackles a... More >>

• Rocky Waters

  published January 26, 2006

  No one has ever mistaken Rocky Balboa for an officer and a gentleman, but that's just about what we get in the numbingly predictable and... More >>

• Tarnished Ivory

  published January 26, 2006

  With the release of The White Countess, the much-honored Merchant-Ivory canon is complete. The Bombay-born producer Ismail Merchant... More >>

• Heavenly Hag

  published January 26, 2006

  There is evidently no limit to the sacrifices actors will make for their art. If you thought beautiful Charlize Theron went the distance by... More >>

• CU International Film Series

  published January 26, 2006

  What better time to hear the views of actual American combat soldiers rather than the rhetoric of the politicians who send them to war? In Boulder... More >>

• Smiles to Go

  published January 19, 2006

  We popcorn-chomping hitchhikers never know who will pick us up on the roadside. In Flirting With Disaster, it was a neurotic Manhattan... More >>

• Denver Public Library Film Series

  published January 19, 2006

  Jets or Sharks? Schwarzenegger or Stallone? Welles or Hitchcock? Such trifles pale next to the real heavyweight championship between Bette... More >>

• Dream Team

  published January 12, 2006

  Over the years, movie-goers who double as sports fans have had ample opportunity to pick and choose their favorite miracle: Shoeless Joe Jackson... More >>

• Romeo in the Rough

  published January 12, 2006

  Over the centuries, the legend of Tristram and Iseult has fueled the derring-do of King Arthur, aroused Richard Wagner's operatic thunder, driven... More >>

• Pure Bull

  published January 5, 2006

  What's an unemployed former super-spy to do? Faced with a midlife career change, suave Pierce Brosnan seems to have chosen wry self-mockery,... More >>