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Reduce, Reuse, 'Revolt': Michael Cera's New Flicknew
As Sinatra-loving, foreign-film-renting Oakland high-school student Nick Twisp, Michael Cera’s having his usual troubles getting laid, or for that matter even interacting normally with girls or dudes his own age.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
01-06-2010 |
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The Americanized 'Astro Boy' is an Illogical Messnew
Actually it's all pretty lame, and not helped at all by the ridiculous dialogue and voice work, featuring several name actors (Sutherland, Bell, Theron) delivering their lines with the sort of single-take disinterest generally reserved for rushed bargain-bin-anime overdubs.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
10-21-2009 |
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'The Informant!' Takes Soft Approach to Satirenew
Matt Damon packing on layers of doughy flab to play a biochemical whistleblower isn't exactly a formula for comedy gold, but the film is funnier than it has any right to be.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
09-17-2009 |
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The Biggest Problem With 'Funny Books' is Also the Hardest to Criticizenew
Complaining that this film, which follows the lives of three comic-book-store employees, makes too many geek references is like griping about the gratuitous hardcore sex in Deep Throat.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
08-12-2009 |
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Tags: Funny Books, James Christopher
'Outrage' Celebrates the Kiss-and-Tellnew
Kirby Dick's documentary offers a surprisingly in-depth look at D.C.'s secret gayness on the way to its apparent objective: justifying the privacy violations inherent in ejecting the Larry Craigs and Mark Foleys from D.C.'s crowded closet.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
06-10-2009 |
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'Blindness': Fade to Whitenew
Blindness, a screen adaptation of Portuguese author Jose Saramago's novel, explores the probable effects of a widespread and incurable epidemic in the present day, though the storyline's most far-fetched aspects suggest the film is really an obtuse metaphor never fully elaborated.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
10-01-2008 |
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Tags: Fernando Meirelles, Blindness
'August Evening': Apolitical Immigration Argumentnew
Alamo City is no land of golden opportunity, offering only dog tracks, layoffs, and day-labor lines to Spanish speakers with limited educations and no paperwork.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
09-17-2008 |
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Tags: August Evening, Chris Eska
'Burn After Reading' is No Lebowskinew
The writing is as solid as you'd hope, though the humor in this story of two bumbling gym employees who accidentally blackmail an ex-CIA agent and immediately get in over their heads with national-security heavies is mostly dry, situational, and low-key.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
09-10-2008 |
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'In Search of a Midnight Kiss': 'Annie Hall' for Coldplay Fansnew
The relationship dynamics in Holdridge's script feel true to now, when online come-ons have largely replaced the bar scene, hardcore pornography is a casual conversation topic, and "internet infidelity" is a potential relationship killer.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
09-03-2008 |
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