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Joe Carnahan's Crossroadsnew
Could it possibly stand to reason that Smokin' Aces, amounts to one big style-piled, guns-blazing, caper-circus metaphor for Carnahan's own creative life?
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
01-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Joe Carnahan, Smokin' Aces
Cold, Fashionednew
An experiment without any urgency or resistance, it came too easily; Soderbergh has slackened with privilege.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
01-18-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Steven Soderbergh, The Good German
Owen's Runnew
Children of Men is basically V for Vendetta for grownups. Logan's Run with post-9/11 sensibilities. Blade Runner for -- yeah, OK, you get it: dystopia du jour.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
01-04-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men
Stallone Again, Naturallynew
This might be the best Rocky movie since the first Rocky movie -- but if that sounds like a rave, just think of all the others.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
12-21-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa
See Spot's Karmanew
Watching The Cave of the Yellow Dog does sometimes feel like eating your vegetables -- but given its Buddhist leanings, condemning this film for emptiness really seems like missing the point.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
12-14-2006 |
Reviews
Pyramid Schemenew
As Apocalypto conclusively proves, subtlety is rare in Gibson's films.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
12-07-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Apocalypto, Mel Gibson
Newsmongrelnew
Recent pop-culture headlines you might have missed, because they are fake.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
11-13-2006 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
Or Consequencesnew
Will Ferrell tones down the gimmickry; too bad the movie can't follow his example.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
11-13-2006 |
Reviews
Wages of Sinnew
Convicted child molester Father Oliver O'Grady is out of prison and willing to talk -- veteran CNN and 60 Minutes director Amy Berg lets him, and the result is chilling.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
10-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Amy Berg, Deliver Us From Evil
To Thine Own Self Be Trunew
The cautionary Capote tale deserve multiple stagings -- especially if they're this good.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
10-12-2006 |
Reviews
Perchance to Dreamnew
While you're waiting for the next Charlie Kaufman movie, here's The Science of Sleep.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
09-29-2006 |
Reviews
Man and Supermannew
What makes Hollywoodland work is that it's actually driven by its characters, at least one of which is fictional.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
09-07-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Allen Coulter, Hollywoodland
Best Left Unspokennew
Your hair smells like cucumbers ... that gets me so hard ... wait, where are you going?
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
08-31-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Jamie Babbit, The Quiet
Hollywood War Machinenew
War movies: What are they good for? Carl Boggs helps us figure it out.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
08-31-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Art-House Bluesnew
What's a film buff to do when your town's "secondary market" status keeps good movies away?
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
07-13-2006 |
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