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Joss Stone: 'The Soul Sessions Vol. 2'new
For someone so musically addicted to re-introductions, Joss Stone is pretty damn bad at them.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
08-16-2012 |
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Tags: Joss Stone
In 'Hunger Games,' Jennifer Lawrence heads a winning YA franchisenew
Now that the Harry Potter series has wrapped and the Twilight saga lurches toward its final installment, The Hunger Games has swooped in as a sort of allegorical palate-cleanser, a post-apocalyptic showcase for a much needed breath of fresh air in the form of Katniss Everdeen, a YA hero who’s actually a young adult.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
03-31-2012 |
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'This Means War' has a perfectly likeable cast, delivers an anorexic action-comedynew
Chris Pine (of J.J. Abrams' Star Trek reboot) and Tom Hardy (Inception, Warrior) are two of the most appealing actors working; Pine's charm is one of cocksure swagger and false emotional bravado, a throwback to the Will Smith (one of the film's producers) "look good doing it" model.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
02-27-2012 |
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Michelle Williams leaves everyone else in her dust as Marilyn Monroenew
Michelle Williams deserves her vehicle; she's earned the right to put herself in the sweaty hands of cigar-chomping moguls with the power to bully esteemed actors and directors into hopping aboard the Oscar Express, wobbly wheels though it may be resting on.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
12-03-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: My Week With Marilyn, Simon Curtis
Scorsese's first children's adventure comes from his own inner childnew
Trains and the cinema go together like horses and cave paintings. As soon as humans were able to show motion, we chose to show trains. And from our first interaction with locomotives on celluloid — the Lumiére Brothers' Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat in 1895, which, perhaps apocryphally, made audiences jump out of their seats in fear — until this moment, with Martin Scorsese's 3-D fantasy Hugo, there have been dreamers and keepers of the dream.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
12-02-2011 |
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Film Review: Like Crazynew
Anton Yelchin (Star Trek) and newcomer Felicity Jones play Jacob and Anna, two attractive college kids who meet during class and immediately fall head over heels in love.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
11-28-2011 |
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Margin Call elevates financial crisis drama above the blusternew
The 2008 financial collapse was so large in scale, and so unfathomable to most, that it practically begged for Hollywood’s blustery mythmaking.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
11-03-2011 |
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Johnny Depp Delivers a Tame Origin Story for a Gonzo Legendnew
The Rum Diary, a freewheeling tropical cocktail based on Hunter S. Thompson’s long-unpublished novel of the same name, bears an infectious sense of liberation.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
11-03-2011 |
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The Director of Independence Day is a Natural Fit for Elizabethan Intriguenew
Director Roland Emmerich’s new film opens and closes at a modern theater. The curtain draws and, before a polite crowd dressed in their Sunday best, a narrator sets the scene.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
11-03-2011 |
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Critic’s Diss: Restlessnew
Morose loner (newcomer Henry Hopper, son of Dennis) who likes to attend funerals and converse with his imaginary WWII kamikaze pilot ghost friend, meets quirky, terminally ill girl (The Kids Are All Right’s Mia Wasikowska) in director Gus Van Sant’s latest, which is just as relentlessly whimsical and calculated as it sounds.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
10-06-2011 |
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Life, Above Allnew
A powerful performance by a teen actress lifts this morality tale above its station.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
09-16-2011 |
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Paul Rudd Indie Comedy Won’t Leave Well Enough Alonenew
Our Idiot Brother does not entirely work, though it’s not for lack of ability or desire.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
09-01-2011 |
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