AltWeeklies Wire
Void Where Prohibited: Enter the Void and I Spit on Your Gravenew
Ghosts on drugs! Love-hotel peeping toms! Brutal hillbillies! Grisly female revenge!
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
10-07-2010 |
Reviews
The Social Network and the "F" Wordnew
The billionaire geek who invented Facebook (The Social Network) meets the juvie outcasts of the living dead (Let Me In).
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
10-01-2010 |
Reviews
Bohemian Rhapsody: Howl and Jack Goes Boatingnew
James Franco blazes as Allen Ginsberg; Philip Seymour quietly simmers.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
09-22-2010 |
Reviews
The Agony and Ecstasy of Joaquin Phoenixnew
If Phoenix is really and truly a washed-up drunk with delusions of grandeur, I'm Still Here is a worthy swan song. Way to go.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
09-15-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: I'm Still Here, Casey Affleck
"Machete Don't Text!"new
Don't start the revolution without Danny Trejo (Machete). And rethink your preconceptions of South Africa (White Wedding).
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
09-08-2010 |
Reviews
Wretched of the Earth: Peepli Live and Scott Pilgrim vs. the Worldnew
What do a pair of poor farmers in India have in common with a young geek in Toronto? How much time have you got?
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
08-11-2010 |
Reviews
The Runaways: Kisses and Winnebago Mannew
Two unwanted kids and one grumpy old coot.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
08-02-2010 |
Reviews
Girls, Girls, Girlsnew
Anybody can wear a dragon tattoo, play with fire, or kick a hornet's nest, but there's only one Noomi Rapace.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
07-09-2010 |
Reviews
Jolly Raunchersnew
Boxers, hookers, pimps, and disgruntled German tourists: Welcome to Love Ranch and Everyone Else.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
06-30-2010 |
Movies
Tags: Love Ranch, Everyone Else
Time Killersnew
The Killer Inside Me doesn't pull its punches. But Cyrus and Air Doll do.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
06-23-2010 |
Reviews
An Outrage Porn and a Decorously Hammy Frou-Frounew
The Stoning of Soraya M. is cheap and degrading and it stinks from here to Tehran. Meanwhile, Cheri is an insubstantial bit of fluff.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
06-24-2009 |
Reviews
Rudo y Cursi': Confusion in the Southnew
Rudo y Cursi is not a typical comic buddy flick about the misadventures of two rancheros from the sticks. As conceived by writer-director Carlos Cuaron, the brothers' picaresque story is a sharp social satire of contemporary Mexico, held together by the slapstick glue of their country-boy antics.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
05-13-2009 |
Reviews
'Absurdistan' is Full of Village Peoplenew
Filmmaker Veit Helmer's dusty, imaginative yarn Absurdistan is a fable so curious even Benjamin Button might hesitate to tell it.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
02-18-2009 |
Reviews
Tags: Absurdistan, Veit Helmer
Jean-Pierre Gorin and the Art of the Essay Filmnew
UC San Diego film professor Jean-Pierre Gorin claims that the "unruly" version of the essay film on display in his collection "flirts with genres" but "attaches itself to none" in true Gerber termite fashion.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
01-23-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Slumdog Millionaire' is One of the Best Films of the Yearnew
At first glance just another Third World children-of-the-slums weepie, it transcends the limitations of that slender genre in leaps and bounds.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
11-12-2008 |
Reviews
