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'Prometheus' opens a new world of possibilitiesnew
They're claiming that Prometheus isn't technically a prequel to Alien, despite the same universe and director.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
06-14-2012 |
Reviews
'Madagascar 3': Going through the motionsnew
The Penguins of Madagascar is one of the few TV shows that's better than the movies it's spun off from.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
06-14-2012 |
Reviews
Borat's mastermind takes a more conventional route in 'The Dictator'new
It was only a matter of time before Sacha Baron Cohen would have to retire his style of guerrilla filmmaking. After the success of 2006's Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, and the relative non-success of 2009's Brüno, sneaking up on people with a camera and smacking his genitals on their foreheads wouldn't be as easy as it once was for Cohen, especially now that a sizable portion of the population knows his face, among other parts of his body.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
05-16-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Larry Charles, The Dictator
'Buffy' and 'Lost' alum dick around with horror clichésnew
If its geek pedigree isn't enough to tip you off that The Cabin in the Woods isn't your typical slasher movie, it should become clear within the first few minutes that co-writers Drew Goddard (who also directs) and Joss Whedon have something else in mind for their pre-apocalyptic twist on The Evil Dead.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
04-20-2012 |
Reviews
Why 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' demands our attentionnew
t's every parent's worst nightmare and it's something Eva Khatchadourian (Tilda Swinton) knows from the start...
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
03-26-2012 |
Reviews
The Little Willies: For the Good Timesnew
The second album by Norah Jones' twangy side project formed in 2003 bears all the markings of a full-time artist playing around with part-time sounds.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
01-19-2012 |
Reviews
Ray Charles: Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singlesnew
Even though his most influential and celebrated work was recorded for Atlantic a decade earlier, Ray Charles' tenure with ABC Records in the 1960s and early '70s yielded some terrific material
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
12-30-2011 |
Reviews
The Rolling Stones: Some Girlsnew
The Rolling Stones' last perfect album arrived at a crossroads for the band. They were coming off a string of disappointing albums in the wake of Exile on Main St., their greatest achievement, and, in a turn of the tides lost on no one, disco had replaced rock 'n' roll on the radio in the summer of 1978.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
11-30-2011 |
Reviews
'Sideways' director dumps a mess of problems on George Clooneynew
Alexander Payne has this thing for mid-life crises. Whether pitting an exasperated high-school teacher against a scheming overachiever in his 1999 breakthrough Election, or dropping Jack Nicholson and a naked Kathy Bates in a hot tub for About Schmidt, or setting a pair of wine snobs loose in his last movie, 2004's Sideways, the writer-director doesn't see people in their 40s as well-adjusted men and women contributing to society.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
11-28-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Sizing up the 20th Century with the Cross-dressing Head of the FBInew
It's no secret these days that J. Edgar Hoover was a real bastard. But back in the day he was a paragon of American idealism and fortitude.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
11-17-2011 |
Reviews
Film Review: The Ides of Marchnew
As a writer-director, George Clooney pushes all the hot buttons. In Good Night, and Good Luck it was the media; in The Ides of March it’s politics.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
10-12-2011 |
Reviews
Bad Teachernew
Bad Teacher’s one joke is right there in the title.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
06-29-2011 |
Reviews
"Battle: Los Angeles" Review Causes a Commenting Stirnew
Why are hostile aliens from outer space so attracted to Los Angeles? They blew the fuck out of California in last year’s Skyline, and in Battle: Los Angeles we really don’t even get a reason for their invasion (it may have something to do with water).
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
03-29-2011 |
Reviews
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals: "III/IV"new
Unlike the laid back, singer-songwriter exercise Easy Tiger, most of III/IV’s songs turn up the volume and swerve into post-punk and classic-rock territories.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
01-14-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Ryan Adams
