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'House of Cards': Netflix and the Reinvention of TVnew
A skeleton unearthed beneath a parking lot in Leicester is, according to DNA analysis, the physical remains of Richard III, the Plantagenet king vilified by William Shakespeare.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
02-13-2013 |
TV
Tags: David Fincher, House of Cards
Marion Cotillard shines on trite 'Rust and Bone'new
For most of Rust and Bone, Marion Cotillard plays a legless woman. Though the corporeal deficiency is a hardship for the character, Stéphanie, an orca trainer whose limbs are amputated after she is attacked by a whale, it is a boon to the actor.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
01-16-2013 |
Movies
'Ebenazio' is Jump-Start's comical gift of the seasonnew
Three things that no sane adult would want to go near throughout this season of institutionalized jollity: a shopping mall, a bowl game, and A Christmas Carol. "Bah, tonterías," says Ebenezer Scrooge in a Spanish translation of his derisive dismissal of Yuletide sentimentality.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
12-05-2012 |
Theater
Frisch's 'Firebugs' offers clarion call about fundamentalists in Iran and the U.S.new
Swiss playwright Max Frisch subtitled The Firebugs, a 1953 radio play that was adapted to the stage in 1958, A Learning-Play Without a Lesson.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
10-26-2012 |
Performance
Tags: Max Frisch
'Wolf' gnaws over sexual predators in church, but fails to tackle the hardest questionsnew
The drama of a dutiful boy abused in church, Wolf was written and directed by a local kid who made good.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
08-02-2012 |
Reviews
'Bent' plumbs Nazi Germany's pink triangulationnew
In 1979, when Bent premiered in a London production starring Ian McKellen, homosexuality was still actively persecuted and prosecuted as a sin and crime.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
07-29-2012 |
Performance
Woody Allen’s Italian midsummer night's sex comedy finishes firstnew
Woody Allen, who once declared, “I am at two with nature,” is smitten with great cities. New York is his first and enduring love, but in recent years he has also flirted with London (Match Point), Barcelona (Vicki Cristina Barcelona), and Paris (Midnight in Paris).
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
07-16-2012 |
Reviews
Woody Allen’s Italian midsummer night's sex comedynew
Woody Allen, who once declared, “I am at two with nature,” is smitten with great cities.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
07-03-2012 |
TV
'Wings': Made-in-SA Academy Award winner still thrillsnew
The same qualities that sent movie moguls to southern California in the second decade of the 20th century — plentiful sunshine, cheap land and labor, varied landscapes — also made South Texas a promising mecca for cinema.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
05-28-2012 |
Reviews
'In Darkness' finds humanity plumbing the sewers of Lvovnew
The darkness that pervades Agnieszka Holland's new film is figurative and physical. In Darkness (nominated to a Best Foreign Film Oscar) begins with a bungled burglary attempted under cover of night.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
04-02-2012 |
Reviews
Foreign film in San Antonio suffers for 'Ramboville' mindsetnew
In San Antonio, it is easy to find an Audi, a glass of Chianti, and a slice of Camembert. But if you seek imported cinema, you are better off in smaller municipalities — Austin, Boulder, Portland — than the seventh largest city of the United States.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
02-09-2012 |
Movies
Film Review: War Horsenew
Horses came galloping across the screen in the very first narrative film, The Great Train Robbery (1903), and it was a horse that Eadweard Muybridge photographed in the 1880s in still frames that, strung together, pioneered the illusion of motion pictures.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
12-23-2011 |
Reviews
Hazanavicius’ ode to cinema is a colorful story in black and whitenew
Disturbed that their marriage is falling apart, Doris Valentin (Penelope Ann Miller) says to her husband, “We have to talk, George.” However, George (Jean Dujardin) cannot talk, not merely because he is a defective spouse or even because he is a star of the silent screen; George does not speak to Doris, or anyone else, because he lives within a zestfully endearing silent movie.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
12-22-2011 |
Reviews
The Skin I Live In (La Piel que Habito)new
"At age 50," wrote George Orwell, "every man has the face he deserves." But what if a man — or woman — of any age is forced to undergo plastic surgery?
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
11-17-2011 |
Reviews
Paranoid Visions of the Apocalypsenew
Fresh rain oozing with yellow oil, dead birds plummeting from the sky, and the sudden apparition of a tornado funnel on a sunshiny day — Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) is haunted by visions that point either to imminent disaster or else to incipient mental illness. "Is anyone seeing this?"
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
11-10-2011 |
Reviews
