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Playing Dress-Upnew
This new seriesis a wish-fulfillment fantasy for ordinary teen girls who think they just might wind up in the glamorous fashion industry one day.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
12-30-2011 |
TV
Tags: Jane By Design
Grifter vs. Grifternew
Leverage is Mission: Impossible with a sense of humor about itself. In every episode, Timothy Hutton’s gang of thieves and hackers pull off a difficult task to help some underdog. They also pull off the difficult task of entertaining us, making it look easy.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
12-22-2011 |
TV
I Scream, You Scream… We all Scream over Stephen King's 'Bag of Bones'new
The miniseries wastes no time scaring you to death. With horror movies I can usually keep my wits about me at least through the credit sequence, but not this time, thanks to merciless music, editing, and imagery.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
12-08-2011 |
TV
The Kids Are All Wrongnew
It’s hard to believe that Fox, the same network that premiered New Girl this fall, now gives us I Hate My Teenage Daughter.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
12-02-2011 |
TV
Kim Kardashian Karries Onnew
I got caught up in the excitement of Kim Kardashian’s whirlwind romance with basketball player Kris Humphries, which played out on Keeping Up With the Kardashians.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
11-22-2011 |
TV
The Horrible and the Miserablenew
More than a decade after the disappointing Wild Man Blues, American Masters gives Woody Allen the documentary he deserves.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
11-17-2011 |
TV
'Frasier' Gets Creepynew
I never thought I’d be scared of Kelsey Grammer. The genial sitcom comedian is cast against type in this well-written new series about hardball politics set in Chicago.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
11-10-2011 |
TV
Reasons to Watch the Scariest Films You’ve Never Seennew
Halloween, outside of being the one time of the year you can show up to work dressed like a cat and take out your office aggression through competitive pumpkin carving, affords the opportunity to watch disturbing and/or outright revolting movies and not seem like a sociopath.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
10-27-2011 |
TV
Man vs. Beastnew
Truth be told, the title American Hoggers didn’t fill me with anticipation for this new reality series. But it turns out to be a fascinating look at boar hunters in Texas, where the feral beasts are terrorizing landowners.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
10-26-2011 |
TV
All Hail Pearl Jamnew
The grunge band is immortalized in a Cameron Crowe documentary.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
10-19-2011 |
TV
Delivering the Malenew
I usually wince when a network sitcom panders to the 18-49 male demographic (see this year’s Last Man Standing, last year’s Traffic Lights). But the new Man Up hits this demographic where it hurts. It’s a brilliant satire of male pretension and pride, so painfully on target that it might drive away the very viewers it seeks to attract.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
10-12-2011 |
TV
Laura Dern Finds Intermittent Serenity in Enlightenednew
Laura Dern joins the list of brilliant actresses (Edie Falco, Laura Linney, Toni Collette) who have made cable TV an exciting place to be.
San Antonio Current |
Sa Current News Team |
10-06-2011 |
TV
Primal Scream: Things to Watch (or Avoid) Before Killing Your TVnew
Suburgatory runs roughshod through the suburbs, laying waste to the malls and manicured lawns. This new satire stars Jane Levy as Tessa, a Greenwich Village wild child whose dad moves her to suburban hell for a supposedly more wholesome life.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
09-29-2011 |
TV
War Stories De La Razanew
The unwavering pride of Chicano Vietnam War veterans is epitomized during a scene in San Antonio director Laura Varela’s documentary As Long As I Remember: American Veteranos when Juan Farías, one of the three vets featured in the film, displays genuine frustration when a fallen comrade’s name is mispronounced during a ceremony at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
09-14-2011 |
TV
HBO's 'Hung' Mines Human Emotion from a Big, Purple Veinnew
Hung questions one of the most basic assumptions of manhood by suggesting that maybe all life's problems aren't solved by having a giant dick.
San Antonio Current |
Jim McFarlin |
07-29-2009 |
TV
