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Sorry, Haters: 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' is Funnynew
I didn't really start wholeheartedly imbibing the Apatow Kool-Aid until Knocked Up, but now, having taken in the Apatow-produced Forgetting Sarah Marshall, I don't expect to find myself having second thoughts about trying anything these guys put out for quite some time.
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
04-16-2008 |
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'Married Life' Gets Dark Laughsnew
It always pains me to use the word tandem "chamber drama," but there you have it.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
04-02-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Ira Sachs, Married Life
Reality Bytesnew
Director-editor Juan Carlos Pineiro
Escoriaza's Second Skin attempts to humanize Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing gamers who spend a significant portion of their lives hiding behind an avatar and handle.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
03-19-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Juan Carlos Pineiro, Second Skin
Mugging for the Cameranew
You have to wonder: Why an American shot-for-shot remake of Funny Games, Michael Haneke's decade-old Austrian film now?
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
03-12-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Funny Games, Michael Haneke
Band in Israel Banned in Egyptnew
Cultural exchanges do not always make the noise generated by the New York Philharmonic's recent visit to North Korea.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
03-05-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Eran Kolirin, The Band's Visit
Of Analogies and Alpha Dogsnew
Charlie Bartlett, fittingly, feels like a first film. It's flecked throughout with a decent store of genuine laughs and sweet, budding-romance moments, but these are offset too frequently by painfully conventional bits and notably odd directorial choices.
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
02-20-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Charlie Bartlett, John Poll
Love Me Two Times, Babynew
Add a generous dose of slapstick to 2005's Into the Blue and you have Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey's latest venture, Fool's Gold.
San Antonio Current |
Cynthia Hawkins |
02-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Andy Tennant, Fool's Gold
Lock Me Up, I Did Not Hate '27 Dresses'new
If you listen very closely, you can hear my editor snickering somewhere.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
01-16-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: 27 Dresses, Anne Fletcher
'I Am Legend': Not a Classicnew
There's a sizeable early-to-middle stretch in the decidedly post-apocalyptic flick that drew this viewer involuntarily (and more than once) to his seat-edge and managed to hold him more palpably rapt than a great many ostensibly comparable films of recent years.
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
12-12-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Francis Lawrence, I Am Legend
Only a Director's Mother Could Love 'Mama's Boy'new
It's easy to imagine that screenwriter Hank Nelken conceived Mama's Boy while reading a magazine article reporting on the full-nest syndrome -- the increasing tendency for grownup children to continue residing with their parents. It is too depressing to contemplate the possibility that anyone had artistic ambitions for this irksome fluff.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
12-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Mama's Boy, Tim Hamilton
'Romance and Cigs': Lewder, Smarter Than the Average Musicalnew
The atmosphere is just surreal enough for songs from Engelbert Humperdinck, Tom Jones, and Connie Francis to be worked in organically, and, as the cast members aren't singers, per se, their voices are often featured along with the original musical numbers, creating a sing-along kind of purity.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
11-28-2007 |
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Zemeckis, Computers: 1; Critic: 0new
Boy, was I prepared to hate the sword-and-sandals out of this movie.
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
11-21-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Beowulf, Robert Zemeckis
'Enchanted' is the Blandest of Them Allnew
It would be a sight quicker -- and doubtless more gracious as well -- to discuss what generally works in Disney's Enchanted than to dwell on all that doesn't.
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
11-21-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Enchanted, Kevin Lima
Uncle Brian's Turkey-Day Bashnew
A guide to nine of the biggest "turkeys" American cinema has to offer, and an answer to the awake-at-night question, "Is Ishtar really all that terrible?"
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
11-21-2007 |
Reviews
Dud 'in the Time of Cholera'new
Someone do us a favor and stop assigning director Mike Newell (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) to beloved book adaptations.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
11-14-2007 |
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