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Chilling docudrama 'The Imposter' plumbs the depths of the human psychenew
Stare deep into the eyes of French-Algerian criminal Frédéric Bourdin and it is evident he has no conscience.
San Antonio Current |
Kiki Martinez |
08-16-2012 |
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'Ruby Sparks' fizzles behind Zoe Kazan's tweepulsive screenplaynew
Vanity Fair had the right idea late last year when it started recapping episodes of the comedy series New Girl by categorizing each of Zooey Deschanel’s idiosyncrasies as either “adorkable” (a personality trait described as dorky and adorable) or “tweepulsive” (the same trait, but at a more cloying level).
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
08-16-2012 |
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An extremely up-close encounter with Neil Youngnew
Neil Young Journeys completes director Jonathan Demme's trilogy of concert films centered on Neil Young. While 2006's Neil Young: Heart of Gold featured Young in Nashville returning from a bout with an aneurysm, and 2009's Neil Young Trunk Show featured concert footage in Pennsylvania during the Chrome Dreams II tour, Journeys, a solo performance by Young, is the most personal yet experimental of the three.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
08-10-2012 |
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'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 |
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Good intentions can’t salvage Tyler’s Gift as cliché melodramanew
There's no denying the strength and courage local actor John Lambert and son Johnny must've summoned to star in the short film Tyler's Gift.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
07-29-2012 |
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'Beasts of the Southern Wild' is both highly personal and massive in scopenew
Vegan aspiring photographers beware: Film is actually made of once-living material—mashed-up bone, flattened, and rolled up in strips.
San Antonio Current |
Erin Gleeson |
07-29-2012 |
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‘Amazing’ Spider-Man devolves to merely average in this unnecessary rebootnew
With the first three Spider-Man movies raking in almost $2.5 billion worldwide at the box office from 2002 to 2007, there was no way Marvel Studios and Columbia Pictures were going to allow the franchise to fade away just because their lead actor and director didn’t want to return for a fourth go-’round.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
07-16-2012 |
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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 |
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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 |
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'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 |
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The Beginning of the AIDS Crisisnew
It isn't often that those on the front lines of war or disaster survive to tell their story.
San Antonio Current |
Gregg Barrios |
06-14-2012 |
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Tags: We Were Here, David Weissman
'Undefeated' not groundbreaking, but still inspirationalnew
Filmmakers Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin couldn't have hoped for a better underdog football story to track when they turned on their cameras to shoot a single season at Manassas High School in North Memphis, Tennessee, in 2004.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
05-28-2012 |
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'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 |
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'Dark Shadows' on losing end of newest Tim Burton, Johnny Depp collaborationnew
No matter if your family is as wholesome as the Cleavers from Leave it to Beaver or weirdly eccentric a la the Addams Family — kin, for better or worse, is eternal.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
05-18-2012 |
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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 |
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Tags: Larry Charles, The Dictator
