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Despite likeable lead, 'Girl in Progress' retreats into formulaic coming-of-age flopnew
t's a term every high school freshman English class has covered since teachers started passing out copies of The Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
05-11-2012 |
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'Damsels in Distress' has its heart (and ear) in the right placenew
Fourteen years after his last film, The Last Days of Disco, writer-director Whit Stillman reclaims his status as perennial contender to the Tarantino of the Upper Classes title. Sure, Damsels in Distress has no violence and very little sex...
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
05-11-2012 |
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Satisfying geekdom's love affair with 'The Avengers'new
It happens in the second half of the highly-anticipated Marvel comic-book movie The Avengers, a precisely planned superhero assemblage that has been culminating since 2008's release of both Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk reboot
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
05-08-2012 |
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Why the foot-furious musical Singin' in the Rain still demands attentionnew
In 1927, The Jazz Singer burst into the Hollywood silent-film scene, breaking the sound barrier and trumpeting doom and gloom for mute motion pictures everywhere.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
05-03-2012 |
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A father and son duke it out in 'Footnote'new
Two men sit side-by-side in the front row of a throng of people, listening to the introduction of one Professor Shkolnik, who is being accepted into the National Israel Academy of Sciences.
San Antonio Current |
Erin Gleeson |
04-26-2012 |
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'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 |
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Bully is worth watching, but lacks one thing — bulliesnew
It was the end of the line in my search for the kid who, during my sixth-grade year, made gym a class I feared every day.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
04-20-2012 |
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'Coriolanus' is a captivating, timely directorial debut by Ralph Fiennesnew
Social and economic inequality set the cinematic stage in Coriolanus, a highly-inspired adaptation of William Shakespeare's early 17th century play, which, in many ways, parallels the protest movement against governmental power tripping that began in New York City late last year and has since spread across the U.S.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
04-05-2012 |
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'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 |
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In 'Hunger Games,' Jennifer Lawrence heads a winning YA franchisenew
Now that the Harry Potter series has wrapped and the Twilight saga lurches toward its final installment, The Hunger Games has swooped in as a sort of allegorical palate-cleanser, a post-apocalyptic showcase for a much needed breath of fresh air in the form of Katniss Everdeen, a YA hero who’s actually a young adult.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
03-31-2012 |
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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 |
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'21 Jump Street' sidesteps nostalgia for fresh take on buddy cop comedynew
Considering the handful of '80s TV shows adapted into films over the last decade, it's impossible not to dread the idea of Manimal or Magnum P.I. finding their way to the big screen anytime soon.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
03-18-2012 |
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Wim Wenders shows but doesn't tell in 'Pina'new
Director Wim Wenders was not at all interested in dance before a girlfriend dragged him to see Cafe Müller and Le Sacre du Printemps by German avant-garde choreographer Pina Bausch.
San Antonio Current |
Pamela Zoslov |
03-08-2012 |
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Girl in a Coma's documentary 'Jammin'' shows their early yearsnew
Since 2006's Jammin', a TV documentary of the early years of Girl in a Coma, the band's circumstances have changed a bit.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
02-27-2012 |
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Tags: Jammin', Jim Mendiola
'This Means War' has a perfectly likeable cast, delivers an anorexic action-comedynew
Chris Pine (of J.J. Abrams' Star Trek reboot) and Tom Hardy (Inception, Warrior) are two of the most appealing actors working; Pine's charm is one of cocksure swagger and false emotional bravado, a throwback to the Will Smith (one of the film's producers) "look good doing it" model.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
02-27-2012 |
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