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Boys Will Be Boysnew
The adventures of a fascist (My Brother Is an Only Child) and a professional poker player (Deal). Choose the fascist.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
04-23-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: crime, poker, Drama, Deal, Angela Finocchiaro, Anna Bonaiuto, Bret Harrison, Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, Daniele Luchetti, Elio Germano, facists, Gary Grubbs, Gil Cates Jr., Italy, Jennifer Tilly, Luca Zingaretti, Maria Mason, Massimo Popolizio, My Brother is an Only Child, Riccardo Scamarcio, Shannon Elizabeth
What We Like About the Southnew
South of France, South of Arkansas. What's the difference? Shotgun Stories and Priceless sort it all out.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
04-03-2008 |
Reviews
Asses and Diamondsnew
Supporting actors steal the show in both the frantic comedy Run Fatboy Run and the sour heist pic Flawless.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
03-27-2008 |
Reviews
Once Upon a Time in the Southwestnew
In The Hammer and Under the Same Moon, a middle-aged boxer and an illegal immigrant kid burn up Arizona highways and LA streets.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
03-20-2008 |
Reviews
'CJ7': Space Puppy Lovenew
Fluffy extraterrestrial pooch helps poor-but-honest kid succeed on Earth.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
03-05-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: CJ7, Stephen Chow
'The Counterfeiters' & 'Chicago 10': Vintage Violencenew
Bad old days -- the Holocaust and Vietnam war protests -- are revisited with fresh eyes.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
02-28-2008 |
Reviews
'Charlie Bartlett' & 'Vantage Point': Illusions of Powernew
Drug-dealing student quickly conquers high school. World peace might take slightly longer.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
02-20-2008 |
Reviews
New Documentary Reveals American Torture Practicesnew
With a title like this we might expect a horror movie. At times, Alex Gibney's hard-hitting, often stomach-churning documentary Taxi to the Dark Side does indeed resemble entertainment aimed at adolescent males looking for vicarious-brutality thrills.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
02-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Alex Gibney, Taxi to the Dark Side
Deadly in Pinknew
Teeth's biting satiric gore meets the Brazilian kitchen sink drudgery of Alice's House.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
Trouble All Overnew
The horrors of war in Nanking are so overpowering they make the revolutionary Iran of Persepolis seem inconsequential.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
01-09-2008 |
Reviews
'There Will Be Blood' Falls Down its Own Wellnew
We're variously reminded of Greed, Citizen Kane, Days of Heaven, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and even Werner Herzog's oil-fire documentary, Lessons of Darkness -- all better movies on similar themes.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
01-02-2008 |
Reviews
Why is a Paralyzed Editor Like a Hawkish Congressman?new
Take The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to Charlie Wilson's War and find out.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
12-19-2007 |
Reviews
Silk Road Detoursnew
From Afghanistan's blasted terrain (The Kite Runner) to the tea fields of China (All in This Tea) at the movies -- two trips well worth taking.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
12-12-2007 |
Reviews
People Who Need Peoplenew
Are the most fucked-up people in the world. Take it from Noah Baumbach and Kurt Cobain.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
11-28-2007 |
Reviews
Disasters of Warnew
Brian De Palma's Redacted protests the Iraq war while Darfur Now offers hope in the midst of genocide.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
11-15-2007 |
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