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Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez travel El Camino de Santiago in The Waynew
My son is in a class by himself,” actor Martin Sheen (Apocalypse Now, TV’s The West Wing) told the Current during a phone interview when asked how his son, Emilio Estevez, compares to some of the great directors he has worked with during his 50-year career
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
10-26-2011 |
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Prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 Classic Gets Away with Murdernew
Is there a reason to remake good films beyond the obvious temptation to cash in on a great title? For artistry’s sake, it’s certainly better to remake good ideas marred by bad acting, writing, or directing, than trying to imitate what’s been done before, and better.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
10-20-2011 |
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Revamped Footloose is a Rebel with a Dancin’ Causenew
So this is a question I know you’ve asked yourself time and time again: How can they remake an ’80s pop culture classic like Footloose? What’s next? A CGI Back to the Future remake starring Zac Efron? I’m hoping not in my lifetime.
San Antonio Current |
Veronica Salinas |
10-20-2011 |
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Tucker & Dale's Comedy of (Very Bloody) Errorsnew
The winner of 2010’s South By Southwest Audience Award, and a hit at Sundance’s Midnight category, Canada’s Tucker & Dale vs. Evil is the type of film that critics love to ignore.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
10-20-2011 |
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Daniel Maldonado’s textbook zombie flick passable for a first featurenew
If George A. Romero only knew how hard it was for zombie prey to run through dry South Texas monte, he might’ve moved some of his classic horror films away from rural Pennsylvania and into the Lone Star State for a little extra bloodshed. You can’t sprint very fast when you’ve got mesquite thorns caught in your boot.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
10-17-2011 |
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Film Review: The Ides of Marchnew
As a writer-director, George Clooney pushes all the hot buttons. In Good Night, and Good Luck it was the media; in The Ides of March it’s politics.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
10-12-2011 |
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Film Review: Sennanew
You might already be burned out on movies about automobiles, what with Transformers 3, Cars 2, and Drive, among others. Forget all those. There is only one truly essential movie this year about the relationship between man and machine, and that's Senna.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Morrison |
10-12-2011 |
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Film review: Real Steelnew
Its metaphors are shallow and its plot predictable, but Real Steel is still fun in a fighting-robots-movie kinda way.
San Antonio Current |
Ben Gifford |
10-12-2011 |
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Living in the Material World, Scorsese’s Tribute to George Harrisonnew
When you tick off George Harrison’s achievements, those successes seem impressive enough
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
10-06-2011 |
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Amateur Hournew
Under the “Basic Information” section of Johnny Luna’s Facebook page, I can only assume the San Antonio filmmaker is being facetious when he describes himself as a “comedian, locksmith, husband, father, musician, film maker [sic]” and then goes on to admit he “suck[s] at all of them.”
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
10-06-2011 |
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Critic’s Diss: Restlessnew
Morose loner (newcomer Henry Hopper, son of Dennis) who likes to attend funerals and converse with his imaginary WWII kamikaze pilot ghost friend, meets quirky, terminally ill girl (The Kids Are All Right’s Mia Wasikowska) in director Gus Van Sant’s latest, which is just as relentlessly whimsical and calculated as it sounds.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
10-06-2011 |
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Higher Ground: Vera Farmiga Shines in Spirited Directorial Debutnew
Based on the novel This Dark World: A Memoir of Salvation Found and Lost by Carolyn S. Briggs (who also co-wrote the script), Higher Ground is the unusual type of screen gem that will both piss off and captivate religious freaks and non-believers alike.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
10-06-2011 |
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The Buddy Comedy Gets a Shot in the Armnew
“You just have to laugh, so you won’t cry.” This sentiment, often expressed in the face of tragedy (and many tragicomic movies), is the driving force behind 50/50, the new film from the creators of Superbad starring Joseph Gordon-Leavitt and Seth Rogen.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Morrison |
10-06-2011 |
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'Crime After Crime' Chronicles One Battered Woman's Struggle for Freedomnew
Debbie Peagler has been in prison for the past 27 years for the first-degree murder of her boyfriend Oliver Wilson, a man who forced her into prostitution while she was a teenager, a man who beat her and then molested their children.
San Antonio Current |
Veronica Salinas |
09-29-2011 |
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The Buddy Comedy Gets a Shot in the Armnew
“You just have to laugh, so you won’t cry.” This sentiment, often expressed in the face of tragedy (and many tragicomic movies), is the driving force behind 50/50, the new film from the creators of Superbad starring Joseph Gordon-Leavitt and Seth Rogen.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Morrison |
09-28-2011 |
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