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Witch Girl and Home Boynew
"Beautiful Creatures," the Richard LaGravenese film that sequesters acting giants Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson and Viola Davis into the shadows, is for audiences who can lose themselves in a southern Gothic romance between Happy Home Boy and Hormonal Witch Girl.
Jackson Free Press |
Anita Modak-Truran |
03-01-2013 |
Movies
‘West of Memphis’new
New documentary is an interesting, if unoriginal, retelling of the West Memphis Three story.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeff Meyers |
03-01-2013 |
Reviews
Downed Submarine: Cold War Picture Sinks in the Deep
The cinematic offenses committed by the filmmakers of “Phantom” are varied and many.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
02-25-2013 |
Reviews
Anita's Oscar Picksnew
If movies provide a lens into our cultural soul, what do this year's Academy Award nominees say about the past year?
Jackson Free Press |
Anita Modak-Truran |
02-21-2013 |
Movies
Mysterious Fortunenew
Film based on a controversial book may be the ultimate kids' story about growing up Mexican-American.
Orlando Weekly |
Majorie Baumgarten |
02-21-2013 |
Movies
The Oscars: Politics as usual?new
Will Lincoln win, or will Argo buck history?
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
02-21-2013 |
Movies
Losing to Japan: Kiarostami Falters
...no filmmaker is above making errors of judgment. Kiarostami makes a big one.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
02-18-2013 |
Reviews
Cinematic Wedgienew
Dr. Jonathan Banks (Jude Law) searches for answers for his patient’s ailments with a controversial drug in “Side Effects.”
Jackson Free Press |
Anita Modak-Truran |
02-15-2013 |
Movies
'Beautiful Creatures' embraces "classic stupidity"new
There is exactly one fascinating line of dialog in writer-director Richard LaGravenese's faux gothic Beautiful Creatures.
San Antonio Current |
Jeff Meyers |
02-13-2013 |
Reviews
Michael Haneke's 'Amour' holds a mirror to Death's harrowing facenew
In Michael Haneke's Amour, Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) are an affectionate elderly French couple enjoying their twilight years in comfort.
San Antonio Current |
Jeff Meyers |
02-13-2013 |
Reviews
'House of Cards': Netflix and the Reinvention of TVnew
A skeleton unearthed beneath a parking lot in Leicester is, according to DNA analysis, the physical remains of Richard III, the Plantagenet king vilified by William Shakespeare.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
02-13-2013 |
TV
Tags: David Fincher, House of Cards
Breaking Soap — Southern Gothic Teen Romance Goes Camp
An imaginative adolescent gothic romance, “Beautiful Creatures” arrives with considerably more camp and intellectual humor than the “Twilight” franchise to which “Creatures” is sure to be compared.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
02-11-2013 |
Reviews
Agit-Flop: Pablo Larrain’s Pinochet Trilogy Loses Substance
Gael Garcia Bernal’s television adman-turned-political-commercial-creator Rene Saavedra is such an ethically ambiguous and passive protagonist that “No” falls flat as a piece of wannabe agitprop cinema.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
02-11-2013 |
Reviews
Tags: No
Vindicating Charlie Sheen: It Still Hasn’t Happened
Roman Coppola’s '70s-era scattershot comic apologia for Charlie Sheen’s sins of womanizing and drug abuse has a train-wreck appeal that makes it moderately interesting to look at —i.e., a snapshot of our times as seen through a retro view.
City Pulse |
By Cole Smithey |
02-11-2013 |
Reviews
From Boise to Kabul to the Oscarsnew
“Honestly, one of our goals was to make something that could win an Academy Award.”
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
02-07-2013 |
Movies
