Sacramento News & Review

'Snow Angels': Winter Sunderlandnew

Filmmaker David Gordon Green gets out of his comfort zone -- and goes a little numb.

Sacramento News & Review | Jonathan Kiefer | 04-04-2008 | Reviews

Tags: David Gordon Green, Snow Angels

Board Gamesnew

Gus Van Sant keeps watching -- and tormenting -- beautiful boys.

Sacramento News & Review | Jonathan Kiefer | 03-20-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Gus Van Sant, Paranoid Park

Grace Notesnew

These must be the gentlest, most sensitive cops in the world.

Sacramento News & Review | Jonathan Kiefer | 03-12-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Eran Kolirin, The Band's Visit

Not Replicant. Repli CAN.new

Ridley Scott's most enduring movie is his least mantastic.

Sacramento News & Review | Jonathan Kiefer | 03-05-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Blade Runner: The Final Cut, Ridley Scott

Range of Agesnew

Coppola comes off like a smart, striving grad student. Young again, you might say.

Sacramento News & Review | Jonathan Kiefer | 02-27-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Francis Ford Coppola, Youth Without Youth

Politically Erectnew

Author Stephen Elliott convenes the randiest sons and daughters of our great republic for some seriously freaky love stories.

Sacramento News & Review | Jonathan Kiefer | 02-21-2008 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Sex for America, Stephen Elliott

Beowulf meets Bram Stoker. Or perhaps Homer writes an epic about a lycanthropically-challenged Corleone family. Either way, Toby Barlow's novel-in-verse about urban werewolves is busting genre every which way, and in the very best way.

Sacramento News & Review | Kel Munger | 02-14-2008 | Fiction

Tags: Sharp Teeth, Toby Barlow, Fiction Reviews

Ruleboy livesnew

Marty Welsh, a local doctor known for living by the rules, is stricken with Lou Gehrig's disease. His sister tells the surprising story of the "new rules" he's come up with.

Sacramento News & Review | Melinda Welsh | 02-07-2008 | Science

Tags: Health & Science