AltWeeklies Wire
Goony, Giddy, and Insecure: a Masterful Christopher Plummer Comes Outnew
Christopher Plummer is glorious.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
07-15-2011 |
Reviews
Why the Work of Efraín Gutiérrez Will Never Disappearnew
It’s easy to dismiss the films of Efraín Gutiérrez. His movies are rough, unpolished, and lacking those things cinema experts consider, well, good. If Ed Wood was “the worst director of all time,” you can almost say Gutiérrez is a Chicano Ed Wood with a political conscience — bad acting, weak writing, and lousy camera work. Gutiérrez knows it, but he smiles and takes no offense.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
07-15-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Good Cops, Badder Copsnew
This week we profile two forgotten films that both depict corruption within American law enforcement.
San Antonio Current |
Mark Jones |
07-14-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Border Cop, Christopher Leitch
Critick’s Pick: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2new
Whether Harry Potter’s increased maturity over the last decade is most evident in the fearlessness he summons within himself in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
07-14-2011 |
Reviews
The Real Lives Lost in Today’s Immigration Debatenew
Mexico City-born actor Demián Bichir laughs a bit as he gives his analysis on the current state of U.S. immigration legislation and the suggestion by some people that the government should find a way to send 11 million undocumented Mexicans back across the border.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
07-08-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Chris Weitz, A Better Life
Best Thing About Latest Transformers Is That It Should Be the Lastnew
Textbooks be damned. The use of alternative histories has been such a go-to fad in cinematic curriculum recently that no one should be surprised if impressionable movie-going kids really start believing vigilante superheroes helped earn America a victory in Vietnam (Watchmen) or that young mutants saved the country from nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis (X-Men: First Class).
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
06-29-2011 |
Reviews
Bad Teachernew
Bad Teacher’s one joke is right there in the title.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
06-29-2011 |
Reviews
Cars 2new
After 16 years of smooth sailing down a highway of animation bliss, the check engine light is officially blinking at Disney/Pixar with their newest feature film Cars 2.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
06-29-2011 |
Reviews
Ozploitation in the Outbacknew
Does anyone really think of Mel Gibson as being Australian at this point, or is he just a talented and offensive Hollywood madman with extremely bad taste?
San Antonio Current |
Mark Jones |
06-29-2011 |
Reviews
Pretentiousness the True Leading Role in The Art of Getting Bynew
While one could argue about where the line between brilliance and bullshit starts to blur with films like Richard Linklater’s 2001 mindbender Waking Life, Darren Aronofsky’s 2006 mystical sci-fi drama The Fountain, or anything from the conceptual mind of director Terrence Malick, the creative weight they carry should be considered when deciding whether you ultimately deem the work profound or phony.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
06-20-2011 |
Reviews
A Scorching Odyssey of Death and Rebirthnew
The opening sequence in Incendies is a stunning piece of poetic filmmaking: A desert in the Middle East framed in the window of a barracks where a dozen young Muslim conscripts readied for combat are having their heads shaved. Radiohead’s haunting “You and Whose Army?” quietly plays as the camera zooms in on a child soldier who refuses to blink.
San Antonio Current |
Gregg Barrios |
06-20-2011 |
Reviews
J.J. Abrams Aims High With Super 8, and Nearly Arrivesnew
As much as filmmaker J.J. Abrams (Star Trek) would have liked for his nostalgic sci-fi Super 8 to convey as much enchantment as a Steven Spielberg-directed masterpiece like E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial or Close Encounters of the Third Kind, it doesn’t quite reach that ambitious goal.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
06-20-2011 |
Reviews
Mexican Journalists Chronicle Lives of Two Who Died at San Fernando Slaughternew
The small town of San Fernando, situated just 90 miles south of Brownsville in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, emerged as a symbol of the ferocious drug war gripping Mexico in late August 2010 when authorities stumbled upon the bodies of 72 South- and Central-American immigrants who had been bound, blindfolded, and methodically executed by gunmen on the outskirts of an abandoned ranch.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
06-09-2011 |
Movies
Woody Allen Tries Paris, and It Tastes goodnew
Allen revisits the droll premise of A Twenties Memory with Midnight in Paris, an unremittingly delightful demonstration that the past is never past or even what we think it was.
San Antonio Current |
Steven Kellman |
06-09-2011 |
Reviews
Interview: Actor Michael Peña Talks ‘Lincoln Lawyer’new
Taking about a year and a half off from making movies after his first child was born at the end of 2008, actor and Chicago native Michael Peña, 35, is getting back into the swing of things.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
03-29-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Peña
