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The Western Holy Grailnew
Can the Coens improve upon "True Grit?"
San Antonio Current |
Stephen Graham Jones |
12-27-2010 |
Reviews
Love Does Timenew
Jim Carrey's big, gay moment finally arrives in "I Love You Phillip Morris."
San Antonio Current |
Gregg Barrios |
12-22-2010 |
Reviews
Critic's diss: Yogi Bearnew
Yogi can still refer to himself as “smarter than the average bear” if he’d like, but his movie hardly supports the self-description.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
12-17-2010 |
Reviews
The Hope And Burden Of Dreamsnew
Two absolutely compelling documentaries about the insane lengths traveled for artistic creation.
San Antonio Current |
Mark Jones |
12-16-2010 |
Movies
Tags: Man on a Wire, Burden of Dreams
Float Double, Swan and Shadownew
Aronofsky’s 'Black Swan' is anything but black and white.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
12-15-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
'The Runaways': Rock 'n' Roll Herstorynew
Floria Sigismondi has composed an artfully condensed cinematic snapshot that mercifully avoids most of the pitfalls of the celebrity biopic.
San Antonio Current |
Sarah Fisch |
04-07-2010 |
Reviews
Death by Inches: Why Eric Fonseca’s Film Won’t Bring Down the Housenew
The house of Eric Fonseca, the auteur behind the latest stop-motion-animation adaptation of Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher is in no way gloomy or in ill-repair. It’s just another house on a typical Southwest San Antonio street.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
03-10-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Extraordinary Measures' a Dependable but Unflashy Ridenew
The picture’s most revelatory aspect, for me, was its introduction of the affliction at its crux: Pompe disease. I’d never heard of it, and now probably won’t soon forget it.
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
01-20-2010 |
Reviews
Reduce, Reuse, 'Revolt': Michael Cera's New Flicknew
As Sinatra-loving, foreign-film-renting Oakland high-school student Nick Twisp, Michael Cera’s having his usual troubles getting laid, or for that matter even interacting normally with girls or dudes his own age.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
01-06-2010 |
Reviews
Disney's First African-American Princess is a Modern Galnew
The Princess and the Frog begins and ends with a good story. A dynamic 19-year old African-American woman dreams of owning her own restaurant. Turned into a frog with a kiss, she’s drawn into a funny adventure, twisting and turning through Louisiana’s bayous in a quest to become human again.
San Antonio Current |
Melissa Tarun |
12-16-2009 |
Reviews
The Americanized 'Astro Boy' is an Illogical Messnew
Actually it's all pretty lame, and not helped at all by the ridiculous dialogue and voice work, featuring several name actors (Sutherland, Bell, Theron) delivering their lines with the sort of single-take disinterest generally reserved for rushed bargain-bin-anime overdubs.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
10-21-2009 |
Reviews
'Cloudy' Opts for Offbeat Humor and Smart Characterizationnew
At the very least, parents can depend on Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs to convey vital lessons, like large portions of food can squash you, and monkeys only think about mustaches and Gummi bears.
San Antonio Current |
Cynthia Hawkins |
09-17-2009 |
Reviews
'The Informant!' Takes Soft Approach to Satirenew
Matt Damon packing on layers of doughy flab to play a biochemical whistleblower isn't exactly a formula for comedy gold, but the film is funnier than it has any right to be.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
09-17-2009 |
Reviews
'Inglourious Basterds' is Stylish, Daring and Snappily Writtennew
There were moments of trepidation for me during the early goings of Tarantino's latest. I wasn't sure I wanted to see a sensationalized, Grindhouse take on the events of World War II. And yet, Basterds is quite a bit more than that. It is inventive, surehanded, aggressively original -- and destined to be a classic.
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
08-19-2009 |
Reviews
'In the Loop' is a Dark Satire for Dark Daysnew
Taking his cue from The Office, Armando Iannucci delivers a deliciously corrosive backstage view of the Iraq War years, as Brits and Yanks danced around what they knew was a foregone conclusion of their own making.
San Antonio Current |
Jeff Meyers |
08-12-2009 |
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