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The Biggest Problem With 'Funny Books' is Also the Hardest to Criticizenew
Complaining that this film, which follows the lives of three comic-book-store employees, makes too many geek references is like griping about the gratuitous hardcore sex in Deep Throat.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
08-12-2009 |
Reviews
Tags: Funny Books, James Christopher
'The Girl From Monaco': Trial and Erosnew
To say that writer-director Anne Fontaine's film wanders from genre to genre doesn't exalt her (and Benoit Graffin's) screenplay, but their transparent lift of the trio relationship from Simone de Beauvoir's She Came to Stay is an inspired move.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
07-29-2009 |
Reviews
HBO's 'Hung' Mines Human Emotion from a Big, Purple Veinnew
Hung questions one of the most basic assumptions of manhood by suggesting that maybe all life's problems aren't solved by having a giant dick.
San Antonio Current |
Jim McFarlin |
07-29-2009 |
TV
Two New TV Nurses Snort Percocet, Shutup Coworkers and Rail Against Lunacynew
While the truth of the occupation lies somewhere between these polar extremes, HawthoRNe and Nurse Jackie represent breakthrough television on multiple levels.
San Antonio Current |
Jim McFarlin |
07-22-2009 |
Movies
San Antonio Film Festival Turns 15new
San Antonio Film Festival curator Adam Rocha says he's grown up over the past 15 years, and the festival has, too.
San Antonio Current |
Christine Stanley |
06-24-2009 |
Movies
Michael Keaton Directs Himself in 'The Merry Gentleman'new
If films were punctuation marks, Michael Keaton's most famous vehicle, Batman, would be an exclamation point. But this one is an ellipsis, and it challenges a viewer to imagine what lurks between the dots.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
06-17-2009 |
Reviews
'Outrage' Celebrates the Kiss-and-Tellnew
Kirby Dick's documentary offers a surprisingly in-depth look at D.C.'s secret gayness on the way to its apparent objective: justifying the privacy violations inherent in ejecting the Larry Craigs and Mark Foleys from D.C.'s crowded closet.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
06-10-2009 |
Reviews
'The Soloist' Is As Much About the Power of Music to Transform As It Is About Friendshipnew
You can learn more about the story of mentally ill musical prodigy Nathaniel Ayers in a 12-minute segment of a March 60 Minutes broadcast than in the 109 minutes of The Soloist. But what a wonderful 109 minutes they are.
San Antonio Current |
John Thomason |
04-22-2009 |
Reviews
The Circle Of Inconvenient Half-Truthsnew
Disney's Earth is a stunning spectacle of nature's richness, packaged and delivered without the faintest whiff of corporate deception. But don't worry, it's in there.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
04-22-2009 |
Reviews
Pablo Veliz and Manuel Garcia on Their Locally Shot 'Ghost Town'new
Why film in San Antonio when your gangster picture is set in Houston? It's cheaper, and Veliz, who's shot four other films here, none of which is set in San Antonio, has a reputation with the film commission.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
04-01-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Watchmen' Star Jackie Earle Haley on Rorschach, Living in San Antonio, and Being a Badassnew
While Watchmen director Zack Snyder’s credentials or Matthew Goode’s accent as ubermensch ex-hero Ozymandias provoked staggering amounts of internet bitching, the casting of Jackie Earle Haley generated nothing but fanboy praise, adulation, and high hopes for the adaptation that many decried as impossible.
San Antonio Current |
Chuck Kerr |
03-04-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
What Is Our Fascination with Vampire Love?new
Why, at this particular point in human history, do we require two different movies and a television show (all based on books) about humans who fall in love with vampires. What is it that makes drinking blood (and/or abstaining from garlic) so damn sexy right now?
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
12-03-2008 |
Movies
James Bond's Special-Needs Supervilliansnew
Throughout the years, Bond's enemies have offered inspiration by overcoming physical handicaps.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
11-13-2008 |
Movies
Tags: James Bond, villians
Fanboy Filmmaker Kevin Smith discusses 'Porno' & R2-TBagnew
Smith shakes the haters off with his return to form, Zack and Miri Make a Porno.
San Antonio Current |
Cole Haddon |
10-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Californication': So Freaky David Duchovny Had to Go to Rehabnew
Perception is a strange thing. Despite his narration of Showtime's softcore Red Shoe Diaries series, his recurring roll as a transvestite in Twin Peaks, and his recent time in rehab for sex addiction, I've never been able to disconnect Duchovny from his thoroughly asexual character Fox Mulder, whom he played on the X-Files for 10 seasons, two movies, and at least one video game.
San Antonio Current |
Luke Baumgarten |
10-22-2008 |
TV
