AltWeeklies Wire
The Harold & Kumar Fellas Talk Politics and False Ladypartsnew
Neil Patrick Harris included!
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
04-16-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Battlestar Galactica' Goes for the Godnew
As the series gears up for its conclusion, it's becoming more contemplative, agonizing over how there can be faith without tests of that faith, and thus how real prophets can exist without fake ones -- how humans, tortured beasts that we are, can have certainty in anything without uncertainty about most everything else.
San Antonio Current |
Luke Baumgarten |
04-09-2008 |
TV
30th-annual CineFestival Spotlights Latino Filmmakersnew
CineFestival will highlight cinematic work from across the globe including the countries of Chile, Bolivia, and Mexico. What co-director Victor Payan is most excited about, however, is the number of U.S. Latinos who will screen their films this year.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
04-09-2008 |
Movies
'Married Life' Gets Dark Laughsnew
It always pains me to use the word tandem "chamber drama," but there you have it.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
04-02-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Ira Sachs, Married Life
CineMujer Puts Women's Real Issues on the Big Screennew
In addition to showcasing more feature films (though fewer total films than last year), a major change in programming has been the division of the festival into two weekends rather than fill an entire week.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
04-02-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Reality Bytesnew
Director-editor Juan Carlos Pineiro
Escoriaza's Second Skin attempts to humanize Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing gamers who spend a significant portion of their lives hiding behind an avatar and handle.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
03-19-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Juan Carlos Pineiro, Second Skin
Mugging for the Cameranew
You have to wonder: Why an American shot-for-shot remake of Funny Games, Michael Haneke's decade-old Austrian film now?
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
03-12-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Funny Games, Michael Haneke
Band in Israel Banned in Egyptnew
Cultural exchanges do not always make the noise generated by the New York Philharmonic's recent visit to North Korea.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
03-05-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Eran Kolirin, The Band's Visit
Festoon the Bedchambers of Gotham with My Milkshake, Babynew
From SportsCenter to MSNBC's Keith Olbermann to a T-shirt kiosk near you, the all-the-rage catch-phrase "I drink your milkshake" has been gathering meteorite momentum, and is now destined to lose its fizzle quicker than you can say "Show me the money."
San Antonio Current |
Cynthia Hawkins |
03-05-2008 |
Movies
I'm Will Ferrell?new
The SNL alum and Semi-Pro star on fame, his alternate-universe job, and why he sucks (or did) at coordinating art appraisals.
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
02-27-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kent Alterman, Semi-Pro
Of Analogies and Alpha Dogsnew
Charlie Bartlett, fittingly, feels like a first film. It's flecked throughout with a decent store of genuine laughs and sweet, budding-romance moments, but these are offset too frequently by painfully conventional bits and notably odd directorial choices.
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
02-20-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Charlie Bartlett, John Poll
Let Us Cast the First Stonenew
For a show so tied to the possibility of a demonstrative God, Eli Stone has curiously little magic.
San Antonio Current |
Luke Baumgarten |
02-20-2008 |
TV
Tough Love in Jerusalemnew
The seventh-annual edition of the San Antonio Jewish Film Festival, screening at the San Antonio Museum of Art February 16-21, surpasses its predecessors in range and artistry.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
02-13-2008 |
Movies
A Shrink Drama That May Drive You Back into Real Lifenew
This suggestion is far out, to be sure, but you know what you might consider doing instead of watching In Treatment five nights a week? Having a conversation with another human being.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
02-06-2008 |
TV
Love Me Two Times, Babynew
Add a generous dose of slapstick to 2005's Into the Blue and you have Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey's latest venture, Fool's Gold.
San Antonio Current |
Cynthia Hawkins |
02-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Andy Tennant, Fool's Gold
