AltWeeklies Wire
The Oscars as Blood Sportnew
Our critic dissects the Academy Awards and contenders. (Warning: Here be spoilers.)
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
01-30-2008 |
Movies
How the Mighty Have Fallennew
Though it gets its name from a Roman blood sport, American Gladiators takes most of its cues from Greek mythology.
San Antonio Current |
Luke Baumgarten |
01-23-2008 |
TV
Lock Me Up, I Did Not Hate '27 Dresses'new
If you listen very closely, you can hear my editor snickering somewhere.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
01-16-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: 27 Dresses, Anne Fletcher
The World is Better with Late Night TVnew
For the past week and a half, I've reacquainted myself with an old friend -- my TV set.
San Antonio Current |
Jennifer Herrera |
01-16-2008 |
Movies
Kicking into High Gearnew
Director and actor Mark Cantu sticks behind the camera for his latest feature, Echo.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
01-16-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Echo, Mark Cantu
Transform and Roll Eyesnew
Tranformers Animated is bittersweet for people who grew up on the original series (me), especially if they have kids of Transformers age (definitely not me). Some really annoying liberties have been taken with the characters.
San Antonio Current |
Luke Baumgarten |
01-09-2008 |
TV
Coming Up Babiesnew
Knocked Up, Juno, Waitress, and the battle of the bulge.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
01-09-2008 |
Movies
Fashion Nightmarenew
Reality shows inevitably begin to suck. It's like a law of the universe. No matter how great they are to begin with, they all suck by season four or five. Like Project Runway.
San Antonio Current |
Luke Baumgarten |
12-12-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
'I Am Legend': Not a Classicnew
There's a sizeable early-to-middle stretch in the decidedly post-apocalyptic flick that drew this viewer involuntarily (and more than once) to his seat-edge and managed to hold him more palpably rapt than a great many ostensibly comparable films of recent years.
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
12-12-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Francis Lawrence, I Am Legend
Go South, Young Mannew
Prodigal screenwriter Trent Moran chooses his hometown of San Antonio over the Hollywood hills.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
12-12-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Angels Can’t Save PBS’s Tony Kushner Docnew
Wrestling With Angels is a good cross-section of all the elements that comprise the life of playwright Tony Kushner, but the juxtaposition of these elements sometimes seems capricious.
San Antonio Current |
William Razavi |
12-05-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV, Wrestling With Angels
Only a Director's Mother Could Love 'Mama's Boy'new
It's easy to imagine that screenwriter Hank Nelken conceived Mama's Boy while reading a magazine article reporting on the full-nest syndrome -- the increasing tendency for grownup children to continue residing with their parents. It is too depressing to contemplate the possibility that anyone had artistic ambitions for this irksome fluff.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
12-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Mama's Boy, Tim Hamilton
'Romance and Cigs': Lewder, Smarter Than the Average Musicalnew
The atmosphere is just surreal enough for songs from Engelbert Humperdinck, Tom Jones, and Connie Francis to be worked in organically, and, as the cast members aren't singers, per se, their voices are often featured along with the original musical numbers, creating a sing-along kind of purity.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
11-28-2007 |
Reviews
Quarterlife Crisisnew
A portrait of contemporary twentysomethings (and an orgy of self-reference), quarterlife is a failed network pilot that found new life on the internet as not just a web-ivision show, but also a real-life social-networking website (quarterlife.com).
San Antonio Current |
Luke Baumgarten |
11-28-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Zemeckis, Computers: 1; Critic: 0new
Boy, was I prepared to hate the sword-and-sandals out of this movie.
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
11-21-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Beowulf, Robert Zemeckis
