AltWeeklies Wire
Martha Marcy May Marlenenew
First cult is the deepest.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
10-28-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Martha Marcy May Marlene
The Skin I Live Innew
Frankenstein meets Balenciaga in Almodóvarland.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
10-20-2011 |
Reviews
The Black Power Mixtapenew
What Nixon and the FBI didn't want us to see.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
09-21-2011 |
Reviews
Moneyballnew
Brad Pitt finesses a win as A's wizard Billy Beane.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
09-21-2011 |
Reviews
The Man Who Fell to Earthnew
The wonderment threshold has been raised considerably since the days when Nicolas Roeg and his leading man David Bowie were pop-culture sensations. And so it's an opportune time to revisit Roeg's misunderstood sci-fi idyll, The Man Who Fell to Earth, especially in light of a new "director's cut," which restores some twenty minutes of the filmmaker's intentions.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
09-07-2011 |
Reviews
The Interruptersnew
How to defuse real-life street violence.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
08-30-2011 |
Reviews
The Debt: How to Defuse a Thrillernew
The framework of a decent thriller is there. WWII German Nazi war criminal Dieter Vogel, the infamous "Surgeon of Birkenau," is being hunted by the Israeli Mossad, circa 1965-66.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
08-30-2011 |
Reviews
The Names of Lovenew
Nerd meets firebrand in French rom-com.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
07-28-2011 |
Reviews
Tabloid: Was this trip necessary?new
Joyce McKinney, subject of Errol Morris' latest documentary, Tabloid, didn't do anything particularly shocking compared to the crop of baby murderers and cheating spouses currently on display in supermarket checkout aisles.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
07-14-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Errol Morris, Tabloid
The Big Uneasynew
Bad policy doomed New Orleans, says muckraking Katrina doc.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
07-06-2011 |
Reviews
Going South: American Noir in Mexiconew
Hoods on holiday.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
07-06-2011 |
Movies
X-Men: First Classnew
How they got that way, more or less.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
06-13-2011 |
Reviews
The Tree of Lifenew
Terrence Malick pushes his luck.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
06-01-2011 |
Reviews
13 Assassinsnew
Takashi Miike disembowels the samurai film.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
05-18-2011 |
Reviews
