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'Wild Horse, Wild Ride' misses chance to examine deeper Mustang storynew
Before the dust settles, debut filmmakers Alex Dawson and Greg Gricus need to pitch their documentary Wild Horse, Wild Ride as a reality TV series to CMT.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
09-16-2012 |
Reviews
J.J. Abrams' 'Revolution'new
J.J. Abrams’ series plunges you into an alternate reality. Ben (Tim Guinee) hurries home to tell his wife (Elizabeth Mitchell), “It’s happening.”
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
09-16-2012 |
TV
Frank Langella delivers another Oscar-worthy performance in 'Robot & Frank'new
Idea for a movie: a former cat burglar showing early signs of Alzheimer's gets help in the form of a robot as a present from his son, so the man teaches the robot how to steal. A comedy, right? And probably a bad one. Unless, of course, the writing and the actors are first class.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
08-30-2012 |
Reviews
'Celeste and Jesse Forever' offers a sweet, witty change of pacenew
As someone who loathes the conventions and clichés of most modern-day romantic comedies as much as I do, actress/writer/producer Rashida Jones just might be the perfect woman — at least the perfect woman to spend a day with at the movie theater.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
08-30-2012 |
Reviews
A&E's 'Coma' delivers a hospital of horrorsnew
Ridley and the late Tony Scott have produced an effectively creepy update of Coma, originally a 1977 novel and 1978 film.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
08-30-2012 |
TV
Monsters in the making: 'Face Off' and 'Fatal Honeymoon'new
In its third season, this delightful reality competition features a fresh batch of special-effects makeup artists, all determined to make a mark in Hollywood.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
08-23-2012 |
TV
Tags: makeup, special-effects
Actor Thomas Haden Church can't blame much on squirm-worthy Killer Joenew
Academy Award-nominated actor Thomas Haden Church (Sideways) doesn’t think violence in films should be held responsible for violent things that happen in real life.
San Antonio Current |
KikO MARTÍNEZ |
08-23-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Killer Joe Strikes Like an Unapologetic Texas Rattlesnakenew
If a film like 2011's sexually explicit British drama Shame taught us anything, it's that being slapped with a dreaded NC-17 rating these days doesn't always ensure a death sentence.
San Antonio Current |
KikO MARTÍNEZ |
08-23-2012 |
Reviews
Matthew McConaughey dressed more likely to impressnew
It might be a tired subject, but there's a running joke in Hollywood that actor Matthew McConaughey is allergic to shirts.
San Antonio Current |
KikO MARTÍNEZ |
08-23-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Killer Joe
Chilling docudrama 'The Imposter' plumbs the depths of the human psychenew
Stare deep into the eyes of French-Algerian criminal Frédéric Bourdin and it is evident he has no conscience.
San Antonio Current |
Kiki Martinez |
08-16-2012 |
Reviews
Director Bart Layton confronts "The Chameleon"new
Getting to the truth wasn't going to come easy for director Bart Layton. He knew this even before he turned on the video camera and gave serial imposter Frédéric Bourdin a platform to do what he does best.
San Antonio Current |
Kiki Martinez |
08-16-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Semi-losers and 'Inbetweeners' checking the British pulsenew
Based on a British series, The Inbetweeners puts its finger on high school’s “in-between” cohort.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
08-16-2012 |
TV
'Ruby Sparks' fizzles behind Zoe Kazan's tweepulsive screenplaynew
Vanity Fair had the right idea late last year when it started recapping episodes of the comedy series New Girl by categorizing each of Zooey Deschanel’s idiosyncrasies as either “adorkable” (a personality trait described as dorky and adorable) or “tweepulsive” (the same trait, but at a more cloying level).
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
08-16-2012 |
Reviews
An extremely up-close encounter with Neil Youngnew
Neil Young Journeys completes director Jonathan Demme's trilogy of concert films centered on Neil Young. While 2006's Neil Young: Heart of Gold featured Young in Nashville returning from a bout with an aneurysm, and 2009's Neil Young Trunk Show featured concert footage in Pennsylvania during the Chrome Dreams II tour, Journeys, a solo performance by Young, is the most personal yet experimental of the three.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
08-10-2012 |
Reviews
'Wolf' gnaws over sexual predators in church, but fails to tackle the hardest questionsnew
The drama of a dutiful boy abused in church, Wolf was written and directed by a local kid who made good.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
08-02-2012 |
Reviews
