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Getting 'Jerseylicious' with Jason Isaacsnew
This new drama rivals The Twilight Zone with its reality-bending premise. Detective Michael Britten (Jason Isaacs) wakes up from a family car crash to find that his wife (Laura Allen) has survived and his son (Dylan Minnette) has died.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
03-01-2012 |
TV
Tags: Jason Isaacs, Jerseylicious
We Need to Talk About Kevinnew
The bad seed, indeed.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
02-29-2012 |
Reviews
From Iran, the Oscar-winning A Separationnew
Far, far away from the stumbling American film industry, people still make movies not to further licensing agreements or to stoke self-serving nostalgia but to tell their stories. A Separation is the freshest, most deserving feature film that the Academy recognized.
Burning Down the House: Old School Goes New School in Pasadena
“Animal House” for the apocalypse generation, “Project X” is a hip celebration of drugs, sex, alcohol, and music for their cumulative power to incite violence, disgust, and ultimately, respect.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
02-28-2012 |
Reviews
Girl in a Coma's documentary 'Jammin'' shows their early yearsnew
Since 2006's Jammin', a TV documentary of the early years of Girl in a Coma, the band's circumstances have changed a bit.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
02-27-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Jammin', Jim Mendiola
Save the Trees: Ecology Politics For Kids
Beautifully animated and performed, “Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax” fulfills yet another pitch-perfect filmic rendering of the children’s classic by the late Theodor Geisel—one of the most prolific and gifted authors of children’s stories.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
02-27-2012 |
Reviews
'This Means War' has a perfectly likeable cast, delivers an anorexic action-comedynew
Chris Pine (of J.J. Abrams' Star Trek reboot) and Tom Hardy (Inception, Warrior) are two of the most appealing actors working; Pine's charm is one of cocksure swagger and false emotional bravado, a throwback to the Will Smith (one of the film's producers) "look good doing it" model.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
02-27-2012 |
Reviews
Activists or Terrorists?new
The Oscar-nominated documentary film If A Tree Falls traces the transformation of one otherwise ordinary young man into an activist and then into what the courts have deemed a "terrorist" and the way those actions affected the environment, his family and the community.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
02-24-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Hope for the Oscarsnew
I’m trying to be optimistic about the Oscars. I hold out hope for an enjoyable ceremony even after last year’s fiasco with hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
02-23-2012 |
TV
Tags: 2012 Oscars, 2012 Academy Awards
Aussie Teen Franchise: Vampires and Werewolves Turn Passé When There’s a War On
A resistance-combatant-primer disguised as a teen-exploitation flick, “Tomorrow When the War Began” delights in guilty pleasures.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
02-20-2012 |
Reviews
Foxy Lady: Pam Grier, the ‘Baddest One-Chick Hit Squad in Town'new
When Pam Grier moved to Los Angeles in the early '70s, her goal was to work and save enough money to get into film school. During a lunch break at one of her three jobs, she was planning to meet with a potential mentor for some career guidance. But apparently that’s not what he had planned.
Boulder Weekly |
Quibian Salazar-Moreno |
02-17-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Critic' Pick: 'The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore'new
It is a shame that the short film category at the Oscars is so underrated. Some of the best films frequently come from this group, and this year is no different.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
02-16-2012 |
Reviews
Primal Screen: The Sinner-in-Chiefnew
n 2008, American Experience presented a whitewashed portrait of President George H.W. Bush’s presidency, presumably to avoid Republican charges of liberal bias.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
02-16-2012 |
TV
My Sundance 2012 Experience
Every January, I make my annual pilgrimage to Park City, Utah, to work on the Sundance Film Festival. This year marked my 10th time working on the most prestigious film festival in North America. And this year’s crop of films was as impressive as any lineup I’ve seen since my first Sundance way back in 1999.
YES! Weekly |
Keith T. Barber |
02-16-2012 |
Movies
Tags: Sundance festival
The Borrowersnew
Despite some spotty voice work,'Arrietty' is a lovely piece of animation.
Tucson Weekly |
Colin Boyd |
02-16-2012 |
Reviews
