AltWeeklies Wire
Big Bang Theory: Four Lions and Client 9new
What's worse? Klutzy jihadist terrorists or vengeful Wall Streeters?
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
11-15-2010 |
Reviews
The Pure and Clear Films of Carl Theodor Dreyernew
The filmmaker's demanding, rewarding films visit the Pacific Film Archive.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
11-04-2010 |
Movies
Tags: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Void Where Prohibited: Enter the Void and I Spit on Your Gravenew
Ghosts on drugs! Love-hotel peeping toms! Brutal hillbillies! Grisly female revenge!
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
10-07-2010 |
Reviews
The Social Network and the "F" Wordnew
The billionaire geek who invented Facebook (The Social Network) meets the juvie outcasts of the living dead (Let Me In).
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
10-01-2010 |
Reviews
Bohemian Rhapsody: Howl and Jack Goes Boatingnew
James Franco blazes as Allen Ginsberg; Philip Seymour quietly simmers.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
09-22-2010 |
Reviews
The Agony and Ecstasy of Joaquin Phoenixnew
If Phoenix is really and truly a washed-up drunk with delusions of grandeur, I'm Still Here is a worthy swan song. Way to go.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
09-15-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: I'm Still Here, Casey Affleck
"Machete Don't Text!"new
Don't start the revolution without Danny Trejo (Machete). And rethink your preconceptions of South Africa (White Wedding).
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
09-08-2010 |
Reviews
Wretched of the Earth: Peepli Live and Scott Pilgrim vs. the Worldnew
What do a pair of poor farmers in India have in common with a young geek in Toronto? How much time have you got?
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
08-11-2010 |
Reviews
The Runaways: Kisses and Winnebago Mannew
Two unwanted kids and one grumpy old coot.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
08-02-2010 |
Reviews
Girls, Girls, Girlsnew
Anybody can wear a dragon tattoo, play with fire, or kick a hornet's nest, but there's only one Noomi Rapace.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
07-09-2010 |
Reviews
Jolly Raunchersnew
Boxers, hookers, pimps, and disgruntled German tourists: Welcome to Love Ranch and Everyone Else.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
06-30-2010 |
Movies
Tags: Love Ranch, Everyone Else
Time Killersnew
The Killer Inside Me doesn't pull its punches. But Cyrus and Air Doll do.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
06-23-2010 |
Reviews
An Outrage Porn and a Decorously Hammy Frou-Frounew
The Stoning of Soraya M. is cheap and degrading and it stinks from here to Tehran. Meanwhile, Cheri is an insubstantial bit of fluff.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
06-24-2009 |
Reviews
New Documentary Pays Tribute to Concert Posters Throughout the Decadesnew
Four years ago, as she was working a "cushy corporate television job," Merle Becker (former MTV staffer and founder of indie film company FreakFilms) stumbled across The Art of Modern Rock, a then newly published coffee-table book of rock posters. She says she was "blown away."
East Bay Express |
Catherine Plato |
06-17-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Rudo y Cursi': Confusion in the Southnew
Rudo y Cursi is not a typical comic buddy flick about the misadventures of two rancheros from the sticks. As conceived by writer-director Carlos Cuaron, the brothers' picaresque story is a sharp social satire of contemporary Mexico, held together by the slapstick glue of their country-boy antics.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
05-13-2009 |
Reviews
