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'Undefeated' not groundbreaking, but still inspirationalnew
Filmmakers Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin couldn't have hoped for a better underdog football story to track when they turned on their cameras to shoot a single season at Manassas High School in North Memphis, Tennessee, in 2004.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
05-28-2012 |
Reviews
'Wings': Made-in-SA Academy Award winner still thrillsnew
The same qualities that sent movie moguls to southern California in the second decade of the 20th century — plentiful sunshine, cheap land and labor, varied landscapes — also made South Texas a promising mecca for cinema.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
05-28-2012 |
Reviews
'Texas Music Scene' gets its duenew
It's a simple, remarkably straightforward idea that's already been tried successfully once. "It's like Austin City Limits circa its beginning in 1976," said Tom Hoitsma, creator of Texas Music Scene, a weekly public-television music show dedicated to Texas musicians.
San Antonio Current |
Chris Parker |
05-24-2012 |
TV
'Dark Shadows' on losing end of newest Tim Burton, Johnny Depp collaborationnew
No matter if your family is as wholesome as the Cleavers from Leave it to Beaver or weirdly eccentric a la the Addams Family — kin, for better or worse, is eternal.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
05-18-2012 |
Reviews
'American Idol' matters. No, seriously!new
I used to be American Idol’s biggest fan, but by now most of us know it’s jumped the shark. After a string of bland winners — Kris Allen, Lee DeWyze, Scotty McCreery — we realize that the show will most likely disappoint us after its long process of sifting and winnowing.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
05-16-2012 |
TV
Tags: American Idol
Borat's mastermind takes a more conventional route in 'The Dictator'new
It was only a matter of time before Sacha Baron Cohen would have to retire his style of guerrilla filmmaking. After the success of 2006's Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, and the relative non-success of 2009's Brüno, sneaking up on people with a camera and smacking his genitals on their foreheads wouldn't be as easy as it once was for Cohen, especially now that a sizable portion of the population knows his face, among other parts of his body.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
05-16-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Larry Charles, The Dictator
Director Patricia Riggen: rebellious teen to Latina filmmakernew
After introducing herself to audiences in 2007 with the heartwarming drama Under the Same Moon (La misma luna), director Patricia Riggen, 41, returns to the big screen with a coming-of-age film about the conflict between a rebellious teenage daughter and her mother in Girl in Progress.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
05-11-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Despite likeable lead, 'Girl in Progress' retreats into formulaic coming-of-age flopnew
t's a term every high school freshman English class has covered since teachers started passing out copies of The Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
05-11-2012 |
Reviews
Feature film beckons comic duonew
You might have seen them at December's 48-Hour Film Experience or at the recent Neighborhood Film Project 3.0: Bert López ("Officer Prieto," a skin-color reference) and Leonard Peña ("Officer Stern," named for his by-the-book behavior) are the funniest characters in San Antonio film.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
05-11-2012 |
Movies
'Damsels in Distress' has its heart (and ear) in the right placenew
Fourteen years after his last film, The Last Days of Disco, writer-director Whit Stillman reclaims his status as perennial contender to the Tarantino of the Upper Classes title. Sure, Damsels in Distress has no violence and very little sex...
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
05-11-2012 |
Reviews
Satisfying geekdom's love affair with 'The Avengers'new
It happens in the second half of the highly-anticipated Marvel comic-book movie The Avengers, a precisely planned superhero assemblage that has been culminating since 2008's release of both Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk reboot
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
05-08-2012 |
Reviews
Why the foot-furious musical Singin' in the Rain still demands attentionnew
In 1927, The Jazz Singer burst into the Hollywood silent-film scene, breaking the sound barrier and trumpeting doom and gloom for mute motion pictures everywhere.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
05-03-2012 |
Reviews
Sherlock Holmes tackles the sexy dominatrixnew
Last year, Masterpiece Mystery's "Sherlock" did Sherlock Holmes a favor by plunking him down in our own time.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
05-03-2012 |
TV
'Don't Trust the B---' script smells of desperationnew
With their greed, brutality and lust — not to mention their Italian Renaissance duds — the Borgias make the Sopranos look practically modest.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
04-26-2012 |
TV
A father and son duke it out in 'Footnote'new
Two men sit side-by-side in the front row of a throng of people, listening to the introduction of one Professor Shkolnik, who is being accepted into the National Israel Academy of Sciences.
San Antonio Current |
Erin Gleeson |
04-26-2012 |
Reviews
