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My Week with Marilyn's intellectual slovenlinessnew
Director Simon Curtis' film is not effective or well-made enough to make any lasting impressions, but that doesn't mean its sentiments are any less inartistic or offensive.
Michelle Williams leaves everyone else in her dust as Marilyn Monroenew
Michelle Williams deserves her vehicle; she's earned the right to put herself in the sweaty hands of cigar-chomping moguls with the power to bully esteemed actors and directors into hopping aboard the Oscar Express, wobbly wheels though it may be resting on.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
12-03-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: My Week With Marilyn, Simon Curtis
Scorsese's first children's adventure comes from his own inner childnew
Trains and the cinema go together like horses and cave paintings. As soon as humans were able to show motion, we chose to show trains. And from our first interaction with locomotives on celluloid — the Lumiére Brothers' Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat in 1895, which, perhaps apocryphally, made audiences jump out of their seats in fear — until this moment, with Martin Scorsese's 3-D fantasy Hugo, there have been dreamers and keepers of the dream.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
12-02-2011 |
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The Kids Are All Wrongnew
It’s hard to believe that Fox, the same network that premiered New Girl this fall, now gives us I Hate My Teenage Daughter.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
12-02-2011 |
TV
Film Review: Like Crazynew
Anton Yelchin (Star Trek) and newcomer Felicity Jones play Jacob and Anna, two attractive college kids who meet during class and immediately fall head over heels in love.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
11-28-2011 |
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'Sideways' director dumps a mess of problems on George Clooneynew
Alexander Payne has this thing for mid-life crises. Whether pitting an exasperated high-school teacher against a scheming overachiever in his 1999 breakthrough Election, or dropping Jack Nicholson and a naked Kathy Bates in a hot tub for About Schmidt, or setting a pair of wine snobs loose in his last movie, 2004's Sideways, the writer-director doesn't see people in their 40s as well-adjusted men and women contributing to society.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
11-28-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Anna and Jacob love each other Like Crazy, despite visa issuesnew
Not since Green Card has so much romance been yoked to the ox cart of bureaucracy.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
11-28-2011 |
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Tags: Like Crazy
Not that Steve McQueen: Sex-Addict Movie is a Half Effort
Director Steve McQueen makes half movies. The sophomore follow up to his over-praised 2008 debut film "Hunger," about Irish republican leader Bobby Sands's prison bound hunger strike, reveals a coincidental lack of narrative rigor disguised in an unsatisfying minimalist approach.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
11-28-2011 |
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Fiennes Does Shakespeare: Revenge Takes its Bloody Toll
Confucius: "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
11-28-2011 |
Reviews
The Muppets keeps family entertainment realnew
The Muppets aren't just one-note characters. They're fully realized beings, perfectly able to convey emotions. Even monosyllabic drummer Animal is just a dude looking for some inner peace.
Tags: The Muppets
Scorsese's Hugo celebrates the joy and art of moviemakingnew
The brilliance of Hugo is that director Martin Scorsese appropriates the en vogue 3-D technology of today's movies to preserve and venerate pioneers of the medium.
Tags: Martin Scorsese, Hugo
Kim Kardashian Karries Onnew
I got caught up in the excitement of Kim Kardashian’s whirlwind romance with basketball player Kris Humphries, which played out on Keeping Up With the Kardashians.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
11-22-2011 |
TV
The Muppets Charms With Nostalgia, but Feels Far From Freshnew
After 12 years without a theatrical release, The Muppets is in many ways both a charming return to form and a surprising letdown.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
11-22-2011 |
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Oscar Bait: Silent Black-and-White Trumps 3D
Here's proof that a black-and-white silent film with a 4:3 aspect ratio can be more entertaining than a 3D anything, "The Artist" conjures a bygone era that reminds us why we love Hollywood.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
11-21-2011 |
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Freud, Jung, and Spielrein: Cronenberg Explores Madness Behind the Method of Modern Psychotherapy
Christopher Hampton's stage play "The Talking Cure" provides the cerebral basis for David Cronenberg to dive into the largely overlooked story of Sabina Spielrein and her influence on the fathers of modern psychoanalysis--Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
11-21-2011 |
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