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Desperate Measures: Review of Lilianew
I don’t necessarily believe San Antonio filmmaker Sam Lerma when he tells me he might’ve been impulsive enough to rob a bank back when he was living paycheck to paycheck as a photo journalist for a local TV station.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
09-21-2011 |
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Film Review: Straw Dogsnew
Times have changed since the release of Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs in 1971.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
09-21-2011 |
Reviews
No Man's Landnew
In Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, there is an average of eight drug-related murders every day.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
09-21-2011 |
Reviews
In Chomsky We Trustnew
"The Kingdom of Survival" brings together several alternative American voices.
Style Weekly |
Wayne Melton |
09-20-2011 |
Reviews
Drive: Wheel of Fortunenew
Drive is such a sterling achievement for most of its running time — perhaps one of the year's best — that it's alarming when it crashes and burns during its final 15 minutes.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
09-19-2011 |
Reviews
Action Mediocrity: De Niro, Owen, and Statham Go Slumming
An unhappy marriage of brawny big-screen talent with a nonsensical script, and a newbie director, make for one very mediocre action movie.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
09-19-2011 |
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Remaking Peckinpah: Rod Lurie Falls for Mug’s Game
“When in Rome, [do as the Romans do.]” James Marsdan’s clueless screenwriter character David Sumner uses the age-old adage to rationalize how he should interact with snotty Southern hicks in his wife Amy’s hometown of Blackwater, Mississippi.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
09-19-2011 |
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Life, Above Allnew
A powerful performance by a teen actress lifts this morality tale above its station.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
09-16-2011 |
Reviews
Twenty Years Later, Julie Dash's Film Daughters of the Dust Continues to Inspirenew
It is 1902, and the Peazant family is celebrating. Black women in white dresses twirl on the white sand, bordered by blue water and blue sky, clapping hands and playing games. They are preparing to pass over to the mainland, and what's past is prologue, says Viola Peazant. The Christian missionary and cousin is returning to her family to mark the occasion, photographer in tow. Meanwhile, Nana, the matriarch, sticks to her home in the woods. She fears what may be lost when her clan migrates north without her.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
09-15-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Never Mind the Hype: Attack the Block Doesn’t Delivernew
Written and directed by Joe Cornish, who co-created the weirdo British sketch comedy series The Adam and Joe Show in the ’90s, Attack the Block desperately wants to be for sci-fi thrillers what the hilarious 2004 satire Shaun of the Dead was for zombie horror movies.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
09-15-2011 |
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Low-Budget Bellflower is an Instant Indie Classic That’ll Set You on Firenew
“I'd seen movies about breakups, but I'd never seen anyone try to make a movie about what it's really like to have your heart broken,” first-time director Evan Glodell told The Village Voice.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
09-15-2011 |
Reviews
The Future Charts Modern Anxietynew
The Future follows Sophie and Jason (July and Hamish Linklater, both of them sincere and focused), a couple in their mid-30s emerging from an agonizingly believable extended adolescence.
Tags: The Future
The Ryan Gosling-led Drive is in a Class by Itselfnew
This is Drive Calm. This is Drive Cool. This is Ryan Gosling as a soft-spoken, sensitive soul, a guy extremely proficient at driving fast cars but who doesn't seem to get much of a thrill out of it, and neither, it seems, does Drive the movie wish to turn you on.
Charleston City Paper |
MaryAnn Johanson |
09-14-2011 |
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Tags: Drive, Ryan Gosling
War Stories De La Razanew
The unwavering pride of Chicano Vietnam War veterans is epitomized during a scene in San Antonio director Laura Varela’s documentary As Long As I Remember: American Veteranos when Juan Farías, one of the three vets featured in the film, displays genuine frustration when a fallen comrade’s name is mispronounced during a ceremony at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
09-14-2011 |
TV
The Descendants and The Ides of Marchnew
George Clooney's arrival at the Toronto International Film Festival was a reminder that he's more than just a pretty face.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
09-14-2011 |
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