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'CJ7': Space Puppy Lovenew
Fluffy extraterrestrial pooch helps poor-but-honest kid succeed on Earth.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
03-05-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: CJ7, Stephen Chow
'The Counterfeiters' & 'Chicago 10': Vintage Violencenew
Bad old days -- the Holocaust and Vietnam war protests -- are revisited with fresh eyes.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
02-28-2008 |
Reviews
'Charlie Bartlett' & 'Vantage Point': Illusions of Powernew
Drug-dealing student quickly conquers high school. World peace might take slightly longer.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
02-20-2008 |
Reviews
New Documentary Reveals American Torture Practicesnew
With a title like this we might expect a horror movie. At times, Alex Gibney's hard-hitting, often stomach-churning documentary Taxi to the Dark Side does indeed resemble entertainment aimed at adolescent males looking for vicarious-brutality thrills.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
02-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Alex Gibney, Taxi to the Dark Side
Romania is Where the Action Isnew
When critics aren't whiling away their time discussing the merits of celebrity hairdos, one of their favorite occupations is "discovering" a neglected national film industry and championing it loudly. For the past two years, the hot international project has been Romania.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
01-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Deadly in Pinknew
Teeth's biting satiric gore meets the Brazilian kitchen sink drudgery of Alice's House.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
Trouble All Overnew
The horrors of war in Nanking are so overpowering they make the revolutionary Iran of Persepolis seem inconsequential.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
01-09-2008 |
Reviews
'There Will Be Blood' Falls Down its Own Wellnew
We're variously reminded of Greed, Citizen Kane, Days of Heaven, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and even Werner Herzog's oil-fire documentary, Lessons of Darkness -- all better movies on similar themes.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
01-02-2008 |
Reviews
The Ten Best Movies of 2007new
Throw away your maps and catch up with the ten best movies of 2007. Then go ahead and complain. It's your right.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
12-27-2007 |
Movies
Why is a Paralyzed Editor Like a Hawkish Congressman?new
Take The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to Charlie Wilson's War and find out.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
12-19-2007 |
Reviews
Silk Road Detoursnew
From Afghanistan's blasted terrain (The Kite Runner) to the tea fields of China (All in This Tea) at the movies -- two trips well worth taking.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
12-12-2007 |
Reviews
Tripping Out on a Kid's Shownew
A combination of in-jokes and surrealist farce, the children's DVD Showbeast is trippier than Sesame Street and more avant-garde than Pee Wee's Playhouse, though it would still appeal to a little kid or a stoned person.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
12-12-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
People Who Need Peoplenew
Are the most fucked-up people in the world. Take it from Noah Baumbach and Kurt Cobain.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
11-28-2007 |
Reviews
Disasters of Warnew
Brian De Palma's Redacted protests the Iraq war while Darfur Now offers hope in the midst of genocide.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
11-15-2007 |
Reviews
Benicio le Founew
Actor Del Toro finally plays the leading man, his way, as a junkie lawyer who comes to Halle Berry's emotional rescue.
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East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
10-24-2007 |
Reviews
