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Freud and Jung go toe-to-toe in 'A Dangerous Method'new

Talk?" Even in her wild agitation — barely able to force out words, writhing in her seat — Sabina Spielrein's puzzlement is clear.
San Antonio Current  |  Lee Gardner  |  01-27-2012  |  Reviews

Expect The Artist to be showered with Oscar lovenew

You'll know it's truly the Year of the Silent Film if next Tuesday morning you wake up and The Artist has earned an Academy Award nomination in at least one of the two Best Sound categories.
San Antonio Current  |  Kiko Martínez  |  01-19-2012  |  Movies

Crtitic's Pick: Shamenew

Over the span of a year he's played iconic comic-book villain Magneto in X-Men: First Class, classic literary character Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre, and groundbreaking Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung in A Dangerous Method, but it still took Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds) showing off a little more than his acting ability to get some serious consideration this awards season.
San Antonio Current  |  Kiko Martínez  |  01-19-2012  |  Reviews

With doomsday fast approaching, here are the films you can take refuge in this yearnew

According to analysts from BTIG, a strategic research company that predicts trends including those in the entertainment industry, movie attendance is headed for a significant decline in 2012.
San Antonio Current  |  Kiko Martínez  |  01-12-2012  |  Movies

Roman Polanski's 'Carnage' more torture chamber than chamber piecenew

With a title like Carnage, even if the weapon of choice is words one might expect to see some type of intellectual bloodbath.
San Antonio Current  |  Kiko Martínez  |  01-11-2012  |  Reviews

'The Finder' delivers hero juicenew

The Finder (7pm Thursday, Fox) If I had a dime for every pilot that failed at being simultaneously exciting, funny, sexy, and poignant, I’d be able to finance my own series.
San Antonio Current  |  Dean Robbins  |  01-11-2012  |  TV

Critic's Diss: 'The Iron Lady'new

Call it Oscar grubbing if you want, but it's not Meryl Streep's fault that she's so damn talented. Well, technically, it kind of is.
San Antonio Current  |  Kiko Martínez  |  01-11-2012  |  Reviews

New adaptation of John le Carré espionage novel captivates as it confusesnew

Say the words "British spy" and most moviegoers would probably picture any one of the James Bond incarnations over the last 50 years performing death-defying stunts far above the ground.
San Antonio Current  |  Kiko Martínez  |  01-04-2012  |  Reviews

Even in a slow year for memorable cinema, there were some standouts in 2011new

While it hasn’t necessarily been a stellar year in film (watching Adam Sandler, Martin Lawrence, and Tyler Perry in drag was enough to sideline the most intrepid moviegoer), there have been some diamonds in the rough.
San Antonio Current  |  Kiko Martínez  |  01-02-2012  |  Movies

Charlize Theron stands steadfast in uncomfortable dark comedy Young Adultnew

It's taken screenwriter Diablo Cody (Showtime's United States of Tara) a few years to get the memo, but in her latest film, Young Adult, it looks as if she's started paying attention to some of the constructive criticism aimed straight at her hipster heart.
San Antonio Current  |  Kiko Martínez  |  12-30-2011  |  Reviews

The Adventures of Tintinnew

Before Temple of Doom, Ninja Turtles, and Calvin and Hobbes, there were Hergé's tenacious, cow-licked, ever-so-mildly-androgynous Belgian boy reporter and his intrepid white fox terrier.
San Antonio Current  |  Brian Villalobos  |  12-30-2011  |  Reviews

Playing Dress-Upnew

This new seriesis a wish-fulfillment fantasy for ordinary teen girls who think they just might wind up in the glamorous fashion industry one day.
San Antonio Current  |  Dean Robbins  |  12-30-2011  |  TV

Film Review: War Horsenew

Horses came galloping across the screen in the very first narrative film, The Great Train Robbery (1903), and it was a horse that Eadweard Muybridge photographed in the 1880s in still frames that, strung together, pioneered the illusion of motion pictures.
San Antonio Current  |  Steven G. Kellman  |  12-23-2011  |  Reviews

Hazanavicius’ ode to cinema is a colorful story in black and whitenew

Disturbed that their marriage is falling apart, Doris Valentin (Penelope Ann Miller) says to her husband, “We have to talk, George.” However, George (Jean Dujardin) cannot talk, not merely because he is a defective spouse or even because he is a star of the silent screen; George does not speak to Doris, or anyone else, because he lives within a zestfully endearing silent movie.
San Antonio Current  |  Steven G. Kellman  |  12-22-2011  |  Reviews

David Fincher’s talented fingerprints are all over new Dragon Tattoonew

From the start of the opening credits two-time Academy Award-nominated director David Fincher (The Social Network) wants everyone to know the new adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, based on the first book of the widely-popular Stieg Larsson series, is a Fincher film.
San Antonio Current  |  Kiko Martínez  |  12-22-2011  |  Reviews

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