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More by Kiko Martinez
Found footage gimmick has lost its luster in 'Paranormal Activity 4'new
There’s not much paranormal activity in Paranormal Activity 4. As a matter of fact, there’s not much of anything in this most recent installment that is as frightening or interesting as the three previous movies.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
10-26-2012 |
Reviews
Director Ben Affleck delivers neatly packaged spy thriller 'Argo'new
Imagine what screenwriter Lionel Chetwynd must've been thinking when former CIA officer Tony Mendez released his book Master of Disguise in 1999.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
10-17-2012 |
Reviews
'Ruby Sparks' fizzles behind Zoe Kazan's tweepulsive screenplaynew
Vanity Fair had the right idea late last year when it started recapping episodes of the comedy series New Girl by categorizing each of Zooey Deschanel’s idiosyncrasies as either “adorkable” (a personality trait described as dorky and adorable) or “tweepulsive” (the same trait, but at a more cloying level).
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
08-16-2012 |
Reviews
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Trippin’ Out in TXnew
A journey through Texas' psychedelic music scene.
San Antonio Current |
Matt Stieb |
04-30-2014 |
Music
Tags: psychedelic music, texas music
The Liberation of CSSnew
When CSS (“Cansei de Ser Sexy,” Portuguese for “tired of being sexy,” supposedly something Beyoncé once told the press) set out to record Planta, their fourth album, the electro-pop band was at a crossroads.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
07-18-2013 |
Music
Tags: CSS
Repent Now: Christian Metalheads Take Over San Antonionew
As part of the mostly Christian Screaming the Prayer heavy metal tour, Dallas’ Fit for a King comes to S.A. as proof that, at the very least, praying doesn’t hurt: the band’s initial output, Creation/Destruction, holds the record for most debut album first-week copies sold in their label’s, Solid State Records, history.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
07-14-2013 |
Music
Girl in a Coma Singer Nina Diaz' Spiritual Makeovernew
“What’s up with Nina?” I asked Faith Radle, Girl in a Coma’s manager, looking at the band’s lead singer, Nina Díaz. It was pouring rain that afternoon in late May, but we were safely sheltered at the ballroom of the Omni Hotel, minutes after Judge Nelson Wolff gave his State of the County address and seconds before I lamely asked, “Is she going to the gym, or something?”
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
06-19-2013 |
Profiles & Interviews
KING KENDRICK BRINGS HIS TALENTED FRIENDS TO OUR NECK OF THE WOODSnew
Kendrick Lamar burst into the national spotlight in 2011, following the release of his debut album Section.80, which included the hits “HiiiPoWeR” and “A.D.H.D.” If that album — lyrically focused on issues of drug addiction, violence, love, lust, and the battle to improve oneself — got people talking about Lamar as if he was next in line for the rap throne, 2012’s Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City proved they were right.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
06-12-2013 |
Profiles & Interviews
