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In Theaters Now #1: The Five-Year Engagementnew
I got lucky the other night, well kinda. Romantic comedies generally follow a predictable course; there is the meeting of an unlikely couple, the “getting-to-know-you” montage, the cumming together, the falling apart, and the big happy double reach around ending. Like crack cocaine or chocolate, rom-coms are designed to momentarily distract us from our comparably imperfect lives in which we don’t look, talk or fuck like the movie stars on the screen. Ironically, the distraction offered by rom-coms fuels a sense of dissatisfaction so we need more distraction and then poof, we’re stuck in a rom-com downward death spin cycle which retards the audience just a bit more with every incarnation.
Random Lengths News |
Danny Simon |
05-13-2012 |
Reviews
Deep In Echo Park, A Bohemian Nexusnew
Long time Echo Park residents Anne Stein and Gary Leonard are planning to showcase the paintings of Anne's father, Philip Stein, at their Take My Picture Gallery in downtown Los Angeles. They are doing so as the restored Siqueiros mural "American Tropical" is about to be unveiled in Olvera Street.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
05-13-2012 |
Commentary
Drone warfare: politically expedient and disturbingly inaccuratenew
Roughly 50 deadly strikes using drones occurred during George W. Bush's eight years in office. By contrast, in the three-plus years of the Obama presidency, there have been close to 300, and those strikes have killed as many as 3,000 people.
INDY Week |
Jonathan Weiler |
05-12-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: Drones
Mex Step and MNOLO: 'Machine People'new
Machine People marks the first of at least two 2012 releases from Mexican Stepgrandfather (here credited as Mex Step, Marco Cervantes in real life).
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
05-11-2012 |
Reviews
Director Patricia Riggen: rebellious teen to Latina filmmakernew
After introducing herself to audiences in 2007 with the heartwarming drama Under the Same Moon (La misma luna), director Patricia Riggen, 41, returns to the big screen with a coming-of-age film about the conflict between a rebellious teenage daughter and her mother in Girl in Progress.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
05-11-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
How Rape Victims Cope After Exonerationnew
Debbie Jones spent decades coming to grips with the fact Thomas McGowan raped her. Then she found out he didn't.
Dallas Observer |
Anna Merlan |
05-11-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Rape, Thomas McGowan
Mitt & the GOP Boys' Clubnew
Mitt Romney needs to reach out to women voters, but his party has few who can help him do it.
Boston Phoenix |
David S. Bernstein |
05-11-2012 |
Elections
Ana Tijoux: Latin America's Hottest Female Rappernew
French-Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux likes surprises. When she left Makiza, her first group, in 2001, she didn't write any music until 2004. She had been cooking in silence, then delivered with a lethal one-two punch.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
05-11-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Gustavo Arellano's 'Taco USA' book tour comes to San Antonio with dire warning for regional cuisinenew
Gustavo Arellano writes "Ask a Mexican," a syndicated weekly Q&A about all things, and anything, Mexican. Two summers ago I rendezvoused with The Mexican himself in Hatch, New Mexico.
San Antonio Current |
Ari LeVaux |
05-11-2012 |
Food+Drink
Despite likeable lead, 'Girl in Progress' retreats into formulaic coming-of-age flopnew
t's a term every high school freshman English class has covered since teachers started passing out copies of The Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
05-11-2012 |
Reviews
Feature film beckons comic duonew
You might have seen them at December's 48-Hour Film Experience or at the recent Neighborhood Film Project 3.0: Bert López ("Officer Prieto," a skin-color reference) and Leonard Peña ("Officer Stern," named for his by-the-book behavior) are the funniest characters in San Antonio film.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
05-11-2012 |
Movies
Steve Jobs lives on in The Lost Interviewnew
Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview is an hour-long look into the charismatic and plain-spoken nature of one of this generation's most enduring figures.
Charleston City Paper |
Ryan Overhiser |
05-11-2012 |
Reviews
Karloz: 'Tex-Bop Deluxe'new
Who the hell is "Karloz"? This is the type of album that sits for weeks and weeks on a music critic's desk as the writer works to shake their fears of yet another cheesy collection of crowd-pleasing old hits given the "Tejano" treatment.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
05-11-2012 |
Reviews
'Damsels in Distress' has its heart (and ear) in the right placenew
Fourteen years after his last film, The Last Days of Disco, writer-director Whit Stillman reclaims his status as perennial contender to the Tarantino of the Upper Classes title. Sure, Damsels in Distress has no violence and very little sex...
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
05-11-2012 |
Reviews
High on Fire: De Vermis Mysteriisnew
To call High on Fire's sound "punishing" would not be hyperbole. While it may seem unrelenting and repetitive at first, it's a pain that becomes addictive after multiple rotations.
Tucson Weekly |
Brian Mock |
05-11-2012 |
Reviews
