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Review: Director sabotages ‘Oblivion’
Film Comments Apr 17, 2013 6:16pmOblivion certainly looks the part. And for a while it certainly feels like some kind of spectacle. Director Joseph Kosinski (TRON: Legacy) is clearly focused on the visuals and the small details that...
CineList, 4.18.13
Film Comments Apr 17, 2013 5:58pmNew ReleasesBlancanieves (PG-13, 104 mins) Snow White (Macarena García) is a bullfighter in 1920s Spain, with a band of circus performers as her dwarves. Just one step closer to a climatic...
Review: ‘No’ entertains despite its odd dramatization
Film Comments Apr 10, 2013 8:42pmNo, a movie from Chile about advertising and dictators (in that order), is another bit of magical realism from Latin America.Augusto Pinochet, the general who overthrew Salvador Allende in 1973, for...
Review: Here’s to you, Mr. Robinson
Film Comments Apr 10, 2013 8:31pmYOU HAVE TO BE in your seventies to remember a time before Major League Baseball was racially integrated. Pro football broke the color barrier in 1946, and the NBA would follow suit in 1950. But it...
Shifting reality and untrustworthy schemers propel Danny Boyle’s “Trance”
Film Comments Updated: Apr 17, 2013 4:32pmBritish director Danny Boyle is never short on inspiration for his projects, be it a young Mumbai game-show contestant (Slumdog Millionaire), a weekend warrior who must sever his own arm to survive (...
CineList, 4.11.13
Film Comments Apr 10, 2013 6:29pmNEW RELEASES42 (PG-13, 128 mins) See review, this issue.It Takes a Man and a Woman (NR) Hopefully not Filipino Star Cinema’s stance on gay marriage, this movie is the third installment of Laida and...
Review: Watch out for the angst radius of ‘Ginger & Rosa’
Film Comments Apr 03, 2013 4:51pm“I’d prefer the world not to end, wouldn’t you?” asks Ginger (Elle Fanning). It was a common kind of question for teenagers in the days leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis. “Maybe,” replies her...
CineList, 4.4.13
Film Comments Apr 03, 2013 4:10pmNew ReleasesEvil Dead (R. 91 mins) See review, this issue.Ginger & Rosa (PG-13, 90 mins) See review, this issue.Jurassic Park 3D (PG-13, 127 mins) See the 1993 movie about a couple of dumb...
Review: Former Israeli security chiefs open up regarding their campaign against Palestine in ‘The Gatekeepers’
Film Comments Mar 27, 2013 4:58pmWhy is the Middle East so damnably complicated? You can spend a few semesters at a university reading books like The Arab World by Peter Mansfield and Six Days of War by Michael B. Oren. Or you could...
CineList, 3.28.13
Film Comments Mar 27, 2013 4:36pmNEW RELEASESPICK - The Gatekeepers (PG-13, 101 mins) See review, this issue. Suncoast.G.I. Joe: Retaliation (PG-13, 110 mins) Big name action stars (Bruce Willis, Channing Tatum) shoot machine guns...
