January 18th, 2007
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Starring:
Jay Chou, Chow Yun-Fat, Li Gong, Qin Junjie, Man Li
Review:
If looks were all it took to thrill, this opulent, near-operatic
historical pageant would rank with Zhang Yimou's last two epics,
Hero and House of...
Rating: 3 Stars
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January 18th, 2007
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Starring:
Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn, Imeldaa Staunton,
Apr...
Review:
Leave it to Hilary Swank. Even when her film's pace lags behind its
cliches, she sparks this true story, about a California teacher who
sparks her stu...
Rating: 2 Stars
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January 18th, 2007
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Starring:
Bruce Willis, Sharon Stone, Justin Timberlake, Emile Hirsch,
Domi...
Review:
He takes his shirt off, sports tattoos, acts tough and smokes a
shitload of weed. That's right, Justin Timberlake plays a
shit-for-brains in Alpha Dog...
Rating: 2 Stars
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January 18th, 2007
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Starring:
Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone
Signoret,...
Review:
How the hell can the New York Film Critics Circle choose Army
of Shadows as the year's best foreign-language film? It's
nearly forty years old, a...
Rating: 4 Stars
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January 18th, 2007
In memory of the late instant-noodle king, Momofuku Ando, Jeff Yang speaks to notable ramen authorities about the meal-in-a-bowl's awesome cultural impact -- including Robert Allan Ackerman, director of the forthcoming Brittany Murphy film "The Ramen Girl."...
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January 18th, 2007
Perhaps no other film helped pave drag queens' glittered way into the American mainstream consciousness more than "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" did back in 1994. The raucous road-trip buddy movie about two drag queens and a...
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January 18th, 2007
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Jane Eyre: "Masterpiece Theatre" miniseries. Starring Ruth Wilson, Toby Stephens, directed by Susanna White. Part 1, 9 p.m. Sunday, Part 2, 9 p.m. Jan. 28 on KQED. One of the enduring...
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January 17th, 2007
Doug Aitken’s video piece is available for viewing at, or more accurately on, the Museum of Modern Art.
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January 17th, 2007
The story centers on four not-so-young orphans: one reared by a curator at the Louvre where an albino assassin lurks; another, a refugee from Mexican libre wrestling; the third a recent victim of snakes on her plane; and the fourth a normal resident of a mutant X-community. The hapless quartet visits a chocolate factory, where they stumble into an enchanted wardrobe that transports them to the land of Gnarnia with a silent G. There they meet a flamboyant pirate captain and earnest students of wizardry and join forces with, among others, a wise-but-horny lion to defeat the evil White Bitch of Gnarnia.
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January 17th, 2007
The Mutant Chronicles is based on a lame sounding role playing game about a dystopic future in which the human race has dwindled and finds itself under attack by a bunch of creatures called NecroMutants. I believe this is also the plot of most of the non-Pokemon anime imports currently running in place of real cartoons on Saturday mornings.
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