Sep
15
The Audition RATING: (ALERT V…
September 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The Audition RATING: (ALERT VIEWER)Documentary. Directed by Susan Froemke. Starring Alek Shrader, Michael Fabiano, Ryan Smith. (Not rated. 106 minutes. At noon Sunday in Bay Locality theaters.) Every year, thousands of…
Sep
14
A bright, snappy relationship…
September 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment
A bright, snappy relationship comedy repping a calm-new music of commercial Hungarian cinema concocted primarily for local consumption, "Just Sex and Nothing Else" was a huge local sock that will travel to a clutch of fests and play well regionally ahead of finding a kettle of gold on homevid.
Thirty-three-year-old theater dramaturg Dora (Judit Schell) meets [...]
Sep
10
Seabiscuit (2003)
September 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Horse feathers
Seabiscuit
comes up lame
BY PETER KEOUGH
The heartfelt parable?
Movies about actual people, or for that matter actual horses, hardly ever give you the unvarnished truth. That?s the case in 2003, and it was even more so back in 1949, when
The Story of Seabiscuit
came out. Directed by David Butler, who did the Walter Brennan horse-racing films
Kentucky
and
Glory
, it [...]
Sep
6
Dracula II: Ascension review
September 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment
A handful years ago Dimension Films gave us "Dracula 2000," a so so entry in the vampire field that only die-complex fans of the category must must liked. "Dracula II: Ascension" is its direct-to-video sequel. You figure out like a light if it's worth it.
Again, Wes Craven ("Nightmare on Elm Terrace," "Scream") lends [...]
Sep
5
A vehicle for the astonishing …
September 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment
A vehicle destined for the astonishing manners of 'breaking' in which athletic types perform as if they were having a molar drilled without anesthetic while being simultaneously kneecapped…all to that disco beat. On the athletic constant alone it trashes Flashdance into the boards, and the film's three heroes, Dickey, Shabba-Doo and Boogaloo-Shrimp (Oscars all round, [...]