Search Results
584 Search Results found for:
January 01, 1990 - November 15, 2012 + Film Reviews
My Dog Tulip; Carlos 
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/fr/fr101022my_dog_tulip_carlos
Dog lovers of the world -- or at least of selected American cities -- here's one for you: My Dog Tulip, which is playing at...
RED; Hereafter
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/fr/fr101015red_hereafter
Only in Hollywood is someone seriously old at 55, but this is the underlying notion of RED, and it works like a well-worm charm...
Matt Damon...
Nowhere Boy; Secretariat
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/fr/fr101008nowhere_boy_secretar
Nowhere Boy is a dramatized account of the young John Lennon -- who would have turned 70 tomorrow. It's a modest film, and an enjoyable...
The Social Network
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/fr/fr101001the_social_network
The Social Network is all about Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, who's played by Jesse Eisenberg.... It's dazzling as contemporary cultural history, and devastating...
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps; Waiting for Superman
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/fr/fr100924wall_street_money_ne
Michael Douglas' Gordon Gekko leaves prison at the beginning of Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps -- he served eight years for crimes committed...
Easy A; The Town
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/fr/fr100917easy_a_the_town
Why am I so pleased with the new high school comedy Easy A? Because the movie, in spite of a few flaws, seems to have...
Telluride Film Festival
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/fr/fr100910telluride_film_festi
Every year I go to the Telluride Film Festival with the same fervent hope -- to put the summer's junk behind me and recharge my...
The Tillman Story; Soul Kitchen
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/fr/fr100827the_tillman_story_so
A new documentary called The Tillman Story is actually three stories in one...
Soul Kitchen, made by the German-born Turkish filmmaker Fatih Akin, is a delirious...
Mao's Last Dancer
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/fr/fr100820maos_last_dancer
Sometimes the best way to see a movie is knowing nothing about the plot. At other times, a sense of what's to come increases the...
Cairo Time; The Other Guys
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/fr/fr100806cairo_time_the_other
For quite a lot of time, the new film Cairo Time seems to be just a pretext for the camera to follow Patricia Clarkson around...
The Kids Are All Right
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/fr/fr100709the_kids_are_all_rig
The Kids Are All Right is a thrillingly funny and casually profound film that Lisa Cholodenko directed from a script she wrote with Stuart Blumberg....
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse; The Last Airbender
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/fr/fr100702the_twilight_saga_ec
You'd never guess what the best part of the new Twilight saga turns out to be. It isn't blood-sucking monsters doing their thing, though there's...
Toy Story 3
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/fr/fr100618toy_story_3
While the entertainment conglomerates have been churning out ever cheesier sequels, Pixar has been the Fort Knox of honest feelings, and so it remains. Fifteen...
Winter's Bone
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/fr/fr100611winters_bone
Instead of belaboring this week's pseudo-spectacular offerings from the studios -- a mediocre remake of The Karate Kid and a benumbing big-screen version of the...
Splice; Ondine
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/fr/fr100604splice_ondine
Joe Morgenstern, film critic for the Wall Street Journal, reviews Splice and Ondine.
