Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Theo Lawrence, the Dead Coats, Doug Kershaw, Immolation, Action Bronson, Earl Sweatshirt, and Conan Gray

"...Friday 25 – Saturday 26, Continental Club..."

Feb. 25, 2022 Music Column by Abby Johnston

Greed

Winterbottom and Coogan reunite to lampoon billionaires but the one-percenters won't flinch

"...on its back. Winterbottom and his fellow screenwriter Sean Gray might have found better results by letting the script..."

March 6, 2020 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Black Panther

High drama and high action as Marvel gives Wakanda life.

"...the true nature of heroism in a seemingly morally gray world. Moreover, it is dense with political allegory, and..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Amanda & Jack Go Glamping

A couple try to reignite their marriage

"...something like that for the titular couple in Amanda & Jack Go Glamping, written and directed by Brandon Dickerson..."

Nov. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

RTX Animation Festival Premieres Powerhouse's Castlevania

Rooster Teeth's Gray G. Haddock on the "new golden age of animation"

"...time away from phones, tablets, or TVs. That's why Gray G. Haddock, head of animation at Austin's Rooster Teeth..."

July 7, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Hitchcock/Truffaut

Go behind the groundbreaking book of interviews; a must for cinephiles

"...Fincher, Richard Linklater, Arnaud Desplechin, Wes Anderson, and James Gray are among those who sat for his camera. While..."

Feb. 26, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Coming Home

Zhang Yimou's latest is a family drama set against the winds of history

"...Set against the gray backdrop of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, this is old-school melodrama..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I Origins

The director of 2011's Another Earth is back with a another appealing yet fuzzy story about rift between empiricism and spiritualism.

"...is cast against type as molecular biologist Dr. Ian Gray (those eyeglasses rest on his face with the same..."

July 25, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Locke

In this bravura movie, Tom Hardy plays a man who tries to mend the unraveling threads of his life while behind the wheel of a car for 85 minutes.

"...drives alone on an at-first mysterious mission. The little gray cells (not to mention those tiny, intuitive hairs on..."

May 16, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

Steve Carell and Steve Buscemi play squabbling old-school magicians whose reign on the Vegas strip is threatened by a daring stunt magician played by Jim Carrey.

"...Competition has come calling in the guise of Steve Gray (Carrey), a snarky, long-haired street magician who practices sensationalistic..."

March 15, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Big Miracle

Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski star in this fact-based story that shows us that whales are mammals too.

"...account of an actual 1988 rescue operation of three gray whales trapped in ice near Point Barrow, Alaska, is..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Don't Fear the Reaper

Chris Gray faces the Grim Reaper and lives to tell

"...On Friday, October 28, 2011, Chris Gray died in Houston. OUR Chris Gray, age 36, former..."

Nov. 3, 2011 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Pow, Right in the Face!

Laura Spector and Chadwick Gray get all personal with art

"...Laura Spector and Chadwick Gray go around the world, scouting for forgotten 19th-century artworks..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Design Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Adjustment Bureau

Based on a Philip K. Dick story, this multilayered romantic thriller stars Matt Damon and Emily Blunt.

"...random, over and over. Enter the men in the gray flannel suits: mysterious members of the titular bureaucracy, who..."

March 4, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Salt

Salt reboots the cinematic cloaks and daggers of the Cold War espionage thriller.

"...the character of Evelyn Salt with multiple shades of gray – "is she or isn't she?" multiplied by the..."

July 23, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Edge of Darkness

This thriller marks a middling comeback for Mad Mel Gibson

"...pitted age lines overcast by a small sprinkling of gray hair. He seems chastened – Catholic imagery is all..."

Jan. 29, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Angels & Demons

The chase is on, but there's no Holy Grail to be found in this suspenseless trail of decoded symbols.

"...handicap of a modified bob. Langdon returns in Angels & Demons, another Roman Catholic Church conspiracy piece from bestseller..."

May 15, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Fireproof

God helps a firefighter, played by Kirk Cameron, to repair his marriage.

"...its finest, storytelling for a world entirely devoid of gray areas or ethical hierarchies, a world where hatred is..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Young@Heart

Even though this documentary about a choral group of lovable octogenarians whose perform songs by Sonic Youth and the Talking Heads sounds gimmicky, it is really about something to which we can all relate: our own mortality.

"...different (often tongue-in-cheek) meaning when sung by someone with gray hair and wrinkles. Young@Heart more than subtly suggests that..."

April 18, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Frances McDormand's Miss Pettigrew is an unemployed nanny who bluffs her way into a job as the "social secretary" for the brain-dead, proto-fashionista, Yank-on-holiday starlet Delysia Lafosse, played by Amy Adams.

"...pair of dramatic archetypes, the radiant flibbertigibbet and the gray, lumpen elder spinster, in a lightweight bit of piffle..."

March 7, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Persepolis

This remarkable animated film tells a contemporary story about an Iranian girl’s coming-of-age while navigating the usual pitfalls of adolescence and the Islamic revolution of the Eighties.

"...in her love for Bruce Lee, Nikes, and rock & roll. Then, in short measure, she witnesses the fall..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

'Major League Baseball 2K7' for the Xbox 360 Fails to Reach Nirvana

"...upset that Chronicle Music writer and baseball blogger Christopher Gray is finally able to consistently kick my ass on..."

March 29, 2007 Sports Post by Mark Fagan

The Lives of Others

This recent Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film is the story of the small redemption of one man, who happens to be a hated East German Stasi officer.

"...Berlin now that spring is here: The buildings are gray, the birds are chirping, and the Stasi – the..."

March 2, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Children of Men

Children of Men brims with cinematic gusto, but the plot raises more questions than it answers.

"...New World) do a stunning job of creating this gray-bombed-out universe devoid of joy and hope while providing visceral..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Pulse

Pulse, the American remake of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2001 horror film Kairo, is the McDonald's Unhappy Meal to the original's elegantly obtuse sashimi o' sorrow.

"...other people, who are either committing suicide or turning gray and eventually vanishing. From there on out, it's Dexter..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Battle in Heaven

Hot new Mexican director Carlos Reygadas is back with his second feature which pushes his unflinching imagery into provocative realms.

"...is in sync with the constancy of the dull gray sky overhead, can make it a hard story to..."

April 7, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Sea Inside

Moving chronicle of the real-life 30-year battle waged by paraplegic Ramón Sampedro (played by Javier Bardem) to end his life.

"...Open Your Eyes) sincerely explore in this scene the gray areas of the right-to-die argument. Understandably, a filmmaker tackling..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Carandiru

In prison in Brazil is a woeful place to be.

"...of near-medieval proportions serves to make life inside those gray walls, if not altogether better, at least a shade..."

July 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Godzilla

This is the original and uncut version of the 1954 Japanese monster picture.

"...because the Big Green One is, in fact, mottled gray, or in any way as fascinatingly, by turns, friendly,..."

July 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Around the World in 80 Days

Jackie Chan finally emerges as plausible English-language star in this international romp that's as light as a hot-air balloon.

"...the others (like the cameos of John Cleese, Macy Gray, and Rob Schneider) seem altogether gratuitous. Around the World..."

June 18, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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