February 28th, 2009 02:17pm
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WONDERS ARE MANY:
THE MAKING OF “DR. ATOMIC”ByGil Mansergh
When people hear I am a movie critic, they often ask: “Does that mean you get to see the movies for free?” The short answer is “Yes.” The long answer is a little more complex. For as much as I enjoy films, watching movies is my job, and each year, I regularly screen about three hundred films for my newspaper columns, radio …
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February 27th, 2009 08:56pm
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Gil Mansergh’s Cinema Toast
New Releases 2/27/09
The Jonas Brothers 3-D Concert Experience (G)Starring: Joe Jonas, Nick Jonas, Kevin JonasDirector: Bruce HendricksI guess the Disney folks are hoping tween fans won’t notice how inferior this concert doc really is, but they shouldn’t be so complacent. Last year’s Miley Cyrus film was a thousand times better, and this age group is fickle. This grandpa noticed that the only adult we see is the …
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February 20th, 2009 02:31pm
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New Releases 2/20/09Fired Up (PG-13)Starring: Sarah Roemer, Molly Sims, Annalynne McCord, John Michael HigginsDirector: Will GluckSaddled with a PG-13 rating, the filmmakers can’t quite decide if this film is a parody of the sexist and homophobic type of teen comedy in which two guys who believe the word “cheerleader” translates as “nymphomaniac,” dress up as females to SCORE BIG TIME at cheerleader camp, or an emasculated example …
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February 19th, 2009 02:00pm
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THE 2ND SEBASTOPOL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVALBy Gil Mansergh
I’ve had the joy of working as the “Film Critic in Residence,” with the enthusiastic and hard-working Program Committee for this year’s Doc-Fest in Sebastopol, and can truthfully say that this event is really outstanding.
“Film festivals have their own personalities,” says Jason Perdue, program director of this year’s Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival (SDFF). “I recently returned from Sundance, and I can say …
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February 13th, 2009 08:56pm
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New Releases 2/13/09
Confessions of a Shopaholic (PG)Starring: Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Joan Cusack, John GoodmanDirector: P.J. HoganDirected by an Australian whose last hit was in 1995, this so-called comedy seems 18 years out of date. The plot involves a young woman whose entire life revolves around buying things “not because she needs them but she loves to shop. In other words, this film has the excesses …
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February 6th, 2009 01:36pm
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New Releases 2/06/09
Coraline (PG)Voices of: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Keith DavidDirector: Henry SelickTim Burton’s stop-motion animator tries it on his own (and does it in 3-D as well). The story is based on Neal Gaiman’s popular children’s book about a little girl who moves to a new house and finds a parallel universe on the other side of the living room wall. Adults …
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