Gil Mansergh’s Cinema Toast New Releases 3/27/09 Monsters vs. Aliens (PG-13)Starring the voices of : Reese Witherspoon, Hugh Laurie, Will Arnett, Seth RogenDirector: Conrad Vernon, Rob LetterIf you remember classics like: “The Creature from the Black Lagoon,” “The Blob,” “The Fly,” and “Attack of the 50-Foot Woman” (which I admit my best friend and I traveled all the way to South San Francisco to see in the faint … Read More »

Gil Mansergh’s Cinema Toast New Releases 3/20/09 Duplicity (PG-13)Starring: Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Tom Wilkinson, Paul GiamattiDirector: Tony GilroyThe film opens with a James Bondish scene where a British secret agent attends a formal party in Dubai and ends up in bed with beautiful foreign spy (American this time) only to find her dead in the morning—ooops—she isn’t dead, she’s just gone, and she stole the top secret papers the Brit was … Read More »

Gil Mansergh’s Cinema Toast New Releases 3/13/09 The Last House on the Left (R)Starring: Tony Goldwyn, Monica Potter, Sara Paxton, Garret DillahuntDirector: Dennis IliadisWes Craven started his directorial career with the original 1972 version (said to be inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s “Virgin Spring” no less). It opens with a family of backwoods crazies raping and abandoning a teen girl. The rapists then unknowingly take refuge in the house of the girl’s parents, … Read More »

Friends of ArtQuest & Rialto Cinemas Lakeside Invite You to Rediscover: The acclaimed and Groundbreaking Movie Musical West Side Story I will be introducing the Academy Award-winning “West Side Story” as a Special Event Movie Fundraiser for ARTQUEST at the Rialto Cinemas (Summerfield Road, Santa Rosa) this Thursday evening March 12. The donation ($35 adults, $15 students) includes the pre-show reception with … Read More »

Gil Mansergh’s Cinema Toast New Releases 3/06/09 Watchmen (R)Starring: Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla GuginoDirector: Zack SnyderIn this alternative universe. by 1985, presidential term limits have been abolished and costumed vigilantes patrol the streets. Now imagine that a really murderous bad guy should appear (he’s called The Comedian, and he’s like The Joker after eight trips to Starbucks). But somebody kills The Comedian, so super vigilante Dr. Manhattan (Bill Crudup … Read More »