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San Antonio's Theater Scene is Long on Space, Short on Productions

San Antonio's Theater Scene is Long on Space, Short on Productions

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  • Film Review: Star Trek into Darkness Abrams’ second reboot goes where we’ve all been before, but boldly. | 5/17/2013
  • Film Review: The Great Gatsby Even with the 3-D dazzle, this latest Gatsby still falls flat. | 5/10/2013
  • Film Review: Peeples The Typical Tyler Perry crap is offered for your viewing displeasure. | 5/10/2013
  • Film Review: The Reluctant Fundamentalist A disaffected Pakistani immigrant shows off his schadenfreude after 9/11. | 5/8/2013
  • Film Review: The Numbers Station John Cusack makes a likable protagonist in this otherwise derivative and disposable spy flick. | 4/26/2013
  • Film Review: Oblivion This sci-fi clunker could be when Tom Cruise finally jumps the shark  and every other ocean creature. | 4/19/2013
  • Pass the Popcorn A Guide to the Choicest of Stoner Movies. | 4/17/2013
  • Film Review 42: The True Story of an American Legend Jackie Robinson biopic has winning performances and zero errors | 4/12/2013
  • Film Review: Jurassic Park: An IMAX 3D Experience Geriatric Dinos Will Still Delight. After 20 years, the watershed CG movie Jurassic Park gets an IMAX makeover for the next generation. | 4/10/2013
  • Film Review: The Sapphires An Upper from Down Under. Aboriginal girl band gets discovered, repackaged then shipped off to a gig in ‘Nam. You’ll love it! | 4/10/2013
  • Film Review: The Host Occupy me. Sci-fi ‘possessed by aliens’ premise suffers from a botched script | 3/28/2013
  • 'Spring Breakers,' as brainy as a beer bong There is a long and colorful tradition of teen crime-spree films loaded with guns, wild music, booze, and always ample helpings of sex: all designed to generate... | 3/27/2013
  • Film Review: Beware of Mr. Baker Different drum. Volatile, blunt, violent and self-destructive, Ginger Baker still fascinates in new doc | 3/27/2013
  • It's Official: 'On the Road' is Unfilmable Jack Kerouac’s rambling, poetic, salacious and spiritual semi-autobiographic opus has always been on the short list of great American novels that have been... | 3/26/2013
  • Film Review: On the Road Beat it. Film finally takes on the unfilmable Great American Novel, with mixed results | 3/22/2013
  • Film Review: Olympus Has Fallen Armageddon outtahere! This ridiculous actioner about a president taken hostage is a ton of big, dumb fun. | 3/22/2013
  • Film Review: Admission Making the grade. Romantic dramedy just barely squeaks by, thanks to enjoyable star performances | 3/20/2013
  • 'Spring Breakers' New Harmony Korine flick just another in a long list of yawners about rebellious young'uns | 3/20/2013
  • 'Admission' Tina Fey's lukewarm dramedy gets a B-minus | 3/20/2013
  • Film Review: Spring Breakers Harmony Korine’s sunshine thriller is primed for shock value, but fizzles instead | 3/20/2013
  • Film Review: Dead Man Down Riddled with revenge. Brain-boggling vengeance thriller poses more mysteries than it solves | 3/13/2013
  • Film Review: Emperor Winning the peace. New film sees theatrical general as a master performer who won over a conquered Japan | 3/13/2013
  • Film Review: Greedy Lying Bastards Fired-up filmmaker produces a doc on the flacks who cloud the discussion about climate change. | 3/11/2013
  • Comedian Bill Burr brings his prickly energy to Royal Oak Anger is an energy | 3/6/2013
  • ‘Chasing Ice’ presents visually stunning proof of climate change Climate change skepticism stubbornly persists in certain quarters, despite mountains of rapidly growing scientific data, largely because... | 3/1/2013
  • Film Review: 21 and Over Chug-a-lug. Bodily fluids, property damage, hot girls and drunken abandon — that’s college! | 3/1/2013
  • Film Review: Koch To the core. Documentary captures essence of Big Apple’s former mayor | 2/27/2013
  • Film Review: Snitch Being big. Johnson shows range in a film that’s not as big, dumb and loud as usual | 2/22/2013
  • Film Review: Safe Haven Going south. Nicholas Sparks’ cliché-riddled film is weak sauce indeed | 2/13/2013
  • Review: Identity Thief Best of enemies. This anti-buddy flick is a confounding muddle of insults, violence and pratfalls | 2/8/2013
  • Review: Stand Up Guys Geezers are pleasers. Old pros Walken and Pacino deliver the goods as aging crooks | 2/4/2013
  • Review: HANSEL & GRETEL Cautionary tale. Big, dumb and loud, this 3-D adaptation is an absurd mishmash | 1/30/2013
  • Review: The Last Stand Sump you up. Ah-nold returns in mindless stink fest. | 1/18/2013
  • Review: Broken City Looking for a fix. Political thriller both convoluted and too predictable | 1/18/2013
  • Review: Rust and Bone Odd love story features a kickboxer and legless sex | 1/16/2013
  • Zero Dark Thirty Journey to the dark side — The director of The Hurt Lockercrafts another moody examination of the complicated wages of war | 1/9/2013
  • Cut to the Chase MT chats with Not Fade Away's writer-director | 1/9/2013
  • 'Zero Dark Thirty': A moody examination on the greatest manhunt in history For over a decade, the war on terror has been relentlessly waged at any cost in lives, time, or resources, though as posited by director Kathryn Bigelow’s... | 1/9/2013
  • Critical review A look at the good, the bad and the complicated from our film writers | 1/2/2013
  • Les Misérables From sprawling novel to massive Broadway musical to the big screen — it's all a bit much to pack into one movie | 12/26/2012
  • This Is 40 Apatow's latest is overly long, overly crude and overly whiney | 12/26/2012
  • Parental Guidance Meet the grandparents — Crystal and Midler pull out the stops, but the material is downright lackluster | 12/21/2012
  • Hyde Park on the Hudson That rascally Roosevelt — Presidential potentcy and hand jobs | 12/20/2012
  • Playing for Keeps Soccer moms are easy — This former star athlete can still score | 12/12/2012
  • Searching for Sugar Man Documentary explores the mystery behind the enigmatic musician Sixto Rodriguez | 12/5/2012
  • Starlet Friendship in pornland — An unlikely pairing against a tawdry backdrop | 12/3/2012
  • Chasing Ice The ice is melting, the ice is melting — And the photographer documenting it is no Chicken Little | 12/3/2012
  • Joe Wright attempts to slap a new facade on an old 'Anna Karenina' barn Does Tolstoy really matter anymore? Directors regularly attempt to plunder the great master's musty catalog, among which the sweaty, love-drenched Anna... | 11/28/2012
  • Opening this week The Collection, Killing Them Softly | 11/28/2012
  • Anna Karenina Unhappy in its own way — Ill-fated effort tries jamming one of history's great novels into 130 minutes | 11/26/2012
  • Red Dawn The commies are coming! — Nothing makes much sense in this reheated Cold War epic | 11/21/2012
  • Silver Linings Playbook Hooray for quality — Here's proof Hollywood can still deliver | 11/21/2012
  • Rise of the Guardians Saving innocence — Justice doers do it for the kids | 11/21/2012
  • Silver Linings Playbook Silver Linings Playbook proves that high-quality, mainstream entertainment for grown-ups has not yet perished | 11/21/2012
  • A Late Quartet Strung out — Is a famous quartet at the end of its rope? | 11/16/2012
  • The Flat Grandma's Nazi friends — And for a Zionist, that's really weird | 11/16/2012
  • Wreck-It Ralph Back to the arcade — Disney's bid to bridge the nostalgia gap mostly is a great deal of fun | 11/5/2012
  • Flight Flying high — Denzel soars as strung-out pilot | 11/5/2012
  • Fun Size Misadventures in babysitting — Chelsea Handler, Johnny Knoxville not enough to save this party | 10/31/2012
  • The Other Dream Team Free throw — Lithuania vs. the U.S.S.R. at the Olympics | 10/31/2012
  • Alex Cross Madea is not on the case — Tyler Perry trades the housecoat for a badge and a shotgun | 10/19/2012
  • Sinister Turn on the damn lights — Horror flick filled with shadowy tropes | 10/17/2012
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower Bring on the freaks — Coming of age with fringe kids | 10/3/2012
  • Pitch Perfect Bring it off — Teen fluff we've all seen before, but done with, um, spirit | 10/3/2012
  • Hotel Transylvania Monster mush — Despite great visuals and dream characters, this campy creature feature lacks originality | 10/3/2012
  • Double classic Horror-suspense of The Birds meets the historic elegance of the Redford | 9/26/2012
  • Trouble With the Curve No curveballs — Eastwood stars in ballpark vehicle that covers its bases | 9/21/2012
  • The road to Detropia A few words with the co-director | 9/19/2012
  • Arbitrage Prick in a pickle — Gere's a genius: He makes us care | 9/14/2012
  • Sleepwalk With Me Fears of a clown — Confessions of a struggling comic | 9/12/2012
  • 360 Around the world — Globetrotting drama portrays a world that is less than the sum of its parts | 9/5/2012
  • Celeste & Jesse Forever Rom-com, minor twist — nothing like divorce for a little perspective | 8/29/2012
  • 2 Days in New York Meet the Frenchies — Corn Flakes vs. croissants in cross-cultural farce | 8/29/2012
  • Hit and Run Fun on the Road — Maybe — but not so much for the audience | 8/22/2012
  • Sparkle Nostalgia & disappointment — The singing convinces — it's the script that's off-key | 8/17/2012
  • The Odd Life of Timothy Green The last schmaltz— Cringe-inducing pap never misses a chance to be cutesy | 8/15/2012
  • The Campaign A big, dumb farce about a pair of noisy, feuding, immature politicians | 8/10/2012
  • Free associating with Sixto Rodriguez Long MIA, a rock shaman returns to connect the dots | 8/8/2012
  • Searching for Sugar Man Fame and obscurity— How Sixto Rodriguez was finally discovered by his fans | 8/8/2012
  • Total Recall Less than memorable— Visual feast, intellectual famine in remake | 8/3/2012
  • Ruby Sparks Novel situation— Girlfriend escapes the page to ride an emotional roller-coaster | 8/3/2012
  • The Watch There goes the 'neighborhood'— A silly little flick collides with the news | 8/1/2012
  • Ted Family bear — Seth MacFarlane doesn't do cuddles | 6/28/2012
  • The Amazing Spider-Man Return of the tingles — Reboot gets to the root of Spidey fascination | 6/28/2012
  • Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter | 6/23/2012
  • Where Do We Go Now? Cross-cultural traffic — Give peace a Lebanese, feminist musical | 6/22/2012
  • Rock of Ages Here we go again - A Broadway hits loses its charm on the big screen | 6/20/2012
  • Seeking a Friend for the End of the World Not with a bang ... but with Steve Carrell and Keira Knightley on a road trip | 6/20/2012
  • Safety Not Guaranteed Quirky comedy involves a time machine — among other odd touches | 6/20/2012
  • Turn Me On, Dammit! Teenage lament - A empathetic sexual tale of a hormonal 15-year-old girl | 6/13/2012
  • Peace, Love & Misunderstanding Little bong hit - What's so funny about corn, pap and caterwauling? | 6/11/2012
  • Men In Black 3 Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith and Josh Brolin make a manufactured franchise extender sing | 5/25/2012
  • Man-up Super Size Me's Morgan Spurlock tackles dude vanity with a bunch of jokers in Mansome | 5/23/2012
  • Darling Companion Who’s a good boy? — Lawrence Kasdan coughs up more boomer frolic | 5/17/2012
  • Mansome Fresh balls — Droll commentary on the idea of male pampering | 5/17/2012
  • First Position Grand jeté — Overdriven parents or overachieving children? | 5/17/2012
  • The Dictator International despot - A satire involving abduction, some torture, rape and terrorist-themed video games | 5/16/2012
  • Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Welcome to Jaipur! - Loneliness, depression, homesickness, lost loves and chemically enhanced horniness | 5/11/2012
  • The Avengers: Critic vs. Critic MT critics Meyers and Hall get all Avengers on each other | 5/4/2012
  • The Avengers Super sizin' - This company of heroes wows with All-American flair | 5/4/2012