All posts tagged Movies

by Raj Ranade UC Berkeley film scholar Fareed Ben-Youssef and I argue some about the latest film from Paul Thomas Anderson (click here for The Master review/exegesis) and get

BY BRIAN GARDNER Clint Eastwood’s empty chair  has a cameo in his latest movie Trouble with the Curve.   As the aging baseball scout Gus (played by Eastwood) begins

by Raj Ranade In honor of the release of The Dark Knight Rises, my friend Fareed Ben-Youssef, a film scholar at UC Berkeley, and I decided to revive an

by Raj Ranade The fussiness is what people love, or love to hate, about the movies of director Wes Anderson: the immaculate retro tailoring, the clockwork regularity of arch one-liners,

Ace will host an advance Sneak Preview of Spiderman on Monday July 2 at Cinemark Fayette Mall at 7:30 pm. Remember, your downloadable pass does not guarantee admission —

by Raj Ranade It’s hard not to think of Avatar while watching Ridley Scott’s new film Prometheus, and not just because the eerie humanoid in the film’s opening scene

In the Water Lexington-born boys George Clooney and Michael Shannon steal the holiday indie show by Raj Ranade The Oscar movie season is in a unique state of chaos this year,