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Review: 'New Moon' is better than 'Twilight,' but...
Sexier, darker and funnier, "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" rises well above the anemic 2008 film version of Stephenie Meyer's first novel with...
Oakland Tribune, 11/19/09 by Randy Myers · More from publication -
Review: '2012' is a great ride -- and funny
SHOULD THE WORLD kick it come 2012, let's hope it goes out in the crazy, grandiose fashion director Roland Emmerich imagines. The apocalypse...
Oakland Tribune, 11/12/09 by Randy Myers · More from publication -
Review: 'Christmas Carol' saved by Jim Carrey, visual razzmatazz
Disney's excessively hyped "A Christmas Carol" brings Dickensian details to such sumptuous life that you mostly forgive it for possessing a...
Oakland Tribune, 11/05/09 by Randy Myers · More from publication -
Review: 'Amelia' biopic flies off-course
LEGENDARY PILOT Amelia Earhart frequently failed to hit her intended target. During her landmark 1928 transatlantic flight with pilot Wilmer...
Oakland Tribune, 10/22/09 by Randy Myers · More from publication -
Grimm and read it, 'Peter & Max' is an adult fairy tale worth
Writers tinkering with classic children's lit are hardly a unique phenomenon. In "The Graveyard Book," fantasy writer Neil Gaiman inventively...
Oakland Tribune, 10/07/09 by Randy Myers · More from publication -
Review: 'Capitalism' will probably make you "mad as hell"
In the brilliant 1976 film "Network," suicidal TV newsman Howard Beale commands viewers to get off their duffs, raise the windows and shout, "I'm...
Oakland Tribune, 09/30/09 by Randy Myers · More from publication -
Review: Jane Campion's 'Bright Star' spotlights classic romance
'BRIGHT STAR' is like an ice plunge for anyone who's been bingeing on summer movies such as "G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra." The pace is slow and...
Oakland Tribune, 09/17/09 by Randy Myers · More from publication -
Review: Give 'Whiteout' the cold shoulder
WITHIN 10 minutes of the glacially paced "Whiteout," Kate Beckinsale sheds her parka and white underthings to take one of those hilarious cinematic...
Oakland Tribune, 09/09/09 by Randy Myers · More from publication -
Review: 'Inglourious Basterds' gloriously entertaining
Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" is just itching to make that leap from screen to Broadway, complete with its bloody Nazi scalpings and...
Oakland Tribune, 08/19/09 by Randy Myers · More from publication -
Review: Judd Apatow's un-'Funny People' good vehicle for Adam
IN THE sporadically funny and obscenely long "Funny People," we learn that rich comedians lead unfulfilled lives that even a brush with death might...
Oakland Tribune, 07/29/09 by Randy Myers · More from publication
