Film

• Movie Review: ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ entertains with tricks in time ()
• Cinequest: ‘Beresina or The Last Days of Switzerland’ ()
• Movie Review: Julie & Julia is part french cuisine masterpiece and part overcrowded mushrooms ()
• In Review: ‘Crazy Like a Fox’ cunningly wins you over ()
• Soon-to-be parents look for home in ‘Away We Go’, find laughs, hippies, destiny ()
• Movie review: Bottle Shock (2008) proves wine alone does not make for great spectacle ()
• Film review: ‘The Last Lullaby’ delivers — Director Jeffrey Goodman one to watch ()
• Movie Review: ‘Angels & Demons’, San Francisco preview with Quintessa wines ()
• Cinequest Film Festival: ‘The Least Among You’ screening and maverick spirit award for Louis Gossett Jr. ()
• ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ review: Clever and energetic with Bollywood dancing included ()
• ‘The Happening’: Being chased by wind and talking to plants marks another low for M. Night ()
• ‘The Dark Knight’ combines epic storytelling, visceral action and Joker redux ()
• In Review: ‘The House Bunny’, predictably fluffy ()
• In Review: ‘Groundhog Day’ reveals the meaning of life in a single day ()
• In Review: ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’ provides some unforgettable laughs ()
• Joan Crawford’s All Dressed Up with Ax, Wig and Mascara and People to See in 1964’s ‘Straight-Jacket’ ()
• ‘Quantum of Solace’ (2008) Review: James Bond’s Return to Form Short-Lived ()
• ‘A Clockwork Orange’ (Blu-Ray) Review – A Simple Story Told in Outlandish Kubrick Style ()
• ‘Cloverfield’ (Blu-Ray) Review – Blair Witch Meets War Of the Worlds in Successful MTV-Style Thrill Ride ()
• ‘The Art of Travel’ – Review from San Jose Cinequest Film Festival ()
• Movie Night or How I Spent My 4th of July
• The Top 10 Horror Movies of All-Time

Theater and Stage

• Theater Review: ‘Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West’ is wondrously inventive ()
• RealD 3D at Cinequest: Now I’m a believer
• Film Review: ‘The Ferrari Dino Girl’
• Theatre Review: ‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle’ World Premiere throws many curve balls for the senses ()
• Film Review: ‘Peepers’ a bare butt buffet of laughs
• Film Review: ‘Applause (Applaus)’
• Film Review: ‘Life in One Day (Het leven uit een dag)’
• Film Review: ‘Kill the Habit’
• Film Review: ‘The Bone Man’ an Austrian Fargo with German cars and a twist
• Theater Review: ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll’ at The Stage is substantive and ambitious ()
• Film Review: ‘FrICTION’ a clever “fourth wall” film
• Film Review: ‘Cooking History’ the ultimate Food Network and The History Channel mash-up
• Film Review: ‘Raspberry Magic’
• Film Review: ‘The Tijuana Project’
• Theater Review: Alfaro unleashes the full poignancy of ‘Oedipus el Rey’ at Magic’s World Premiere ()
• Film Review: ‘Passenger Side’
• Film Review: ‘Paulista (Quanto Dura o Amor?)’
• Film Review: ‘Little Fish, Strange Pond’ with Mathew Modine
• Theater review: ‘Animals Out of Paper’ unfolds beautifully at SF Playhouse ()
• Theater review: Irish storytelling in ‘The Weir’ haunts, mesmerizes ()
• Theater Review: ‘The First Grade’ a most con·ge·nial play ()
• Theater review: Making sense of loss in ‘Rabbit Hole’ ()
• Shel Silverstein Lights up the Dragon Theatre ()
• ‘Daddy Long Legs’ warms the heart ()
• Theater review: ‘Dead Man Walking’ premieres at City Lights Theater in San Jose ()
• Theater review: ‘Bermuda Avenue Triangle’ the funniest ménage à trois you’ll ever see ()
• Theater review: Berkeley Rep’s ‘Coming Home’ is touching, sobering and wonderful ()
• Theater review: ‘Phèdre’ classy and unflinching, Seana McKenna shines ()
• Theater review: Puppets gone wild at ‘Avenue Q’ @broadwaysanjose ()
• Theater review: ‘Speed-the-Plow’ brimming with intense, smart dialog at The Pear Theatre ()
• ‘It Might Get Loud’ … and you’ll love it (film review) ()
• Cinequest film review: Library politics meets goth in dark comedy ‘Shelf Life’ ()
• Broadway San Jose: ‘Riverdance’ throws a party of dance, song and music, Irish-style ()
• Theater review: ‘Cinderella’ enchants, casts magical spell of non-stop laugher for entire family ()
• Theater review: ‘Yes Sweet Can’ inspires with artistic circus act in San Francisco ()
• Theater review: A bee-hive rockin’ Christmas in Berkeley ()
• Cinequest film: ‘Batad’ a heart-warming story of honor, loyalty and tradition ()
• Theater review: ‘Aurelia’s Oratorio’ at Berkeley Rep dazzles with quirky charm ()
• Theater review: ‘A Christmas Carol’ at ACT is a smash hit! ()
• Theater review: ‘A Civil War Christmas’ a classy, historic celebration ()
• Theater review: ‘Another Night Before Christmas’ at City Lights Theatre, San Jose ()
• Theater review: You’ll shoot your eye out with laughter at ‘A Christmas Story’ #ACStory ()
• Theater review: ‘The Wizard of Oz’ at Berkeley Playhouse, first class family entertainment ()
• Theater review: ‘The Seafarer’ at San Jose Stage Company ()
• Theater review: ‘She Stoops to Comedy’ West Coast premiere at SF Playhouse ()
• Theater review: Side Man, singing the Blues at the Dragon Theatre ()
• Theater review: ‘FAT PIG’ a captivating take on self-image in America ()
• San Francisco Opera: Verdi’s ‘Otello’ intoxicates with jealousy and glorious arias ()
• ‘Mrs. Whitney’ delights with humor while devulging love’s desperation ()
• Theater review: ‘November’ a turkey ()
• Theater review: ‘The Bald Soprano’ an acid trip in the Tenderloin, how curious! ()
• Theater review: ‘Spring Awakening’ delivers Broadway hit to San Jose in style ()
• ‘Steel Magnolias’ celebrates the trust and friendship of women and the importance of great hair ()
• Theater review: ‘The Creature’ an unbelievably good story ()
• Theater review: ‘Tiny Kushner’ a cerebral five course meal served by a master chef ()
• Cinequest film: ‘Fandom’ a twisted journey ()
• Theater review: ‘Groundswell’ a frothing thriller set to full boil ()
• Theater review: ‘Goldfish’ West Coast premiere at Magic Theatre ()
• Theater review: ‘The Chosen’ an ideological evening ()
• Theater review: ‘The Glass Menagerie’ at Coastal Repertory Theatre ()
• Theater review: ‘First Day of School’ brings laughs ()
• Theater review: ‘The Pillowman’ a horrifically good time ()
• Theater review: ‘American Idiot’ an energetic journey with confused purpose ()
• ‘The Last Days of Judas Iscariot’: Wickedly hilarious and provocatively profound ()
• Theater review: ‘Brief Encounter’ a masterful composition of classic cinema and theater ()
• Theater review: ‘Awake and Sing!’ pulls no punches ()
• ‘As You Like It’: New season, new artistic director and new look at a Shakespeare classic ()
• Theater review: ‘The Memory of Water’ in Palo Alto ()
• Cinequest short: ‘Fumi and the Bad Luck Foot’ ()
• Theater review: ‘Yellow Face’ an entertaining look at race in America ()
• Review: ‘Falling’ does well with limited Indie budget ()
• Amargosa: Strength of creative spirit amidst the desert ()
• Theater review: ‘Tommy’ at Coastal Repertory Theatre in Half Moon Bay ()
• In Review: ‘Crazy Like a Fox’ cunningly wins you over ()
• Theater review: SF Playhouse ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ captures emotion, oppression, spirit ()
• Theater review: ‘Peter Pan’ musical is Berkeley’s sun, moon and stars ()
• ‘Tinyard Hill’ Premiere: Summer love, grand aspirations in small town Georgia ()
• Theater Review: ‘Tommy’, an energetic evening with the pinball wizard ()
• The Second City at SJ Rep showcases best of improv and sketch comedy ()
• Review: ‘Forbidden Broadway’, a rollercoaster of satire ()
• Theater Review: Stamp of approval for ‘Mauritius’ ()
• Theater review: Edward Albee’s ‘At Home at the Zoo’ at A.C.T. San Francisco ()
• Review: ‘The Great American Trailer Park Musical’ hits all the right road kill ()
• ‘Stop Kiss’ at City Lights Theater: A touching play about a meaningful kiss ()
• ‘Boleros for the Disenchanted’: A heart-wrenching romance about love and longing ()
• Film review: ‘The Last Lullaby’ delivers — Director Jeffrey Goodman one to watch ()
• ‘Spelling Bee’ musical: A tasty alphabet soup of zingers and tittups ()
• ‘Always… Patsy Cline’: A toe-tapping, good time at the Grand Ole San Jose Stage Company ()
• ‘War Music’ at ACT: A play full of dissonance, a symphony it is not ()
• ‘Afghanistan 1970-1975, Images from an Era of Peace’ at the San Jose Rep ()
• ‘The Kite Runner’ World Premiere: A thousand splendid standing ovations ()
• In Review: Wicked (The Musical – Based on the novel by Gregory Maguire) ()