(Jul 14 at 7pm,  and Jul 16 at noon at Camera 3 in San Jose)
By Richard von Busack
Neds (part of the From Britain, With Love series) shows us the miseducation of a violent kid in …

By Richard von Busack
The result of an expositionus awkwardus spell, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 follows up last years hit with a rapid wrap up. It really presumes you just left the …

by Richard von Busack
THE PROJECT was called “Hell”. That’s exactly where the famed French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (The Wages of Fear and Diabolique) sent himself. Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno (Flicker Alley, $39.95) tries to reconstruct L’Infer, …

by Richard von Busack
BLENDING IN TV and newsreel footage and actors indifferently playing US presidents, Transformers: Dark of the Moon tells how Transformerism was hushed up in the 1960s. Our US/USSR space race turns out …

By Richard von Busack
Like selling stocks, making films is a division of gambling, and every streak ends at some point. The sad news about Cars 2 is made better by the hope that it might …

By Richard von Busack
He was the artist of the Justice League of America, the one who could make his thoughts manifest into reality with the help of an emerald ring from beyond space. Thanks to …

By Richard von Busack
The opening two scenes in Super 8 demonstrate the graphic punch and keen storytelling ability of J. J. Abrams, one of the most exciting action filmmakers today. On the evidence of this, …

by Richard von Busack
WITH A strong theme of feminine mercy vs. masculine authority, with its acute longing for reconciliation with the past, with its tender faith that “no one who loves the way of grace …

“Sorry to hear it, sorry to see it
Sorry to mention I couldn’t afford to orgy
Seems such a bother, one thing, another
Tempting and teasing, just for an orgy”
——John Cale, “The Man Who Couldn’t Afford to Orgy”
Ooh …

(above: Michael Fassbender, Rose Byrne, January Jones, Jason Flemyng).
By Richard von Busack
A mutant of a movie, overloaded with plot and Easter eggs, X-Men: First Class tries to resolve too many conflicts with too-many underwritten side …