by Richard von Busack
At the San Jose Peace and Justice Center 7pm, 48 S. 7th in San Jose, 7pm.
Aug 6 and Aug 9 are the 61st anniversary of two world shaking calamities. Commemoration can …

by RIchard von Busack
KIDNAPPING thrillers are mostly dull. The ones that aren’t (such as the two versions of The Vanishing and Kurosawa’s High and Low) are exceptions that prove the rule. But Lucas Belvaux’s Rapt …

By Richard von Busack
Its high concept idea is thoroughly chewed over by a group of writers, certainly exceeding the already big number of scriptwriters credited. Cowboys and Aliens never rises above its generic title, or …

By Richard von Busack
It starts where Frankenstein ends, in the realm of ice. Captain America: The First Avenger is an optimistic spin on the story of a man-made creature. It is indeed American; it fits …

by Richard von Busack
GIVEN ITS essential talking-heads quality (albeit dressed up nicely with graphics and a few props), the new Errol Morris documentary, Tabloid, is as salty as it is strangely lighthearted. No one’s life …

(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 …