Articles tagged with: Richard von Busack
By Richard von Busack
Contagion is the return of the compass-spinning, star-studded spectacular, done digitally on a tight budget with lots of interiors and city park scenes. Its treatment of a lethal pandemic called “MEV1” is …
by Richard von Busack
Pulling from a fifth of Overactor’s Choice blended whiskey and sobbing about the Pequod, Nick Nolte puts a third mortgage on his integrity to try to give the titanically overblown Warrior some …
By Richard von Busack
It opens with a real shocker. In the turn of the century before last, a decrepit old man in the basement of a crumbling Victorian manor takes care of his servant problem …
by Richard von Busack
WELL TITLED: The Debt. Indeed, the producers do owe me two hours of my life back. In 1997 in Tel Aviv, Rachel (Helen Mirren) is telling crowds the true story of …
by Richard von Busack
Aware of the problems of an audience with compassion fatigue, novice filmmaker Larysa Kondracki takes already sensational material and pumps it up. The Whistleblower is based on the case of Kathryn Bolkovac …
by Richard von Busack
THERE ARE so many nutritional documentaries lurking around now; was Senna, then, about the miracles of herbal laxative? Such was my knowledge of Formula One racing. Not for me, the sights and, …
SAD, ROMANTIC, elegantly turned, a potential mainstream hit not too differently shaped from Love Story and yet not at all a commercial sellout. One Day, by the ever-rising director Lone Scherfig, is neo-classic filmmaking taking …
(Opens Aug 19 at the CineArts at Santana Row in San Jose and the Century 16 in Mountain View, the Landmark California in Berkeley, the Sundance Kabuki in San Francisco and the Century Regency 6 …
(Now playing at the Embarcadero Cinemas in San Francisco and the Shattuck Cinema in Berkeley. Opens Aug 19 at the Ken in San Diego and the Chez Artiste in Denver.)
By Richard von Busack
Actors who get …
by Richard von Busack
On Guy Fawkes’ night when London is blitzed by fireworks, aliens crash land: eyeless furry beasts whose snaggled teeth glow like ultra violet lights. Dark silhouettes, they look like Muppets made out …
