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San Antonio fave Anjelah Johnson-Reyes gets into holiday spirit with Eddie Murphy in Candy Cane Lane
In the film, Johnson-Reyes plays plays Shelly, a neighbor of Murphy’s character Chris Carver.
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Screenwriter and San Antonio native Allison Moore makes feature film debut with Disney’s Wish
The Roosevelt High graduate jumped from penning episodes for TV to co-writing Disney’s latest animated feature.
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Baby Shark cast sing praises for newest animated fish voiced by Cardi B
The animated movie, which also stars Orange Is the New Black’s Kimiko Glenn, premieres this Friday on Paramount+.
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Jackie Gonzalez represents San Antonio admirably on Netflix’s Squid Game: The Challenge
The business owner said she wanted to represent the deaf and hard-of-hearing Latino community on the reality competition show.
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American Symphony captures musician Jon Batiste grappling with his wife’s cancer
The documentary was meant to be a road movie tracking Batiste’s cross-country trip in search of musicians and sounds. His wife’s resurgent illness changed the film.
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Joaquin Phoenix and Ridley Scott turn Napoleon into a violent epic starring a petty brat
Scott goes all-in on the battle scenes and Phoenix plays the emperor like a Comic-Con king.
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VHS movies may be part of a bygone era, but some San Antonio shops cater to old-school fans
Today, 4K Ultra HD Blu-Rays are at the top of the physical media totem pole, but plenty of purists still prefer to seek out chunky VHS box sets.
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In May December, Todd Haynes turns old tabloid tale Into first-rate sexual thriller
The film offers the kind of outrageously brash take on sexual promiscuity more often found in a Lifetime movie.
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Hollywood to make movie about San Antonio-based Morgan’s Wonderland
The movie will focus on the founding Hartman family, who named the park after their special-needs daughter Morgan.
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Texas director explores hate, hope in docuseries about South Texas mosque fire
Episode 1 of A Town Called Victoria premieres Monday on PBS.
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The very things fanboys hate about The Marvels make this female-led flick worth seeing
The film exhibits a fun, frisky likability not encountered in an MCU movie since Spider-Man: Homecoming.
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Priscilla memorably recreates the world of the teenager who fell for Elvis — then fled her gilded cage
Like Coppola’s best films — The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette — Priscilla is evocatively tactile.
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San Antonio horror makeup artist Sergio Guerra rates The Exorcist: Believer’s special effects
The Exorcist: Believer is currently playing at local theaters.
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Killers of the Flower Moon a triumphant Western that privileges Native American view
Martin Scorsese’s latest film offers a trip through a dark chapter of America, where white ‘suitors’ plotted to marry and then kill Osage women to gain oil headrights.
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Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour Movie knows Its audience all too well
The movie is all Taylor’s version — and it gives them just what they want.
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San Antonio filmmaker Rob Mabry makes feature debut with The Legend of El Chupacabra
The film will have its red-carpet premiere Friday, Oct. 20 at San Antonio’s City Base Cinemas.
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The Exorcist: Believer tries to capture the original’s horror, but even Ellen Burstyn isn’t enough
Believer is ultimately more quaint and hopeful than blood-curdling and scream-inducing.
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San Antonio filmmaker recalls time he recorded Jimmy Buffett interview on private island
Buffett died earlier this year after a four-year battle with skin cancer. He was 76.
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Newly restored Talking Heads doc Stop Making Sense is as exuberant and wonderful as ever
Critic Pauline Kael once called it ‘a continuous rock experience that keeps building, becoming ever more intense and euphoric.’
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Review: In A Haunting in Venice, Kenneth Branagh takes a liberal hand with Britain’s best-loved author
Poirot must both ferret out the killer and grapple with increasing self-doubt about his rationalist worldview.