Anyone with any real love of cinema, and who lived in the Bay Area (especially the East Bay) before 2000, remembers the UC Theater, probably fondly. And if you remember this UC Theater, this will take you back:
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Oh My God?
Posted on November 25, 2009 by Lincoln Spector
C- I should be the perfect audience for Peter Rodger’s documentary. I’m curious and fascinated by comparative religions, and with how every faith creates both humanists and fundamentalists–including atheism. So it’s with considerable disappointment that I have to report that I didn’t care for Oh My God? It has its interesting moments–enough to keep it [...]
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Precious
Posted on November 23, 2009 by Lincoln Spector
A Few film-going experiences match this one for intensity. And it’s not the intensity of a good horror film or thriller (although it’s more horrible and suspenseful than most of them). This is the intensity of of life at its most relentlessly depressing and hopeless. And yet, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, [...]
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Skin
Posted on November 4, 2009 by Lincoln Spector
A- Biographical drama Written by Helen Crawley Directed by Anthony Fabian Race can be a very difficult thing to define; especially for bureaucrats working for a government where race determines everything. Sandra Laing (an actual, living person, played here by Sophie Okonedo) was born to white parents in South Africa in 1955, but by all [...]
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