Tyler Anthony

April 8, 2010

“Bliss” To Open Festival

By Tyler Anthony

Currently in its fifth year, the UCSB Human Rights Film Festival -- opening tonight and wrapping up on Monday, April 26 -- is a showcase of international cinema that highlights pressing human rights issues. Continuing in...

April 7, 2010

“Bliss” To Open Festival

By Tyler Anthony

January 14, 2010

Terry Gilliam’s “Parnassus” Is Quite a Trip ***

By Tyler Anthony

Visionary director Terry Gilliam ("Brazil," "Time Bandits") swings for the fences in "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus," a mostly successful but uneven film about an ancient storyteller struggling to gain immortality thr...

November 12, 2009

(“Untitled”) Review ***

By Tyler Anthony

"(Untitled)," the latest effort by "Bartleby" director Jonathon Parker, stars Adam Goldberg as an avant-garde composer whose atonal, anti-melodic music satirizes the bohemian Chelsea art scene.

November 5, 2009

News You Can Use ****

By Tyler Anthony

In a technological world with so many outlets for transmitting information and where reporting has been reduced to a synthesis of secondary sources, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas Krist...

October 22, 2009

New “Stepfather” Is No Replacement *

By Tyler Anthony

From the brilliant minds that brought us 2008's "brilliant" remake of "Prom Night" comes another 1980s horror-film retread that should have gone straight to DVD. Nelson McCormack's update of "The Stepfather" lacks the or...

October 8, 2009

Fertile Flaming Lips Deliver Embryonic ****

By Tyler Anthony

The Flaming Lips' latest record is Embryonic, a volatile collage of often paradoxical elements. This album of 18 tracks -- split between two discs -- is a study of oppositions: It comes across at once as retro and futuri...

October 1, 2009

“Star” Is Not So “Bright” ***

By Tyler Anthony

Director Jane Campion's "Bright Star," the latest of this year's Cannes selections to be given a theatrical release, is a period film based on the final years of Romantic -literarily and literally - poet John Keats. Whil...