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From the Vaults: Melody Maker Russell Crowe
Song man Russell Crowe from 30 Odd Foot of Grunts to 'Les Misérables'
Screens Blog, Dec. 28, 2012 2:10 PM
Django Unchained
As entertaining and subversive as Django Unchained is, Tarantino's latest also suffers from a certain slackness.
Film Review, Dec. 28, 2012
From the Vaults: Christopher McQuarrie
The 'Jack Reacher' writer and director discusses 'The Way of the Gun'
Screens Blog, Dec. 21, 2012 3:40 PM
Hyde Park on Hudson
The film gets big points for casting Bill Murray as FDR but its vision gets muddy after that.
Film Review, Dec. 21, 2012
Slacker Added to National Film Registry
'Slacker' and works from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image selected
Screens Blog, Dec. 19, 2012 8:45 AM
'El Mariachi' to Perform Sundance Encore
Robert Rodriguez's 1993 debut to be honored with a Sundance screening
Screens Blog, Dec. 14, 2012 2:15 PM
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
There's little about this return trip to Middle-earth that feels "unexpected" or fresh.
Film Review, Dec. 14, 2012
'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' in 48 fps
Austin theatres showing the film in 48 frames per second listed here
Screens Blog, Dec. 13, 2012 2:40 PM
Francis Ford Coppola 5-Film Collection
Screens Feature, Dec. 13, 2012
From the Vaults: Hitchcock in Rewind
Seven takes on Alfred Hitchcock in our series, 'How I Got Hitched'
Screens Blog, Dec. 7, 2012 4:15 PM
The Collection
This follow-up to the horror/torture film The Collector seeks to mold a new franchise.
Film Review, Dec. 7, 2012
Holy Motors
Holy Motors; hot damn. This French firecracker is set to detonate.
Film Review, Dec. 7, 2012
Hitchcock
Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren keep things interesting but there's more here about the marriage and partnership of Hitchcock and Alma Reville rather than a good backstage look at the making of Psycho.
Film Review, Dec. 7, 2012
From the Vaults: Scoot McNairy’s Splendid Year
One-time Austin resident Scoot McNairy sees his Hollywood star rise
Screens Blog, Nov. 30, 2012 5:40 PM
Killing Them Softly
Some great performances punctuate the odd pacing in this adapatation of George V. Higgins' Cogan's Trade, set within the criminal underworld.
Film Review, Nov. 30, 2012
Larry Hagman Exits the Scene
Texas Film Hall of Fame member dies in Dallas
Screens Blog, Nov. 24, 2012 11:59 AM
Red Dawn
This remake's inspiration comes more from Call of Duty and other first-person-shooter games, rather than the 1984 original.
Film Review, Nov. 23, 2012
Life of Pi
This time Ang Lee's tiger is not crouching; this animal has its claws out and has only an adolescent boy for companionship – or vice versa.
Film Review, Nov. 23, 2012
From the Vaults: Red Dawn (1984) Reviewed
Godless commies invaded America once before
Screens Blog, Nov. 22, 2012 10:00 AM
From the Vaults: It’s All in the Family With David O. Russell
Family dysfunction looms large in the films of David O. Russell
Screens Blog, Nov. 16, 2012 5:15 PM
A Late Quartet
A string quartet – whose members are played by the likes of Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Catherine Keener – gets stuck in its own resins.
Film Review, Nov. 16, 2012
This Must Be the Place
In this odd but intriguing concoction, Sean Penn disappears into the strange body of a retired goth rock god who leaves his Dublin castle and goes on a road trip across America to hunt a Nazi prison guard.
Film Review, Nov. 16, 2012
Getting the Shot
Cinema Club and Louis Black celebrate Samuel Fuller's centenary with 'Forty Guns'
Screens Feature, Nov. 15, 2012
DVD Watch
Olive Films collects three of Otto Preminger's last films
Screens Blog, Nov. 13, 2012 11:05 AM
The Sessions
A sex therapist helps a man living in an iron lung experience human intimacy; John Hawkes and Helen Hunt keep things from becoming prurient.
Film Review, Nov. 9, 2012
Miami Connection
This incoherent mass of Eighties kitsch is the brainchild of tae kwon do master and motivational speaker Y.K. Kim.
Film Review, Nov. 9, 2012
Smashed
Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul portray a married couple who are plagued by the disease of alcoholism.
Film Review, Nov. 9, 2012
From the Vaults: John Goodman's Very Good Year
John Goodman adds zest to Flight, Argo, and Trouble With the Curve
Screens Blog, Nov. 3, 2012 10:00 AM
Flight
For the first half-hour or so, Flight keeps us rapt with thrilling action and a troubling moral quandary. You strap in for the next two...
Film Review, Nov. 2, 2012
From the Vaults: David Oyelowo
Rising star David Oyelowo is in two new films – with two more on the way
Screens Blog, Oct. 27, 2012 4:30 PM
AFF2012: Billy Bob Thornton Steers 'Jayne Mansfield's Car'
The actor returns to the writer/director's chair
Screens Blog, Oct. 26, 2012 5:00 PM
Middle of Nowhere
In this Sundance-honored film, a woman has to figure out what to do after her husband is sentenced to eight years in prison.
Film Review, Oct. 26, 2012
The Paperboy
This lurid Southern tale by the director of Precious shows that he still knows how to push people's buttons – and gather an all-star cast to sell the goods.
Film Review, Oct. 26, 2012
The Revisionaries
When it comes to choosing public-school textbooks, what happens in Texas is of national concern – and this documentary captures these culture wars in full bloom.
Film Review, Oct. 26, 2012
AFF2012: 'Only the Young'
Documentary captures the urgency and boredom of the teenage years
Screens Blog, Oct. 24, 2012 8:00 AM
AFF2012: 'A.K.A. Doc Pomus'
You already know the songs, now meet the songwriter
Screens Blog, Oct. 22, 2012 9:10 AM
From the Vaults: James Patterson on Film
Reviews of 'Alex Cross,' 'Along Came a Spider,' and 'Kiss the Girls'
Screens Blog, Oct. 19, 2012 4:30 PM
How I Got Hitched
Marjorie Baumgarten on the trouble with Hitchcock
Screens Blog, Oct. 19, 2012 10:00 AM
Atlas Shrugged: Part II
Atlas isn't the only one to shrug off this tiresome load of Ayn Rand – but with poor production values.
Film Review, Oct. 19, 2012
DVD Watch
'Kati With an i' is a transfixing documentary portrait
Screens Blog, Oct. 16, 2012 11:15 AM
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