The Brave One

Jodie Foster might be good at playing a master of vengeance, but The Brave One turns out to be little more than an upscale B-movie about getting even.

"...Steenburgen, Nicky Katt, Naveen Andrews and Jane Adams. The Brave One is a confounding movie on many levels. For..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Steve Davis

A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story

An Austin woman confronts Internet cruelty with compassion

"...A Brave Heart documents Lizzie’s story from the beginning. Through home..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Brave

Although the animation looks terrific and the story features an immensely sympathetic heroine, Brave lacks the sheer imaginative oomph of prior Pixar pics.

"...Brave also marks the first time Pixar has placed a..."

June 22, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Only the Brave

"...of self can be consumed by environment. Only the Brave centers on Alex and Vicki, two teenage girls in..."

May 5, 1995 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Only the Brave

Visceral dramatization of the heroic work of the Granite Mountain Hotshots

"...hard, heroic work that it is in Only the Brave, which is based on the true story of the..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Public Notice: Being Brave

School districts set to defy Abbott's political posturing

"..."For many years, you've asked me to be brave. You've asked me to be brave as I practice..."

Aug. 13, 2021 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Austin Film Festival Review: Brave New Jersey

Orson Welles' alien-invasion broadcast turns a town upside down

"...Taking place over the course of one long night, Brave New Jersey trots out the usual panoply of small-town..."

Oct. 17, 2016 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story

What if you beat your bullies with a message of love?

"...them, so I can't be mad at that." A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story chronicles her remarkable rise..."

March 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Jessi Cape

Puerto Rican Literature The Land of the Brave Lord

"...blacks calling each other "brother." It means, he discovered, "Brave Lord," and is derived from the indigena name of..."

Feb. 2, 1996 Books Feature

Article on Killing Animals Brave

"...Dear Editor, Kudos for your brave article on the senseless killing of Austin's companion animals..."

Nov. 22, 2005 Postmarks

Art Should Be Brave...

James Earl Jones on Apartheid, Racism, and Hollywood

"...this film can transcend that. But art should be brave and, unfortunately, Hollywood has some very bad habits that..."

Jan. 19, 1996 Screens Feature

Public Notice: Brave New World

Remaking Austin, one highway and music club at a time

Jan. 28, 2022 News Column by Nick Barbaro

A Brave Doctor

May 1, 2018 Postmarks

Jonelle Seitz's Top 10 Brave Dance Artists of 2016

The year revealed how much courage and inspiration can be found in Austin's masters of movement

Dec. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

The Brave and The Bold

Mayor Adam West talks Night of the Bat

June 5, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Stand Up! Be Brave!

Oct. 29, 2007 Postmarks

The Brave and the Bowled-Over

How to survive the creativity marathon that is 24 Hour Comics Day

April 22, 2005 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Hip-Hop Home of the Brave

B-boy provocateurs get organized this election

Oct. 22, 2004 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

Webb's Resistance Brave

Sept. 16, 2004 Postmarks

Brave New Web

In the wake of Sept. 11 and the hard-line USA Act, the Internet has become a very unfriendly place for hackers.

Dec. 14, 2001 Screens Feature by Michael Connor

A Brave New World

If Just for One Day...

Nov. 24, 1995 News Feature

Getting a Read on the State of Anti-State Bookstores

Brave New Books and Monkeywrench Books keep thinking outside the mainstream

"...Monkeywrench Books and Brave New Books are loosely linked by an affiliation to..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Arts Feature by Taylor Prewitt

Apollo 11

Astounding documentary takes us back to the first crewed mission to the moon

"...rather than the just the heroic actions of three brave astronauts: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins. NASA..."

March 15, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton

Intimate portrait of the surfing legend only skims the surface.

"...Laird Hamilton is really brave. Or he’s really dumb, or maybe really lucky. Or..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

The Zookeeper's Wife

World War II drama based on the bestselling book

"...of animals and visitors, Jan and Antonina hatch a brave plan to siphon out Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto..."

April 7, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Edge of Seventeen

Teen dramedy gets the growing pains right

"...the process palpably reviving the remembered sting of the brave leaps and big stumbles every teen makes, as she..."

Nov. 18, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Russell Brand Movie Kicks off SXSW Film 2015

SXSW Film divulges its first seven titles for 2015

"...2015 lineup. Six are world premieres, and one, A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story has Austin connections. Ondi..."

Jan. 8, 2015 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Korengal

This companion piece to the Oscar-nominated documentary Restrepo revisits the men who fought in Afghanistan's deadly Korengal Valley.

"...time of their lives, which is one of the brave notions this enthralling and troubling film advances...."

June 27, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

Koch

The subject of this documentary is the colorful, former mayor of New York City, Ed Koch.

"...to minute, depending on whether his latest move was brave, bold, or belligerent, this comprehensive portrait of Koch can’t..."

March 1, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Babylon A.D.

Vin Diesel stars as a mercenary hired to escort a woman with a dangerous virus out of Russia.

"...ratcheted up and dumbed down for our not so brave new world. Dead, black, and blue replaces the now-obsolete..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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