Stop-Loss

A real-world fuse burns throughout the military drama of Stop-Loss, the Austin-lensed film by Boys Don't Cry's Kimberley Peirce that stars Ryan Phillippe.

"...That's the tragic, combustible, real-world fuse that burns throughout Stop-Loss. What if you gave an endless war, and no..."

March 28, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Stop the Loss

Austin veterans turn away from Iraq and war

"...been in the Army. For 21 months, he's been "stop-lossed," the U.S. Army's way of keeping soldiers enlisted beyond..."

Dec. 19, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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'The Sporting Life': … or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Loving to Lose

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Texas Can't Stop Oklahoma State

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Gay Place: Loss

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Stop WTP 4; Protect Lake Travis

Feb. 23, 2009 Postmarks

Back in Action

After a moviemaking hiatus, writer/director Kimberly Peirce returns to screen with Stop-Loss

"...the Iraq war that MTV-aged moviegoers would flock to, Stop-Loss might not be at the top of your list...."

March 28, 2008 Screens Feature by Clay Smith

Zombie Strippers

The filmmakers score an A+ for the title of this tongue-in-cheek horror film that stars porn star Jenna Jameson and horror fixture Robert Englund, even though its best special effects come courtesy of breast implants.

"...this film double-billed with another movie in current release, Stop-Loss: Like that film, Zombie Strippers is set into motion..."

April 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Film News

Scott Rudin's Texas bent brings Kimberly Peirce's 'Stop-Loss,' even though it's 'No Country for Old Men' and 'There Will Be Blood'

"...What Makes Rudin Run (to Texas)? Looks like Stop-Loss, a sure-to-be controversial war-in-Iraq tale from Kimberly Peirce (Boys..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Beating the Back-Door Draft

Legal advice for reservists caught in the Iraq 'stop-loss' trap

"...recently when he got caught up in the Pentagon's "stop-loss" policy, which forces national guardsmen and reservists to extend..."

Oct. 8, 2004 News Feature by Lee Nichols

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Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms

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Disaster Movie

We're running out of genres to spoof: This time it's disaster movies.

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10,000 B.C.

After all those cataclysmic movies like Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow, it seems right that Roland Emmerich has now turned his focus to the beginnings of civilization.

"...seen to much better effect in the upcoming, Austin-shot Stop-Loss, is D'Leh, a (possibly) Paleolithic hunter with abandonment issues..."

March 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...32 years that he has utterly destroyed with the stop-loss policy and other rotten tricks. The all-voluntary military. Check..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Column

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Little Otik

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