Once in a Lifetime

The unexpected rise and meteoric fall of the North American Soccer League in the heady, silly mid-Seventies is chronicled for the first time in this charmingly chatty documentary, which ably tracks both the birth of the sport on these shores and its ignominious downfall, which arrived almost overnight with the leave-taking of Pelé.

"...being instrumental in the team’s downfall. Once in a Lifetime is packed with observations and recrimations, many of the..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Local Author Tim O'Brien Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

'The Things They Carried' author on life, fiction, and truth

"...recipient of the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing – the first time in..."

Nov. 14, 2013 Books Post by R.U. Steinberg

Of a Lifetime

Gregg Rolie, the voice of classic rock, and originally, Journey

"...Hearing Rolie's stony sermons, openers "Of a Lifetime" (Journey), "On a Saturday Nite" (Look Into the Future),..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Education of a Lifetime

A look at UT's Performing Arts Center and the process by which they bring the biggest names in jazz to Austin.

"...Marsalis was passing along the educational moment of a lifetime. "I know people have mixed feelings about Wynton Marsalis,"..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Once in a Lifetime Dance

"...no possible prayer of experiencing a once in a lifetime performance. Admittedly, I am a novice at best, in..."

July 31, 2021 Postmarks

Fantastic Fest: Roger and Julie Corman Lifetime Achievement Award

The king and queen of the Bs get the royal treatment.

"...Mark Hartley, the official Syfy Imagine Greater Fantastic Fest Lifetime Achievement Award looked anything but cheap; apart from being..."

Sept. 25, 2010 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

No Medal, but Hooker Runs Lifetime Best

Longhorn Ex places fifth in Beijing

"...fifth in today's 200 meter dash, but ran a lifetime best of 22.34 seconds to get it and can..."

Aug. 21, 2008 Sports Post by Lee Nichols

Pets Should Be a Lifetime Commitment

"...unloved. Whatever happened to having a pet being a lifetime commitment? The guilty blood is on the hands of..."

July 10, 2007 Postmarks

Family History Gives Clifton Collins Jr. the Role of a Lifetime in Jockey

Director Clint Bentley gives the actor the inside track

Oct. 22, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Pillowcore Duo Hovvdy Captures a Lifetime's Worth of Nostalgia

Lo-fi locals release sophomore LP Cranberry

Feb. 9, 2018 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

An Actress Plays Herself in the Role of a Lifetime

AFS Doc Nights: Actress

Feb. 6, 2015 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Lifetime Picks

29 years, 29 albums

Sept. 17, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Page Two: Once in a Lifetime

Obama and Clinton are the future – a real future that is better than any fabricated past

Jan. 11, 2008 Column by Louis Black

The Deal of a Lifetime

TDHCA Board member Florita Bell Griffin is standing trial in a Houston federal courtroom on allegations that she, along with two co-defendants, conspired to profit from deals she helped approve.

Nov. 3, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Books of a Lifetime

Dawn Powell: A Biography

Nov. 27, 1998 Books Feature

Love Man: Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye's latest reissue.

"...more mouth-watering Internet-only boutiquery, expands yet again. In Our Lifetime?, Gaye’s final album for Motown, finds new life in..."

June 15, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Baby Boomers Still Using Drugs

Government says this is a public health issue -- but its just the tip of the iceberg

"...of the Baby Boom cohort," which has a higher lifetime drug use rate than previous generations, reports the federal..."

Aug. 25, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?

Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me fame chases after the world's most wanted man and comes up empty but fulfilled.

"...himself into situations most of us would spend a lifetime trying to avoid, all in the name of finding..."

April 18, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin

An authoritative film study of the career of the Little Tramp by the esteemed journalist Richard Schickel.

"...Director’s Journey), Charlie feels like the distillation of a lifetime of admiration and study on Schickel’s part. It’s a..."

Dec. 19, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I Like to Watch: UnREAL and the Forms of Consumption

Season 2 of the Lifetime series proves nothing's perfect

"...Coming up on the season 2 finale of UnREAL (Lifetime, Mon., Aug. 8), we see a few patterns recurring,..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Screens Column by Jacob Clifton

Keeping It UnREAL

Co-creator Sarah Gertrude Shapiro talks season 2 of the hit Lifetime drama

"...days before its second season premiere this week on Lifetime, you already know what comes next, "... um, I'm..."

June 10, 2016 Screens Feature by Jacob Clifton

DVDanger: If There Be Thorns

Dear Lifetime, we need to talk

"...Oh, Lifetime. You have become my Moby Dick. From hell's heart..."

July 15, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Come to Daddy

Family freakout with Elijah Wood in this slick and twisted thriller

"...he call for Norval to visit after a veritable lifetime of self-imposed absence? To answer those questions fully would..."

Feb. 7, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest Honors Japanese Film Master Takashi Miike

Third wave includes special tribute to the J-horror innovator

"...has declared that it will be giving him a lifetime achievement award...."

Sept. 11, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Ma

Octavia Spencer subverts expectations and racist tropes in this fun horror

"...The Perfection, Ma exists somewhere at the intersection of Lifetime Movie of the Week and revenge cinema. See this..."

May 31, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Becoming Astrid

Pippi Longstocking creator's life story isn't for kids

"...gives life to what, on paper, amounts to a Lifetime channel biopic. Her luminescence is a wonderful and needed..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Wildlife

Gyllenhaal and Mulligan burn in this period marriage drama

"...Mulligan gives the performance of a lifetime as two halves of the same woman – in..."

Nov. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Love, Simon

Coming-out story remembers the romance.

"...about a young man learning to exhale after a lifetime of holding his breath. At first glance, Simon appears..."

March 16, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Marshall

Supreme Court judge biopic has bite

"...instead of following the entirety of the man’s considerable lifetime achievements. (He would, of course, go on to argue..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Mountain Between Us

This is what a boring plane crash movie looks like

"...the survivors. The Mountain Between Us has a distinctly Lifetime movie vibe to it despite its game cast and..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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