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Little Boy
Can the power of faith change the course of history?
"...Little Boy is a Norman Rockwell knockoff about the mountain-moving power of faith. Sometimes, a mustard seed is just..."

May 1, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Where the Wild Things Are
The 2015 Banff Mountain Film Festival features more female athletes, more mindfulness, and more emotion
"...Like an epinephrine shot, the 2015 Banff Mountain Film Festival is set to rev up audiences with..."

April 17, 2015 Screens Feature by Jessi Cape

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
The concluding chapter of Peter Jackson's Tolkien tales brings us full circle.
"...Bilbo Baggins’ long and fraught journey to the Lonely Mountain, Erebor, in 2012’s An Unexpected Journey, was unexpectedly yawn-inducing..."

Dec. 19, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wild
Reese Witherspoon stars as Cheryl Strayed in this autobiographical trek of expiation.
"...It begins with a woman alone on a mountain. She is Cheryl Strayed – a real-life writer, whose..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Frozen
This animated film mines Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales for material, discards the most brutish bits, and applies a heavy Disney top gloss.
"...self-banishes to a hermetic life on top of a mountain, li’l sis chases after her, picking up in the..."

Nov. 29, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Rain, Rain, Come Today
Okay Mountain hosts release party for 'It Rained All Day'
"...Mel Kadel, which gets a release party at Okay Mountain tonight at 6pm...."

Jan. 24, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Meet the Cheesemaker Series Kicks Off at Antonelli's
Intimate setting offers hospitality, flavor, and information
"...on Friday, Jan. 18, featuring David Eagle of Eagle Mountain Farmhouse Cheese Company...."

Jan. 22, 2013 Food Post by Margaret Shugart

Beyond the Black Rainbow
Visually striking but completely nuts, this filmmaking debut received a Special Jury Award for Boldness of Vision at last year's Fantastic Fest.
"...and the synthesizer score (by Jeremy Schmidt of Black Mountain) will leave you feeling as unhinged as the movie’s..."

June 8, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hunter
Willem Dafoe plays a Canadian tracker hunting presumed-extinct prey in Tasmania, but soon he's stalking humans as well.
"...ever more like the weathered strata of some holy mountain, is grumbly Canadian mercenary/tracker Martin David, who is hired..."

April 6, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Quite the opposite of treacly holiday fare, this European import features one very bad Santa.
"...they say) from the peak of the forbidding Korvatunturi mountain, beneath which 11-year-old Pietari (Onni Tommila) and his widowed,..."

Dec. 10, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

127 Hours
An unrelenting tour de force thanks to Simon Beaufoy's clever script, Danny Boyle's inspired direction, and James Franco's amazing performance, 127 Hours is primarily an unforgettable examination of the human spirit under extreme duress.
"...would've loved this). Ralston, after a pleasant morning of mountain-biking and cavorting in Eden-esque underground swimming holes with a..."

Nov. 19, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Winter's Bone
Set in the Ozark Mountain backwoods of Missouri, this tense drama is an exceptionally good film.
"...that govern the isolated social milieu in these Ozark Mountain backwoods of Missouri. It’s an almost hermetically sealed environment..."

June 25, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

ACL 2008!
The lineup has arrived, calm down.
"...With Jakob Dylan & the Gold Mountain Rebels following in the footsteps of last year’s headliner..."

April 15, 2008 Music Post by Austin Powell

Steep
The glories of extreme skiing are proclaimed from international mountaintops.
"...and skateboard prowess. So Obenhaus' documentary on extreme, "big mountain" skiing feels, despite its jaw-dropping camerawork and patently fearless..."

March 7, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?
The creative powerhouse known as Tyler Perry is back in front of and behind the camera with this predictable film about four married couples.
"...abusive relationship, add some infidelity, a dead child, a mountain of guilt, several fur coats, a cat fight or..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

September Dawn
This movie about the Mountain Meadows Massacre of Sept. 11, 1857, during which local Mormons murdered 120 members of a wagon train heading West, reeks of ulterior motives.
"...a while. The movie presents the story of the Mountain Meadows Massacre of Sept. 11, 1857, in which some..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy
More a meditation than a traditional documentary, Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy beautifully employs direct cinema techniques to transport the viewer into the world of an exiled culture.
"...monks is accompanied only by location sounds: chanting, breathing, mountain winds, bird calls. If it sounds slow, that’s because..."

May 26, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Scary Movie 4
What's new in this fourth edition of the popular-culture spoof machine? Well, Shaquille O'Neal and Dr. Phil, for starters.
"...are satirical jabs at everything from Saw to Brokeback Mountain to Charlie Sheen's inexplicable love life. The single solid,..."

April 21, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
This Chinese film presents an uncharacteristically romantic look at the Cultural Revolution.
"...on the Bridge). Amidst the verdant countryside of Phoenix Mountain, circa 1971, Seamstress presents an uncharacteristically romantic look at..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Start Lining Up Now
'Brokeback Mountain' to bring McMurtry
"...McMurtry will attend a Dec. 13 screening of Brokeback Mountain (scheduled to open in Austin on Dec. 9), which..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Screens Feature

The Cave
A crack team of cave divers encounters untold horror in the form of bloodthirsty sea slugs.
"...to, somewhat less obviously I suspect, Leni Riefenstahl’s Teutonic mountaineering epic Der Heilege Berg. Here, however, the sacred mountain..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Supercross: The Movie
Two brothers overcome emotional and physical obstacles to achieve success in the competitive world of supercross racing.
"...Supercross is but a series of product placements – Mountain Dew is key – and some spectacularly injudicious directorial..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lords of Dogtown
This narrative re-creation of the skateboarding doc Dogtown and Z-Boys is a blast, as accurate as it ought to be with more than enough mythology and gut thrills thrown in for good measure.
"...all. Cinematographer Elliot Davis (along with legendary skate-DP Lance Mountain) captures the lowdown speed of skateboarding, the grinding skraaw..."

June 10, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Broadway: The Golden Age
Epic oral history of the heyday of the Great White Way as told by the people who were living on graham crackers and dreams back when it was all going on.
"...of five years' worth of interviews illustrated by a mountain of archival footage, the film sails on the actors'..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Movie Review by Rachel Proctor May

Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
Executed serial killer Aileen Wuornos leaves little doubt as to her sanity in this second Nick Broomfield documentary on the subject.
"...Killer is a valuable and insightful contribution to the mountain of Aileen Wuornos speculation and documentation. As is usual..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Emperor's Club
"...morality and the choices we make underneath such a mountain of clichés and borrowed images that it might more..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Crimson Rivers
"...in baiting detectives, a strange university isolated in the mountains, a crazed nun (played by the always-transcendent Dominique Sanda),..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Cup
Filmed in Bhutan with a cast of unknown Tibetan nonprofessionals, The Cup takes its charming premise – pint-sized monks striving against all odds to watch a satellite broadcast of the 1998 World Cup match between Brazil and France – and runs with it.
"...the occasionally breathtaking cinematography that lingers on the Indian mountain ranges or the interdisciplinary squabbles that quietly rifle through..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Green Mile
"...of E-Block -- death row -- at Louisiana's Cold Mountain Penitentiary, Paul Edgecomb (a beefed-up Hanks) wants only to..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Insect Woman
"...story of a young peasant woman who leaves her mountain village to become the boss of a call girl..."

Nov. 17, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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