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Jan. 15, 2021 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
Push
Documentary exposes how faceless landlords turn homes into assets
"...And this tension echoes the central paradox of the film. The economic challenges presented by Gertten..."
Sept. 25, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle
The Vast of Night
Jaw-dropping reinvention of the UFO scare genre is audacious and brilliant
"...endeavor, like framing the story as an episode of Paradox Theatre, a Twilight Zone-style late-night chiller series that would..."
May 29, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
The Report
Recounting of U.S. torture program investigation is dry as Senate testimony
"...seems better positioned than most to straddle this intrinsic paradox concerning fact-based, politically charged dramas. However, in favoring datelines..."
Nov. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Overlord
How do you make killing Nazi zombies this dull?
"...Cloverfield sequel (an idea doomed after the ill-fated Cloverfield Paradox), what's left is an off-brand adaptation of the groundbreaking..."
Nov. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Fantastic Fest Film Depicts Militias With a Hair Trigger
When rugged individualism goes wrong in The Standoff at Sparrow Creek
"...for the script is a concept called the Abilene paradox. It's a thought experiment created by management expert Jerry..."
Sept. 21, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
Here We Go Yet Again
Michael Ventura revisits his "Letters at 3am" Columbine column
"...is not a problem to be solved but a paradox to be lived. The paradox is how much love..."
Feb. 16, 2018 Chronolog Post by Michael Ventura
My Obsession: Time Travel in Movies
Falling down the wormhole of chronophysics in film
"...own existence. This is often known as the "grandfather paradox," i.e., going back in time and killing your grandfather..."
Jan. 26, 2018 Screens Column by Bears Fonté
Steve Adler Mounts Second Bid to Run City
Mayor shares his vision for Austin's next four years
"...speech, Adler had described what he called "the Austin paradox." Asked to elaborate, he said, "The city is growing..."
Jan. 19, 2018 News Feature by Michael King
Texas Book Festival 2017: The First Dozen
Lisa Ko, Claire Messud lead off first look at fest lineup
"...whose latest book is A New Way: Embracing the Paradox as We Lead and Serve; and editor and historian..."
June 7, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires
Letters at 3AM: The Nameless Moon, Etc.
Ventura unpacks his folders full of sentences without homes, and other remnants excised from this and that
"...• Paradox is the signature of God...."
May 16, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura
Point Austin: The Affordability Conundrum
If we want an affordable Austin, we'll have to afford it together
"...I note this seeming paradox not to mock the Council's laudable effort to hold..."
Sept. 20, 2013 News Column by Michael King
Going With the Flow
The next life of Waller Creek
"...or less turned its back on Waller Creek." The Paradox of Meddling..."
Jan. 11, 2013 News Feature by Ari Phillips
‘Doctor Who’ Watch
7.5: "The Angels Take Manhattan"
"...himself to decades of solitary confinement, he’ll create a paradox that will kill the Angels and restore order to..."
Sept. 30, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones
Prometheus
In his return to science fiction, Ridley Scott's stunning, ambitious visuals are waylaid by his quasi-metaphysics.
"...film itself, and it's her realization of the alien paradox of creation and destruction that gives Prometheus its most..."
June 8, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Sisters of the Skin
A heartfelt community theatre production that aims to rescue a lost tale of Civil War courage
"...First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin, 4700 Grover,
744-1495 www.paradoxplayers.org Through May 20 Running time: 2 hr...."
May 18, 2012 Arts Review by Jillian Owens
Independence
The Paradox Players effectively mine the emotions from this family drama
"...first time I recall seeing a production by the Paradox Players. The group has been around for..."
June 10, 2011 Arts Review by Barry Pineo
Letters at 3am
Holden died a good death: just whiskey and a fall, no melodrama or fakery
"...be a movie star if you don't embody a paradox. (I mean a real movie star, not a mere..."
Nov. 7, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura
If More CO2 Is Bad ... Then What?
The need to reduce emissions collides head-on with the growing world demand for energy
"...In describing what is now known as the Jevons Paradox, he wrote: "It is wholly a confusion of ideas..."
Dec. 7, 2007 News Feature by Robert Bryce
Aquamarine
Based on a young adult novel by Alice Hoffman, the film is about two best girlfriends who meet up with … a mermaid!
"...and it makes being a girl into some impossible paradox of weird stuff that nobody can actually do? The..."
March 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
The Weather Man
In this heartfelt comic drama, a wonderfully controlled Nicolas Cage plays a man who, despite the appearance of success, is despondent over his superficiality.
"...once superficial and yet meaningful, the phrase encapsulates the paradox of our – and this film’s – dreams and..."
Oct. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Police Officers Burned by Comments
Cops punished after cheering the fire that burned
nightclub
"...with a total of 164 calls, followed by the Paradox nightclub on East Fifth with 156; Spiro's on Red..."
March 11, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith
The Mother
From the director of Notting Hill comes this story about a middle-aged woman who reignites her sex life with a much younger man.
"...of a museum piece. It makes for an odd paradox – the actors eagerly plumbing the blood & guts..."
July 2, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
FronteraFest Schedule
"..."The Grandfather Paradox," by William Schwarz and Rebecca Schwarz. A play about..."
Jan. 9, 2004 Arts Feature
The Heart of Me
"...exterior. Bonham Carter’s performance as Dinah also captures the paradox of her character, who is at once unsteady and..."
July 25, 2003 Movie Review by Steve Davis
High Crimes
"...both glee and gravity, and somehow makes personifying that paradox appear effortless. Which is precisely in time with the..."
April 5, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
The Devil's Backbone
Set in a crumbling boys' school/orphanage/fallout shelter during the Spanish Civil War, the lost boys of this haunting film contend with a vengeful ghost as well as the more worldly traumas of war, greed, and abandonment.
"...to be found even in the worst lot. That paradox applies to almost everyone here – the embittered schoolmistress..."
March 15, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Letters at 3AM
Michael Ventura weighs in with his Top 5 list of 2001's best film and television moments.
"...expression -- a statement which expresses the fundamental American paradox: As most Americans (according to many polls) think the..."
Jan. 11, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura
L.I.E.
"...sets the film's tone perfectly. Indeed, L.I.E. is a paradox, balancing the contradictions and ambiguities of its characters and..."
Oct. 26, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
11 X 14
"...mosaic of single-shot sequences, each offering a pun or paradox...."
