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A graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Kimberley Jones has written about film, books, and pop culture for The Austin Chronicle since 2000. The Association of Alternative Newsmedia awarded her film reviews first place for Arts Criticism in 2013.
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Two Weeks Notice
If there were an Olympic sport for screwball comedy, I could think of no two finer representatives for their homelands than Two Weeks Notice's headliners....
Film Review, Dec. 20, 2002
Being Charlie Kaufman
Will the real Charlie Kaufman please stand up?
Screens Feature, Dec. 20, 2002
Trigger-happy
Game geek paradise, but only for one more weekend.
Screens Feature, Dec. 20, 2002
Butt-numb-a-thon 4
The lineup.
Screens Feature, Dec. 20, 2002
Drumline
Would that marching band had been regarded as half as cool when I was tromping around my high school football field with a clarinet and...
Film Review, Dec. 13, 2002
My So-Called Life (Complete Series)
DVD boxed sets, no assembly required
Screens Feature, Dec. 13, 2002
Felicity: The Complete First Season
Screens Feature, Dec. 13, 2002
And May All Your Christmases Include Extravagant Song & Dance Numbers
Screens Feature, Dec. 13, 2002
Bright Lights, Little City
It's maybe silly to fix a personality on a place, but something happens when you hook a left onto Austin Ave. and drive into Georgetown's historic district. Everything slows down, just a little bit, and then there's that marquee, neon and spangly, lighting up downtown. Welcome to the Palace.
Screens Feature, Dec. 6, 2002
Pillow Talk (1959)
Doris Day, the Sixties' most popular professional virgin, croons over the opening credits that "there must be a pillow-talkin' boy for me." Boy, was there ever, and his name was Rock Hudson.
Screens Review, Nov. 29, 2002
'Heaven' Sent
Writer / director Todd Haynes resurrects the gloriously overwrought weepies of the Fifties in Far From Heaven.
Screens Feature, Nov. 22, 2002
Open Screen Night
A cheap way to influence masses
Screens Feature, Nov. 22, 2002
Sex With Strangers
Like several of this documentary's subjects -- two young women vacillating between dedication and doubt regarding their swinging lifestyle -- Sex With Strangers is conflicted...
Film Review, Nov. 21, 2002
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The second year at the Hogwarts is better than the first, but still a bit sophomoric.
Film Review, Nov. 14, 2002
Bloody Sunday
Save for the anthemic U2 protest song that plays over the closing credits, there is no music in Bloody Sunday, no orchestral score with strings...
Film Review, Nov. 8, 2002
jackass the movie
Here's the deal: They don't call it jackass for nothing. jackass the movie is, as the title would suggest, the feature-length rendering of jackass the...
Film Review, Nov. 1, 2002
French Free-for-All
The latest Austin Film Society free series surveys French cinema in the Nineties.
Screens Feature, Nov. 1, 2002
The Truth About Charlie
The Truth About Charlie, Jonathan Demme's remake of Stanley Donen's Charade, is a lovely, ragged thing. The plot, more or less, stands the same: Regina...
Film Review, Oct. 25, 2002
The Last Kiss
The Italian film which was adapted for the American remake starring Zach Braff.
Film Review, Oct. 18, 2002
R.S.V.P.
Austin Film Festival 2002 reviews
Screens Feature, Oct. 18, 2002
Lessons learned
Lessons learned
Screens Feature, Oct. 18, 2002
Brown Sugar
Brown Sugar's opening credits play out to the Roots' “Act Too (Love of My Life),” with its thrumming, soulful chorus of “Hip-hop, you the love...
Film Review, Oct. 11, 2002
Pauline & Paulettes
A last conversation with Kael, the last decade with her successor, and a few words from online armchair critics
Screens Feature, Oct. 11, 2002
Moonlight Mile
Middle-aged commercial real estate agent Benjamin Floss (Hoffman) asks his attorney why his daughter was caught in the crossfire of an anonymous domestic dispute in...
Film Review, Oct. 4, 2002
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
The title is taken from a song on Wilco's latest album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, but it might as well be a boldfaced memo from record...
Film Review, Oct. 4, 2002
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
Sarah Vowell
Books Feature, Oct. 4, 2002
Sweet Home Alabama
Sweet Home Alabama hooks itself on the idea of geographical ambivalence -- ironic then, that the film was mostly shot in stand-in (Sweet Home) Georgia....
Film Review, Sep. 27, 2002
Trapped
Not as disastrous as the promotional campaign or early buzz would suggest, but still ill-advised from most every angle, Trapped is a messily plotted, spottily...
Film Review, Sep. 27, 2002
Igby Goes Down
Black comedy about youthful unraveling while on lam from boarding school.
Film Review, Sep. 20, 2002
The Banger Sisters
Its heart, at least, is in the right place. In an industry that promotes an offensively short shelf life for its female practitioners, The Banger...
Film Review, Sep. 20, 2002
It's a Screenplay!
Austin screenwriting contest Movie Midwifing helps scripts with their first baby steps.
Screens Feature, Sep. 20, 2002
Stealing Harvard
Stealing Harvard is about a good man feebly attempting a life of crime. Life imitating art: The result is a corps of good actors stuck...
Film Review, Sep. 13, 2002
Cinematexas 2002 International Short Film Festival
The ins and outs of the Cinematexas 2002 International Short Film Festival
Screens Feature, Sep. 13, 2002
Swimming
Swimming opens and closes with one summer spent at Myrtle Beach, a summer bookended by what comes before and after in the life of Frankie...
Film Review, Sep. 6, 2002
Possession
This dual love story spanning two centuries, taken from A.S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel, is handled with typical LaBute pessimism.
Film Review, Aug. 30, 2002
Coming of Age
Recommended at aGLIFF 2002
Screens Feature, Aug. 23, 2002
Breaking Out
"I wanted to write a prison movie, and it felt like the Retail Rodeo was the perfect place to set it," says screenwriter and actor Mike White of his new film, The Good Girl.
Screens Feature, Aug. 23, 2002
Blue Crush
Same sport (surfing), same locale (Hawaii), same gender and attire (girls in bikinis). That's about as close to Gidget as Blue Crush ever gets. In...
Film Review, Aug. 16, 2002
The Cockettes
Maybe it's the old-timey, silent film title cards, or the vaudeville piano tinkering on the score, but The Cockettes produces a yearning wistfulness for another...
Film Review, Aug. 9, 2002
'Spy Kids 2' Premiere
This one's for the kiddies ...
