Captive State

Aliens vs. Chicago. Chicago loses.

"...than anyone had suspected. So is the case with Captive State...."

March 22, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Captive

Ripped-from-the-headlines movie about a hostage crisis defused by a devotional book

"...March 2005 that made headlines all over the world, Captive is ostensibly a two-person hostage drama sporting a strong,..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Captive Audience

How a homegrown kidnapping thriller became the most popular film in Venezuela – and angered the Chavez administration in the process

Oct. 21, 2005 Screens Feature by Michael King

Liebestraum

"...arty film about a brutal American industrialist and his captive mistress. Similarly, Liebestraum has Anderson, a brooding architect, come..."

Nov. 8, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Hounds of Love

A deft reimagination of the serial-killer genre

"...to creep the hell out of both their hapless captive and the audience...."

May 12, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

2017 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentaries – Program B

Be the most knowledgeable voter at your Oscar party

"...fighters, but after the husband and father are taken captive, the mother makes a decision to flee with her..."

Feb. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Blackfish

Orcas exploited in the name of entertainment and free enterprise is bad business in the view of this doc.

"...Pair this shocking documentary about the plight of captive killer whales at SeaWorld and similar faux-oceanic environs with..."

Aug. 2, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Hijacking

This psychologically tense Danish drama about modern-day piracy doesn't cater to cliches or sentimentality.

"...a mindfuck that takes its toll on both the captive and the viewer...."

June 28, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Little Man

If you can accept the very idea of Shawn Wayans’ face on the body of an infantilized baby-man in diapers, who’s to care about the quality of anything else in the movie?

"...these events as a little person infantilized and held captive by idiots. Occasionally the movie actually tries to be..."

July 21, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Domino

Attention-deficit filmmaking reaches a new pinnacle in Tony Scott's hyperstylized portrait of a bounty hunter as an iconic bad girl.

"...stocks, and jagged compositions that the film story becomes captive to its own hyperkineticism. Viewers (both inured and addicted..."

Oct. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

No Man's Land

This bleak antiwar comedy won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film of 2001.

"...Bitorajac are remarkable in their roles, trading places as captive and captor as much as they trade idle speculation..."

March 22, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jackpot

"...Les are a sad portrait of American dreamers held captive by their own self-delusions of professional competence and lottery-like..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Iron Monkey

"...up in the governor's Iron Monkey-induced dragnet. Holding Fei-Hong captive, the governor forces the elder Wong to attempt to..."

April 8, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wednesday Rewind

New cuts from Ume, Bob Schneider, and the Black

"...Ume's latest scorcher "Captive" is gaining some serious traction. While the video, directed..."

Oct. 12, 2011 Music Post by Austin Powell

Desert One

Inside Carter’s catastrophic mission to rescue the Iranian hostages

"...in an attempt to rescue 52 American hostages held captive by Iranian revolutionaries since November 1979. The mission was..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVDanger: Ryan Reynolds, the Most Interesting Man in the World

How Van Wilder became Hollywood's most unpredictable talent

"...The Captive sees Egoyan head further into noir country, and it's..."

May 2, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips

Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, outside of Glen Rose, seems to get better with age

"...became the first private entity to participate in the captive breeding program for endangered species of the American Association..."

June 13, 2008 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

Eagle Lake rallies around the endangered Attwater's Prairie Chicken population with its annual festival.

"...wild; add to that another 100 or so in captive breeding programs...."

March 31, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Captive Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine

More like the Cougar Queen: Historian Alison Weir's latest novel is a bodice-ripper

"...Captive Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaineby Alison Weir..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Books Review by Margaret Moser

Sharks and Stingrays Exploited by Club

"...the best man-made habitats cannot replicate their world, therefore captive sharks and rays are deprived of their stimulus-rich environment...."

Nov. 5, 2007 Postmarks

Day Trips

The Ellen Trout Zoo in Lufkin houses nearly 800 animals representing every continent except Antarctica

"...injury, all of the residents of the zoo are captive-born. In many cases, the species are nearing extinction and..."

May 12, 2006 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...An advertiser's dream come true! Imagine a daily guaranteed captive audience of millions of teens who spend over $63..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Column

The Tiger Rising

Feel-good family drama may lose the little ones along the way

"...fully grasp, though they’ll likely be fascinated by the captive Bengal tiger at the center of the story. He’s..."

Jan. 21, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Space Jam: A New Legacy

Rematch on the animated court as LeBron joins Team Looney Tunes

"...algorithm system, Al G. Rhythm (Cheadle), who’s taken Dom captive. Wouldn’t you know it, James is challenged to a..."

July 23, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Happily

Deliciously acerbic comedy finally knows what to do with Joel McHale

"...with more obtuse material like The Voices or The Captive. McHale always seems most dangerous when he's earnest, and..."

March 26, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Sunset

Period drama keeps the techniques of Oscar winner Son of Saul but loses the emotional weight

"...Saul, is the harrowingly subjective story of a Jewish captive on a mission in a Nazi concentration camp. It..."

April 26, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

2017 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentaries – Programs A & B

"...fighters, but after the husband and father are taken captive, the mother makes a decision to flee with her..."

Feb. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVDanger: Fragile Minds

Dementia and Remember find terror in age

"...following from his strange and disturbing kidnap drama The Captive, depicts the frantic scrabbling at and scrambling of memory..."

May 28, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: American Fable

A farm girl has a tough choice to make in this dreamy film

"...save the life of a wealthy man – a captive-for-ransom stowed in her family’s silo...."

March 16, 2016 Screens Post by Ashley Moreno

The Dog

Dog Day Afternoon is a film about a wildly true bank robbery; as conveyed by John Wojtowicz in this doc, the story gets even nuttier when told from the horse's mouth.

"...heritage and dick size) loves the idea of a captive audience (meaning you). Eventually, his sometimes comic, often pitiable..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

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