Deep Inside: Extreme Erotic Fantasies

While Polly Frost certainly borders on science fiction as much as the supernatural, she keeps slash out, paranormal in, and takes the one-handed read to another level altogether

"...Deep Inside: Extreme Erotic Fantasiesby Polly Frost Tor Books, 272 pp., $12.95..."

Oct. 5, 2007 Books Review by Terry Ornelas Woodroffe

Whose Political Fantasies Need to Be Reined In?

"...it to their readers to rein in their political fantasies from time to time rather than reinforcing them. Unfortunately,..."

Jan. 19, 2004 Postmarks

Austin @ Large: Facts and Fantasies

Think globally, vote locally.

"...and blood. This would be so even if the fantasies and fallacies brought to power behind Bush and Perry..."

Jan. 9, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

R.I.P. to DK Lee; Welcome Back to Austin Cider Week; Falling for Local Foods and Loro; Festivals and Fantasies, Free Pancakes for Voters, and More

All the food that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

Nov. 4, 2022 Food Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

R.I.P. to DK Lee, Welcome Back to Austin Cider Week, Falling for Local Foods and Loro, Festivals and Fantasies, Free Pancakes for Voters, and More

All the food that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

Nov. 2, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

In The Thief Collector, Thrill-Seeking Fantasies Turn to Criminal Delusions

Ordinary people, exceptional thieves

March 11, 2022 Screens Feature by Vivie Behrens

Page Two: Budgetary Fantasies

Those who think budget-cutting is easy will soon learn otherwise

Nov. 26, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Fearsome Freshmen Phenom Fantasies

Sept. 24, 2007 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

8 1/2 Women

"...Women opines, “directors make films to satisfy their sexual fantasies.” In that case, we're dealing here with the sexual..."

June 9, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Crimson Tide

"...place in the pantheon of Great American Male Film Fantasies, and this juggernaut of a movie plays right into..."

May 12, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Erotique

"...is the only man willing to listen to her fantasies; she refuses to play “blonde and buxom” for the..."

Sept. 9, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Volere, Volare

"...game since his presence adds more reality to their fantasies. The next thing you know, love blossoms between these..."

April 30, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Swiss Army Man

This infamous "farting corpse" movie is all gassed up with nowhere to go

"...This year’s film fantasies are unlikely to come any weirder than Swiss Army..."

July 1, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Magic Mike XXL

The boys are back in town

"...the rare mainstream film to cater to women’s sexual fantasies. There’s only one shade here: sex-positive, if low-cal feminist,..."

July 3, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Reprise

This bracingly good Norwegian film is many things at once: portraits of mental illness, obsessive love, the uneasy transition from punk rock youth to “upstanding” adulthood, and fraternal competitiveness.

"...are young and brash, seductively so. In their wildest fantasies, they aren’t bestsellers – they’re cult heroes; they don’t..."

June 27, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Trippin'

"...applications in,” but Greg prefers the solace of his fantasies, and the mind-numbing company of his pimp-wannabe friends, June..."

May 21, 1999 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

Dream With the Fishes

"...and not a whimper. Nick, who has many unfulfilled fantasies and only a few weeks left to live, strikes..."

Aug. 8, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Creative Control

This whip-smart comedy received Special Jury Recognition at SXSW 2015

"...world of Augmenta. As he succumbs to his virtual fantasies, his life falls apart around him...."

March 11, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Don Jon

Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as a guy who prefers porn to his girlfriend Scarlet Johansson in this film which also he wrote and directed.

"...a chance that real life might supersede his online fantasies. But, alas, their happy future together is scuttled when..."

Sept. 27, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Blue Jasmine

Class difference and life's shambles are on Woody Allen's mind as he leads Cate Blanchett through a perfectly calibrated performance as a Park Avenue matron brought low by modern finance.

"...no-goodnik (C.K.). All the while, Jasmine ranges between unrealistic fantasies and harsh reality checks. Your heart will break for..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fourplay

These four stories of unabashed sexual intimacy are often funny, sometimes poignant, always unconventional and playfully erotic.

"...which stars Jose Villarreal as a gay man whose fantasies take over when he fails to hustle a sex..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hitchcock

Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren keep things interesting but there's more here about the marriage and partnership of Hitchcock and Alma Reville rather than a good backstage look at the making of Psycho.

"...would not. But the lovelorn Hitchcock of this film’s fantasies would be better off left on the cutting-room floor...."

Dec. 7, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

God Bless America

Bobcat Goldthwait wrote and directed this seething comedy, which he describes as a "violent movie about kindness."

"...informs him that he has a terminal disease. Frank's fantasies of murder turn real as he embarks on a..."

June 1, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Salt of Life

This Italian import by the director of Mid-August Lunch addresses the concerns of aging men who realize they are no longer attractive to young women.

"...Pixies’ “Here Comes Your Man.” So hyperbolic are his fantasies that it’s clear that not only will they never..."

April 6, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Darkest Hour

Five young people lead the advance against an alien attack in Moscow.

"...team that gave us the infinitely superior Russian horror fantasies Night Watch and Day Watch may not be Gorak's..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mother

Bong Joon-ho, the South Korean director of The Host, is back with an exquisitely rendered murder mystery fraught with psychological suspense.

"...Though with Mother, he strays from the popular horror fantasies on view in 2006’s The Host, the filmmaker retains..."

March 26, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

It's Complicated

Far from complicated, this rom-com starring Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, and Steve Martin is a wish-fulfillment fantasy for women of a certain age.

"...Writer-director Meyers has come to specialize in making wish-fulfillment fantasies for middle-aged women (The Parent Trap, What Women Want,..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Big Man Japan

Midnight madness doesn't begin to categorize this bizarre Japanese superhero/monster movie.

"...Japanese monster movies, mockumentaries, comedies, and downright demented CGI fantasies. Matsumoto, a huge TV celebrity in Japan, directs, co-writes,..."

April 25, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Look Both Ways

This indie ensemble film from Australia examines big issues such as life and death but it's really at its best when probing smaller interactions.

"...her own death in a series of playful, animated fantasies. When Meryl witnesses the real death of a man..."

June 30, 2006 Movie Review by Brian Clark

The Singing Detective

Robert Downey Jr. plays Dennis Potter's afflicted writer, who imagines a film noir musical to escape his misery.

"...others excruciating, while the writer’s brain dances wildly among fantasies and hallucinations in which he remembers aspects of his..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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