Dune

The science-fiction epic gets the screen treatment its scale demands

"...of Aqaba. It's that same mix of grandeur and folly, this time on a cosmic scale...."

Oct. 22, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Dating & New York

When “friends with benefits” goes wrong for the smartphone generation

"...and Mila Kunis, released 10 years ago, about the folly of platonic screwing?..."

Sept. 10, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

French Exit

Pfeiffer embraces her zaniness in this tale of the ugly Americans in Paris

"...explanations as to how, and its lean approach into folly is where French Exit succeeds...."

April 2, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Wonder Woman 1984

Diana Prince stars in an all-new episode of I Love the ’80s

"...of Batman dropping F-bombs in his Justice League extended folly.)..."

Jan. 1, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Pinocchio

Latest retelling of the children's classic gets tangled in its own strings

"...grandmother, these satiric stories are evocative lessons in human folly. The Adventures of Pinocchio, written in 1883 by Italian..."

Dec. 25, 2020 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Transit

A contemporary retelling of life in occupied France has chilling modern resonances

"...may all be currently in hell, and regret the folly of our lives, but perhaps we have each other...."

March 29, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Mary Moody Northen Theatre's Men on Boats

With a diverse cast of women playing white men exploring the Grand Canyon, this show recasts history to show guys who just don't get it

"...lens, and we can see much more of the folly in it...."

Nov. 16, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween

Slappy returns in this perfectly timed sequel

"...over Wardenclyffe to this day. Needless to say, “Tesla’s folly” plays an integral part in the movie...."

Oct. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Filmworker

Leon Vitali, Kubrick's right-hand man, forever in the maestro's shadow

"...Jones lookalike, to his brittle innocence in Kubrick’s grand folly Barry Lyndon (here evocative of a young Tom Hulce);..."

July 13, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Wiener-Dog

Todd Solondz sets a pup in a world of humans who are all bark and more bite

"...to compartmentalize this movie in some neat fashion is folly. This is Todd Solondz and, refreshingly enough, you can’t..."

July 1, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

Austin's Zellner brothers make a wry heartbreaker

"...Kumiko’s quest is folly to you and me, but her naive mind thinks..."

March 27, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wild Tales

Anthology film from Argentina finds the dark humor in six revenge stories

"...brilliantly compact tale of escalated road rage evinces the folly of blind machismo, giving us a brutally funny and..."

March 27, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Blue Room

Mathieu Amalric directs and stars in this Hitchcockian story of l'amour four.

"...peak but no less mischievous or given to romantic folly...."

Oct. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jayne Mansfield's Car

This Billy Bob Thornton vehicle hits the skids with its confessional monologues and confrontational encounters, even though Robert Duvall provides some redeeming moments.

"...takes on men, while the younger ones know the folly of romanticizing war all too well. In the end,..."

Sept. 13, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt are delightfully matched in this offbeat romantic comedy from the director of Chocolat.

"...the United Kingdom – a grand vision and/or colossal folly the British Press Office throws its weight (and its..."

March 30, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Even the Rain

Amid citizen unrest in Bolivia, a Spanish film crew attempts to mount a revisionist history of Christopher Columbus.

"...strong-arming oppressed locals into the service of some mad folly, be it forcing a steamboat over land or pillaging..."

April 15, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Point Austin: Capitol Craziness

April Fools' can't compete with this year's legislative follies

"...a politically useful sideshow to this session's main April folly: a House budget so radical that it will strip..."

April 1, 2011 News Column by Michael King

The Making of an Endorsement

"..."And that was an assumption that was just pure folly," he said. "Probably 80 percent of them come from..."

Oct. 24, 2008 News Feature

If Only We Could Overlook Babich's Letters

"...Jared Diamond. That book points out that while environmental folly does not necessarily doom a nation, the failure to..."

July 11, 2005 Postmarks

99 Bands

Ninety-nine local bands on Red River waiting to be heard

"...35: In Praise of Folly..."

July 8, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

A Midsummer Night's Dream

In director Lucien Douglas' staging of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," folly comes to the fore and makes for pretty pleasant company

"...director Lucien Douglas' staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream, folly comes to the fore. It plays up how silly..."

March 4, 2005 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Taming of the Shrew

Choreographer Stephen Mills packed Ballet Austin's adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew with a rollicking physicality that spun ballet into slapstick and twirled slapstick into ballet and revealed an impressive grasp of Shakespeare's characters.

"...need of "taming" but as a human being whose folly had taken over her life and who, on recognizing..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Capitol Chronicle

The Sept. 13 constitutional amendment ballot features the good, the bad, and the silly.

"...send the outmoded and the substandard across the border. Gracias.Folly by the Dozen What else is on the silly..."

Aug. 22, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Gerry

"...wilderness this time, one far removed from the experimental folly of re-enacting Psycho. This time he forays into the..."

March 21, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Quiet American

"...Schenkkan) of Graham Greene’s prescient 1955 novel about the folly of colonialism in Vietnam. Set during the waning days..."

Feb. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Most Valuable Players

A Guide to Austin Stage Actors

"...Recent Roles: Sally, Talley's Folly, Onstage, 2001; Gabrielle/Maud, A Name for a Ghost to..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Arts Feature

Postmarks

A fresh melange of reader responses to our recent issues.

"...It is pure folly to believe we can destroy ICBM's in flight and..."

May 25, 2001 Column

Croupier

"...urbane in the extreme, almost superhumanly so, but his folly -- an inability to connect with or trust those..."

June 16, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Grand Illusion

"...things to all people. That’s the beauty, not the folly, of this deeply anti-war movie – and the films..."

Jan. 20, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Some Fish Can Fly

"...off to the Emerald Isle when he sees the folly of his ways. Where are the people from? And..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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