Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore

Voices are given to the live-action animal performers who romp through this four-footed James Bond spoof.

"...of the Titans earlier this year. This sequel to 2001's Cats & Dogs is really just another reason to..."

July 30, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Crude

Expert documentarian Joe Berlinger sheds light on the epic environmental lawsuit filed by 30,000 Ecuadorans against the oil company Texaco, which is now owned by Chevron.

"...by 30,000 Ecuadorans against the oil company Texaco. In 2001, Texaco merged with Chevron, and therefore inherited the conflict...."

Oct. 9, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fast & Furious

This third franchise sequel doesn't have as much smarts as speed, but it's still an uncomplicated, undemanding lark.

"...Jack Conley, Shea Whigham and Liza Lapira. Back in 2001, when we first met renegade street racer Dominic Toretto..."

April 3, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Australia

Baz Luhrmann teams with fellow Aussies Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman for this romantic action-adventure epic.

"...go big, and with this, his long-awaited follow-up to 2001's Moulin Rouge, his canvas stretches as wide as the..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

This comedy starring Simon Pegg is based on Toby Young's memoir about working at Vanity Fair.

"...Anderson and Megan Fox. When it was published in 2001, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, Toby Young’s..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Choke

Choke, a forgettable adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s 2001 novel, features Sam Rockwell as a man of many hats, all of them off-putting.

"...while watching Choke, a forgettable adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s 2001 novel. I never found the notes, but I did..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Stuck

Stuart Gordon tells his own creepy version of the story about the Fort Worth woman who locked her car in the garage for days with the mangled-but-still-living body of a human victim stuck in her windshield.

"...from hell that took place in Fort Worth, in 2001, when Chante Mallard, an off-duty nurse's aide driving home..."

June 6, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jodhaa Akbar

From the director of Lagaan comes this masterful Bollywood epic about a 16th century marriage of political alliance that gave birth to true love.

"...Dheer. This new Bollywood film from the director of 2001's Oscar-nominated Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India tells..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

No Reservations

While No Reservations is no Big Night, it's surprisingly winsome in parts, by virtue of Catherine Zeta-Jones' performance, and a romantic fable that lingers on the palette of the mind's eye.

"...No Reservations, a nearly note-perfect remake of Sandra Nettelbeck's 2001 German import, doesn't erase the memory of Hicks' odd..."

July 27, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tears of the Black Tiger

This Thai film is part melodrama and part spaghetti western, as if Sirk and Peckinpah fell into a blender and out poured tear-soaked Polaroids, giant exploding squibs and blown-up heads, tearful Asian songbird ballads, and homoerotic outlaw bonding.

"...to be shown at Cannes, where it killed in 2001 – now it’s playing the AFS@Dobie series – Tears..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Pulse

Pulse, the American remake of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2001 horror film Kairo, is the McDonald's Unhappy Meal to the original's elegantly obtuse sashimi o' sorrow.

"...Jonathan Tucker, Samm Levine and Octavia Spencer. Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2001 horror film, Kairo, is an unnerving riff on modern..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Who Killed the Electric Car?

This multifaceted documentary about the history of GM's electric car seeks the culprit responsible for its demise and finds plenty of blame to go around.

"...entire fleet of EV1s was recalled by GM in 2001, and the film explores the reasons why. The film..."

July 28, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Christmas in the Clouds

This Native American romantic comedy, which won the Audience Award at the 2001 Austin Film Festival, arrives in theatres four years late but seasonally right on time.

"...romantic comedy, which won the Audience Award at the 2001 Austin Film Festival, arrives in theatres four years late..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Stealth

Masterful aerial action sequences don't compensate for earthbound plot.

"...(XXX, The Fast and the Furious), which semicompetently welds 2001’s amoral HAL 9000 computer to the Top Gun school..."

July 29, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Undead

This Australian horror film arrives at the tail end of a recent and very substantial cinematic zombie overdose. Unfortunately, there are only so many ways to slice the walking dead.

"...little zombie/alien epic from down under was filmed in 2001 and released in its native Australia in 2003. Now,..."

July 8, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bad Guy

Early film from South Korea's enfant terrible Kim Ki-duk is a coarse and distubing drama about obsessive love.

"...his back catalog released on U.S. screens. Hailing from 2001, Bad Guy is coarser and more disturbing than his..."

March 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Uncovered: The War on Iraq

The filmmaker, who is also responsible for the recent documentary Outfoxed, argues that intelligence data have been manipulated by this administration to justify the decision to go to war.

"...the belief that this administration decided on September 12, 2001 to invade Iraq and that all the classified intelligence..."

Oct. 8, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Faster

Loud, swooping documentary about the sport of motorcycle racing follows 24 riders on the international circuit.

"...24 riders over the 16 yearly races of the 2001-2002 season (running from April to November), is the straight..."

Oct. 8, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Broken Lizard's Club Dread

Broken Lizard (the comedy group that gave us Super Troopers) spoofs summer-camp slasher flicks and lowbrow beach farces.

"...from the Broken Lizard comedy troupe (the creators of 2001’s Super Troopers). It might even be worth a ticket..."

Feb. 27, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

"...plot in this feature-length film (released in Japan in 2001) involves bioterrorism, which conveniently anoints it with an especially..."

April 4, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Son's Room

"...Nanni Moretti. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, The Son's Room ranks with such..."

May 17, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

No Man's Land

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

"...Callow and Katrin Cartlidge. No Man's Land won the 2001 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, which proves the..."

March 22, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kandahar

"...this exquisite film, which premiered at Cannes in May 2001 amid much acclaim, has become even more resonant for..."

March 1, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Agony of the Ecstasy

Will the federal and local crackdown on ecstasy put raves out of business?

"...the recent passage of the Ecstasy Prevention Act of 2001 [see sidebar], many people, not the least of whom..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Chapter 5: An Ongoing Odyssey

Twenty years of The Austin Chronicle: the final chapter and coda

"...Giant Sand, Elliott Smith; SXSW Music Badge 2000 and 2001 (no events attended), Wristband 2000, various and sundry swag..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

The Last Resort

"...is the first film in distribution company Shooting Gallery's 2001 package tour of films -- a package which last..."

April 20, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mister Scarface

This stylishly violent Italian crime film is by one of the pulp masters.

"...(For more on the Something Weird Wednesdays series see austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-02-16/screens_feature.html.)..."

March 29, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

One Day in September

Recipient of the 2000 Oscar for Best Documentary, this film unfolds the gripping drama that occurred on September 5, 1972, during the Munich Olympics, when eight armed Palestinian terrorists took 11 members of the Israeli delegation hostage.

"...The whole world was watching in 1976, but come 2001 we may finally be seeing...."

Feb. 16, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

9/11 Memorial: The 20th Anniversary

Claude van Lingen honors those who died on Sept. 11, 2001

"...(5419 Glissman) honors those who died on September 11, 2001, in the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Pennsylvania tragedies..."

Sept. 11, 2021 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Beerland Handed Down

Austin Jukebox group takes over Red River punk cavity

"...cornerstone for the Austin punk and garage scenes since 2001, will change ownership at the end of the year...."

Dec. 17, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

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