Dolphin Tale

This true story of the world's first dolphin with a prosthetic tail provides solid family entertainment.

"...all a little overloaded, but director Charles Martin Smith (Air Bud) handily keeps the sap at bay while moving..."

Sept. 23, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

ERCOT Issues Power Emergency Warning

Grid operator calls for conservation until 7pm

"...reserves are dipping perilously low as today's heat taxes air conditioning systems statewide. In the press release below, ERCOT..."

Aug. 2, 2011 News Post by Lee Nichols

Source Code

These strangers on a train are players in a gripping science fiction roundelay.

"...stop it, or them, or anything? Enter Gyllenhaal as Air Force vet Cap. Colter Stevens who, as the film..."

April 1, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Battle: Los Angeles

Aliens fight the U.S. Marines in a gritty urban war. Viewers are the losers.

"...armor that use laser-blasting ground forces and unmanned (un-thinged?) air support in classically strategic fashion. There's none of the..."

March 11, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Just Go With It

Instead of seeming effortless, this Adam Sandler/Jennifer Aniston comedy has the lazy appearance of being effort-free.

"...the park as of late, so the idea of pairing these likable stars in Just Go With It may..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Saw 3D: The Final Chapter

This seventh film in the horror series promises to be the last.

"...into the titular 3, Saw 3D has the desperate air of a doomed series that has outlived its marketability,..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DADT Gets a WITTness

Margaret Witt's endurance changes the face of DADT.

"...It was a long time a'comin', but Air Force Maj. Margaret Witt finally had one helluva day..."

Sept. 27, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

The Last Airbender

M. Night Shyamalan's live-action film is based on a popular animated series on Nickelodeon, and although the movie retains the series' mythology, it loses all its humor and suspense.

"...but, rather, the animated Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender. Replete with its own vast mythology about the airbending..."

July 2, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel

Alvin, Simon, and Theodore have good reason to squeak: Girl chipmunks enter the picture.

"...else). Muskrat love, of a sort, is in the air, and while I suspect the sight of sexy little..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ozone Watch Wednesday

Try to limit driving and other polluting actions

"...to limit driving and other actions that contribute to air pollution. See a press release from the Clean Air..."

Sept. 1, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

Soul Power

The "Rumble in the Jungle" was the main event, but this concert in the Congo was a hell of an undercard.

"...a hell of an undercard. The three-day festival in Zaire paired James Brown, B.B. King, and Bill Withers with..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Movie Review by Thomas Fawcett

Easy Virtue

In this adaptation of an early Noël Coward play, Jessica Biel is the American newcomer whose brash attitudes disrupt the British decorum of her new mother-in-law (Kristin Scott Thomas).

"...the drawing-room midst, but she exudes a thoroughly contemporary air that never jibes with the Twenties tenor of the..."

June 19, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Attempt to Derail TCEQ Appointment Fails

Senate confirms Shaw

"...drew upon his experience in trying to deny an air permit to the Asarco copper smelter in El Paso,..."

May 5, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience

The tween music sensations take to the big screen.

"...risqué clothing, and cell-phone cameras held high in the air like blooming digital sunflowers (blooming right in your face,..."

March 6, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Wrestler

In the latest film from Darren Aronofsky, Mickey Rourke rips his tattered name from the dustbin of history with his portrayal of an aging professional wrestler.

"...Together they create innumerable fascinating moments that have the air of documentary truth about them. Take Ram and a..."

Jan. 9, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Burn After Reading

The Coen brothers may be masters of black comedy, but there are times when there’s no point in taking them seriously.

"...human life. Burn After Reading is a convoluted yet light-as-air farce about the dangers of misguided ambition and the..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Hancock

Will Smith is the titular Hancock, a character as befuddling as the odd movie that surrounds him.

"...makes Smith's 1990 sitcom breakthrough, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, look positively transgressive by comparison. And, too, there's the..."

July 4, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bigger, Stronger, Faster*

While examining steroid use and abuse, this documentary discovers that enhancement drugs permeate our culture. Who’s to say which ones should be illegal?

"...performance anxiety, even amphetamines for fighter pilots in the Air Force – so who’s to say which ones should..."

June 6, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Graduation

This high school bank-heist caper flunks out.

"...details that suffuse the entire movie with the patent air of improbability. The film stars a quartet of young..."

May 2, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Obtaining a back-alley abortion in Romania proves to be rivetingly tense in this visually spare but assuredly virtuosic film.

"...Vasiliu plays Gabita, a pregnant college student with an air of impassive victimhood about her, like she’s long since..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Taxi to the Dark Side

Alex Gibney's new documentary focuses on the patterns of abuse committed by American armed forces against enemy combatants in Iraq and elsewhere. Instead of bad apples, he finds bad orders.

"...combatants" held by American armed forces – at Bagram Air Force Base, Afghanistan; Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq; and..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

First Sunday

Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan play petty criminals who spend a night reckoning with the lord when they rob their neighborhood church.

"...that funny to begin with. Cube plays Durell, an air-conditioning-repair whiz whose best pal, the criminally stupid LeeJohn (30..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Maker Faire: Happily Ever Crafter

"...accustomed to sheltering livestock, whirring and spinning inside the air-conditioned main building. This is grass-roots technology gone apeshit. This..."

Oct. 24, 2007 Design Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Rescue Dawn

German arthouse director Werner Herzog tells the story of Navy air pilot and POW Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale) and proves that he is capable – like his characters – of almost anything.

"...drama tells the story of Dieter Dengler, a Navy air pilot whose plane was shot down over Laos in..."

July 27, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bamako

This Malian courtroom drama is like nothing you've ever seen: The people put the institutions of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund on trial.

"...instead of a physical structure, Sissako's courtroom is the open-air courtyard in the midst of a compound of houses..."

June 22, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hoax

Playing the con artist Clifford Irving, who notoriously forged the autobiography of Howard Hughes, Richard Gere has one of the best roles of his career.

"...the 20th century”: an authorized, tell-all autobiography of famed billionaire and aviator Howard Hughes. Seeing the stunned looks on..."

April 6, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Al Franken: God Spoke

The film follows around comedian and politico Franken without managing to either inflame or inspire the viewer or add much new information to Franken's already well-documented history.

"...the birth and subsequent woes of Lefty radio semistaple Air America – as well as the 2004 presidential election..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jesus Camp

This film is not a freak show or exposé but rather a call to arms to pick sides in the deepening cultural, political, and spiritual schism between the two Americas of the 21st century.

"...secular liberals, who are represented in the film by Air America jock and practicing Methodist Mike Papantonio. Papantonio calls..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Flyboys

This story of the Lafayette Escadrille squadron, who become the first U.S. fighter pilots, is surprisingly inert.

"...of the Lafayette Escadrille, a subset of the French Air Service in World War I comprised of non-native Francophiles..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Crossover

The story of the friendship and contrasting paths to success of two natural ballplayers, both of whom appear to be too old to be playing teens, Crossover tries hard but never makes the leap.

"...comes to filming a basketball game, he shoots mainly air balls. Crossover tries hard but never makes the leap...."

Sept. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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