Film Reviews

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"...this is Hollywood, babe, where all the waiters are actors, the video store clerks are directors, and the gangsters..."

Oct. 20, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...C. McGinley. Director Fincher, whose last outing was the butchered-by-the-studio Alien 3, seems more comfortable working on the terrestrial..."

Sept. 29, 1995 News Feature

Moon-Shaped Panties & the Saint of White Trash

The Late Lucinda Williams

"...ReelSound bus, says the affable Perkins, nodding toward the studio bus so often seen outside Austin concerts in the..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Hollywood Babble On

The Silver Screen in Black & White

"...Lying Down provides the "other" history of the Hollywood studio system, one that includes the women whose achievements often..."

July 25, 1997 Screens Feature by Alison Macor

Endangered Species Conservation

'The Last Unicorn' takes a victory lap at the Alamo Drafthouse

"...There's also the unusually strong cast of voice actors, which includes Alan Arkin and Jeff Bridges in addition..."

May 31, 2013 Screens Feature by Amy Gentry

From Penitentiaries to Picture Shows

Spiderwood Studios founder Tommy Warren follows the dream

"...across a room smelling of fresh paint. Imagine Spiderwood Studios, he urges. See it as he sees it. Workers..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

TV Eye

It smells like strike ... again. TV Eye preemptively tosses her TV for the Internet.

"...this life without a TV marathon that the pending actors' strike snuck up on me. As of this writing,..."

July 4, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Unveiling WebberVilla Muse!

Austin, Webberville leaders find common ground in "VillaVille"

"...have secretly agreed to site the proposed $5.5 billion studio/music venue/residential complex on top of the city's proposed nearby..."

March 28, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Double Life

Director Douglas McGrath on the other critically acclaimed Truman Capote biopic, 'Infamous'

"...manners. We were shooting at this place called TroubleMaker Studios, Robert Rodriguez's studio out at [Austin Studios]...."

Oct. 20, 2006 Screens Feature by Liz Welch Tirrell

Blah, Blah, Blah

In the 14 sketches that make up Blah, Blah, Blah, playwright Lowell Bartholomee skewers Hollywood with situations and dialogue that are clever and perceptive, but the actors seem to be working to put it across, straining even, when it really doesn't need the hard sell.

"...to me this is a funny situation: A movie studio employee comes into a producer's office with a sawed-off..."

Aug. 2, 2002 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Six-String Reverb

In the Beginning ...

"...we got was from some executive from a major studio (who shall remain nameless) who saw the film and..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Exhibitionism

Directors' Festival 1997: One-act Wonders

"...The Acting Studio, through May 24 Running Time: 2 hrs..."

May 23, 1997 Arts Review

Film Reviews

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"...staging the film's occasional moments of excessive violence. The actors do what they can, but the generic script doesn't..."

Nov. 3, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...staging the film's occasional moments of excessive violence. The actors do what they can, but the generic script doesn't..."

Oct. 27, 1995 News Feature

Austin Studios Breaking Out the Hammers

With voter approval, studio plans the next phase

"...like affordable housing went down, the folks at Austin Studios are breathing a sigh of relief that voters liked..."

Nov. 14, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Outlaw

Alex Cox, still shooting film, and the finger, after all these years

"...for some time, lobbing grenades – at the film studios and the banks and the hypocrites and the colonialists..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Qmmunity: Andie Flores and Sam Mayer’s 3 Scenes From Queer Utopia

Taking the stage in a cage

"...The narrative on the cage stage has actors performing as Flores and Mayer in a conversation about..."

Nov. 15, 2024 Column by James Scott

The Instigators

Shaggy dog crime flick starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck plays like knockoff Tarantino

"...Quentin Tarantino’s twisted morality tale exploded in 1994, every studio executive was desperate to green light the next talky..."

Aug. 9, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Madame Web

The Spidey-adjacent Madame Web isn't just bad, it's boring

"...out of this just fine, as will the other actors trudging through this joyless comic book spinoff. I doubt..."

Feb. 16, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Elemental

Pixar's latest story of abstract concepts in love is surprisingly touching

"...vulnerability that gives the character depth. Together, the voice actors bring a sweetness to the romance that otherwise could..."

June 16, 2023 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

About My Father

Sebastian Maniscalco wastes his paternal comedy material on a bad De Niro flick

"...About My Father is another one of those tepid studio comedies best described as meeting the technical qualifications of..."

May 26, 2023 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Down With the King

Freddie Gibbs scorches the earth as a rapper in touch with the land

"...With the King had been pitched to a major studio, it would have ended up a goofy comedy starring..."

July 1, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Holy Glow of TV in Hollywood Priest

New documentary on the life and faith of producer priest Bud Keiser

"...the narration. Fortunately, Gibbons said, "He's got this home studio, so I'd write him, 'Hey, we've got a hole..."

May 1, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The King’s Daughter

Long-delayed historical fairy tale is an overdue oddity

"...from the chemistry between Scodelario and Walker (the two actors would marry in 2015) to the cast’s performances. It..."

Jan. 28, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Scream

Ghostface is back in the serial killer/movie nerd franchise

"...in not only horror but with every major Hollywood studio IP (Halloween, Saw, Star Wars, The Matrix, the list..."

Jan. 21, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Nightmare Alley

Guillermo del Toro goes into the dark of greedy souls in this noir remake

"...clarify its themes in ways that the 1947 Hollywood studio adaptation starring Tyrone Power (cast against type) could only..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Being the Ricardos

Miscasting (except for J.K. Simmons) derails this Lucille Ball biopic.

"...the dressing rooms. You get the idea, all very Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. It’s not a great..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

Last Bow of an Accidental Critic

Lessons and surprises from a career that shouldn't have been

"...and getting a job that used my degree in studio art...."

Sept. 24, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Annette

Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard sing out loud in this highbrow musical

"...then an overture by the band who exit the studio with the entire cast in tow before the actual..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Unholy

Messy Catholic horror is weighed down by becoming a creature feature

"...Evan Spiliotopoulos. There is something refreshing about watching a studio dump a mediocre horror movie in theaters during the..."

April 9, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

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