“A Bitter Pill”

APD begins life under Chapter 143

"...CMs Alison Alter, Jimmy Flan­nigan, Ora Houston, and Ann Kitchen started..."

Jan. 5, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Miss Sloane

Jessica Chastain plays a powerful D.C. lobbyist

"...Starring: Jessica Chastain, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mark Strong, Jake Lacy, Alison Pill, Michael Stuhlbarg, Sam Waterston and John Lithgow...."

Dec. 9, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Cooties

A horror-comedy about kids turning to zombies and the teachers they hope to feast on

"...Milott and Cary Murnion. Starring: Elijah Wood, Rainn Wilson, Alison Pill, Jack McBrayer, Leigh Whannell, Nasim Pedrad, Ian Brennan..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...& destroy them. Cast List: Deborah Ayorinde, Ashley Thomas, Alison Pill, Melody Hurd, Shahadi Wright Joseph (World Premiere)..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

This glad-hearted and furiously funny piece of pop entertainment stars Michael Cera and is told in the vernacular of video games.

"...distinctive cast of such go-to character actors as Culkin, Alison Pill, and Webber) and ambling around Toronto (playing itself,..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Dan in Real Life

What passes for real life in this Steve Carell film is as genially inoffensive and predictable as the average TV sitcom.

"...Peter Hedges. Starring: Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche, Dane Cook, Alison Pill, Brittany Robertson, Marlene Lawston, Dianne Wiest, John Mahoney,..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen

Teenager suffers the horrors of moving from New York to New Jersey.

"...Directed by: Sara Sugarman. Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Adam Garcia, Alison Pill, Glenne Headly, Carol Kane, Eli Marienthal and Megan..."

Feb. 27, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Pieces of April

A Thanksgiving from hell with the family and all the neighbors upstairs.

"...Holmes, Patricia Clarkson, Oliver Platt, Derek Luke, Sean Hayes, Alison Pill, John Gallagher Jr. and Alice Drummond. You’ve seen..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

TV Eye

If you're looking for reviews of The Nutty Professor, John Pierson's Split Screen isn't your show. If you like insightful, sometimes peculiar excursions into the independent film world, Split Screen will please you more than a stolen afternoon at a weekday matinee. Also, Olympic fever spreads -- but not without a few complaints.

"...Scotia (where it was filmed), with their daughter Larkin (Alison Pill) and mother-in-law Byrd (Jean Stapleton). A recent tragedy..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Director Peter Hedges on Why Austin Film Festival Means So Much to Him

A shared rain's a-gonna fall in The Same Storm

"...Dumez­weni, Moses Ingram, Rosemarie DeWitt, Ron Livingston, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Alison Pill, Joshua Leonard, and Judith Light...."

Oct. 22, 2021 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Film Festival Unleashes The Same Storm

The French Dispatch, C’Mon C'Mon headed to fest

"...Blankson-Wood, Corey Michael Smith, Rosemarie DeWitt, Ron Livingston, and Alison Pill) to blow apart the already tired conventions of..."

Sept. 23, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Vice

Unsubtle Dick Cheney bio-pic is the political bludgeon we deserve

"...Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Jesse Plemons, Alison Pill, Lily Rabe, Eddie Marsan, Tyler Perry and Shea..."

Dec. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

I Like to Watch: Better Things Than Stranger Things

There are other worlds than these

"...featured a great ensemble – including Joan Allen and Alison Pill – of wild hot messes. This “sex prisoner..."

July 31, 2016 Screens Post by Jacob Clifton

Snowpiercer

This English-language debut from acclaimed South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho is a riveting sci-fi action film entirely set on a speeding train.

"...Ah-sung, Jamie Bell, John Hurt, Octavia Spencer, Ewen Bremner, Alison Pill, Vlad Ivanov and Ed Harris...."

June 27, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

‘The Newsroom’ Made Me Wish Chivalry Was Still Dead

HBO show ends season 2 with a ride on the mansplain train

"...that was co-workers Jim (John Gallagher Jr.) and Maggie (Alison Pill)? (Nobody likes bologna.) Since apparently she didn’t get..."

Sept. 16, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Goon

Off-color, bloody, and hilarious, Goon is the best hockey comedy since Slap Shot.

"...Dowse. Starring: Seann William Scott, Liev Schreiber, Jay Baruchel, Alison Pill, Marc-André Grondin, Kim Coates and Eugene Levy...."

April 27, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Midnight in Paris

Midnight in Paris just goes to show that if you wait long enough Woody Allen will finally deliver another terrific movie.

"...Fuller, Mimi Kennedy, Michael Sheen, Nina Arianda, Corey Stoll, Alison Pill, Kathy Bates, Carla Bruni and Adrien Brody. Quite..."

June 10, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Milk

Gus Van Sant's deeply heartfelt Milk, which features a magnificent performance by Sean Penn as the crusading gay activist, is a finely wrought yet fairly standard biopic.

"...Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, James Franco, Alison Pill, Victor Garber and Denis O’Hare. “My name is..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

A delightful return to the world of Harry Potter

"...Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol and Ezra Miller...."

Nov. 18, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Saturday Sleepers

"...8pm, Habana Calle 6 Annex Frontwoman Alison Galea has a nonchalant confidence in her delivery that..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

City Council Moves Along From the Ballot to the Budget

4700 Riverside inches forward, propositions tweaked

"...its press release, the Friends group objected to "poison pill" ballot language for Proposition A – which attempts to..."

Aug. 30, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Council: Throwin’ Shade

City Council, hotter than an August sun

"...the discussion – specifically, whether Council Members Leslie Pool, Alison Alter, and others were trying to drown the deal..."

Aug. 17, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Council Considers the True Cost of Saving a Buck

Affordability is in the details

"...prevailed, 7-4, with Ora Houston, Tovo, Leslie Pool, and Alison Alter voting no. The emotional climax was an exchange..."

March 10, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Soccer in Austin? Three Interests Now Vying for McKalla Place

Welcome to the group stage

"...several members and continued skepticism from Leslie Pool and Alison Alter. Mayor Steve Adler and Pio Renteria are on..."

June 15, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Reminder in Verse

"...an attempt to force you to swallow a pagan pill. For that matter, I don’t know if your Christmas..."

Dec. 2, 2014 Postmarks

Razzle-Dazzle 'Em

David Bologna on making it to Broadway with 'Billy Elliot'

"...kind of like if Irish dance took a chill pill. So I got the tap, and I finished the..."

Dec. 11, 2012 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Dancing About Architecture

One World or Two '97

"...days (leading people to shout "Turn it up!" to Alison Krauss at La Zona on Friday and "Too loud!"..."

April 11, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

The Year That Slipped Away

The 6,000 Albums of 1995

"...real and what I was leaving behind on my pillow, so I stumbled into the living room and rifled..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Music Feature