American Animals

Truth, lies, and self-deception in this remarkable true-crime docudrama

"...their characters should be. Based on the strengths of American Animals, this tension between fact and fiction is something..."

June 15, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Bart Layton on Secrets, Lies, and American Animals

How the documentarian turned true crime tropes on their heads

"...Bart Layton stumbled across the amazing true story behind American Animals, it was a much simpler path. "I read..."

June 14, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: American Animals

A docudrama as audacious as the heist it re-creates

"...genre-bending documentaries like SXSW 2012's deceptive The Imposter. In American Animals, he experiments again with the hybridization of documentary,..."

March 19, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Eating Animals

Natalie Portman narrated documentary about the ethics of farming versus factory farming.

"...what we have for lunch hardly seems critical. Eating Animals sets out to show us exactly how important –..."

June 29, 2018 Movie Review by Jessi Cape

Earth and the American Dream

"...the movie's aim is the discovery of the specific American attitudes and belief systems that implicitly foster such wholesale..."

June 17, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Film Festival: Popovich and the Voice of the Fabled American West

Cats and dogs living together

"...Film” category. Popovich and the Voice of the Fabled American West is crammed to bursting with witty gags, slapstick..."

Oct. 27, 2014 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Geronimo: An American Legend

"...from Disney bestowing human characteristics on several generations of animals, Hollywood liberals have recast Native Americans as Judeo-Christian moral..."

Dec. 10, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

SXSW Adds Glass Animals, Girlpool & Black Lips

Artist roster expands by 162 acts

"...Today’s artist list adds British trip-pop quartet Glass Animals, Atlanta garage favorites Black Lips, indie rock trio Girlpool,..."

Feb. 27, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

After a Fashion: American Idle?

Let Your Style Avatar's personal plight be a warning to you about the dangers of ... reality TV

"...watch reality shows as penance. My mom's addicted to American Idol, so I watch it with her regularly. Idol,..."

June 1, 2012 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Guide to American Cheese Organizations and Competitions

"...Cheeses are judged strictly by technical standards. www.wischeesemakersassn.org. The American Cheese Society/Annual Competition..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Food Feature

Subject to Control

American Berserk Theatre's debut is a heady, funny treat, smuggling heavy ideas in a light package

"...Subject to ControlSalvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd. www.americanberserktheatre.com Through June 4 Running time: 1 hr., 40 min...."

May 27, 2016 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

American Meat

Throwing conventions aside and bringing the farmer back to the table

"...part of a nation-wide, 10-state Young Farmer Screening Series, American Meat, directed by Graham Meriwether, aims to dispel the..."

Feb. 17, 2013 Food Post by Anna Toon

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

The third installment of this animated series gets the job done as the animals take protective cover in a traveling circus.

"...series begins where the second one ended: with the animals in northern Africa and newly overtaken by the dubious..."

June 8, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dolittle

Downey has and is fun as the doctor who can talk with the animals

"...books about the man who could talk with the animals...."

Jan. 17, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Eight Below

We smell penguins, even though Eight Below's animals are really a pack of sled dogs in a wonderful man-and-dog movie.

"...Gerard Plunkett. I smell penguins, even though Eight Below's animals are really a pack of sled dogs. This movie's..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Nancy

Andrea Riseborough spellbinds in this drama of self-delusion and second chances.

"...outstanding supporting performances that runs through The Handmaid's Tale, American Animals, and Hereditary) who depends on her, but can..."

June 29, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Roar: The Blood Stays in the Picture

Star John Marshall on lions and the world's craziest home movie

"...brother, his dad's second wife, her daughter, the family's animals. That time one of those animals tried to eat..."

April 29, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Legend of Tarzan

This new take on Tarzan, with its CGI jungle animals, isn't half bad

"...a CGI jungle, and rendered as phony as the animals and vines from which he swung? As it turns..."

July 1, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

No Country For Old Horses?

Senate considers horse slaughter

"...operators bought the small North Texas city a large American flag to place outside the American Legion Hall. In..."

July 16, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

To Your Health

Is there any meat that is safe from contamination by the "Mad Cow" disease agent, or is there any way to protect against it?

"...have also appeared in pigs, cats, and several zoo animals whose diet included cow-derived protein...."

Aug. 3, 2001 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

Teen Spirit

Pop fable never feels like a smash hit

"...with her religious mother and a couple of farm animals and who wants to be a singer. When American..."

April 19, 2019 Movie Review by Danielle White

SXSW Unleashes Massive Film List

High-concept horror A Quiet Place to open fest

"...swathe of firsts, including 82 world premieres, 11 North American premieres, five U.S. debuts, and 43 first-time filmmakers. Festival..."

Jan. 31, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Proposition

The Western is alive and well in the Australian outback, as this gritty film with a screenplay and score by musician Nick Cave demonstrates.

"...of Sam Peckinpah, John Huston, and Robert Aldrich – American filmmakers who made Westerns about strong-willed men and the..."

June 9, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fight Club

There's no middle ground in Fight Club: Either you go with its berserker ethos or go nuts.

"...meets on a plane. Beaten down and adrift in American consumer culture (though, it should be noted, Fincher never..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Spike & Mike's 1992 Festival of Animation

"...bombs, and more than enough also-rans to go around. American Lance Kramer checks in with “Singing Ding-A-Lings,” an apparent..."

Aug. 21, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

White Dog

With typically blunt, disturbing, combative, unconventional storytelling, Fuller tackles the disease of bigotry with this story about a racist dog.

"...dog to Noah's Ark, a training center for movie animals run by the equable Burl Ives. There, animal trainer..."

July 10, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Call of the Wild

Buck the dog makes another trip to the Yukon, this time with CGI assistance

"...storyline sensitive to the ethical and humane treatment of animals. This tack is largely a welcome one, as most..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

King Corn

The film’s light hand, appealing style, and simple exposition make it an eminently watchable inquiry into the politics of food, public health, and the reasons why corn has become an ingredient in virtually everything we eat.

"...drink soda, you are consuming corn. If you eat animals, there is probably corn – a lot of corn..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Grizzly Man

This documentary reveals how Timothy Treadwell, the popular grizzly bear preservationist, may have needed the bears more than they needed him.

"...thwack of its paw. Nevertheless, people, and perhaps especially Americans, perpetuate some fuzzy notions about the inherent goodness of..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

How to Train Your Dragon

Soaring animation should make this story about a Viking boy who befriends his enemy a perennial favorite.

"...Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders. Whether Viking-born or contemporary American, all children want to control their dragons, be they..."

March 26, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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