Attack the Block

Smart, quick, funny, and economical, Attack the Block is an alien-invasion movie that's a breed apart.

"...a breed apart. Set largely within a London housing project, the film turns on the idea that its young..."

July 29, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Ballad of Little Jo

"...the Western offers a little seen perspective on the American frontier. Inspired by the life of a real woman,..."

Nov. 5, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Downtown's New Year

"...building, CSC was wrapping up one of its office projects with promises of filling all 215,000 square feet (didn't..."

Jan. 17, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Our Town, Our Time

Zachary Scott Theatre Center's production of The Laramie Project retells the story of Matthew Shepard's murder in a compelling, heartfelt way, but it also tells a town's story and gives us the opportunity to see our town in its reflection.

"...In the play The Laramie Project there are several touches that may put you in..."

March 15, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Angie

"...the movie it dreams of becoming. As Angie, the Italian-American homegirl from Bensonhurst, the intrinsically WASPy Davis is miscast...."

March 4, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Heaven & Earth

"...has created the latter. Stone's latest film is a project he views as the third part of his “Vietnam..."

Dec. 24, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Deadlocked Over Density

Neighbors say ARA's development plans for East 11th Street would clash with existing homes and businesses, including the historic Victory Grill

"...the larger city has been rocky dramatically understates the history. Since its inception in the mid-Nineties, the nonprofit development..."

Sept. 5, 2008 News Feature by Lee Nichols

The Counterfeiters

Winner of this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Film, this brisk Austrian film uncovers the moral choices faced by WWII concentration-camp victims selected to work on the Nazi effort to create bogus currency.

"...of a special unit of currency counterfeiters, in a project based on the true story of Operation Bernhard, in..."

April 11, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Flags of Our Fathers

The first half of the film continues Clint Eastwood's ongoing deconstruction of America's hero myths but then detours into some uncharacteristically sentimental mulch.

"...the first third to half of the movie, the story detours from this quintessentially Eastwoodian theme of the deconstruction..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Country of Exiles?

Country of Exiles: The Destruction of Place in American Life

"...pulling down their wonderful brownstones in an "urban reclamation" project, I am all for it. And limitations on growth,..."

July 9, 1999 Books Review

Work Stops on Ghost Town

Meadows Housing Project Shuts Down

"...at Trinity Crossing, the city's most ambitious low-cost housing project, appears to be gasping its last breath. The city..."

June 21, 1996 News Feature by Robert Bryce

It's All True: Based On an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles

"...It's All True provides a missing piece of film history. In 1942, while Orson Welles was completing The Magnificent..."

Feb. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sommersby

"...Earl Jones and Bill Pullman. Sommersby is an updated American adaptation of a popular French story made in !982..."

Feb. 13, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Film Unveils March Lineup

So much ado!

"...The big story coming out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival was..."

Jan. 31, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Paper Clips

It’s an only-in-America tale about kids in the Tennessee hamlet of Whitwell and their "paper clip project” – a teaching tool meant to help them comprehend the dimensions of the Holocaust – but it grew into something much, much more.

"...It’s an only-in-America tale that encompasses the world, a history lesson, and a sociological examination all in one. In..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Who's Texas?

The story of Texas history says a lot -- about the storytellers

"...early as 1996, when the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum -- now bigger than life down on Martin..."

Sept. 6, 2002 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Malcolm X

"...much to deflect, so many skirmishes that the whole project grew into larger-than-life proportions (a particular danger when your..."

Nov. 20, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lake|Flato's Impact on Austin

The firm behind the new library has changed our city's look

"...the San Antonio/Austin-based architectural firm that partnered on the project with Boston's Shepley Bulfinch. But it's just one of..."

Oct. 31, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

MACC Mommy

Managing the busy new Mexican American Cultural Center is inspiring work for Amparo Garcia-Crow

"...has been no shortage of activity at the Mexican American Cultural Center. Perched like a bright-white origami figure on..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

House of Sand and Fog

Moody and offbeat adaptation of Andre Dubus III bestseller heralds strong debut for new director and dandy performances by Jennifer Connelly and Ben Kingsley.

"...with the Behrani character, and the conclusion of the story rings false, so in the film’s most heated moments..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Outside Providence

"...what it does extremely well. Beguiling performances and a story that veers between social observations, period detail, and genuine..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Get on the Bus

"...gathering that so galvanized the hearts and minds of African-American men. The movie focuses not on the event itself..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Deep Blues

"...Palmer and Dave A. Stewart. Deep Blues is a project that puts the word “document” back in the term..."

Nov. 6, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

kYmberly Keeton Wants Your Stories for the Black COVID-19 Index

And at the Austin African American Book Festival 2020, she’ll tell you why

"...has always been the mission of the Austin African American Book Festival, and it continues to fulfill that mission..."

June 26, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Last Full Measure

A true story of a hero denied recognition

"...a medical kit in the other, having saved many American soldiers with both. He was posthumously awarded the Air..."

Jan. 24, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

2019 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentary

Tales of love and hate dominate these Oscar hopefuls

"...Madison Square: 80 years ago this month, some 20,000 Americans filled the hall to capacity in an unprecedented political..."

Feb. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Yes Yes: Sundance Announces 2014 Class

Austinites a-plenty in Competition and NEXT slates

"...featuring, we just learned*, a soundtrack by the Octopus Project. And David Gordon Green executive-produced fellow North Carolina School..."

Dec. 4, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Lucie 'splains It All

Austin Cabaret presents Lucie Arnaz, and here we have a lovely convo.

"...10 year anniversary series of divalicious evenings from the American Songbook. She also happens to be one of my..."

Feb. 10, 2011 Arts Post by Kate X Messer

Man of the Year

Instead of being the hippest kid on the block, this comedy plays like a schizophrenic exercise in shrill cinematic politics.

"...a wildly popular cable-television fake-news program ran for the American presidency and won? Clearly Levinson, reteaming with his manic..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

What, Me Worry? Yes.

'American Splendor' is one of the most celebrated movies of the year, and everybody loves my comic again. But … I dunno.

"...already a big a fan of his comic book American Splendor, I was thrilled to have the cartoon's alter..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Screens Feature by Harvey Pekar

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