The Zookeeper's Wife

World War II drama based on the bestselling book

"...Holocaust heroism and survival in which the sufferings of animals are given nearly equal play with those of human..."

April 7, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bill of the Week: No 'Easy Death'

Bill ends animal shelter gas chambers

"...Although he took an early stand against killing healthy animals, he knew the shelter would sometimes have to euthanize..."

May 18, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties

Hide the lasagna: The fat, lazy cat – and his doppelgänger – is back.

"...overseas location. Viewers have everything before them (talking farm animals! a sneering villain! topiary hedges! London scenery!) and nothing..."

June 16, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Vegan Magazine Founder Summer Burton Talks Reason and Queso

Former Buzzfeed exec and Texas native is obsessed with animals

"...Tenderly, ethical philosophies stemming from an insatiable obsession with animals, and queso...."

Sept. 20, 2019 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Mr. Popper's Penguins

Jim Carrey plays a man who inherits six penguins in this family film that finds the actor neither too manic nor mawkish.

"...is that these penguins don’t converse with humans. Talking animals have become all the rage in kids’ movies over..."

June 24, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

African Cats

Lions and cheetahs in the African savanna look lovely onscreen but are imbued with human emotions.

"...in this Disneynature documentary. It’s this emphasis on the animals’ fates and ordeals, however, that renders this stunningly photographed..."

April 29, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Two Brothers

Two tiger cubs separated during infancy are cast to the winds of fate in French-occupied Indochina.

"...naturalism – the illusion it creates of observing the animals undetected. We watch the mating pair meet in a..."

June 25, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

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

Wish List: A Forever Home at Austin Zoo

Keeping the zoo's animal kingdom warm this winter

"...The Austin Zoo spares the lives of animals that have been abused, abandoned, or neglected...."

Dec. 12, 2016 News Post by Montinique Monroe

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

[UPDATED] No-Kill Nightmare

Austin Animal Center forced to euthanize animals for space concerns

"...when it logged a 90% save rate of its animals. This week, that record may end, as adoptions fail..."

May 15, 2012 News Post by Monica Riese

Zookeeper

There are many things we can learn from the animals but lessons in love from talking primates is not one of them.

"...is coached in the ways of seduction by talking animals. (Kids love those, right?) But director Frank Coraci, whose..."

July 8, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

"...be raided? The updated screenplay about three very different animals who forge a deep and mutually respectful bond while..."

Feb. 12, 1993 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

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

Sing

Animated film about a koala who stages a singing competition

"...be good, too, for the bipedal, talking (and trilling) animals that populate the world of Sing, the latest animated..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Project Nim

The story of a science experiment in which a chimpanzee was raised as a human child is recounted in this heartbreaking documentary.

"...that speech was what set humans apart from other animals – hence Nim’s full name, Nim Chimpsky. Terrace’s record-keeping..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dr. Dolittle 2

"...of the amazing physician who could "talk to the animals" less than palatable. Still, I'm open to any film..."

June 22, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cats Don't Dance

"...of the great Chuck Jones -- these are funny animals we can feel for. And feel we do, warming..."

April 4, 1997 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Rudyard Kipling's the Jungle Book

"...no mean feat -- the anthropomorphism of the exotic animals seems particularly suited to animation. But through skillful training..."

Dec. 23, 1994 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?

"...nearby woods. Bae conjures some extraordinary shots of these animals; they do nothing to impose human emotion on these..."

July 9, 1993 Movie Review by Robert Faires

The Common Law

Renting and emotional support animals?

"...however, exceptions to this general rule related to service animals and emotional support animals (ESA). Let’s start by distinguishing..."

April 5, 2024 Column by Luke Ellis

Artist Calder Kamin Envisions "A World Without Waste"

With animals crafted from plastic bags, the Austin native turns our eyes to nature

"...Dog Art Gallery. They asked me to make little animals and Elvises out of Sculpy [polymer clay]. This was..."

July 2, 2021 Arts Feature by Barbara Purcell

The Lion King

Can you feel the shrug tonight?

"...musical, which managed the impossible and turned the animated animals into one of theatre's most remarkable hybrids of costume,..."

July 19, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Birdboy: The Forgotten Children

Goya-winning animation finds the demons within us all

"...to be an outsider – just told with hand-animated animals...."

May 25, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Kedi

The cats of Istanbul shine in this affecting doc

"...on cat feet.) Neither domestic nor feral, these stray animals belong to no one and to everyone. The luckier..."

March 10, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

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

Zootopia

These animated Disney critters are fun, topical, and inclusive

"...a while, Zootopia uses the classic tropes of anthropomorphized animals and comic references to pop-culture touchstones to slyly puzzle..."

March 4, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Last Lions

This stunning nature documentary about the vanishing lions of Africa is not your children’s Lion King.

"...the rare nature documentary that doesn’t completely anthropomorphize its animals (but neither is it completely free of that tendency)...."

March 18, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Black Dog Blues: WilCo Shelter Flap Goes National

Before sending it out, perhaps the Williamson County Regional Animal Shelter brass should have read aloud its press release advertising “Black is Beautiful” week

"...“Typically, black animals are harder to adopt from shelters, so we have..."

June 12, 2008 News Post by Patricia J. Ruland

Happy Feet

Raise your flippers in praise of these animated yet flightless fowl, who sing and dance and fight the eco-wars.

"...depiction of our love for these dramatic- yet comical-looking animals.) Also working in its favor is that it's directed..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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