The Present Beware! The Future Beware!

Austin animator Brad Neely drinks beer, hates British children

"...school." And then there's the hilariously heartbreaking diary of Baby Cakes (of I Am Baby Cakes), a camouflage-pantsed, freestyle-rapping..."

June 13, 2008 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Tsotsi

Winner of the 2005 Best Foreign Language Oscar, this South African entry is a harsh but ultimately redemptive tale of a young gang leader who lives in a Johannesburg shantytown.

"...and steals her car, not realizing that there’s a baby on board. But soon after he crashes the vehicle,..."

March 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

"...lace, why his speech is spiced with “groovy” and “baby,” why his jet is equipped with a round, rotating..."

May 9, 1997 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Downton Abbey recap: Episode 5

Cora gives Lord Grantham the cold shoulder

"...grokked Vera’s Evil Suicide Pie plan. Sybil had a baby girl. Sybil died. Violet sobbed raggedly. Cora blamed LG..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Screens Post by Melanie Haupt

The Other Son

Palestinian and Israeli baby boys are accidentally switched at birth, and that discovery in adulthood creates many repercussions.

"...the hackneyed premise of this French film – two baby boys switched at birth – so many things could..."

Dec. 14, 2012 Movie Review by Louis Black

Trust

"...to drop out of high school and have the baby. She slaps her dad and, before the opening credit..."

Sept. 13, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Faster Than Sound: I’m Just Not Into Labels

CD Baby brings DIY Musician Conference to Austin, Sidewinder won't be ready for SXSW, and PledgeMusic withholds Fastball campaign funds

"...Relocating from Nashville, independent music distributor CD Baby imports its annual gathering to Austin for the next..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Mirai

Delightful anime explores growing up from a kid's viewpoint

"...maternity leave with the newest addition to the family, baby Mirai (the name translates to “Future”)...."

Nov. 30, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sucker Punch

In this visually compelling but narratively bankrupt action fantasy, an institutionalized young girl finds escape through her vivid imagination.

"...girl in a Sixties-era bordello. Here, she's known as Baby Doll, and indeed, Browning seems to have been cast..."

April 1, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Joshua

The privileged nuclear family becomes a hellish dystopia as a result of a 9-year-old child's subtle, nuanced, unspoken manipulations.

"...father of lies, flies, and so on in Rosemary's Baby. Texas-born filmmaker Ratliff, working from a script co-written with..."

July 13, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kid Stuff

Pure Spoon's search for a better baby food

"...to find herself in the vanguard of the fresh baby-food market. She was just a busy mom who wanted..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Putting the Pedal to the Metal

Edgar Wright cranks up the jams for his new film Baby Driver

"...looking for fantasy rides in Edgar Wright’s new thriller Baby Driver, he has an important lesson for you: “Actual..."

March 10, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Devil's Due

She's having an unholy baby - but isn't that every pregnant woman's fear? The only new ingredient in this horror setup is the found-footage element.

"...zombified progenitors. As in Roman Polanski’s infinitely superior Rosemary’s Baby, the titular unholy spawn doesn’t technically arrive until the..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Rugrats Movie

The babies' first theatrical adventure is nonstop, but padded with lots of pop tunes.

"...movie is spawned by the arrival of another Pickles baby, newborn Dil, whose presence upsets the balance of attention..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

A Simple Twist of Fate

"...Eliot's Silas Marner than tabloid television's coverage of the Baby Jessica and Kimberly Mays custody battles, A Simple Twist..."

Sept. 9, 1994 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Time Indefinite

"...changes in his hitherto bacheloresque lifestyle. Before long, a baby is on its way, and McElwee seems determined to..."

Nov. 12, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Undercover Blues

"...New Orleans. On a mission to procure formula (for baby Jane), Jeff takes on a couple of street muggers..."

Sept. 17, 1993 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Black Harvest

"...in the guise of “civilization.” Leahy fathered a mixed-race baby with a young native girl, and moving forward some..."

June 11, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Bottoms

The Shiva Baby team reunite for a ridonkulously horny queer comedy

"...As the star of Seligman's breakout debut, Shiva Baby, and co-writer here, Rachel Sennott is fast becoming Seligman’s..."

Aug. 25, 2023 Movie Review by Lina Fisher

Broker

Kore-eda exports his themes of family to Korea

"...who sells babies who are abandoned in a church’s baby box on the adoption black market with his friend..."

Jan. 13, 2023 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Happy Death Day

Living your death over and over again

"...gets killed by a Michael Myers-esque stalker in a baby-face mask (the school’s sports team is the Bayfield Babies),..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

The Luv Doc: Churchy Parents

People who give a lot of thought to having a baby are both adorable and hopelessly optimistic

"...shots of tequila and bada bing, bada bang, boughta baby! There are other methods for sure, but that's the..."

May 5, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

The Girl on the Train

Another girl gone in this tedious adaptation

"...Anna (Ferguson), frolicking in the yard with their new baby, and also the idyllic-seeming couple two doors down, Scott..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Finding Dory

If only Dory had ruby slippers, she could click her heels and be home

"...In the film’s prologue, when Dory is just a baby “kelpcake” (her dad’s term of endearment), she gets separated..."

June 17, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Like Father, Like Son

In this movie from the always perceptive Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, two families are uprooted by the belated knowledge that their babies were switched at birth.

"...of two couples who went home with the wrong baby. Yukari (Maki) and Yudai (Franky) Saiki are the couple..."

Feb. 21, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster

This sequel is a model of the martial arts movie form.

"...mayhem known as Wing Chun. Penniless and with a baby on the way, Ip Man has set up shop..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Life as We Know It

It's Two Singletons and a Baby, starring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel.

"...Vegas, respectively, and their combined likability quotient infuses this two-singletons-and-a-baby story with a sense of spontaneity and brightness. It’s..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Last Kiss

You could say Paul Haggis' The Last Kiss is something of a Garden State redux, but Zach Braff's character here is less fanciful, less melodramatic, and far more prone to doing the thoughtless things men tend to do.

"...bothered to tell screenwriter Paul Haggis (Crash, Million Dollar Baby), whose script work here, itself an adaptation of Gabriele..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Little Man

If you can accept the very idea of Shawn Wayans’ face on the body of an infantilized baby-man in diapers, who’s to care about the quality of anything else in the movie?

"...of a little person) who poses as a foundling baby in order to retrieve a stolen diamond. He lands..."

July 21, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Tokyo Godfathers

A homeless drag queen adopts an orphan in what is, but for some violence and harsh language, old-fashioned, big-hearted entertainment in high animé style.

"...experience the joys of motherhood, he plucks an abandoned baby from a dump, christens her Kiyoko, and totes her..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

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