Checking In: Ruthie Foster Extends Mother’s Day

Parenting in a pandemic: “There’s an entirely new math”

"...please give a warm welcome to my mom, Ruthie Foster,” begins the new Live at the Paramount. “Please enjoy..."

May 12, 2020 Music Post

Ben Katchor: Drawn, You Might Say, to the Texas Book Festival

The acclaimed cartoonist brings his Cheap Novelties to Austin

"...“Alison Bechdel and Ben Katchor have also won MacArthur fellowships,” the author of..."

Nov. 2, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

In Person: David Foster Wallace

"...you don't have to be nervous for me," David Foster Wallace explains. "I'm nervous enough for all of us."..."

March 7, 1997 Books Feature

Liberty Heights

"...Directed by: Barry Levinson. Starring: Adrien Brody, Ben Foster, Orlando Jones, Bebe Neuwirth, David Krumholz, Rebekah Johnson,..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Leave No Trace

Into the woods in this moving family drama

"...Directed by: Debra Granik. Starring: Ben Foster, Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, Dale Dickey, Dana Millican, Jeff..."

July 13, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hell or High Water

Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, and Ben Foster shine in West Texas crime film

"...Directed by: David Mackenzie. Starring: Jeff Bridges, Ben Foster, Chris Pine, Gil Birmingham, Katy Mixon and Marin..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Messenger

Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster play two members of the military's casualty notification team, which delivers bad news to soldiers' next of kin.

"...Directed by: Oren Moverman. Starring: Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster, Samantha Morton, Jena Malone, Eamonn Walker and Steve..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ain't Them Bodies Saints

A hardscrabble, heartbreaking, love-and-death affair is gorgeously captured in David Lowery's Texas feature.

"...Directed by: David Lowery. Starring: Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, Ben Foster, Keith Carradine, Nate Parker, Kennadie Smith and Jacklynn..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lone Survivor

A SEAL team mission in Afghanistan goes very wrong in this intense combat film with a bang-up cast.

"...Directed by: Peter Berg. Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster, Taylor Kitsch and Eric Bana...."

Jan. 10, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Mechanic

A mediocre remake of a Charles Bronson assassin film that's downright repellent at times.

"...Directed by: Simon West. Starring: Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Tony Goldwyn, Donald Sutherland, Jeff Chase, Mini Anden..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pandorum

Two crew members wake up aboard a spaceship with no knowledge of their identities or their mission in this horror/science-fiction amalgam.

"...Directed by: Christian Alvart. Starring: Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet, Antje Traue, Cung Le and Norman..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

30 Days of Night

This film's high-concept stroke of genius lies not with its vampire clan but with the setting: a tiny Alaskan hamlet where nightfall indeed lasts all month.

"...Directed by: David Slade. Starring: Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Ben Foster, Danny Huston, Manu Bennett, Craig Hall and Joel..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

Based on the allegedly autobiographical short stories of alleged teen author J.T. Leroy, Asia Argento's film describes a Gothic maelstrom of psychic and physical abuse.

"...by: Asia Argento. Starring: Asia Argento, Peter Fonda, Jimmy Bennett, Jeremy Renner, Dylan Sprouse, Cole Sprouse, Ben Foster, Marilyn..."

April 14, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Get Over It

"...Directed by: Tommy O'Haver. Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Ben Foster, Melissa Sagemiller, Zoe Saldano, Shane West, Colin Hanks,..."

March 9, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The New-Look Songwriters Across Texas Goes Beyond the Honky-Tonk

Local music show is back on the CW with its broadest lineup yet

"...wants to expand that representation on TV. Series producer/director Ben Foster said, "There's a lot of people that don't..."

June 28, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Time Trap

Time-bending thriller needed more, well, time

"...Directed by: Mark Dennis and Ben Foster. Starring: Andrew Wilson, Cassidy Gifford, Brianne Howey, Reiley..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Medieval

Brutal historical epic gives gritty, accessible life to a Czech icon

"...Directed by: Petr Jákl. Starring: Ben Foster, Michael Caine, Sophie Lowe, Matthew Goode, Til Schweiger,..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Triggering a Time Trap

Ben Foster and Mark Dennis on the Hill Country sci-fi flick

"...outside of the rock. However, Dennis and his co-writer/director Ben Foster still kept a rigorous eye on the clock...."

Nov. 9, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Chasing Liberty

A fictional president's daughter (Mandy Moore) skips out on her Secret Service minders (this doesn't remind us of any presidential daughters we know).

"...the Secret Service code name for first daughter Anna Foster (Moore), and chase is exactly what federal agents must..."

Jan. 9, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Rampart

Woody Harrelson reunites with the director of The Messenger to create this portrait of a very dirty cop.

"...Wright, Anne Heche, Cynthia Nixon, Ice Cube, Sigourney Weaver, Ben Foster, Brie Larson, Audra McDonald, Francis Capra and Steve..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

3:10 to Yuma

3:10 to Yuma puts the lie to the presumptive myths that Westerns are dead and remakes are always a bad thing.

"...Directed by: James Mangold. Starring: Christian Bale, Russell Crowe, Ben Foster, Peter Fonda, Alan Tudyk, Gretchen Mol, Dallas Roberts..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

'If the Kids Are United ...'

The filmmaking wunderkinder of Center for Young Cinema talk shop

"...Charles Heidrick, 17; Carleton Ranney, 17; Eva Billingsley, 18; Ben Foster, 20; Trey Pool, 20; and Renan McFarland, 20...."

June 25, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Wes Anderson Brings Isle of Dogs to SXSW

Plus Midnighters bring the gore, and Alita party

"...Levine, Granit Lahu, Jeremy Pope, Bubba Weiler, Amanda Grace Benitez, Jeremy Holm, Larry Fessenden (World Premiere)..."

Feb. 7, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Contractor

Mercenary drama fails its mission of being good

"...Directed by: Tarik Saleh. Starring: Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Gillian Jacobs, Eddie Marsan and Kiefer Sutherland...."

April 1, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Bank Robbers and Texas Rangers Clash in Hell or High Water

West Texas noir

"...Howard (Star Trek's Chris Pine) and his brother Tanner (Ben Foster) are robbing small-town banks, but with more than..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Warcraft

No fun storming the castle in this lousy adaptation of the hit video game

"...Directed by: Duncan Jones. Starring: Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, Ben Schnetzer, Robert Kazinsky,..."

June 10, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Alpha Dog

It’s a soggy true-crime drama – too serious to be trashy, too trashy to be serious.

"...Directed by: Nick Cassavetes. Starring: Ben Foster, Shawn Hatosy, Emile Hirsch, Christopher Marquette, Justin Timberlake,..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Emerald Fennell's Saltburn to Open Austin Film Festival

Promising Young Woman followup leads first title drop

"...USA, Paramount+ Finestkind tells the story of two brothers (Ben Foster & Toby Wallace), raised in different worlds, who..."

Sept. 1, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Marc Savlov's Top 10 List

"...Robert Redford (All Is Lost), Ben Foster (Kill Your Darlings), Tom Hanks (Captain Phillips), Toby..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Film Flam

Up all night at ATX Television Fest, production news, & more

"...Hollywood reported that a heckuva cast – Rooney Mara, Ben Foster, and Casey Affleck – are attached to his..."

May 4, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

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