Love Me if You Dare

Love and malice, as only the French can do it.

"...have an excuse (of sorts) for their mutually destructive bent – Sophie’s classmates mercilessly taunt her for her Polish..."

June 11, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

We Play Chekhov: Two Short Stories on Stage

Breaking String's two-course meal of Chekhov tales proves both meaty and effervescent

"...in the 19th century, in "The Beyoncé," playwright Eliza Bent does more than tip her hat to contemporary pop..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Arts Review by Stacy Alexander Smith

District 13: Ultimatum

This French import is a nervy, comic action sequel that weds the sport of parkour with detective work.

"...window, albeit one infused with both a populist political bent and a giddy sense of gallows humor. The whole..."

March 5, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

No Room at the Complex

Renters scramble for housing as dirt churns on new condos

"...built and quickly dilapidated properties come to mind. The Bent Tree Apartments, however, are nothing of the sort. Located..."

Sept. 14, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Factotum

Charles Bukowski's Henry Chinaski is back, played by Matt Dillon in a low-key, gorgeously beery performance; it's 100-proof Bukowski, but with a decent barkeep at the helm and Lili Taylor's Jan on his arm. Factotum, for all its grim grind, is funny-serious and smart-stupid.

"...Directed by: Bent Hamer. Starring: Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Marisa Tomei and..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Art Fun in the Summertime

May

"...small-town life in the Lone Star State. Staged by Bent Spectacles and OnStage as part of a revival of..."

May 21, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Gay Place

What? No SXSW listings? What? Still a packed calendar?

"...OY YOGA It's Jewish with a queer bent or queer with a Jewish bent; either way, you..."

March 22, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

Gay Place: South Bi Gay Bi

Bedpost, Viva, and 'Get Out of My Crotch' highlight this last week before SXSW madness

"...OY YOGA It's Jewish with a queer bent or queer with a Jewish bent. Either way, you..."

March 1, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

Gay Place: BOO! To You Too

You think October 31 is scary? Just wait til November 6.

"...OY YOGA It's Jewish with a queer bent or queer with a Jewish bent – either way,..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Column by Kate X Messer

Gay Place: WATCH THIS SPACE, GayWAD

Cool off, this red, hot summer with some sweet, sticky babes

"...OY YOGA It's Jewish with a queer bent or queer with a Jewish bent, either way, you..."

July 27, 2012 Column by Kate X Messer

Gay Place

Get bent this week: Drag, yoga, and more

"...OY YOGA It's Jewish with a queer bent or queer with a Jewish bent, either way, you..."

July 6, 2012 Column by Kate X Messer

Gay Place: MO FLOAT

Get'cher gay on with AGLCC and AGLPF this week

"...OY YOGA It's Jewish with a queer bent or queer with a Jewish bent. Either way, you..."

June 22, 2012 Column by Kate X Messer

Gay Place

The Gay Place celebrates the gayest SXSW ever

"...queers of the local (and some not so local) bent: Austin's Bent Compass Party, featuring Avi Wisnia, Tribella, Benko,..."

March 19, 2010 Column by Kate X Messer

Saw IV

Jigsaw died in Saw III but here we get to witness his autopsy, stem to stern, thus giving him not only the last laugh, but Being and Nothingness, as well.

"...Tobin Bell, Scott Patterson, Costas Mandylor, Betsy Russell, Lyriq Bent and Athena Karkanis. I am of two minds regarding..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Judas Priest

"...After Sin (Columbia Legacy)Judas PriestStained Class (Columbia Legacy)Judas PriestHell Bent for Leather (Columbia Legacy)Judas PriestUnleashed in the East (Columbia..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Music Review by Michael Chamy

Escape from Extinction

The important issue of global eco collapse becomes a PR push for zoos

"...the “bad” zoos from the ones with a conservationist bent. In doing this, the film sets its sights squarely..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Doctor Sleep

Back to the cinematic hallowed ground of the Overlook Hotel

"...as shocking and captivating as the fall of the bent-neck lady. In honoring both Kubrick and King, Flanagan's greatest..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Sea of Shadows

Eco-crime-documentary follow the deadly impact of cartels and animal smugglers

"...saving it. National Geographic documentary Sea of Shadows is hell-bent on reminding us of that fact...."

Aug. 2, 2019 Movie Review by Sam Russek

Stuber

Buddy cop action-comedy isn’t making many friends

"...Bautista is Vic, the aforementioned hell-bent-on-vengeance L.A.P.D. cop who commandeers Stu (Nanjiani), Stu’s sparkling clean..."

July 12, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Once Upon a Deadpool

Deadpool is back ... and he brought Fred Savage with him

"...fuck so many times before the MPAA gets all bent out of shape...."

Dec. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Mother!

Jennifer Lawrence on the brink of madness

"...the long, long fuse that crackles throughout the film’s bent and twisted storyline, but here’s what I can tell..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Live Music This Weekend, Aug. 11-13

Elvis tribute to Japanoise, take your pick

"...owing to a Shangri-Las-like pop sense and an adventurous bent that made them among the first Caucasians to experiment..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Music Post by Victoria Mycue

“Island Oasis Mirage” at Big Medium

The exhibit by Michael Krueger, Kathleen McShane, and Barbara Weissberger seems a planned mess, but one that echoes a greater scheme

"...Weissberger's "Island Oasis Mirage" is in Weissberger's Slant and Bent Pencil. It is a 25" x 37" framed photograph..."

June 30, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

A Quiet Passion

A biographical sketch of poet Emily Dickinson

"...sees: the kerosene lamps, the crackling fireplace, her sister bent over needlepoint, her mother gazing mournfully into the distance,..."

May 5, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

UT's Public Arts Program Debuts an Ambitious New Project

Landmarks presents Ann Hamilton’s O N E E V E R Y O N E at the Dell Medical School

"...squarely on us. In the latter are the slightly bent fingers of her left hand, each so distinct that..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Secret Life of Pets

Hollywood has the cure for those dog-day afternoons of summer

"...sewer under the city and join a revolutionary gang hell-bent on overthrowing the pet owner hegemony?”..."

July 8, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Purge: Election Year

The third entry in this nasty series adopts a political bent

"...people, mostly). This new entry leans on a political bent, hopping on the coattails of an actual, this-is-reality shitshow..."

July 1, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising

Seth Rogen learns that girls just want to have fun

"...about that?) yet again by an onslaught of collegians hell-bent on making Van Wilder seem like Ryan Reynolds...."

May 20, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Miles Ahead

Don Cheadle stars in and directs this unusual Miles Davis biopic

"...is insufficient to seize our attention. It’s like a bent note that never finds its correct register...."

April 15, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

London Has Fallen

This jingoistic blow-’em-up takes no prisoners

"...Here director Babak Najafi seems hell-bent on making the West’s theoretically well-grounded but ill-equipped (thus..."

March 4, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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