Paul Against NDAA

"...column [“Letters at 3AM,” Jan. 27] about Obama's NDAA betrayal, one of many betrayals of the American people by..."

Jan. 26, 2012 Postmarks

The Devil's Double

Saddam Hussein's decadent and monstrous eldest son Uday forced Latif Yahia to serve as his body double, and this movie recounts his experience.

"...many, whose first glance at Latif spells out the betrayal to come – again decimating any chance to build..."

Aug. 12, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Winter in Wartime

This coming-of-age story is set in the Dutch countryside during the Nazi-occupied winter of 1944-1945.

"...strings to accompany the film's several sequences of heroism, betrayal, and life during wartime. As Michiel discovers to his..."

May 27, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Where 'Friend' Is a Four-Letter Word

Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin explores the fractious founding of Facebook in The Social Network

"...of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal. (Sorkin began work based on Mezrich's outline long before..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sanders Settlement Collapses

City Council rejects payment to family, will proceed to trial

"...matter that has been taken up here is a betrayal to the community, the entire community, and that betrayal..."

Aug. 6, 2010 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

The Supremes: A Saga of Motown Dreams, Success, and Betrayal

Before there was Michael Jackson, there was Diana Ross

"...The Supremes: A Saga of Motown Dreams, Success, and Betrayalby Mark Ribowsky Da Capo Press, 480 pp., $26..."

July 17, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

'What's Wrong With Being an Informant?'

"...broadly over a huge part of the issue. Beyond betrayal (a clear moral wrong), the story has to decide..."

Jan. 26, 2009 Postmarks

Ashes of Time Redux

Dreamlike, confounding, yet possessed of a stunningly complex sensual and narrative poetry, Wong Kar-Wai's Chinese film is absolutely gorgeous.

"...wine and frequent tales of thwarted desire and emotional betrayal. There's also Brigitte Lin, in drag; Charlie Yeung, with..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?

Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me fame chases after the world's most wanted man and comes up empty but fulfilled.

"...after nearly two hours of anticipation feels like grand betrayal, like the compact between filmmaker and viewer has been..."

April 18, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Married Life

This film's wonderful, amoral resignation makes Married Life so deliciously different from other period-set crime stories, and its terrific cast keeps thing percolating.

"...this as well as we do, as if the betrayal of his friend is a matter of cosmic inevitability..."

March 28, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Nines

Ryan Reynolds, Melissa McCarthy, and Hope Davis star in three discrete but thematically linked short films in this feature-film-directing debut from screenwriter John August.

"...aired on network TV, an uphill battle rife with betrayal and less-than-intriguing intrigue. (In another of the film's recursive..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Army of Shadows

Although made in 1969, this French masterpiece by Jean-Pierre Melville is receiving its first stateside release.

"...life, one that can be ended by a single betrayal or unconscious slip. What we witness is the stamina..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lady Vengeance

The South Korean master of revenge dramas, Park Chan-wook, offers another entertaining puzzle of emotional nuance, riotous color, and bloody hell.

"...to mid-Nineties constructed grand tales of chivalry, honor, and betrayal that existed in a world of black-and-white morality, buffeted..."

June 30, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

... And the 'West' is History

How Big State Productions' little monologue show changed Austin theatre

"...more fertile theatrical soil to the north and east (Betrayal, Ain't Misbehavin', Painting Churches, Moonchildren). Among the 18 productions..."

April 7, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

Veering from moments of breathtakingly visualized valor to outright stupidity, Sith is a vast improvement over the previous two outings, but still and all, it’s no Star Wars.

"...geek whose life is continually overshadowed by the supposed betrayal wrought upon it by George Lucas’ disastrous handling of..."

May 20, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Soldier's Heart

Thousands of Iraq War veterans will come home to face serious psychological problems and a system unready to help them

"...on the Greeks. "If a soldier has experienced a betrayal of what's right by those in charge, their capacity..."

Dec. 24, 2004 News Feature by Dan Frosch

Gloomy Sunday

As the turmoil of WWII engulfs Hungary, a Budapest eatery becomes home to a love triangle.

"...production about the vagaries of love, ambition and dreams, betrayal and sacrifice – all of which are crushed under..."

April 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Intermission

Irish ensemble interweaves a dozen characters and their affairs of the heart.

"...rule as a woman badly scarred by a lover’s betrayal. But her deep hurt is undercut, even exploited, throughout..."

April 9, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Underworld

Kate Beckinsale bares her fangs as a vampire assassin in in a shaggy werewolf story.

"...necessary to set up the complex plot machinations of betrayal and racial war among and between the vampires and..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

How to Deal

"...by all this coupling; having lived through the greatest betrayal of her young life – her parents’ divorce –..."

July 18, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

All the Real Girls

"...more than five minutes … ever." Later, stung from betrayal, Paul bellows, "If anybody smiles at me ever again..."

April 25, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Max

"...to come from a misguided sense of loss and betrayal (by the German army, by the allies, by life..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM

In 2002, cinema has been the healthiest of our arts. The movies' range and variety relieve what has otherwise been a bleak time for our culture and our Constitution.

"...well, and is furious not so much at his betrayal as for how very much harder it will now..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

TV Eye

After a 16-month hiatus, The Sopranos' fourth season finally arrives, accompanied by a slew of related books.

"...The Psychology of The Sopranos: Love, Death, Desire, and Betrayal in America's Favorite Gangster Family (Basic Books, $22). Written..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Road to Perdition

"...a portrait of a quiet, stoic man undone by betrayal. The rest of the supporting cast is roundly superb,..."

July 12, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Charlotte Gray

"...be a glorious thing: war, valor, intrigue, star-cross'd lovers, betrayal, bursting bodices, the like. But to work, melodrama has..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

In the Bedroom

"...it all happens, really -- love, sex, intimacy, and betrayal -- the stuff that fuels our every action. Here,..."

Jan. 4, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Royal Tenenbaums

"...that their early brilliance has been erased by “failure, betrayal, and disaster,” a turn of events they blame largely..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

You Can't Go Home Again

Chronicle writer Jesse Sublett on why James Crumley, whose mystery The Final Country has recently been published, is the best writer from Texas to disown the state.

"...war between belonging and being alienated, between birthright and betrayal, and the double ache of loss and longing. Milo..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Postmarks

The Clark-Madison brouhaha continues amidst tributes to Mambo John and more.

"...A Taxing Betrayal..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Column

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