Blue Planet

"...has included shorts about nature and human behavior. Thus, Blue Planet is sort of a cumulative example of Piavoli's..."

April 30, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Blue Starlite Shines at Austin Studios

Summer schedule of 'Giant,' 'Grindhouse,' and wild men

"...If you've been waiting to hear what the Blue Starlite Urban Drive-In will be showing at its new..."

June 13, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

More Blue To View

East Side Drive-In trailer park expands to include actual drive-in, the Blue Starlite

"...local author, entrepreneur, and owner of East Cesar Chavez's Blue Starlite Mini Urban Drive-In Theater, has announced plans to..."

Jan. 21, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

After Blue

French sci-fi weirdness finds a new Eden

"...(ugh, way too complicated); the cognoscenti know the fictional planet this season is After Blue. Fleeing a dying Earth..."

June 3, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Faster Than Sound: Multidimensional Production Team Musically Reimagines Fantastic Planet

Lifted Traces rescores classic films, Harlem re-emerges locally with Oh Boy, and more

"...warehouse, the result might look something like Kaye's Fantastic Planet live score event...."

Feb. 15, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Red, White, and Blue

Second place, the 12th annual 'Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest

"...travel type of way. On the fluorescent and concrete planet outside the airport, I find a cab whose driver..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Books Feature by Garth Mueller

Blue Lapis Light's In Light

In this aerial dance production, the performers move through the sky with such grace, joy, and harmony, they might as well be angels

"...are aerial dancers with the Austin performing arts company Blue Lapis Light – Kari Burke, Anika Jones, Susan Harkey,..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Planet Rock

Austin, Texas, SXSW 2005

"...Moran's three tune, 30-minute set was revelatory. His new Blue Note album, Same Mother, explores the relationship of jazz..."

March 25, 2005 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Planet Rock

Austin, Texas, SXSW 2005

"...a dark suit, the Swede singer jumped onstage, Pabst Blue Ribbon tallboy in hand. The 1-2-3 of "Finally"/"Pavement Tune"/"Fake"..."

March 25, 2005 Music Feature by David Lynch

Mountain

Scenes from the edge of the world in this meditative documentary

"...a visual essay somewhere between the elation of The Blue Planet and the meditations of Koyaanisqatsi. Jennifer Peedom has..."

June 8, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Chewing Up the Scenery

Last thoughts on Planet Earth

"...be that way." – Sir David Attenborough narrating the Planet Earth episode "Seasonal Forests"..."

May 25, 2007 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Beyond 'The Electric Company'

Can a bunch of toddlers watching television save the world?

"...Enter the Planeteers, media mogul Ted Turner's teenage cartoon eco-heroes. With the..."

May 25, 2007 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

TV Eye

If Kermit could see this

"...you think. After watching Big Ideas for a Small Planet on the Sundance Channel, you might find yourself being..."

May 25, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

WALL-E

By turns sad, hilarious, exciting, and ultimately, hopeful, this is a film of Great Truths masquerading as child's play.

"...after the last human being abandoned the dying, trash-strewn planet for the pristine safety of the stars. WALL-E (Burtt),..."

June 27, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Whiteout

Kate Beckinsale plays a U.S. marshal who must investigate a murder in Antarctica and wrap it up quickly because winter is starting in three days.

"...plucked from Angelina Jolie’s reject pile. At least the blue-hued Underworld films were trashy fun – would that a..."

Sept. 18, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Band's Visit

A lost band of Egyptian musicians from a police orchestra find refuge with some Israeli townspeople.

"...Police Orchestra would be noticeable anywhere; lined up like powder-blue deadpan ducks on the side of the road in..."

March 7, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Jack Frost

"...to be telephoning in his lines from some other planet (odd pauses that don't quite fit litter his dialogue..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Encounters at the End of the World

Werner Herzog, contemporary cinema's most consistently lyrical examiner of the (in)human condition, returns to the documentary form in yet another wonderfully improbable locale: Antarctica.

"...making then the same shade as Klaus Kinski's icy blue eyeballs) to advance on a circuitous, ill-defined route across..."

July 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Warcraft

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

"...the novels and "real-time strategy" games that preceded the planet’s most popular and long-running “massively multiplayer online role-playing game,”..."

June 10, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Arzak Rhapsody

Arzak Rhapsody is a gorgeous and easily digested slice of Gallic animé by Heavy Metal magazine creator Moebius. American premiere.

"...Giraud. What is Arzak? "Arzak is a world, a planet, a system, but in these times it is also..."

April 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Species II

"...(Lazard), who is just back from that angry red planet with a snootful of fizzy alien DNA cluttering up..."

April 17, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Star Kid

"...hops inside a big robotic Cybersuit and saves the planet from intergalactic aggressors called the Broodwarriors. Better than it..."

Jan. 16, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Zeus and Roxanne

"...even the silliest aquatic-themed film ever made (The Big Blue still owns that distinction). But it could only hope..."

Feb. 7, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Taking a Hard Look at the America's Next Cat Star Contestants

Which kitty superstar will reign supreme?

"...Internet for another famous kitty, think again, because Animal Planet has found America's Next Cat Star...."

May 1, 2015 Screens Post by Katherine McNevins

Fight the Power

"...the U.S. petroleum administration(s) is documented. Our society, our planet, will continue to be dismembered and society corrupted: The..."

April 13, 2011 Postmarks

Moving Toward the Edge of Grace

The new and the familiar at Blue Lapis Light's new home

"...of dances – Probe One: Impossible Destiny, Trans/Form, and Blue Pearl – on custom-built construction scaffolding...."

Sept. 18, 2015 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

We Think This Is a Great Way to Celebrate Earth Day

Because science!

"...How would we even know that this planet is a planet, without we've been informed by the..."

April 22, 2014 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Jewish Book Fair: Larry Tye

'Superman' historian reveals Man of Steel's Jewish roots

"...He'll take Cleveland's gritty inner city over that exotic planet any day. That, says the author pointedly in his..."

Nov. 5, 2013 Books Post by Robert Faires

Owls, Hooters & the Devil: Graveyard Part II

Graveyard Part II

"...them. Both avalanche the rootsy mulch of ancient Southern blues and folk, but where Witchcraft practices riff worship, Graveyard..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Five Spirited Liquids for Gifting

Adult Beverages From Around the World to You

"...if we’re going to ignore everything else on the planet. Especially in this season of gift-giving, there are plenty..."

Dec. 1, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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