Last of the Breed
Merle Haggard steps into the Gruene Hall
"...Merle Haggard, home’s only a honky-tonk away. The original country outlaw, now 76, has spent the better part of..."
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June 24, 2013 Music Post by Austin Powell
A Rare Breed
Danny Schmidt's Cactus passion
"...A rare breed among Austin musicians, Danny Schmidt was born here. He..."
July 14, 2010 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri
Danny Was One of the Last of the Breed
"...Dear Editor, Well, Maggie, I couldn't have said it better my own damn self [“Danny..."
Aug. 21, 2008 Postmarks
Death Watch: A Dying Breed
Can Texas even carry out an execution anymore?
"...a few days of their death dates. Those stays – and in Perry Williams' case, a straight withdrawal (see..."
Sept. 9, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger
The New Breed!
A DIY Dozen
"...All Opposed: Possibly Austin's best hardcore band, with a singer who likes to dress like..."
Feb. 5, 2016 Music Feature by Tim Stegall
Will No-Kill Breed Hoarding?
"...Editor, Re: “Point Austin” [News, Sept. 17]: I am concerned about the way no-kill is being achieved at the..."
Sept. 21, 2010 Postmarks
Last of a Breed
Veteran Austin music scribe tackles a topic equal to his skill: Willie Nelson
"...banks of the Blanco River outside of Wimberley. Former contributing editor to Texas Monthly and biographer of tragic Lone..."
April 25, 2008 Music Feature by Dan Oko
Silent Tongue
"...griev-ing, half-mad prairie farmer who keeps watch over the corpse of his half-breed wife Awbonnie (Tousey). Prescott Roe (Harris),..."
June 17, 1994 Movie Review by Alvaro Rodriguez
47 Ronin
Keanu Reeves is a samurai warrior fighting supernatural forces in this twist on the ancient Japanese tale.
"...lords are in a power struggle at the royal court. One is finally driven to assault the other. This..."
Dec. 27, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black
Five Questions with Brady Lowe
Cochon 555 founder is high off the hog
"...chefs will be duking it out to be the Cochon Heritage BBQ King, transforming 200 pound heritage breed pigs..."
Sept. 26, 2014 Food Post by Brandon Watson
Downhill
Tepid Hollywood remake of marriage dramedy Force Majeure never leaves the training slope
"...Miranda Otto, Zach Woods, Zoë Chao, Julian Grey, Ammon Jacob Ford, Giulio Berruti and Kristofer Hivju...."
Feb. 14, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Terminator: Dark Fate
Sarah Connor and the T-800 remain the best components of SF franchise
"...deleted scene in the 1984 original, and now here comes the latest attempt to write a better outcome for..."
Nov. 1, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
A Dog’s Way Home
They're all good doggo adventures, Brent
"...Ever since Lassie trekked across Scotland and made her way back to Roddy McDowall’s schoolboy..."
Jan. 18, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Dark Horse
True horse saga beguiles with its simplicity and purity of heart
"...an airborne state of physical grace for a brief second or two before the hooves hit the ground again,..."
May 27, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis
We're the Millers
This Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis comedy shows some sweetly crude family values.
"...The R-rated comedy gets a little harder with We’re the Millers, pun..."
Aug. 2, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Attack the Block
Smart, quick, funny, and economical, Attack the Block is an alien-invasion movie that's a breed apart.
"...Directed by: Joe Cornish. Starring: John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker, Nick Frost, Luke Treadaway,..."
July 29, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
(Untitled)
High art is both lampooned and championed in this knowing satire that stars the ever-eccentric Adam Goldberg.
"...brooding musician Adrian, a “sound artist” whose sparsely attended cacophonous concerts drive even his otherwise supportive parents to the..."
Nov. 6, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Pandorum
Two crew members wake up aboard a spaceship with no knowledge of their identities or their mission in this horror/science-fiction amalgam.
"...it borrows heavily (along with The Descent and Roger Corman's Galaxy of Terror and many other, better films) look..."
Oct. 2, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Ratatouille
Pixar scores another triumph of animated wonder with this story of a rat who craves haute cuisine over garbage.
"...of tremendous emotional power that has gone on to become standard issue in any home with kids or kids-at-heart...."
June 29, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Eragon
Dear George Lucas … It's bad enough that you've cloaked your true identity behind that of the 15-year-old bestselling novelist Christopher Paolini, but did you have to remake Episode IV all over again? With friggin' dragons?!
"...gee whiz, did you seriously think that we wouldn't recognize you, the Great Man, as the guiding, um, force..."
Dec. 15, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Freedomland
This Richard Price story about simmering racial tension that boils over during the course of a police investigation is choppy and erratic.
"...Joe Roth. Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore, Edie Falco, Ron Eldard, William Forsythe, Aunjanue Ellis, Anthony Mackie and..."
Feb. 17, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Weather Man
In this heartfelt comic drama, a wonderfully controlled Nicolas Cage plays a man who, despite the appearance of success, is despondent over his superficiality.
"...Directed by: Gore Verbinski. Starring: Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, Hope Davis, Gemmenne de la Peña,..."
Oct. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Bigger Than the Sky
Despite some bright spots in this woefully earnest modern romance, Bigger Than the Sky is awash in the obvious and sports a cloying adulation of theatre folk.
"...Directed by: Al Corley. Starring: Marcus Thomas, John Corbett, Amy Smart, Sean Astin,..."
Feb. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Red Trousers: The Life of the Hong Kong Stuntmen
This double-layered documentary examines the creation of a Hong Kong action film and the impossible feats performed by the Asian stuntman.
"...the grueling lives of the phenomenally resilient stuntmen who continue to make the genre the mind-and-body warping miracle that..."
April 2, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Pollock
"...Starring: Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Amy Madigan, Jennifer Connelly, Jeffrey Tambor, John Heard and Val Kilmer. Calling Pollock..."
March 9, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Best in Show
In Guest's parodic hands, the Westminster Dog Show goes to the hounds.
"...Crenshaw, John Michael Higgins, Michael McKean, Bob Balaban, Jennifer Coolidge, Michael Hitchcock, Parker Posey and Jane Lynch. It's fitting..."
Oct. 13, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Gone in Sixty Seconds
"...Directed by: Dominic Sena. Starring: Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert Duvall, Will Patton,..."
June 9, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Two for the Road
"...tells the story of a marriage by showing a couple over the course of successive trips to the south..."
July 15, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Comrades, Almost a Love Story
"...Golden Harvest and Hong Kong roles that fans have come to know her for. But even while trading body..."
Aug. 22, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Leopard Son
"...Leopard Son initially gives the appearance of being some half-breed offspring of The Lion King. Rather than a Disney..."
