Joe the King

"...so good to be the king. Whaley's directorial debut may be the feel-bad movie of the year, a take-no-prisoners..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Brother's Keeper

This documentary is about the unlikeliest of subjects: an alleged mercy killing between a pair of barely socialized, virtually illiterate, unkempt, unhygienic, slow-witted, never-married bachelors.

"...Directed by: Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky. The glaring mistake is last..."

Jan. 29, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Riding With Joe Carnahan and Latinx Superhero El Chicano

The action innovator on film, politics, the Coens, Blumhouse and more

"...Joe Carnahan is the action filmmaker's action filmmaker. Not CGI..."

May 4, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Joe Swanberg's Horrible Times

Parental perils in Proxy and The Sacrament

"...Horror movies, says Joe Swanberg, are "definitely not the kind of films that..."

Aug. 23, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Inside Texas' Angels of Death, Who Refuse Hundreds of Death Row Pleas but May Expedite Daniel Perry Pardon

How the Board of Pardons and Paroles runs its ship

"...On May 10, Perry was sentenced to 25 years in prison..."

May 12, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Page Two: May the Circle Be Unbroken

Exploitation film's family tree

"...of a company so dominating of a genre since, maybe for a while, Keystone Studios comedies under Mack Sennett..."

Feb. 26, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Come What May

Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle duet

"...months (really busy), how many fingers are on Billy Joe Shaver's hands (fewer than 10), and what channel he..."

June 10, 2016 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Manchester by the Sea

Casey Affleck shines in this heartfelt drama

"...Manchester-by-the-Sea, Lee’s hometown community north of Boston, where his brother Joe (Chandler) and nephew Patrick (played by Ben O’Brien..."

Dec. 2, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tyler Perry's A Madea Family Funeral

The original mad black woman faces her mortality, and the end of the series

"...time, Perry plays three other roles: Madea’s trash-talking ex-pimp brother, Joe; her straight-arrow (read: boring) nephew, Brian; and her..."

March 8, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Something to Live For

"...baseball, although he was never as good as his brother Walter, or his cousin Woody Dukes, who rivaled hall-of-famer..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

The Boxing Lesson

Box sets grow up and out

"...eccentric gospel collections Fire in My Bones and This May Be My Last Time Singing. Nashboro resided in the..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Music Feature by Ed Ward

Record Reviews: Christmas

"...how Irving Berlin can you get amidst the dunes? Maybe this is why I collect rock & roll Christmas..."

Dec. 22, 1995 Music Review

Betty Harris Understands

Soul singer finally gets her due

"...where it all comes from. I started out at maybe 8 or 9 years old. When I was around..."

March 29, 2018 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Wop-bop-a-loo-bop

Little Richard, the pompadour himself, raps a little

"...LR: Maybe just a little bit earlier, Jimi was with me..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Sometimes Rumble, Sometimes Tumble

Joe Lansdale may be Texas' bloody answer to Mark Twain

"...Joe Lansdale was 4 when his father bought him a..."

June 26, 2009 Books Feature by Joe O'Connell

Undertow

Cross-pollinate the arthouse film with B-movie backwoods gothic, and you get something like Undertow’s peculiar fusion of high and low culture.

"...paint rather than applied it to a fence, or maybe a Faulkner tale, if Faulkner had a sense of..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Sidekicks

"...Norris, Jonathan Brandis, Beau Bridges, Mako, Julia-Nickson Soul and Joe Piscopo. All of you who have at one time..."

May 7, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Death Valley Nights

BÖC's Spectres reissue brings out the ghosts

"...shadows of biggest hit "(Don't Fear) The Reaper." Mirrors, maybe, paging "Dr. Music" in '79. 'Twas the tweener: Spectres,..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

This Changes Everything: Austin Witnesses to Sex Pistols' Chaotic Randy's Rodeo Show Go Home and Start Bands

UK instigators blow the roof off San Antonio dance hall in Chapter 4, Part 2, of the “Austin Punk Chronicles”

"...40 years later. "And it was closed that day. Maybe they knew we were coming? Only me and Sid..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Logan Lucky

A different kind of heist film from the Ocean's 11 director

"...injury marks just one more instance in what his brother Clyde (Driver) – a military veteran who lost part..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Gigli

"...should be shouldered by Hollywood vet Martin Brest (Meet Joe Black, Scent of a Woman), who wrote an incoherent,..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

... And Justice for All?

Bruce Sinofsky and Joe Berlinger's Paradise Lost depicted the grossly mishandled trials of three Arkansas teens. With Paradise Lost 2: Revelations, part of the Texas Documentary Tour, they return to the scene of the crime.

"...Filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky have spent the better part..."

April 7, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Astronaut's Wife

"...Rand Ravich. Starring: Donna Murphy, Samantha Eggar, Clea Duvall, Joe Morton, Charlize Theron and Johnny Depp. You have to..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin Film Festival Announces Full Lineup

AFF's finalized lineup

"...which netted a lot of attention at Cannes in May and closes out AFF on Oct. 23...."

Sept. 24, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Funeral

"...spiritually groping amidst the secular and profane. The Tempio brothers -- eldest Ray (Walken), middle brother Chez (Penn), and..."

Nov. 22, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders of Robin Hood Hills

"...Directed by: Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky. On May 5, 1993, the..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Nightcrawler

Jake Gyllenhaal gives a terrifically fierce performance as a tenacious and delusional self-actualizer.

"...now making a splash similar to the one his brother Tony had with his directorial debut Michael Clayton. Nightcrawler..."

Oct. 31, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

Blues Brothers 2000

"...Directed by: John Landis. Starring: Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman, Joe Morton, Erykah Badu, Aretha Franklin, J. Evan Bonifant, Kathleen..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

God Knows Where I Am

"...In early May 2008, a woman’s dead body was discovered in an..."

April 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection

No luck: Madea doesn't assume a new identity and disappear. Instead the old gal takes in Eugene Levy, playing an investor implicated in a Ponzi scheme.

"...distinction, however. Hitching himself to Madea's popular apron strings may be a wise business decision since the character brings..."

July 6, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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