Gridiron Gang

The Rock's moral football tale is a pleasant surprise: a swift, sure-footed, and gritty melodrama that plays to the strengths of its formula and elicits empathy for its kids.

"...eponymous television documentary filmed inside California juvenile detention center Camp Kilpatrick, so audiences can be excused for underestimating it;..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Red Lights

Leave it to the French to fashion an anguished psychological thriller that, in its last moments, also turns out to be a tender love story.

"...a long drive to retrieve their children from summer camp. On the surface, everything seems fine, but it soon..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Liquid Assets

East Side Cafe co-owner Dorsey Barger was on the phone, nearly breathless with excitement

"...breathless with excitement. She had just returned from Pinot Camp, an "invitation only" annual soirée in Oregon offered to..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Food Column by Wes Marshall

Girls Will Be Girls

Valley of the Dolls meets Female Trouble in this all-male semimusical romp.

"...Valley of the Dolls meets Female Trouble! It’s part camp, part trash, and part cabaret, with a delightfully retro..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Apt Pupil

"...block is in reality Kurt Dussander (McKellan), former death camp commander, he uses it to blackmail Dussander into telling..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Starship Troopers

In this spectacle, lethal insects from outer space do battle with student soldiers. When in Austin recently, Oliver Stone called Starship Troopers "One of the best war films in recent years."

"...mid-autumn, answers this timeless question with goofy charm, high camp flamboyance, and unwavering faith that nothing succeeds like excess...."

Nov. 7, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

We Have an Issue: And Now for Some Good News

In this week's issue, an optimistic story about Camp Esperanza and a heartfelt sendoff to retiring Music Editor Raoul Hernandez

"...the governor designated in 2019 as a temporary homeless encampment and transformed the space into a thriving community called..."

July 23, 2021 Column by Kimberley Jones

Day Trips: Chandler Guest Ranch, Dryden

Former fishing camp still an oasis on the Pecos River

"...Chandler's Fishing Camp between Sheffield and Dryden was a not-so-well-kept secret swimming..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips: John Knox Ranch, Wimberley

Kids’ summer camp becoming a year-round destination for adults and families

"...John Knox Ranch outside of Wimberley has hosted summer camps for kids since 1963, and now it's open to..."

March 23, 2018 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Blue Starlite Lights Up in Buda

Mini urban drive-in adding overnight camping at new location

"...open land in Buda, to become the nation's first camp-out cinema. Founder Josh Frank said, "I want to do..."

Dec. 20, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Waxing Queer

Performance artist Silky Shoemaker opens the doors to queer culture's lost past with her gay wax museum

"...Mexico-based painter and curator Harmony Hammond wrote of Shoemaker's "campy, excessive sensibility," and excitedly lauded her "scheme of creating..."

Feb. 13, 2015 Arts Feature by Andy Campbell

Tamara Drewe

Stephen Frears directs this romantic romp that combines the bedroom farce and the pastoral and stars Gemma Arterton.

"...by: Stephen Frears. Starring: Gemma Arteton, Roger Allam, Bill Camp, Dominic Cooper, Luke Evans and Tamsin Greig. Do our..."

Nov. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Gay Place

Set your harmonics for another month's queer convergence, as Gaytober begins

"...8 transmen Lynnee Breedlove and Silas Howard at the Camp Camp presentation of their national spoken hotness tour: Mighty..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Column by Kate X Messer

These American Lives

Documentarians Bradley Beesley and Sarah Price root out characters in the Mississippi Delta, the streets of Milwaukee, and, soon, summer camp in Michigan.

"...from ages 10 to 16, denizens of a summer camp in Michigan. Inspired by a segment on NPR's This..."

March 28, 2003 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Babes in Toyland

Put the kids' summer to good use by taking them to camp, where they learn how to make television, not watch it.

"...of Radio/Television/Film are offering a summer film and TV camp for kids. Budding movie moguls and aspiring auteurs get..."

May 10, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Alamo Drafthouse Announces $5 Tickets for Its Summer Vacation

Classics for kids of all ages aims to bring back family movie days

"...Summer Vacation season, and admission to the Alamo Kids Camp is only $5 per head...."

May 18, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Inspection

Powerful and challenging boot camp drama ponders the need to be accepted

"...the Marines, The Inspection boards the bus to boot camp with Ellis (Pope), a 26-year-old who sees the Marine..."

Nov. 25, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Watch: SCDS Rebuke Racists With “Breakfast of Champions”

Austin hip-hop trio returns after five years with intense video

"...SCDS, the hip-hop assembly known as Space Camp Death Squad before NASA’s educational camp sent them cease..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Pointing Out Detention Centers "In Plain Sight"

Sky-high art turns eyes to migrant detention and incarceration

"...asking God to deliver her from the makeshift detention camp, when she heard the plane’s roar...."

July 3, 2020 Arts Post by Victoria Rossi

The Peanut Butter Falcon

This modern Huck Finn may not innovate, but you can't deny its heart

"...to accompany Zak to his desired destination: the training camp of a wrestler known as the Salt Water Redneck..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fantastic Fest Review: You Might Be the Killer

Fran Kranz and Alyson Hannigan take on serial killer tropes

"...Ever been at camp, and there's crazed killer in a weird mask wandering..."

Sept. 22, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Nun

The Conjuring franchise heads to Romania

"...Hammer Horror territory, veering just the right side of camp by injecting some extremely well-executed jump scares...."

Sept. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Captain

A bleak warning from Nazi Germany carries modern resonance

"...but Herold gathered some troops, took over a prison camp containing German military deserters, and started killing them, and..."

Aug. 10, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

A Ciambra

Cinema verité depiction of life in Italy's Roma communities

"...to build something like a life in the refugee camp in Gioia Tauro. Pio's travails are much more formless,..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Mustang Island

A deft millennial comedy of manners

"...it empty, so they break in and set up camp. Now aimless, they drift along eating and drinking. Eventually,..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Detroit

The 1967 riots are brought to life in this docudrama

"...try to continue on foot until they decide to camp out for the night at the nearby Algiers Motel...."

Aug. 4, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Megan Leavey

A soldier and her PTSD dog

"...being booted down to the K-9 unit at USMC Camp Pendleton after a drunken night out with fellow marines...."

June 9, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

2017 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentaries – Program A

Let the voting begin

"...cigarettes for it while living in a displaced persons camp after the war. He gets to meet the inspiring..."

Feb. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Man Down

A soldier struggles with PTSD

"...Gabriel remembers moments from his Marine Corps training at Camp Lejeune (and haven’t the movies by now had enough..."

Dec. 2, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ben-Hur

We're (unfortunately) off to the chariot races again

"...adapted a half-dozen times already. I’d rather howl at camp, hoot at a spectacular failure than nod off at..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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