Contact

Carl Sagan's novel about the celestial mysteries is embodied onscreen by Jodie Foster as the astronomer heroine and Matthew McConaughey as her spiritual counterpart from the other side of the fence

"...summer movie viewers have been amped up for by Contact's rousing previews. Not unless they're hotter than I imagine..."

July 11, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Star Trek: First Contact

"...Directed by the Enterprise's executive officer “Number One,” First Contact is what you might expect from Commander Will Riker..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Full Contact

"...guy. Despite the obvious comparisons to Woo's films, Full Contact survives on its own gritty merits. It's a down-and-dirty..."

May 7, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

What If Your Contact Lenses Could Change with the Light?

Acuvue debuts Oasys with Transitions, all eyes breathe a sigh of relief

"...So, corrective measures – typically, contact lenses – are very important to me...."

April 3, 2019 SXSW Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

KMFA's New Home Brings the Community Into Contact With Music

Austin's classical music radio station has a new building where people can see the sounds

"...make spaces in it for people to have direct contact with art. That's why the gallery and the Draylen..."

Jan. 29, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

IV, III, II, I... Contact! The Latest in the Williams Country Music Dynasty is Keeping Things Warm in Some Very Long Shadows

Coleman Williams talks moving forward with an open mind

Nov. 23, 2021 Music Post by Gary Lindsey

Q&A Hole: Music for First Contact

What song would you play for a lost tribe?

"...everyone on the planet, it’s wholly inadvisable to approach uncontacted populations. Just last fall, a young Christian missionary was..."

Aug. 14, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

How to Contact the Austin Tenants' Council

April 15, 2016 News Feature

Escape Plan

Stallone and Schwarzenegger team up for double the fun.

"...openly brutal environment. Breslin is supposed to have a contact at the prison and an exit code to use..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

The Wrestler

In the latest film from Darren Aronofsky, Mickey Rourke rips his tattered name from the dustbin of history with his portrayal of an aging professional wrestler.

"...are the intimacy that develops between men engaged in close-contact battle and the contrivances needed to make that contact..."

Jan. 9, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Scanlines

Contact

"...McConaughey assures Jodie Foster all will be well in Contact, if they'll just quit playing the Spice Girls in..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Screens Feature

Personal Shopper

A ghost story exploring the ineffable

"...explained by her need to remain in Paris: making contact with her dead twin brother Louis. Both siblings regarded..."

March 24, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sphere

"...to do with the awe and terror of direct contact with an advanced alien intelligence. Without totally blowing the..."

Feb. 20, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

O Captains! My Captains!

Star Trek: First Contact

"...Trek: The Next Generation film -- Star Trek: First Contact -- offered the choice opportunity to not only pick..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

How Medical Cannabis Provider Compassionate Cultivation Is Adapting to COVID-19

Ineligible for federal aid, Compassionate Cultivation adjusts to a new paradigm: more deliveries and less contact

"...adapt to a new paradigm: more deliveries and less contact...."

May 1, 2020 News Feature by Kevin Curtin

Five Feet Apart

Meet cute on the teen ICU takes a turn for the corny

"...touching, no hugging, no kissing, no sex, no physical contact of any kind between them. A shared medical condition..."

March 22, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Exception

WW II melodrama lacks a charismatic lead

"...Lamentably, all of these performances must come in contact with Jai Courtney’s. He fills the film from first..."

July 7, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Common Law

Need to talk to a good lawyer about your specific situation? Contact Austin Lawyer Referral Service.

"...Using LRS is easy. Contact LRS by telephone (512/472-8303) or email (referrals@austinlrs.org), and give..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Column by Luke Ellis

Office Christmas Party

Workplace comedy lacks the laughs

"...not count on Office Christmas Party to deliver a contact high. Yes, there are laughs to be had, but..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jason Bourne

The former CIA op resurfaces in a new era of electronic surveillance

"...takers. Then his location is discovered by his former contact at the CIA, Nicky Parsons (Stiles), who tries to..."

July 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Horns

Daniel Radcliffe sprouts horns in this spiky fable about the devil in all of us.

"...startling effect upon anyone with whom he comes in contact: It elicits the person’s inner demons (or dark desires,..."

Oct. 31, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Cock

This Theatre en Bloc show depicts love as a fight and is as exhilarating and aggressive as a contact sport

"...boasting the exhilarating energy and hard-to-watch aggression of a contact sport...."

Oct. 24, 2014 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

This story of a milquetoast with a wild imagination stars Ben Stiller and is as pretty as it is busy. Opens 12/25.

"...– in real life – can hardly make eye contact with his lady crush (Wiig) or say boo to..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor

Perry's melodrama centers an ambitious, married woman's dalliance with a handsome billionaire.

"...married too young. Her job brings her into close contact with an intriguing young billionaire, who has obvious anger..."

April 5, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fourplay

These four stories of unabashed sexual intimacy are often funny, sometimes poignant, always unconventional and playfully erotic.

"...Francisco,” is a gem of a story about human contact, which stars Paul Soileau and Gary Chason. It’s a..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Sessions

A sex therapist helps a man living in an iron lung experience human intimacy; John Hawkes and Helen Hunt keep things from becoming prurient.

"...unsentimental movie about the need for intimacy and human contact. Upon receiving a magazine assignment to pen an article..."

Nov. 9, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bill W.

Bill Wilson, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, is the subject of this admiring yet enlightening documentary.

"...organization’s birth in the Thirties or who had personal contact with Wilson prior to his death in 1971), it..."

July 27, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Battleship

Crass and hugely dumb aliens vs. multiple earthling navies: Must mean the start of summer movies has arrived.

"...the Oahu mountains, a poorly explained government experiment to contact life on a newly discovered planet on the other..."

May 18, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Glee: The 3D Concert Movie

They're on TV. They're on tour. And now they're onscreen in a concert film recorded during their summer tour.

"...box office – is to experience a sort of contact high from all the screaming fans the cameras swoop..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Wild Grass

Alain Resnais' glorious-looking film spirals in its subjective viewpoints with a main character who may be mad or merely madly in love or perhaps maddened that love has somehow eluded him.

"...coiffures (in a great way). The two make verbal contact, Georges returns the wallet to the police (a terrific,..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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