Dead Man Down

Noomi Rapace, the original Lisbeth Salander, reunites with her The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo director for this NYC gangland thriller starring Colin Farrell.

"...enhance, not drown out, the narrative – had helmed Dead Man Down instead? The Danish director Niels Arden Oplev,..."

March 15, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Dead Man

Jarmusch's elegiac, black-and-white meditation is a dream in the form of a Western about the enterprise of America.

"...would have suspected for Jarmusch's next film. For another, Dead Man's story is far darker than, say, Mystery Train..."

May 24, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Playback – Dead Man Walking: Jimmy LaFave

As terminal cancer ticks down Jimmy LaFave’s life, he says the show must go on

"...evening, in a long phone conversation, the Texas-born, Oklahoma-reared songman detailed his health status. For months after diagnosis he..."

April 21, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Dead Man's Curse

Simon Rumley mines horror from a real-life death row case

"...Sister Tadea Benz was stabbed, raped, and left for dead in Amarillo, Texas. Johnny Frank Garrett, a 17-year-old, mentally..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Dead Man Gaveling!

Someone is after Speaker Craddick's job.

"...officially throwing his hat in the ring. No immediate throw-down, though. Keffer has said that he doesn't expect Smilin'..."

May 15, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Turn Me Off, Dead Man

"...ER, (4/30, 9pm, NBC) ó "we checked back and management reported everything was fixed." (Don't you just know some..."

April 24, 1998 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

The Dead Girl

The filmmaker and an all-star cast create this somber murder mystery that has little mystery but is filled with a deep foreboding about the anguish that dominates some women's lives.

"...the popular song that can be heard as The Dead Girl begins to wind down. The lyrics are plaintive..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dead Silence

A supernatural thriller about a ventriloquist who goes mad, from the team that brought us Saw.

"...be out doing something knifey to that postcoital couple down the block. But horror, unlike Lucio Fulci, lives and..."

March 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Speaking of the Dead

To mark the Grateful Dead's final performances this weekend, a look back on the band's local history

"...Austin receives no such shout-out in "Truckin'," the Grateful Dead's highest-charting single of the Seventies. The psychedelic shamans also..."

July 3, 2015 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Dylan Dog: Dead of Night

Brandon Routh stars as this film's titular paranormal investigator.

"...by the initially ill-received 1994 Michele Soavi film Cemetery Man (aka Dellamorte Dellamore) than by this dopey monster mash...."

May 6, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Renaissance Man

"...Danny Devito, Gregory Hines, James Remar and Cliff Robertson. Dead Poets Society meets Stripes. I hate easy tags like..."

June 10, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man

"...you that the protagonists are cultural artifacts rather than human characters. This is a movie dedicated to the proposition..."

Aug. 23, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Spider-Man 2

Even superheroes have to do their own laundry in Sam Raimi's truly spectacular vision that combines human pathos and breathtaking action.

"...responsibility," may be the one thought echoing foremost in Spider-Man’s mind, but it’s enormously clear that this sage bit..."

July 2, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Spider-Man

"...day; Raimi perfectly captures the essence of the early Spider-Man issues, from Stan Lee's wise decision to make this..."

May 10, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Man Who Wasn't There

The story is rife with the Coens' ripe ambivalence, a black seriocomic opera of fouled-up American dreams, and a meditation on ambivalence that is itself often as ambiguous as the emotional meanderings of its protagonist, a small-town barber. The film's black-and-white image processing is stunning.

"...Directed by: Joel Coen. Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, James Gandolfini, Jon Polito, Michael Badalucco, Katherine Borowitz, Tony..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Rich Man's Wife

"...Train, and it openly aspired to comedy. The Rich Man's Wife, unfortunately, comes by its many comical moments inadvertently...."

Sept. 20, 1996 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

My Gang Don't Bow Down

Big Chief Kevin Goodman sew, sew, sews a new history here in Austin

"...it are now torn away. A few sequins and downy wisps from its previous incarnation dot the structure. A..."

May 5, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Rain, Broken Glass, and a Dead Body in the Dumpster

Fourteen hours of Elizabeth Reeder's A Very Bad Day

"...of the so-called Test Prep Guy, Elizabeth Reeder sits down to review the day's shot list with her cinematographer,..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

"...spies were sure to save the world from whatever megalomaniac was out to enslave it this week. They had..."

May 9, 1997 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Reviving 'The Dead'

Fantastic Fest 2010 zombie horror returns this weekend

"...revenant have risen again! Fantastic Fest 2010 fave The Dead returns for a highly limited run this week, and..."

Oct. 6, 2011 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

A Dangerous Man

At 18, Billy Joe Wardlow took a man’s life. Nearly 30 years later, the state still wants his.

"...Like any place humans gather, death row has a culture. Billy Wardlow says..."

June 26, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

FF2011: 'Juan of the Dead' Premiere

A love letter from Cuba to Austin, signed in zombie blood

"...Last night's US debut of Juan of the Dead was a strange sort of homecoming for Havana's first..."

Sept. 24, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Man of the Theatre

Memories of Capitol City Playhouse's Michel Jaroschy

"...his 50th birthday, the shock waves were felt in many, many hearts across this city. Every one of them..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Arts Feature

Wizard World: The Brothers of Destruction of 'The Walking Dead'

Reedus and Rooker talk hunting, fishing, and zombie killing

"...So Merle Dixon is back on AMC's The Walking Dead, and he's cozied up with The Governor, the source..."

Oct. 29, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Although some critics have assumed, from Jacques Barzun's criticisms of modern culture, that he is a conservative ideologue, in reality he has always followed his own, pragmatic vision of things.

"...route of inverting expectations -- as in the old "man bites dog" cliché -- by being at once an..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Half Past Dead

"...myriad firefights that comprise this lunkheaded, vaguely dystopic actioner. Man, is it ever. There's a cartoonish villain (Chestnut), a..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

One-Man Bandstands

Shakey Graves and Chief White Lightning get lensed

"...unceremoniously that “the age of the male singer-songwriter is dead.”..."

May 20, 2013 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Austin Bombings Suspect Dead

Suspect blew himself up early Wednesday as officers closed in

"...detonated around Austin over the past three weeks is dead. Authorities located him at a hotel in Round Rock..."

March 21, 2018 News Post by Chase Hoffberger

Holder Versus Obama on Man-Min Sentences

"...importantly, has come out publicly as a foe of mandatory minimum sentences, especially for non-violent drug offenders. It's a..."

Nov. 19, 2008 News Post by Jordan Smith

Anthony Graves Update: Defense Team Shot Down Again

Judge rules special prosecutor may use recanted – and likely perjured – testimony of man who fingered Graves as his accomplice in multiple murder

"...allow the state to use a transcript of the dead man's questionable testimony as evidence in Graves' upcoming retrial...."

July 20, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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