Dean

Demetri Martin writes, directs, and stars in this indie romance

"...Directed by: Demetri Martin. Starring: Demetri Martin, Kevin Kline and Gillian Jacobs. Not..."

June 16, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Where the Truth Lies

Master filmmaker Atom Egoyan goes for the mainstream with this new murder mystery, but sadly his aim is way, way off.

"...popular Fifties song-and-comedy team, which is clearly fashioned after Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, and the body of a..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

Shane Black's directorial debut is a suckerpunch-and-a-half, a trippy tribute to L.A. noir and a genre-busting blitzkrieg attack on Hollywood pretensions that’s just as full of them as the pulp it lampoons.

"...Archer novels to the stylized theatrics of Matt Helm-era Dean Martin. It’s heavy on the narration, but as the..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Out-of-Towners

"...Directed by: Sam Weisman. Starring: Goldie Hawn, Steve Martin, John Cleese and Mark McKinney. Since most folks' attitudes..."

April 2, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Some Came Running

"...Directed by: Vincente Minnelli. Starring: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine. Of course we all recognize..."

July 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kiss Me, Stupid

"...Directed by: Billy Wilder. Starring: Kim Novak, Dean Martin, Felicia Farr, Cliff Osmond and Ray Walston. The..."

July 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Martin & Lewis

'What we had,' said Jerry Lewis, 'was lightning in a bottle.' And now we have it in public domain.

"...The Martin & Lewis Show..."

July 1, 2005 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

Seven Psychopaths

A knockout cast of oddball actors seize the reins in Martin McDonagh's smart comedy about dumb people doing really awful things.

"...Directed by: Martin McDonagh. Starring: Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Christopher..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

UT Professor on the Making of Texas Film Epic Giant

Don Graham's Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the Making of a Legendary American Film

"...his new book Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the Making of a Legendary American..."

April 13, 2018 Books Review by Joe O'Connell

Sleep Walk

"...Bill Elm photograph by John Carrico..."

April 16, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

TV Eye

Memories of the Jerry Lewis telethon. Also, upcoming KLRU programming for September, Hispanic Heritage Month

"...vacation meant three months of freedom, there was The Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon. Because it occurred just before..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Martin & Lewis Collection: Volume One

"We don't need writers"

"...THE MARTIN & LEWIS COLLECTION: VOLUME ONE..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

Letters at 3AM

Learning about "manhood" from the movies

"...today's standards, the 1960 version -- starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and Angie Dickinson -- is..."

June 14, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Nutty Professor Ii: The Klumps

"...Jackson and Eddie Murphy. “Comedy isn't pretty,” said Steve Martin during his Cruel Shoes era, and Eddie Murphy proves..."

July 28, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Saved!

Teen satire softly pokes at the hypocrisies of organized religion.

"...Culkin, Patrick Fugit, Heather Matarazzo, Eva Amurri, Elizabeth Thai, Martin Donovan, Mary-Louise Parker and Chad Faust. "I’ve been born-again..."

June 11, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Please Kill Me and other ROCK & ROLL BOOKS of 1996

"...likely first used by Dave Marsh in a ? &the Mysterians review published in Creem in 1970 and further..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Books Feature

Texas Book Festival 2014: The Full Party List

Among the 275 authors: Oates, Ellroy, Mosley, Lear, Dean

"...Festival was already tantalizing, what with a legend like Martin Amis, rising star Edan Lapucki, and a pair of..."

Sept. 11, 2014 Books Post by Robert Faires

Carol Burnett

The great comedienne explains what made her show work and why recent attempts don't

"...the warmth and intimacy provided by the star herself – who else took questions from the audience every week?..."

Jan. 9, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Bukowski: Born Into This

Every young writer goes through a Bukowski phase, but only the skid row author himself was "born into it."

"...the immeasurable help of Black Sparrow Press publisher John Martin, who saw in Bukowski a true American voice that..."

Jan. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Make Your Mama Proud

The Gospel According to Bill "The Mailman" Martin and Chester Baldwin

"...Bill "the Mailman" Martin and Chester D.T. Baldwin can speak to this firsthand...."

Feb. 16, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

XXX

"...Cohen. Starring: Vin Diesel, Asia Argento, Samuel L. Jackson, Martin Csokas and Joe Bucaro III. It's difficult to know..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...impressive collections of facial tics and spastic gropings since Jerry LewisÕ mid-Fifties peak; Lewis, however, had the good sense..."

Jan. 5, 1996 News Feature

Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

Tarantino takes Tinseltown head-on

"...wandering into a theatre to watch herself onscreen alongside Dean Martin as Matt Helm in 1968’s The Wrecking Crew...."

Aug. 2, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Estate Sale Roundup: June 26-29

Call home, we're coming in heavy this week.

"...for Hawaii Queen-sized headboard, footboard, and mattress (light wood & iron); two light wood nightstands; light wood entertainment cabinet;..."

June 26, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

Tashlinesque: The Hollywood Comedies of Frank Tashlin

A look at the unsung filmmaker, whose collaborators included Jerry Lewis, Jayne Mansfield, and Porky Pig

"...over 25 could pick Tashlin's most frequent human collaborators – Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, and Jayne Mansfield – out..."

May 25, 2012 Screens Review by Leah Churner

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol

This fourth entry in the Tom Cruise film franchise is the best of the bunch; it's wacky and keen to please.

"...prison-break sequence sets the tone (wacky and volatile, with Dean Martin crooning breezily on the soundtrack) for what's to..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Something Wilder

AFS Essential Cinema: Censors, Drop Your Scissors! Billy Wilder's Later Comedies

"...Willie and went on to co-star with Lemmon in 
eight more films...."

Aug. 28, 2009 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Assault on Precinct 13

This new version of John Carpenter's classic is superfluous in the extreme, and while it’s not technically a bad movie, per se, viewers unfamiliar with the film’s lineage will likely write it off as yet another midwinter also-ran, the sort of action film that never quite takes off and instead focuses on random gun battles and cheesy dialogue.

"...of the great director’s best, stars John Wayne and Dean Martin, and while Carpenter’s version lacked star power of..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Scanlines

Murder, My Sweet

"...Bogart, Spencer Tracy, Deborah Kerr, Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Marlon Brando, and Clark Gable -- the latter..."

July 9, 1999 Screens Feature

Scanlines

"...("Scanlines" wishes to thank Encore Movies & Music, I ™ Video, and Vulcan Video for their..."

July 18, 1997 Screens Feature

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