SXSW Saturday Showcases

"...legitimately weird and who's keeping it so? Park here. Multimedia publishing house Monofonus Press prints small runs of carefully..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

Chasing Mavericks

Starring Gerard Butler, this inspirational surfing drama somehow fails to inspire.

"...triumphal crowd-pleaser, but the film flails around emotionally every time it exits the water for the landlocked, single-parent, missing-dad..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Taken 2

The action in this Liam Neeson thriller is frenetic and frequent, and keeps him in constant MacGyver mode.

"...Liam Neeson gets to dig deep into his Darkman roots with this superanimated sequel to..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

ParaNorman

The animation outfit behind Coraline scores another one for the dark side with this endearingly sweet and spooky ode to the supernatural.

"...(late) grandmother (Stritch) and watching horror movies, Norman spends time with his equally beleaguered, overweight pal, Neil (Albrizzi), dodging..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Deep Time

'Deep Time'

"...Deep Time(Hardly Art)..."

July 13, 2012 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Lockout

In this Luc Besson-produced thriller, a man must rescue the president's daughter from a prison in outer space that has been taken over by the inmates.

"...a privately owned penitentiary that puts violent offenders on deep freeze for the duration of their stay. (Wait, but..."

April 20, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

The renowned Tokyo sushi master Jiro Ono is profiled in this artful documentary.

"...Once upon a time, no one you knew had ever eaten sushi. Indeed,..."

March 23, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Crunk Christmas

The curse (and charms) of Christmas albums

"...through Scott Weiland's new Christmas coaster, The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, I feel like Santa on the..."

Dec. 20, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Knuckle

Fight Club meets the Hatfields and McCoys in this documentary about the bare-knuckle bruisers of Ireland.

"...and McCoys by way of ancient Irish animosity and bone-deep traditions whose origins are lost in the mist of..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Win Win

Paul Giamatti stars in this dark comedy from the director of The Station Agent and The Visitor.

"...it turns out, a crackerjack wrestler, too. Shaffer, a first-time actor, is an unnerving screen presence, that rare young..."

April 8, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Red Hill

Genuine passion for the Western genre is displayed in this Australian take on High Noon that stars True Blood's Ryan Kwanten.

"...like they're preparing for all-out war. Dark secrets run deep in small towns, and when, in the midst of..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Human Centipede (First Sequence)

Coprophiliacs looking for a movie that really rings their chimes will be positively tintinnabulating from this arthouse horror number.

"...Filmmaker Six seems to have his own tongue buried deep within his cheek as he infuses The Human Centipede..."

May 7, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Spy Next Door

Jackie Chan plays an undercover CIA agent who turns out to be a disastrous babysitter for his girlfriend's three kids.

"...Scheving, Alina Foley and Lucas Till. There was a time when the arrival of a new Jackie Chan movie..."

Jan. 22, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Until the Light Takes Us

This music documentary chronicles the history, ideology, and aesthetic of Norwegian black metal.

"...as monstrous. A clustering and claustrophobic once-underground devolution of Deep Purple’s ilk, ranging from pterodactyl arias to the sounds..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Box

Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly goes for full-fledged suspense in this studio thriller.

"...simmering at its core. It's just that by the time the film ends, you're wondering what the point is...."

Nov. 13, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Miss March

Two-fifths of the Whitest Kids U'Know comedy troupe wrote, star in, and co-directed this nubile sex romp about a road trip to the Playboy mansion.

"...up in a coma for four years, during which time his girlfriend has gone off to Hollywood and become..."

March 20, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

I've Loved You So Long

Kristen Scott Thomas is unforgettable in this French film about a woman who has to live with her self-hatred after committing a heinous crime.

"...prison after 15 years, and it appears all that time inside has made her intolerant to human contact; she..."

Feb. 27, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Fireproof

God helps a firefighter, played by Kirk Cameron, to repair his marriage.

"...4 movie at the box office. Of course, the time was ripe for such a triumph – it’s been..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Kung Fu Panda

Jack Black's animated Po may be an animated panda bear, but deep down, he’s really just a nerd with a pop-culture obsession.

"...be an animated panda bear, but make no mistake: Deep down, he’s really just a nerd with a pop-culture..."

June 6, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Youth Without Youth

After a 10-year absence, Francis Ford Coppola has come in from the vineyards, but his Youth Without Youth is a self-satisfied bore that fails to connect with the audience.

"...Lara, Bruno Ganz and André Hennicke. Once upon a time, I thought the 1996 movie Jack was about as..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Epic Movie

The filmmakers are completely tone-deaf when it comes to the art of film parody, and their special form of sadism-as-punch-line leaves the audience in a perpetual cringe.

"...a new comedy movement in American movies, wherein a deep and abiding malice for their protagonists and a desire..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Candy

Despite sporting Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish as a pair of Australian junkies increasingly on the outs with family, reality, and rent, Candy is a washout.

"...rave-up One Perfect Day) as a narcotized pair of deep-down underers increasingly on the outs with family, reality, and..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Zen Noir

A hard-boiled detective investigates a murder at a Buddhist monastery.

"...parries of the resident monks. When he asks what time the victim died, they ask him to define “time.”..."

Oct. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

A Prairie Home Companion

It's been a very long time since any Robert Altman film has been as enjoyable as A Prairie Home Companion.

"...Scott and Tom Keith. It's been a very long time since any Robert Altman film has been as enjoyable..."

June 9, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tony Takitani

This adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s eponymous short story is a delicate little curio, lighter than air and gravely philosophical at once.

"...unexpected consequences. The film gestures toward our understanding of deep matters – grief, solitude, and the process by which..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

November

November, starring Courteney Cox, is a dense, dark head-trip of a movie that seems like the bastard offspring of Memento and Mullholland Dr.

"...dead exes, they’re helpfully labeled onscreen) and off the deep end, stopping occasionally for a heaping helping of paranoid..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Finding Light in Shadow

Conspirare sings of deep hope in the midst of great suffering

"...performance of Sir Michael Tippett's A Child of Our Time, a work for chorus, orchestra, and soloists inspired by..."

June 17, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

After the Sunset

Possibly the ideal film to more or less ignore while lounging poolside and sipping Jamaican rum, After the Sunset is 100-proof pap.

"...enough to make a kosher Jew nervous), and this time agent Lloyd comes looking for them. How, exactly, he..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I Heart Huckabees

An existential comedy, to be sure, but in the end this movie quite happily tips toward being and everythingness.

"...to be human and of this world – are deep; the explorations, via the plot and characterizations, aren’t entirely...."

Oct. 8, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Stupidity

Could it be?: a study of human stupidity that's not, um …, stupid?

"...the subject of human intelligence has been studied since time immemorial, but there are few treatises on the subject..."

May 21, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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