Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

The blurbing of SXSW

"...of "Kids in America." A new LP's in the works, their first since 2004's Really Really Happy, and with..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

SXSW Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Au Revoir Simone, and Dirty on Purpose, all of whom have equal weight on..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Wes Anderson's delightful animated film has room for both existentialist dread and a grinning joie de vivre.

"...the first two used as evidence against his later work, against a perceived inflexibility. True, Anderson revisits the same..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Climate Consortium Denmark

Learning from Copenhagen, Post #4

"...Denmark has no dirty-coal or oil-industry jobs to speak of, Mortensen noted. So..."

Oct. 5, 2009 News Post by Katherine Gregor

What About Bob?

Don't hate Bob Schneider because of his Lovely Creatures

"...I thought: 'I can go there, and if it works out, it works out. If not, I can always..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

State of Play

Starring Russell Crowe, this American redo of a great BBC miniseries about investigative journalism and nefarious institutions neither embarrasses the original nor is superior to it in any way.

"...The Globe's Capitol Hill-beat blogger, Della Frye (McAdams), is working on a doozy of one, in fact: the sudden..."

April 17, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing Thursday night SXSW 09 talent

"...11pm, Dirty Dog Bar 8Ball and MJG have been slingin' dirty..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

Lakeview Terrace

By-the-book domestic thriller about the consequences of moving into a neighborhood lorded over by a rules-happy sociopath with a gun and a badge.

"...is black and the world just isn’t supposed to work that way. Giving voice and action to that hatred,..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Women

This remake of the 1939 George Cukor film isn't particularly fun or funny.

"...only to discover that the mistress of the damned dirty cheating husband is slipping on unmentionables in the adjacent..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Pineapple Express

A winning "bromance" between stoners, played by reigning comedy king Seth Rogen and James Franco, is at the heart of this shaggy pot story.

"...so too are the many and varied talents at work here in this affectionate bid at the buddy pics..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Luv Doc Recommends: Keep Austin Weird 5K and Festival

Auditorium Shores at the Long Center, Saturday, June 28, 2008

"...Keeping Austin weird is full-time work. The weirdness is not like it used to be...."

June 27, 2008 Column by The Luv Doc

TV Eye

TV Eye shows some love for 2007

"...evident this year with some of the most well-written works coming out in droves on the small screen. With..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Romance & Cigarettes

John Turturro directs this oddball musical in which the stars (the eclectic cast of James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Steve Buscemi, Mary-Louise Parker, Christopher Walken, Aida Turturro, and Mandy Moore) lip-sync and dance to popular songs.

"...than a few pulp novels, but this poetry-writing construction worker is all bark, no bite. Caught between wife Kitty..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Eastern Promises

In Cronenberg's film about the Russian mob in London, the director and star Viggo Mortensen relates a corker of a story.

"...Cronenberg. Whether it's the venereal metaphors of his early work (Shivers, Rabid) or the through-the-looking-glass, AIDS-esque horrors of The..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Right at Your Door

Harrowing doesn't even begin to describe this low-budget exercise in siege paranoia, which builds on our current terrorist-related night sweats.

"...Brad is safe at home when a quartet of dirty bombs wreak havoc during L.A.'s morning rush hour, Lexi..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hang the DJ

The new political theatre invites you into its messy, sexy conversation

"...last spring, in Austin, I saw the Rude Mechanicals' workshop production of Get Your War On, an adaptation of..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Page Two

Never mind the consipracy theorists, the death of literacy, and the Democrats' chronic foot-shooting – 'Page Two' needs a break.

"...or spell is like complaining about a winning team's dirty uniforms. It's not about formalities; it's about communication and..."

July 15, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Silver City

John Sayles adds his cinematic two cents to this election year’s plethora of politically minded movies.

"...entertaining enough, but it is not the finely honed work of a mature filmmaker that we might have expected..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two

There is no other place in the country, outside of New York and L.A., with the same quality and quantity of filmmaking and filmmakers as Austin

"...documentary filmmakers – whether interested in shorts or features, working for studios, TV networks, or completely independent – are..."

March 12, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Cold Mountain

Swoony kisses and true grit mark this Civil War epic from the director of The English Patient.

"...moves in with Ada and teaches her how to work the land. Zellweger’s entrance, trumpeted with dirty nails and..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Mystic River

Clint Eastwood's newest is a dark, lachrymose tale of slowly snaking evil.

"...become septic. Eastwood again uses cinematographer Tom Stern (Blood Work), who bleeds the life out of neo-slummy Boston’s wooden..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mrs. Warren's Profession

The State Theater Company's scintillating revival of Mrs. Warren's Profession moves George Bernard Shaw's characters beyond the politics for which they serve as mouthpieces and fills them with the breaths and gestures and expressions of people who live.

"...to escape the grinding heel of poverty outside the workhouse or the whorehouse. Mrs. Warren's profession, it turns out,..."

March 28, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

At once a fanboy's wet dream and an engaging, emotionally supercharged epic adventure

"...the trilogy, a seemingly minor character who becomes the dirty pegboard upon which the fate of Middle-earth will dangle...."

Dec. 20, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

XXX

"...classic; it's so astonishingly awful in everything it does (stuntwork excluded, natch) that I dare say this is some..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...here in Austin, and I had the privilege of working with Mr. Rodriguez on Spy Kids 2: The Island..."

June 28, 2002 Column

Changing Lanes

"...offer of a blank check, and when that doesn't work gives him a callous “better luck next time” and..."

April 12, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Charlotte Gray

"...star-cross'd lovers, betrayal, bursting bodices, the like. But to work, melodrama has to mean it -- to be pulp,..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Original Sin

"...Among the more than 25 films adapted from his work are such genre classics as Rear Window, Night Has..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pootie Tang

This is a nutty story about the life of the fictional ghetto hero Pootie Tang, whose struggles against corporate America after selling out become the stuff of legend.

"...margins. Pootie is also up against local drug dealer Dirty D. (Cathey), a filthy ghetto caricature apparently based on..."

July 6, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Yards

"...by way of On the Waterfront , featuring a dirty Wahlberg and an even dirtier Queens. Wahlberg plays Leo..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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