Summer Film Calendar

Your month-to-month guide to summer film

"...hot-rodding tale of star-crossed lovers from opposing gangs.JUNE 27Baby Boy: John Singleton's "companion piece" to Boyz N the Hood,..."

May 25, 2001 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Shrek

Animated comic gem.

"...of talking bears, a gingerbread man, a little wooden boy, and, worst of all, a talking donkey (Murphy) who..."

May 18, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Like a Kid Again

For Spy Kids, his first youth-oriented movie, director Robert Rodriguez maintains the spirit of youth - and El Mariachi

"...a tilt-a-whirl, and a quartet of garishly homely spinning dragons crowd the street and have, for the past four..."

March 30, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM

They may not truthfully reflect the way we live, but sometimes the big and small screen present honest explorations of the way we dream. The year 2000 gave us some exceptionally fine works in this regard.

"...a film that can do that. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (opening next week in Austin on January 12) is..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

TV Eye

Does it seem like this new crop of series, including Ed and Gideon's Crossing, mask their chauvinism under fresh-faced idealism and earnestness -- or is it just us?

"...right in Stuckeyville. Start with the show's premise: Small-town boy makes good in the big city, but in one..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

That's a Wrap

Notes From the Austin Film Festival and Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference

"...experience them. The title character is a precocious 12-year-old boy struggling with his parents' separation who, through the inspiration..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Screens Feature by Barry Johnson

Screen Play

Austin Film Festival Reviews

"...Hills. It tells the semiautobiographical story of a Brooklyn boy who moves to Greenwich Village in the early Fifties..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Screens Feature

Dirty Words

Roger Gathman delves into local bookstores' shelves of smut to investigate the collective Gestalt of erotica.

"...I'm from Lubbock. I never even saw a Playboy or anything until I started going out with this..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Pete’s Dragon

"...and Charlie Callas. This Disney musical is about a boy and his best friend ñ a dragon...."

July 26, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bahn, Bahn, Bahn ...

Apparently, most Austinites don't know that New Braunfels' Schlitterbahn Waterpark has a resort.

"...follow the imaginary line of sight made by the boy's finger as he excitedly pointed out this marvel. I..."

May 26, 2000 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

X

"...Eighties atomo-fest Neo-Tokyo (and before that the beloved Astro Boy) is a fine one for visual imagery (there are..."

April 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Record Reviews

Prince Paul

"...A Prince Among Thieves (Tommy Boy) DR. DOOM..."

May 14, 1999 Music Review

Mulan

"...not the least bit voluptuous. Her disguise as a boy is more natural to her than the whiteface, rouge,..."

June 19, 1998 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Texas Platters

"...The Lost Dallas Sessions 1957-58 (Dragon Street)..."

June 5, 1998 Music Review

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...A starry-eyed, 18-year-old Valley Boy seeks out the bohemian lifestyle in L.A.'s Silverlake district..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Quest for Camelot

"...her dreams of derring-do is assisted by a blind boy who has also hoped to become a knight until..."

May 15, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Megachurch Miracle

Believers Flock to Bigger, Some Say Better, Churches

"...with Domino's Pizza, Town House Liquors, and the Hunan Dragon Chinese restaurant. By spring of 1998, the church will..."

Dec. 19, 1997 News Feature by Kayte Van Scoy

Good Games for Adventurous Imaginations

Away From the Computer Screen and Back to the Table

"...games like Monopoly and Pictionary. Instead, think Dungeons & Dragons, Diplomacy, and Magic: The Gathering. Games like these, with..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Screens Feature by Allen Varney

Here, Girl!

TV Eye

"...Lassie wasn't always the story of a boy and his dog; originally, the book and film were..."

July 11, 1997 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie

"...Amy Jo Johnson. Being a parent of a four-year-old boy, I am all too familiar with the Power Rangers,..."

March 28, 1997 Movie Review by Nick Barbaro

Fall Movie Round-Up

Sneaking Into Autumn

"...BOGUS An orphaned boy who lives with a busy foster mom played by..."

Sept. 6, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Epiphanies for the Blind

Who's Teaching Who at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired?

"...an orderly circle of children singing "Puff the Magic Dragon," perhaps bickering over who gets the coveted triangle or..."

Feb. 23, 1996 Music Feature by Mindy LaBernz

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...turned in his finest work since his peerless Drugstore Cowboy. This movie, which could have been shaped in a..."

Oct. 6, 1995 News Feature

Double Dragon

"...average Jean-Claude Van Damme or Dolph Lundgren film. Double Dragon is the first of the three video games-turned-films that..."

Nov. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Brian Baker

Boomerang

"...than one organ.) Givens is cast as the heartless Dragon Lady, Jacqueline, who serves Murphy his comeuppance by giving..."

July 3, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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