Neil Young Journeys

Jonathan Demme hooks up with Neil Young for a road trip through Ontario, Canada, in their third documentary together.

"...the musician’s big ol’ Crown Vic for a leisurely drive from Omemee, Ontario – the town of Young’s birth..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hit & Run

Dax Shepard's sophomore directorial feature is a mixture of earnest and romantic road movie, high-octane chase picture, and slapstick comedy.

"...takes it on the lam in an effort to drive Annie to the important meeting that will guarantee her..."

Aug. 24, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Queen of Versailles

How does 90,000 square feet sound?

"...collapsing economy impacted the superrich. It will also likely drive anybody who isn’t the superrich up the wall...."

Aug. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Step Up Revolution

A tired story is enlivened by dance happenings – essentially flash mobs with killer physiques.

"...his eyes (and his wrecking ball) on the off-off-Ocean Drive neighborhood of a troupe of urban dancing fools dubbed..."

July 27, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I'm Your Fan

Annual fan fare keeps elderly cool

"...and all for a terrific cause. The Summer Fan Drive benefiting Family Eldercare helps make sure senior citizens stay..."

June 22, 2012 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Hysteria

Good vibrations flow from this fictional story about the invention of the vibrator in Victorian England; Maggie Gyllenhaal stars.

"...anxiety, irritability, raging libido, or an altogether absent sex drive. "Hysterical paroxysm" was prescribed to beat the blues away,..."

June 15, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Undefeated

This Oscar-winner for Best Documentary tells a rousing and heartwarming tale of a West Memphis high school football team overcoming the odds.

"...the ghetto, and that faith and moral grit can drive someone to be tenacious, racially color-blind, and ultimately successful...."

April 6, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

8 Murders a Day

The drug-related violence occurring in Juarez, Mexico, is the subject of this impassioned documentary.

"...families, and El Paso newscasts do not so much drive home the film's core point – mainly, that it's..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame

Tsui Hark directs this delightful mystery film that's part spectacular period piece and part Sherlock Holmes.

"...the master, Sammo Hung. Creative spectacle, humor, and suspense drive the film, and we can only hope that Detective..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Priest

A warrior priest is on a mission to recapture his niece from murderous vampires.

"...to battle sequences that lack much ingenuity or narrative drive. The cinematography by Don Burgess (Source Code, The Book..."

May 20, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son

Martin Lawrence revisits his FBI undercover alter-ego, Big Momma.

"...arts school while simultaneously searching for an incriminating flash drive that serves as the story’s MacGuffin. Hilarity ensues, but..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

XBRMNT's Top 10 for the Week of Oct. 18

New blogger Nakia gets Chain Drive's Manic Monday DJ XBRMNT's Top 10.

"...Oh sure, you might have known that The Chain Drive is Austin's only leather n' bear bar, or that..."

Oct. 19, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Nakia

Murdering Oscar

A brief conversation with Patterson Hood of the Drive-by Truckers

"...The pride of the South, Athens, Ga.'s Drive-by Truckers pull into Stubb's tonight. During a brief layover..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

Piranha 3D

Finally, 3-D is being put to its optimum use. Who cares how it holds up as a remake?

"...1978's Joe Dante-directed/Roger Corman-produced Jaws knockoff is ridiculous summertime drive-in fun. It's 89 minutes of blood, breasts, and way,..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Antichrist

Lars von Trier lives to affront again. Chaos, indeed, reigns.

"...personal auteurism that will either make you mad or drive you mad; either way, you're complicit in von Trier's..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

(Untitled)

High art is both lampooned and championed in this knowing satire that stars the ever-eccentric Adam Goldberg.

"...Adrian, a “sound artist” whose sparsely attended cacophonous concerts drive even his otherwise supportive parents to the exit doors...."

Nov. 6, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fanboys

This shaggy comedy is an earnest, sweetly geeked tribute to fandom.

"...the title's fanboys make it their holy crusade to drive cross-country to Lucas' Skywalker Ranch and break into the..."

Feb. 6, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

An American Carol

Michael Moore and left-leaning Hollywood are the subjects of this spoof that's missing only one thing: comedy.

"...the modern-day spoof genre with Airplane! and then helped drive it into the ground with the Scary Movie and..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wranglers Tied for First

"...After the first drive stalled, a fan got to come out on the..."

June 30, 2008 Sports Post by Christopher Bond

Baghead

Kind of funny and kind of scary, the lo-fi Baghead is not so much a horror movie as a four-character study of relationships and the drive to find meaningful work.

"...four-character story about the depth of relationships and the drive to find meaningful work. In this sense Baghead resembles..."

June 13, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sex and Death 101

This serial-killer comedy, which screened during Fantastic Fest, is a self-indulgent, snarky, scattershot affair.

"...an open-collared dress shirt, bragging about his ability to drive women to distraction, to its climax, which features a..."

April 11, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Body of War

Filmmakers Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro show the story of a young veteran, crippled after five days of service in Iraq, and his evolution from gung-ho enlistee to passionate anti-war activist.

"...his fiancée Brie Townsend, the tribulations of Pvt. Young drive home the human costs of war: This is a..."

March 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

There Will Be Blood

This powerful character study and origin story is rooted in American soil.

"...to be the people we are. Ambition and greed drive the ascent of Daniel Plainview (Day-Lewis), a gold-prospector-turned-wildcatter-turned-oil-tycoon. As..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Bucket List

Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman play characters who have only a short time to live. Promises, promises.

"...before they kick the bucket). For an hour, they drive sports cars at high speeds, travel to exotic countries,..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

City Council Notebook

Council goes balls out for their last meeting of the year.

"...the last this year. Item 15: Changing Mala Suerte Drive to Buena Suerte Drive. OK, Suerte! Item 16: Approving..."

Dec. 12, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Blood Diamond

This action-packed take on the issue of blood diamonds is an example of social critique masquerading as cineplex fodder.

"...As a means to drive home its chief argument – that the 14-carat rock..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Los Lonely Boys: Cottonfields and Crossroads

Austinite Hector Galán’s reverential look at Grammy-winning "Texican" rockers Los Lonely Boys is a document of persistence, passion, and some of the finest rock & roll since Stevie Ray Vaughan’s untimely exit.

"...over, the Garza brothers’ exquisitely soulful blend of SRV-style, guitar-driven, conjunto rock & roll, so Cornfields and Crossroads wisely..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Will Ferrell runs comic circles around NASCAR.

"...Ferrell plays Ricky Bobby, a stock-car racer born to drive but lacking direction. Ricky only has eyes for No...."

Aug. 4, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Stick It

Bring It On's scribe Jessica Bendinger writes and directs this teen movie set in the world of competitive gymnastics, and features leotard-clad girls who learn to stick together to fight injustice.

"...a good story here about teenage rebellion and competitive drive and banding together to fight injustice – albeit the..."

April 28, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

She's the Man

Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night gets a teen-movie rehash in this manic panic of a mess that never rises to even the lowest levels of the Bard’s cross-dressing comedy of errors.

"...of director Fickman’s penchant for having his teen ensemble drive their lines home with the walloping force of a..."

March 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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