Dying Young

"...be weak, but the heart is always willing. In Dying Young, death agains waits in the wings while love..."

June 28, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

This indie hit is sweet and funny

"...Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s large-hearted Me and Earl and the Dying Girl found a lot of champions at its Sundance..."

June 26, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Young@Heart

Even though this documentary about a choral group of lovable octogenarians whose perform songs by Sonic Youth and the Talking Heads sounds gimmicky, it is really about something to which we can all relate: our own mortality.

"...sex, incontinence, and the driving skills of the elderly, Young@Heart eschews the clichés about old people for something that..."

April 18, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis

A Kiss Before Dying

"...Directed by: James Dearden. Starring: Matt Dillon, Sean Young, Max Von Sydow, James Russo, Martha Gehman and Adam..."

May 10, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Art of Dying

May Bookshelf

"...Dying Is an art like everything else. I do it..."

May 16, 1997 Books Feature

Rob Thomas' Unlikely Route to Young Adult Fiction

'Veronica Mars' creator dishes on teens, fans, and the movie

"...TV and film producer Rob Thomas, but rather to young adult author Rob Thomas, whose incisive, thoughtful coming-of-age novel..."

Sept. 26, 2013 Books Post by Amy Gentry

On Death & Dying

Did TV Coverage Trivialize Barbara Jordan?

"...also focused extensively on Jordan's "tremendous legacy in shaping young minds." Comments were solicited from the new Barbara Jordan..."

Feb. 2, 1996 News Column

Is Austin’s Art.Science.Gallery. Evolving or Dying?

Crucial times for the city’s science-celebrating bastion of art

"...(Yes? Yes, you there – in the back.Young, ah … Darwin, is it? You have a worthy..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Young Blood

Growing Up as the 'Living Dead'

"...has ever freaked me out more by getting naked, dying, and returning with a lust for "Braaiiinnns!" Wicked, sexy,..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

My Life Without Me

Unusual film about dying young avoids sentimentality.

"...film genres to manage successfully is that of the dying young person. Too often, as in Love Story, Sweet..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Time to Leave

This oddly dispassionate film about a young man dying of cancer is the French antidote to those Hollywood weepies in which the heroine courageously faces her own mortality with every hair in place.

"...and Marie Rivière. This oddly dispassionate film about a young man dying of cancer is the French antidote to..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Knockout

"...realized just how many clichés they were including: the dying mother, the take-no-crap prizefighter fresh from the streets, the..."

March 4, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

W.

Oliver Stone’s Bush portrait is a tale of two movies: one a humanizing portrait of a failure as a young man, the other a damning but unsurprising look inside an administration gone loopy on ideological zealotry.

"...one a humanizing portrait of a failure as a young man, the other a damning but unsurprising look inside..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Perfect Blue

"...Perfect Blue tells the story of Mima Kirigoe, a young, marginally popular singer in a Japanese “teen idol” band..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Land of Mine

A viscerally intense anti-war film

"...Nazi troops. Most of them were just forcibly conscripted young boys, as Germany’s more battle-hardened soldiers were long depleted...."

March 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Evening

Featuring the work of a great many fine actresses, this movie is less than the sum of its parts and runs aground while trying to create a mountain from a molehill.

"...The Hours' Cunningham), Evening is the story of the dying hours of Ann Lord (Redgrave), who, during these moments,..."

June 29, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Birth

If your dead husband returned to you in the body of a 10-year-old boy, would you seize the opportunity for your romance to be born again or would you call Child Welfare?

"...several-minutes-long opera sequence). Granted, Birth’s storyline about a woman’s young husband dying suddenly and reappearing years later in the..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wrath of the Titans

The Greek gods of antiquity must be angry: this sequel is merely loud and uninspired.

"...son and warns of imminent catastrophe: The gods are dying because people no longer believe in them, and the..."

March 30, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Skateland

Skateland is a sweet, knowing, visually spot-on evocation of early-Eighties teen life in a small East Texas town.

"...long for and, if they're lucky, hear on their dying day. But that's a long way off for the..."

May 20, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Notes on Mad Dogs

If you were young, talented, and a little crazy in the old Austin, you may have answered to the bizarre title of "Mad Dog."

"...Mad Dogs did what young artists and intellectuals in a notably conservative environment tend..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

My Boyfriend's Back

"...(she did, after all, say “Yes” as he lay dying in her arms). Once back, the comedy kicks in,..."

Aug. 13, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gas Food Lodging

"...bloom and color in an otherwise barren landscape. For young Shade, the film's narrator, the prospect of a better..."

Nov. 27, 1992 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Golden Boat

"...bemused eye toward the interactions of New Yorkers. A young student, Muchnik, follows a path of empty shoes and..."

March 20, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Vincere

The long-scuttled tragic story of Ida Dalser, the first wife of Benito Mussolini, and the child she bore him, is brought to the screen with arresting style by the Italian director Marco Bellocchio.

"...legal document in which the rising political leader acknowledged young Benito as his son). Later, mother and son were..."

April 23, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Pet Sematary

Latest Stephen King adaptation is a pretty good horror film, but nothing more

"...hours and less stress – that is, until a dying student issues a cryptic warning about the decades-old pet..."

April 5, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Doc doesn't quite capture the spirit of the brilliant iconoclast

"...during the film (particularly when he knew he was dying of prostate cancer) that bushy eyebrow uncocks and he..."

July 15, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Faults

A cult deprogrammer needs some mental floss of his own.

"...hit rock bottom after precipitating the suicide of a young woman he once rescued from a cult and then..."

March 6, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

2015 Academy Award-Nominated Animated Short Films

Five Oscar nominees, plus some extra treats.

"...from bookends of narration, this 18-minute-long tale of a young pig keeping the literal and figurative darkness at bay..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Biutiful

Javier Bardem earned an Oscar nod for his performance in this grim but poetic Spanish drama.

"...is a loving and attentive father to his two young children, and though he is a faithful provider, their..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

My Bloody Valentine 3D

This horror film is a full-on, old-school, gore-hound heaven – a supersaturated arterial goregasm with zero socially redeeming values for anyone other than first-year med students.

"...It's also the movie for you if you're just dying to watch a sexy blonde's head sliced in two..."

Jan. 23, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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