Earth to Echo

A trio of suburban kids befriend an alien entity in this Spielberg-influenced family film.

"...entity and must avoid parents and authorities alike in their mission to send it back home. Earth to Echo..."

July 4, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

Echo in the Canyon

History of the Laurel Canyon folk-rock scene gets lost in its own winding paths

"...There are certainly treasures to be found in this documentary..."

June 21, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Black Waters of Echo's Pond

Recalling the tone and spirit of Eighties horror films, this is an homage to exsanguinations past.

"...Ever wonder what would happen if cinematic miscreants Friday the 13th, Evil Dead, and Witchboard all took a course..."

April 9, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Canvassing the City for ECHO’s Point in Time Count

Nina Hernandez takes to the 4am streets for annual survey

"...Every year since 2010, the Ending Com­mun­ity Homelessness Coalition hosts an army of volunteers..."

Feb. 2, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Echo Chamber

Horse + Donkey collides with Echo & the Bunnymen's Heaven up Here

"...a split second, by an event or conversation. For others, it's later – weeks, months, years – before the..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

ZM3 Live Productions' Echo of a Refugee ... Me?

Zell Miller III's latest was a state of the city address that called out Austin for gentrification and policies harmful to its black citizens

"...Called out for catering to the wealthy at the expense of the needy...."

Aug. 17, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Echo & the Bunnymen Disappointed

"...Dear Editor, Those who walked away from the 5pm Echo & the Bunnymen show at the Austin..."

March 22, 2009 Postmarks

Luv Doc Recommends: SXSW Free Concert with Spoon & Echo & the Bunnymen

Auditorium Shores at the Long Center, Thursday, March 16, 2006

"...listening to Tom Petty 8-tracks, but down here in the bowels of the city, the SXSW shit has hit..."

March 17, 2006 Column by The Luv Doc

The Demented Echo of Our Fish-Wrap

"...aren't interested in any sound except your own demented echo ["Page Two," Dec. 12]. You epitomize modern-day liberalism. The..."

Dec. 16, 2003 Postmarks

New Data Shows Slightly Fewer Unhoused Austinites

Ending Community Homelessness Coalition (ECHO) releases new report

"...Responding to calls for updated data, the Ending Community Homelessness Coalition (ECHO) released a report today..."

May 21, 2021 News Post by Austin Sanders

Opinion: White Privilege in Austin’s Unhoused Community

Alberta Phillips, chair of the ECHO Board of Governors, explains the kind of racism that can lock Black people into a lifetime of living unsheltered

"...In the aftermath of a blistering winter storm that swept through..."

March 19, 2021 Column by Alberta Phillips

The Resurrection of Kinky Friedman

From Houston to Echo Hill, the self-proclaimed Texas Jewboy sings a new tune

"...Kinky Friedman can't hear very well these days...."

Dec. 13, 2019 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

This Oscar nominee from Germany chronicles the last desperate hours of Sophie Scholl, a real-life German university student who, in 1943 Munich, ran afoul of the gestapo while distributing anti-Nazi leaflets.

"...Directed by: Marc Rothemund. Starring: Julia Jentsch, Alexander Held, Fabian Hinrichs, Johanna Gastdorf,..."

May 19, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Over the Wall With Will Sergeant

Rob yaks with Will Sergeant of Echo and the Bunnymen

"...Will Sergeant and Echo and the Bunnymen are Eighties unsung heroes – or..."

May 7, 2011 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

Over the Wall

Echo & the Bunnymen's guitarist Will Sergeant didn't much care for Donnie Darko.

"...The Merseyside port of Liverpool languished with one of the..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Big Bill, CupcakKe, Echo & the Bunnymen, Blxst, Boris, and more live shows to fill your evenings

"...London, NME would've long ago run articles effusively praising their peculiar strain of punk and proclaiming them the next-big-thing...."

Aug. 19, 2022 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Patriots Day

The hunt for the Boston Marathon bombers

"...Yang, Michael Beach, Christopher O’Shea, Rachel Brosnahan, Jake Picking, Themo Melikidze, Alex Wolff, Melissa Benoist and Khandi Alexander...."

Jan. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

September Dawn

This movie about the Mountain Meadows Massacre of Sept. 11, 1857, during which local Mormons murdered 120 members of a wagon train heading West, reeks of ulterior motives.

"...by real events, reeks of ulterior motives, yet even these unstated objectives are obscured by slack filmmaking choices and..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Reign Over Me

This Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle film is often disjointed and needlessly sentimental, though the film's whole often compensates for its sketchy parts.

"...Cheadle, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler, Saffron Burrows, Donald Sutherland, Robert Klein and Melinda Dillon. “Only love can bring..."

March 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The White Countess

The final collaboration between director Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant is a gorgeous slice of Merchant Ivoryisms (thanks in large part to the lushly vertiginous cinematography of DP Christopher Doyle) that nevertheless fails to equal the team’s greatest works.

"...Lynn Redgrave, Madeleine Potter, Hiroyuki Sanada and Allan Corduner. The final collaboration between director Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant,..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Catch Me If You Can

The film is based on the autobiography by Frank Abagnale Jr., who at the tender age of 17 led the FBI and various other law enforcement agencies on a giddy global romp while he kited, forged, and manufactured checks over a four-year period.

"...Brolin. From its opening, Saul Bass-inspired title sequence to the final bouncy rhythms of John Williams' kicky Sixties score,..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Scratch

"...Pray's previous music doc -- 1996's Hype! -- chronicled the rise and fall of the Seattle grunge scene; by..."

March 22, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Return to Never Land

"...Blayne Weaver and Harriet Owen. It wasn't as if the world was crying out for a new animated Peter..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Time and Tide

"...and Tide marks a return to form for Tsui, “the Roger Corman of Hong Kong filmmaking,” who spent the..."

July 6, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Luminous Motion

"...last feature film Variety, a fascinating work that, among other things, had the temerity to present women as the..."

July 7, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ride With the Devil

"...Clarity of vision degrades over distance, and so do the high-toned rationales political leaders concoct to justify blood-borne passions...."

Dec. 17, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

That's the Way I Like it

"...Francis, Medaline Tan and Adrian Pang. Disco dead? Perish the thought. At least not in Singapore, circa 1977, an..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Regret to Inform

Sonneborn has captured the horror of the Vietnam conflict from an angle as yet unexplored, that of the women left behind. Sonneborn travels to the place of her husband's death in Vietnam with a film crew to retrace his final days.

"...a unique and personal tack in this examination of the Vietnam conflict and the national scars that still fester...."

Aug. 20, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

"...Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Brandy, Mehki Phifer, Muse Watson, Matthew Settle, Bill Cobbs, Jeffrey Combs, Jennifer Esposito and Red..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I'll Be Home for Christmas

"...and Alexandria Mitchell. Beware of seasonal comedies whose titles echo Christmas carol refrains. Remember Jingle All the Way? Heed..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10     NEXT ›    34 »