Extreme Days

"...Derek Hamilton, A.j. Buckley, Ryan Browning and Dante Basco. Extreme sports -- skate and snow boarding, surfing, paintball intifadas..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Inside the Last Days of City Manager Spencer Cronk

After dramatic days of extreme weather and backstabbing, Council lets Cronk go

"...power for more than a week. Then, in the days after the ice storm, CMs took issue with a..."

Feb. 17, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Four Days in September

"...the right-wing regime. Quickly recognizing the need for more extreme action, they solicit the leadership of a truly scary..."

Feb. 13, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Looking for Solutions for Residents Feeling Extreme Heat

UT-Austin partners with city, community orgs to mitigate local "heat island" effect

"...gradually worsened in Austin, with the number of triple-digit days steadily increasing. Climate scientists believe this upward swing in..."

Sept. 17, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Local Roller Derby Community in a Jam Over Extreme Heat

A shade covering could cost more than $100,000

"...pandemic but interest has been steadily rising. Also rising? Extreme heat in Austin. It's turned into a health risk..."

Aug. 5, 2022 News Feature by Hannah Uebele

The People Who Collect Austin's Trash Struggle in Extreme Heat

A/C issues continue at Austin Resource Recovery

"...important factor in keeping ARR truck operators safe during extreme heat – ensuring the reliable functionality of A/C units..."

July 14, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Novel Writing: America's Latest Extreme Sport

National Novel Writing Month now competes with Veterans Day and Thanksgiving as the November celebration -- except that it lasts all month long and demands 50,000 words, or one novel, from its participants.

"...The Marquis de Sade wrote The 120 Days of Sodom on a 40-foot roll of toilet paper..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Seven Days in Heaven and Hell

Getting a white-knuckled grip on the third annual Fantastic Fest

"...sounds relatively calm on the phone at T-minus seven days and counting. The note of sheer hysteric excitement that..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Ascension to Lock Nurses Out for Days After One-Day Strike

The hospital strikes back, but at what cost to patients?

"...they would be locked out for an additional three days after the strike. National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United..."

June 23, 2023 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Extreme Temperature Swings

AFS Essential Cinema kicks off Asia: Hot and Cool series

"...Untold Scandal opens the series, which runs Tuesdays through February. (The series moves to a new home..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Wild Horse, Wild Ride

In this documentary, nine horse trainers have 100 days to transform their mustangs from wild creatures to trusting companions before competing in the Extreme Mustang Makeover.

"...professional trainers take home the mustangs. They have 100 days to tame the animals’ wildness and then compete in..."

Sept. 14, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

TV Eye: Getting Real

This weekend's Texas-set episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition gets TV Eye teary-eyed

"...Seems the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition folks were in Texas late last..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Vertical Limit

"...see what Sir Edmund Hillary is up to these days). Campbell has, in the past, been a fine director..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Black Sea

This undersea actioner stars Jude Law as a submarine captain leading a team of Brits and Russians in the recovery of a sunken fortune.

"...Day in September and has always been attracted to extreme masculinity, whether in documentary form (Touching the Void) or..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Downfall

Hitler's final days in the claustrophobic bunker are envisioned by the filmmakers, with an able assist from Bruno Ganz at the Fuhrer.

"...it was." The Oscar-nominated Downfall, which chronicles the final days of Hitler’s Reich, is set almost entirely inside the..."

April 1, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Time Indefinite

"...the phrase “I am a camera” to its most extreme. No matter where he goes or what he does,..."

Nov. 12, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Barefoot Gen

"...a state of poverty and famine during the final days of World War II. Times may be hard, but..."

Feb. 12, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Doomsday

In this UK thriller, the so-called Reaper virus threatens the Isles with extinction.

"...of the Vampires, The Stand, Damnation Alley, Aliens, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, the Resident Evil and Mad..."

March 21, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Munich

Munich is dense, thoughtful filmmaking that nonetheless flies along: Seething not only with multilayered, subtextual arguments, it’s also a heck of a thriller.

"...With its deeply ambiguous moral compass swinging from one extreme to the next, it’s also a horrifically topical meditation..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Butterfly Effect

Ashton Kutcher lays to waste a promising script involving time travel and unforeseeable consequences.

"...vast, unforeseeable consequences in another part to its sci-fi extreme is a ripping good premise for a classic time-travel..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

It's a Russell Crowe's nest of a performance in this seafaring adventure.

"...which that implies, retains Weir’s fascination with humans under extreme conditions. It’s a pressure cooker at sea, and to..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Spun

"...and tiring. And funny? Spun takes everything about this extreme state of being, cranks it into overdrive, and lets..."

April 4, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Four Feathers

"...sending him to the front in a matter of days, and, choosing life, he resigns his commission in the..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Visitor Q

"...subjects (taboo in the West, anyway) such as necrophilia, extreme sadomasochistic sexual athletics, and the terminally icky fetish coprophagia..."

May 24, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pop & Me

"...shaky cam shoved in the interviewee's face in an extreme close-up, Roe clearly broadcasts that not only do boys..."

June 16, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Career Girls

"...pair. Gone is Hannah's stringy, unkempt hair from their days at University, her racing, slashing speech, her seething rage...."

Aug. 22, 1997 Movie Review by Robert Faires

A Piece of Eden

"...240 acres of apple orchards that have seen better days. When patriarch Franco (Breuler), a bearded behemoth slowly going..."

July 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Unbroken

The heroic story of Louis Zamperini, who endured harrowing hardships during World War II, is the subject of Angelina Jolie's second movie.

"...Air Force and having his plane crash-land, surviving 47 days at sea in a life raft, getting rescued by..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Red Hill

Genuine passion for the Western genre is displayed in this Australian take on High Noon that stars True Blood's Ryan Kwanten.

"...Daly. What the hell is up Down Under these days? Australian directors and actors have been flooding the international..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Take

Take, with a very good performance by Minnie Driver, is a dreadfully misguided movie whose story of redemption is utterly irredeemable.

"...in a hodgepodge fashion over the course of two days, one occurring in the past and the other in..."

Aug. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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