NMASS 2015 Resounds

“We’re not fucking around! This is serious!”

"...The New Media Art & Sound Summit this past weekend sustained an unrelenting barrage of experimental artists...."

June 15, 2015 Music Post by Waylon Cunningham

DVDanger: 'Alyce Kills'/'A Virgin Among the Living Dead'

Women on the edge of a supernatural breakdown

"...Like the song goes, how can we miss you if..."

Aug. 25, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Graceland

Ron Morales’ hostage thriller is a fluorescent-lit tour of the city’s seedy underbelly.

"...of legal age) along with a whiff of incest. This is not a movie to see on a first..."

April 26, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Antichrist

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

"...film speaks the language of madness with astonishing fluency. Dreamlike and possessed of a terrible, doom-laden beauty, Antichrist provoked..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

An Unreasonable Man

This documentary is a far cry from the dry polemics one might expect from a survey of Ralph Nader's career as a consumer activist and political candidate.

"...of consumer rights in the nation's history, may more likely be remembered by future generations as the nettlesome, stubborn..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bewitched

Again Kidman goes for another nose-centric role, yet Nora Ephron's very meta remake of the old TV show still misfires.

"...Burns, Jim Turner, Stephen Colbert and David Alan Grier. This isn’t Nicole Kidman’s first dalliance with witchcraft, and it..."

June 24, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Incredibles

Animated take on the superhero genre overflows with wonderfully silly shenanigans and knowing insight into modern parenting.

"...Brad Bird. An order-of-magnitude leap forward in animated storytelling, this seriocomic take on the superhero genre deftly mixes Pixar..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Human Nature

"...Place. The old nature-vs.-nurture argument takes a beating in this smart absurdist comedy written by Being John Malkovich's Charlie..."

April 12, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Legally Blonde

"...Blonde isn't nearly as smart -- no talons underneath this Lee Press-On Nails production -- but it still makes..."

July 13, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Gabriela

"...the backdrop of a mental health clinic.” If anything, this proves that even an excellent group like the Latino..."

May 11, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Aimée & Jaguar

"...Köhler and Maria Schrader. Aimée & Jaguar was nominated this year for the Golden Globe's Best Foreign Film, and..."

Sept. 15, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Off the Bookshelf

Falling Slowly

"...a couple of things could impede your enjoyment of Falling Slowly. First: If, like me, you're not familiar with..."

May 14, 1999 Books Feature

Meet Joe Black

"...A loose retelling of 1934's Death Takes a Holiday, this updated version adapts a fuller, firmer attitude toward other-worldly..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Live Shots

"...different incarnations, and Turkey's dervishes are among the oldest; this particular ceremony is over seven centuries old. The dervishes..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Music Feature

Dance With Me

"...already minimal nature of the plot and dialogue in this low-budget dance-and-romance trifle, the filmmakers might have done well..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Children of the Revolution

"...a son before his untimely death? And what if this son were to be raised in a revolutionary household..."

May 23, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pulp Fiction

Tarantino's second feature film lights up the screen with the same blazing torch that it carries for the idea of the movies.

"...and enthusiasms. Pulp Fiction succeeds on so many levels. Like Tarantino's other films so far, Pulp Fiction is another..."

Oct. 14, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

"...one taking care of Gilbert, though, and because of this, he's put his dreams on hold and insulated himself..."

March 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Shadowlands

"...Oxford, Richard Attenborough tackles yet another “true story” and this time comes away with something quite a bit more..."

Jan. 7, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Three of Hearts

"...Sherilyn Fenn, Joe Pantoliano and Gail Strickland. Though fashioned like an old-time screwball comedy, Three of Hearts' presentation of..."

May 7, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sentimental Family Band Isn’t Hung Up on the High Times

The softie ex-art-rockers arrive at Austin’s honky-tonk revival

"...This is what Sagebrush was made for. The South Congress..."

April 12, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Liger

Telugu MMA drama floats like a bee, stings like a butterfly

"...(Panday), whose only ambition is to reach 1 million likes on Instagram by any means necessary. Sadly, the character..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Hurtado

Mid-Century

Ghostly goings-on in this short-term rental shocker

"...needs and wants of working class. The peak of this movement was arguably the mid-century, when the post-war suburban..."

June 17, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Michelle Yeoh gets multiversal in this incredible comedy

"...(aka Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) to say that, like Alice, you should expect the impossible...."

March 25, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

C'mon C'mon

Joaquin Phoenix's avuncular turn avoids cloying family clichés

"...I’m halfway joking with that description. True, this is basically what the movie is about, but it..."

Nov. 26, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

AISD Copes With Post-COVID Life

With falling enrollment, budget woes, and “behavioral events” maybe the kids aren’t alright

"...bathrooms were in the spotlight again last week, but this time not as a battlefield in transphobic culture wars...."

Nov. 26, 2021 News Feature by Morgan O’Hanlon

India Sweets and Spices

Insights into the Indian immigrant experience can't save this insipid rom-com

"...for example, can turn any impressionable mind against you like that. For Alia (Ali), returning home for the summer..."

Nov. 19, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Triumph

High school wrestling drama is admirable for giving athletes with disabilities a platform

"...For what it’s worth, this project is a far cry for director Brett Leonard..."

April 30, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Building the Perfect Beast for Skylines

Director Liam O'Donnell on evolving the Skyline aliens

"...makers of Skylines, in cinemas and available on VOD this weekend...."

Dec. 17, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin at Large: A Pre-November Pep Talk

Reasons for optimism as we ride this circus train into Election Station

"...Thought I'd take a break from Cop Talk this week (don't worry, there's plenty more to come) to..."

Aug. 7, 2020 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

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