Déjà Vu

"...free will and control over their own happiness. As far as things like this go, Déjà Vu is going..."

June 19, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Perpetuating Preservation

Austin's Historic Victory Grill

"...was the threat, the danger that keeps the visitors away? That's what the owners of the Victory Grill are..."

Jan. 3, 1997 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

The Glimmer Man

"...Glimmer Man (the title alone inspires ridicule), is just far too generic to reach the levels of badness that..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

At Close Range

The Men Behind the Texas Militia Myth

"...talk, too eager to bend your perception of them away from the harsh picture that's been painted by the..."

Oct. 27, 1995 News Feature

No Man's Land

Well-intentioned cross-border drama finds humanity on all sides

"...Allyn) has his entire life ahead of him. Days away from starting a minor league baseball career with the..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Second Act

Lean In meets The Secret of My Success in workplace rom-com

"...for others it will bring to mind older but far better films that have withstood the test of time,..."

Jan. 4, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Catch and Release

An archetypal date movie with a good heart, Catch and Release is the lightweight story of a widow (Jennifer Garner) who discovers that you never really know a person.

"...of screenwriter Grant (Ever After, Erin Brockovich), and as far as romantic comedies go, you could do far worse...."

Jan. 26, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

CSI: Travis County

Why Is the Medical Examiner's Office so screwed up?

"...There were neither kidney stones nor gallbladder problems, as far as they could tell; tests revealed an aneurysm in..."

June 30, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

I'm Not Scared

Sun-dappled sadism and sweet innocence merge in this psychological thriller that sees evil from a young Italian boy's point of view.

"...Italy, and jobs are scarce, but both wheat and nefarious deeds are in abundance, and as Michele forges a..."

May 21, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Weird Science Takes the Stage

The strange but true tale of how a high school class turned a science textbook into a play

"...accurate. This is where we had to start moving away from what we knew and toward the drama, the..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

Letters at 3AM

Learning to listen to your soul in all aspects of your life.

"...being no more than self-pity) that he was so far above me as to have the ability to save..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Respiro

It's the story of a wife and mother living on a Sicilian island, who is prone to increasingly bizarre behavior, and the family who must cope with her.

"...increasingly unwarranted actions and is torn between sending her away to a hospital and keeping her safely within the..."

July 25, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Time of Recognition

An excerpt from John Cale's new autobiography, What's Welsh for Zen?

"...choose from, even going into bootleg stuff. We came away with 23, a large portion of which I had..."

April 14, 2000 Music Feature by Victor Bockris

Emma.

Anya Taylor-Joy gives Austen’s priggish heroine the spark she deserves

"...but awfully loyal Harriet Smith (Goth), she decides, is far from worldly-wise but would make an ideal wife for..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Yellow Birds

Iraq War veteran's novel gets a sadly uninspiring adaptation

"...waged, they head from Virginia to the fictitious Al Tafar (a seeming stand-in for the real city of Tal..."

June 15, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Kings

Interracial tensions boil over in 1990s L.A.

"...collaborator Nick Cave) – Kings is a confusing and far-fetched story in which good intentions outweigh good storytelling...."

May 4, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

How DPS's Occupation of a Border Town May Have Crippled Its Economy

Rio Grande City sees a marked decline in sales and tourism

"...to break a strike of the Cesar Chavez-affiliated United Farm Work­ers Organizing Committee. Rangers were later accused of smashing..."

Oct. 6, 2017 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

22 Jump Street

Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill again go undercover in this frequently delightful mess.

"...behind this, including the two leads, end up giving far more than the minimum they could have gotten away..."

June 13, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

DVDanger: Crawlspace/Sightseers

This week's horror lesson: Can't stay home, don't dare risk leaving

"...penchant for murdering his tenants? And you can't get away for a road trip, because the people in the..."

Dec. 14, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

12 Years a Slave

Brutal yet elegant, Steve McQueen's latest is a beautifully rendered punch to the gut about the most shameful chapter in American history.

"...chattel. It’s the best thing Fassbender has done so far in a promising career. As Patsey, the waifish female..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Insidious: Chapter 2

All the same gang's back for this follow-up to the hit spooker.

"...intended to rattle your head and blow your soul away. It's easy enough to put nightmares on the big..."

Sept. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Victory by the People

Filibuster, parliamentary gamesmanship kill abortion bill … for now

"...more. They brought their kids. Some came from as far away as Oklahoma, a reminder that Texas’ abortion services..."

June 26, 2013 News Post by Dan Solomon

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

The titular siblings turn bounty hunters after a traumatic childhood incident with an oven.

"...sundry occasions for gore, the scares are few and far between, and its interest in the occult is perfunctory..."

Feb. 1, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Silent House

Silent House gives the game away too easily but it does have some effective shocks along the way.

"...the end horrors are telegraphed (subtly, but still) too far in advance, thereby denuding the payoff of its rightful,..."

March 9, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Crazy, Stupid, Love.

This generally appealing romantic comedy is occasionally ungainly, but its sensational cast breezily flicks away most distractions.

"...ungainly, yet its sensational cast manages to breezily flick away most distractions. Crazy, Stupid, Love. is directed by Glenn..."

July 29, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Monte Carlo

Cute-as-a-button Selena Gomez stars in this tweener mistaken-identity comedy.

"...tabloid bait), Gomez has lately been shifting her attention away from the tweener sitcom Wizards of Waverly Place, where..."

July 8, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Disappearance of Alice Creed

A kidnapping caper with only three characters and one basic location, this masterful British film ratchets up the suspense to mind-frying proportions.

"...welcome, and entirely satisfying and, as an added bonus, far and away the best genre-fan date movie of the..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Back in the Realm of the Senses and Provoking All Five

AFS Essential Cinema presents Smashing the Rules: Films of Oshima Nagisa

"...France where it could be processed and then edited, far away from the prying eyes of Japanese censors...."

Feb. 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Over the Moon About 'Over the Hills'

Previewing 'Over the Hills and Far Away'

"...Michael Orion Scott already premiered Over the Hills and Far Away, his moving documentary about autism and its impact..."

March 16, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Slumdog Millionaire

Danny Boyle's crowd-pleasing Slumdog Millionaire may be drenched in the saffron and violet palettes of its Mumbai setting, but it plays like a classic Hollywood rags-to-riches love story.

"...the traditional Holly- and Bollywood melodrama but never shies away or strays too far from the Ganges and the..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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