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"...connects me to loved ones in my home and far away, and to those living only in memory now...."

April 3, 2020 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Shadow

Zhang Yimou's period martial arts drama probes the moral grays of life in a royal court

"...vast team of effects artists) which strips all color away. The effect is to create a motion watercolor of..."

May 17, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Studio 54

The rise, fall, and legacy of NYC's most famous nightclub

"...film’s promise of an inside look goes only so far, however. Matt Tyrnauer, a journalist and maker of the..."

Oct. 19, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Hater's Guide to Food During ACL Festival

Here’s where to eat if you’d like to stay far away from the melee

"...alone is enough to make me want to run far, far away from this mess. So, for my fellow..."

Oct. 4, 2018 Food Post by Emily Beyda

Blumhouse's Truth or Dare

Truth or dare? We say pass on this demonic schlock.

"...of, say, last year’s Academy Award-winning Get Out is far more mysterious than anything that happens onscreen in Blumhouse’s..."

April 13, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Death of Stalin

Russia's political upheaval rewritten as dark farce.

"...Britain’s Armando Iannucci. The Death of Stalin isn’t so far removed from the contemporary comedies that brought him international..."

March 16, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Fifty Shades Freed

Mr. and Mrs. Grey break out the whips one last time

"...from under the sink. But, you’ve made it this far, and you should take some satisfaction in that, but..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

God's Own Country

Love and lambing on the cruel, cold hills of England

"...hooves in a breech birth. The first moment of farming shown here is a dead calf, the fault of..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

High adventure and fun times in an unexpectedly entertaining sequel

"...board game turns middle America into a pulp magazine-style safari park...."

Dec. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Shape of Water

An unconventional love story from one of the best fabulists

"...African-American co-worker/best friend Zelda (Spencer), she spirits the creature away from the G-men and into the bathtub at her..."

Dec. 8, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Into The Black Hole at Other Worlds Austin

Director Gary Nelson on Disney's sci-fi epic, returning this weekend

"...Nelson cut his creative teeth far away from the wilds of outer space, in the..."

Dec. 7, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

My Friend Dahmer

A look at the adolescent life of the infamous serial killer

"...awkward kid from a dysfunctional family. Oddly, it’s got far more in common with Dazed and Confused than it..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Gimme Shelter: A Song for Margaret Moser

A stoned soul picnic of Rolling Stones for Wattser

"...& Counting Tour, whose North American leg didn’t venture farther South than that or D.C. Two years on, June..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Dunkirk

A harrowing new World War II classic

"...Dunkirk, France, just miles and a stormy English Channel away from home and salvation. Churchill, rightly foreseeing the upcoming..."

July 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

“Sean Caulfield: Landscapes: Transformed/Transfigured”

The blackness and voids in the artwork here feels like a future world laid waste, but it also feels like us

"...through a telescope and comfort ourselves that it's all far, far away. That it isn't even real. Only it..."

June 16, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Star-Lord and co. return in the popular Marvel series

"...latch on to others' emotions and take the pain away, and then there’s green-hued ass-kicker Gamora’s long lost sister..."

May 12, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

The sometime Austinite tours the U.S. for the first time since 1969

"...petrol. The roadie who lit it would stand as far away as he possibly could because when it ignited,..."

Feb. 17, 2017 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Criminal

Kevin Costner is a prisoner who is implanted with a CIA op's knowledge

"...and sociopath is implanted with the memories of a far better man. When a character’s arc hinges on parsing..."

April 22, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Darling

A woman appears to go ’round the bend in this well-done horror film

"...leads to accusations of theft. But the reality (as far as we can say that word when talking about..."

April 15, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Samba

The latest from the directors of the French hit The Intouchables

"...More of the same bourgeois pablum, it seems, with far more diminishing returns...."

Aug. 7, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Ernie Cline Gets His Game on With Armada

Novelist Ernie Cline's Eighties arcade love fuels his new sci-fi blockbuster, Armada

"...Reagan-era sci-fi franchises, much in the way his first runaway success did...."

July 31, 2015 Arts Feature by Michael Berry

The Age of Adaline

Romantic hokum, well done

"...to watch your loved ones grow old and wither away over and over again? That’s only part of the..."

April 24, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Innocence

This story about a damaged, young woman mired in the mundanities of boarding-school life is utterly bloodless.

"...Dario Argento films (chief among them Suspiria), and the far superior Ginger Snaps series – Innocence certainly has all..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: 'Devil's Pass', 'Die, Monster, Die!', 'The Whip and the Body', 'Birth of the Living Dead'

A modern shocker, two vintage terrors, and a history lesson in zombies

"...The years change, the decades fall away, but here at DVDanger towers, we're fully aware that..."

Jan. 11, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Real Housewives of Ciudad Juárez

Living double lives in the shadow of the border

"...making eyes at a good-looking customer, a 26-year-old Mexican farmworker named José. The first time José asked another store..."

Oct. 18, 2013 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

Spark: A Burning Man Story

This doc's not for burning.

"...newcomers, it’s a testament to how many people come away from the event with the feeling of having their..."

Sept. 13, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Upstream Color

Shane Carruth's film is arthouse science fiction at its most compelling yet cryptic.

"...of jump cuts, thus much of what we take away from the film may be inferred rather than the..."

April 19, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bedside Manner: Science Lesson

How I learned that I know next to nothing

"...stream of questions percolate my consciousness. Basic questions. How far away is the sun? How do we know how..."

Dec. 10, 2012 Books Post by Lauren Tucker

The Words

As an examination of the writer's world, this film offers nothing new; as a romance it's not half bad.

"...sucker for a good romance but they're few and far between these days. I'm not talking about post-ironic, meta-whatevers..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Crazy Horse

Paris' famed erotic showcase at the Crazy Horse saloon is profiled in this Frederick Wiseman documentary.

"...the perfectly sculpted, infinitely chic sensuality of the place. Far from being the Parisian equivalent of the many, often..."

March 2, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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