The Brothers Bloom

Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo are cast as the best con men in the world whose current swindle involves an eccentric heiress (Rachel Weisz) in this sophomore effort by the writer/director of Brick.

"...comes with controlling the con, with controlling the story. Flash-forward 20 years, and the relationship dynamic has stayed the..."

May 29, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

What Would Jesus Buy?

The good Reverend Billy is on an agitprop mission to convince his fellow Americans that our heedless consumerism will be their spiritual undoing.

"...Troy), kicked all the money changers to the curb. Flash forward a couple of millennia to 2004, and you’ll..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Southland Tales

Six years after Donnie Darko, filmmaker Richard Kelly returns with this incomprehensible, self-indulgent mess of post-apocalyptic anxiety, political paranoia, and pop-culture references.

"...believable alternate reality. And a new star was born. Flash forward now to the fall of 2007, and suddenly..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Mr. Woodcock

Mr. Woodcock is funny for exactly five minutes, with the kind of subversive humor that boosted Billy Bob Thornton, but the rest is just a self-pitying, half-hearted retread.

"...of being overweight and unable to do a pull-up. Flash forward 13 years, and John is now a famous..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Illegal Tender

A throwback to the Eighties crime dramas and Seventies blacksploitation films, this Latino action thriller about family ties and blood feuds rarely transcends clichés.

"...new mother and sudden widow of a drug dealer. Flash-forward 21 years, and she's now living in a Connecticut..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Black Christmas

Although this horror remake isn't as suspenseful or emotionally draining as its influential 1974 predecessor, the film almost makes up for that with its overriding weirdness.

"...That same dwelling, we are informed through copious interlocking flashbacks, was once the home of dreadful Billy, a damaged..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

49 Up

This British series is one of the great achievements of the cinema, one that reveals how an observant camera plus the passage of time can capture reality.

"...the years are included as the film seems to flash forward and back through each life. Consistencies, changes, the..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Assassination of Richard Nixon

First-time director Niels Mueller tells "the mad story of a true man" in this tragic portrait of Sam Bicke, who tried to fly an airplane into the White House in 1974.

"...the average citizen would never dream of.) After this flash-forward, the film then jogs back in time, to several..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Darkness Falls

"...me if you've heard this one before, Johnny Marr. Flash forward to the Eighties, and young Kyle Walsh is..."

Jan. 24, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Serendipity

"...he'll find the book, and she'll find the bill. Flash-forward an indiscriminate number of years -- few enough so..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Unbreakable

"...Flash forward two decades: Elijah Price (Jackson, his head ensnared..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Bone Collector

"...by a falling girder from the strut work above. Flash forward four years to the present. The now-paraplegic Rhyme..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Smoke Signals

This voyage of discovery based on Sherman Alexie's novel tells a story about friendship and father-and-son knots among Couer d'Alene Indians, a tale that resonates on the reservation and off.

"...telling wildly improbable stories to anyone who will listen. Flash forward to the present: News of Arnold's death arrives,..."

July 17, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sleepers

"...brutally abused, both physically and sexually, by sadistic guards. Flash forward 15 years to when the four young men..."

Oct. 25, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Flirt

"...with surgical tape on his lip and without resolution. Flash forward to Berlin, 1994. Dwight (Ewell) must make the..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Oscar-Winning Screenwriter Revisits Milk With Austin Screening

Dustin Lance Black on the pendulum of progress

"...that we can get that pendulum of progress moving forward again for everyone, not just LGBTQ people. And that..."

May 3, 2019 Screens Post by Beth Sullivan

Cold Case

'True Detective’s missing spark

"...the two pursued the case in the mid-Nineties and flash-forwards to a current-day internal investigation of that same case...."

Jan. 12, 2014 Screens Post by Aleksander Chan

Great Scott!

"Why Not?"

"...with, collaborating in whatever way while the clock ticked forward. With Scott's era at the Dobie coming to an..."

April 16, 1999 Screens Feature

Dark Phoenix

The X-Men finally leave the silver screen with a story they already told

"...There are flashes of what made the franchise work. Turner, after stumbling..."

June 7, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival: 10 Things We Learned From the Writers of Infinity War

Marvel scribes Markus and McFeely stay spoiler-free

"...so the audience sympathizes with him – then the flashbacks kick in that show him as a technocrat douchebag..."

Nov. 1, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Art and the Arduousness

Daniel Kliewer's hypnotic moving paintings

"...idea for an artist of any kind to put forward in the first place.)..."

Nov. 25, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Changes in the Weather

As Burnt Orange cools down, UTFI heats up

"...Flash forward almost 2½ years, and the reality for The..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Reefer Madness

Anti-drug congressman turns pro-medipot lobbyist

"...Flash forward to March 2007: My, how times have changed...."

April 6, 2007 News Column by Jordan Smith

Touching All Those Hands

Remembering Boyd Vance, his life and legacy

"...involved and the risks being taken and the steps forward being made: for Boyd as an artist, for African-American..."

April 29, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Field of Dreams

Confessions of a Sensitive Jock

"...a rink closer to home, and practiced, practiced, practiced: forward, backward, sharp turns, hockey stops. I was still a..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Features Feature by Lorne Opler

A Double Shot of Wry

Author Neal Barrett, Jr.

"...Flash forward to Dallas, Texas in the Sixties where OU..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Books Feature by Mike Shea

“Music America” Exhibition Makes National Debut at LBJ Library

Exhibit details American music history through memorabilia and sound

"...release, became an anthem for the Civil Rights Movement. Flash forward to 1977 – the Bee Gees’ “Night Fever”..."

Feb. 14, 2024 Music Post by Miranda Garza

Public Notice: Echoes of History

From the 23rd Street Mural to the Police Academy, in only 50 years

"...So flash forward 50 years – a full half-century – and..."

March 31, 2023 News Column by Nick Barbaro

SXSW Film Review: Sissy

Australian horror gets bloody on a bachelorette party

"...Flash forward 10 some odd years and Cecilia randomly runs..."

March 12, 2022 Screens Post by Sarah Jane

BLK ODYSSY Caught in Ida’s Severe New Jersey Flooding

Austin band launch fundraiser for lost instruments and gear

"...show celebrating new album BLK VINTAGE, encountered the terrifying flash flooding from Hurricane Ida last night...."

Sept. 2, 2021 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

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