Music to Chortle By

Whenever Steve Saugey and Lyova Rosanoff are at the keyboards, musical shenanigans are the natural order, especially when these two pianist-parodists are spoofing classical music through one of their Forbidden Classics programs.

"...safe, he gets assaulted by Cher's "The Way of Love"!..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Félix & Meira

A Hasidic wife and a nonreligious man find love together in Montreal

"...The logistics of love may be the universe’s most impenetrable mystery. Who’s to..."

May 29, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Loser

"...as Heckerling mocked her characters, it was obvious she loved them too. But here, the types/targets are too easy,..."

July 21, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Fall Film Previews

September

"...a young photographer who thinks he has found the love of his life. The only problem is that he's..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

The People vs. Larry Flynt

"...Directed by: Milos Forman. Starring: Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton, James Cromwell, James Carville, Crispin Glover and..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Repo! The Genetic Opera

This cyber-gothic opera set in an unsavory world of the near-future stars Sarah Brightman, Paul Sorvino, and Paris Hilton, among others.

"...sure – is a hugely ambitious affair, chock-full of love and death, hideously disfigured trickery, and foolhardy fathers who..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Daredevil

"...good yarn, punchy action sequences, and a couple of forbidden kisses – all of which Daredevil delivers mightily. In..."

Feb. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Snow Falling on Cedars

"...literary allusions), a newspaperman whose obsession with a long-ago love provides the key to the story's actions (or, more..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Goofy Movie

"...by: Kevin Lima. Starring: Rob Paulsen. Saturday morning, popcorn, forbidden soda, and a theatre only partially filled with squirming..."

April 7, 1995 Movie Review by Louis Black

The World to Come

Frontier romance speaks of a love that cannot speak the name it does not yet have

"...one. For the two pioneer women who unexpectedly become lovers in the swoony proto-feminist The World to Come, the..."

Feb. 12, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Shakespeare's R&J: Forbidden Love Again

Reviews of recent and ongoing exhibitions and performances around Austin

"...Shakespeare's R&J: Forbidden Love Again Zachary Scott Theatre Center, Whisenhunt Stage,..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Arts Review by Sarah Hepola

Hugo

Martin Scorsese steps outside his comfort zone to create an effects-heavy children’s film set in France – and winds up creating one of his most splendid and personal films.

"...lifestyle and the world of movies, which has been forbidden to her...."

Nov. 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Match Point

Unoriginal but pleasantly prosaic, Woody Allen's latest is a diverting story of crime, love, and luck that conducts itself with a refreshing absence of moral judgment and omniscience.

"...that it was filmed in England, far from his beloved Manhattan, and does not feature the multihyphenate in an..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Exhibitionism

Blood Wedding: Folk Tale Under a Glitter Moon

"...the upcoming ceremony, but inside, seething with doubt and forbidden passion. Her heart longs for a life with Leonardo,..."

April 30, 1999 Arts Review

Amor Prohibido

Selena's Crossover Dream

"...her unrealized potential. Although her music was known and loved by millions of Tejanos, other Latinos, and Latin Americans,..."

June 28, 1996 Books Feature

They're Here! Fantastic Fest Wave One Arrives

Overlord, Apostle headline fest opening salvo

"...do public shows, she doesn’t tell her fans she loves them, and she doesn’t fake her orgasms. But when..."

July 31, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Simon and the Oaks

This Swedish import is a family saga that's shaped by the looming Nazi invasion, forbidden love, and unsound decisions.

"...beats – the terror of a looming Nazi invasion, forbidden love, and the bad decisions an unhinged brain makes..."

Nov. 9, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Charlotte Gray

"...can be a glorious thing: war, valor, intrigue, star-cross'd lovers, betrayal, bursting bodices, the like. But to work, melodrama..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The English Patient

"...the film's backstory, seen in flashbacks, which chronicles the forbidden love between a brilliant, solitary royal cartographer working in..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

First Knight

"...the relationship between Lancelot and Guinevere and how their forbidden love more or less destroys the legendary King Arthur..."

July 7, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Where Sexy Meets Political

Forbidden Film Festival puts the liberty into libertine

"...The personal is political. Sexuality, doubly so. The Forbidden Film Festival launches tonight with a line up of..."

May 7, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

International Competition

Fiction Shorts

"...too-green garden, reveals that she's "dissecting the one I loved," and then continues on to tell a tale of..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Hot Movie Previews

Sneaking Into Summer

"...ADDICTED TO LOVE..."

May 23, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

"...D: Anthony Onah A young Nigerian-American financier struggles with love, family, and a prescription drug dependency as his ambitions..."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

'My First Movie: Take Two' and 'Cinema of Obsession: Erotic Fixation and Love'

Take Two is the sequel to My First Movie, a collection of interviews with now-successful directors discussing their first feature films. Sexy subject aside, Cinema of Obsession barely even manages to simmer.

"...304 pp., $26 Cinema of Obsession: Erotic Fixation and Love Gone Wrong in the Moviesby Dominique Mainon and James..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Screens Review by Josh Rosenblatt

TV Eye

Just in time for Valentine's Day -- or to celebrate it being over -- Belinda Acosta offers her take on a few modern-day dating games.

"...Shows since The Dating Game include: The Love Connection, Change of Heart, The Blame Game, Blind Date,..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

40 Songs to Make You Feel Better (or Worse) About Drinking

A sampling of drinking songs local, south of the border, and global

"...me another tequila." Mexican pop star Rubio toasts bad lovers and future successes by setting fire to a cheater's..."

July 13, 2018 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Scanlines

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

"...the absolute best in their genres. His comedies (Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, Lolita) take a look at his..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Screens Feature

The Hidden Room Theatre's The Duchess of Malfi

In staging John Webster's revenge tragedy, the company strikes a delightful balance between historical authenticity and genuine emotion

"...Hall, Hidden Room stages John Webster's 1614 drama of love and revenge with historical genuineness. In addition to live..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Arts Review by Trey Gutierrez

Mike Wallace Is Here

The 60 Minutes newsman's legacy makes headlines of its own

"...of an answer, of beneath real journalism. It's his love of celebrity – the constant in his life –..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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