Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Police dropped charges against AISD senior Mamadee Kamara – but that didn't stop the district from acting as judge and jury

"...prosecutors dismissed the case against Kamara. But in the meantime, AISD officials had already expelled him over the matter..."

Sept. 25, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Julie & Julia

Meryl Streep is irresistible as Julia Child as is Nora Ephron's direction, but Amy Adams' Julie Powell is a dud – a mousy, grouchy irritant.

"...at least as portrayed in the film. Forget glass half-full or half-empty: The glass is very nearly brimming over..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

O'Horten

This strange little Danish gem tells the story of the aptly named Odd Horten, a man cut from his moorings when he's forced to take retirement at age 67.

"...performance by Owe as the titular train engineer (his full name is Odd Horten, which surely must be one..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest First Wave Films Announced (Finally)

Fantastic Fest 2009, Round One

"...Children ("Jabs an icicle in your eye!") and a lifetime achievement award will be presented to legendary Spanish director..."

July 13, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

A Girl Named Soo

'Never the Pretty Girl'? Surely not BettySoo!

"...to the top of her sophomore class with this beautifully crafted work produced by Gurf Morlix. Consider Heat Sin..."

June 19, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

MetroRail Progress Report

Cap Met says milestones met, but still no firm date for launch

"...and decided not to set a hard deadline this time out...."

May 13, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

Fanboys

This shaggy comedy is an earnest, sweetly geeked tribute to fandom.

"...leading up to the release, when hearts were still full of hope and geekboys everywhere told time by their..."

Feb. 6, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Changeling

Clint Eastwood directs Angelina Jolie in this Depression-era-set mystery/thriller/proto-feminist drama based on a true incident.

"...drearily sunlit details of Depression-era Los Angeles. It's a time and place simultaneously inhabited by both piquant reveries and..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Express

The story of Ernie Davis, the first African-American Heisman Trophy winner, is full of heart-pumping stadium heroics and quiet acts of dignity.

"...to become arguably the best football player of all time, one of the great social agitators in sports history,..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

AISD Takes a Tax Bite to Voters

School board hammers out a budget

"...key components: a 3% pay raise for teachers and full-time staff, continued full employee health care, $10-per-hour minimum wages..."

Aug. 29, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Song of the Shepherd’s Dog

Iron & Wine at ACL Studios

"...The last time Sam Beam took to the ACL studio stage was..."

Aug. 28, 2008 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Henry Poole Is Here

Director Mark Pellington has turned soft with this corny, redemptive, and/or inspirational tale that stars Luke Wilson.

"...patch of the film universe for himself. At the time he was a rarity: a visual stylist who was..."

Aug. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Jellyfish

This prize-winning Israeli film is set in contemporary Tel Aviv and is both a realistic and magical portrait of contemporary women.

"...the women of Israel are an amorphously yearning lot, full of indistinct desires, unfulfilled dreams, and water-based reference points...."

July 11, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Beside the Point

City's chief information officer avoids indictment, but his firing is still a mystery

"...the D.A.'s decision, "The city now will perform a full administrative review and treat this as a personnel issue."..."

July 11, 2008 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Chapter 27

Jared Leto gains weight and lets it all hang out as John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, in this fictionalized account of what occurred at the Dakota.

"...Wandering the streets of New York with a head full of voices – some benevolent, most less so –..."

April 25, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Leatherheads

George Clooney's latest (behind and in front of the camera) is awfully agreeable, but it lurches forward in fits and starts.

"...like the happy accident of some tear in the time-space continuum.) Leatherheads comes practically gift-wrapped in goodwill – it’s..."

April 4, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Shine a Light

The Rolling Stones gather no moss in this Martin Scorsese-directed concert film that's playing on both IMAX and conventional screens.

"...its rhythm section older, the media pulled the "Last Time” angle, then shrugged off Ashby’s stadium aftermath. The previous..."

April 4, 2008 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

Bringing Up Baby

Baby Dee creates magic out of life

"...Safe Inside the Day (Drag City). It's an album full of rejoice and disappointment, and it’s the story of..."

Feb. 14, 2008 Music Post by Darcie Stevens

Off the Record

The renovated Austin Music Hall breaks new ground; Brown Whörnet goes digital; and Roky Erickson rocks Austin City Limits with a little help from his friends

"...a walk-through. "I've already spent $260,000 on acceleration and overtime." O'Conner paints a promising portrait of the $8 million..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

Does It Really Pay to Work in Austin?

Workers earn less in Austin than other major cities

"...in, the figures did not include expenses, bonuses, or overtime. The headline facts were pretty clear: For many, being..."

Oct. 12, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The 11th Hour

Leonardo DiCaprio narrates this well-constructed – but oddly calm – documentary on global climate change aimed at the fence sitters, not the true believers.

"...to disallow that sitter from your home until such time?" The documentary The 11th Hour, narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Beside the Point

The budget passes, and the feathers fly

"...rhetoric, Toby. It really is not necessary. And it's painfully and embarrassingly transparent." Martinez tells BTP he didn't meet..."

Sept. 14, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Transformers

What matters most about Transformers isn't subtext (this is Michael Bay after all), but what happens when big, loud, heavy things bang into other differently colored big, loud, heavy things.

"...of Hasbro's Transformers toys. Cheap plastic compared with their sometime toy-store rivals – Mego's smaller, cooler all-metal Micronauts –..."

July 6, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Arthur and the Invisibles

Live-action/animation hybrid from Luc Besson features a host of hip vocal talent but little more.

"...had forgotten the whole terribly expensive thing by the time it was over and my burrito was ready. And..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Stomp the Yard

Although littered with clichés and shopworn manipulations, this film's intervening dance sequences are so captivating that it’s almost possible to forget you’ve seen this movie a hundred times before.

"...who that outsider might be. Anyone who’s spent any time at the movies will realize 15 minutes into Stomp..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Best Books of 2006

"...Full disclosure: I don't read for pleasure. A full-time proofreader,..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Books Feature by James Renovitch

Hollywoodland

Although Hollywoodland stokes the dying embers of uncertainty regarding the 1959 death of George Reeves, TV's Superman, it nevertheless seems that the result should be more provocative and scandalous.

"...also has some firsthand knowledge of the subject) is full of sly resonance, apart from the overt physical resemblance..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

City Budget Breakdown

The final presentation of the city's $525.3 million proposed budget for fiscal year 2007 is Friday, Aug. 31; the focus: Major Utilities and Infrastructure and Growth Management – yea haw!

"...• Adds: $515,000 for four full-time employees for faster building inspection, $308,000 to assist with..."

Sept. 1, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

World Trade Center

This is not the 9/11 film we expected from Stone, who tells the fact-based story of two individuals who somehow survived the collapse of the World Trade Center and with a remarkable economy of expressionistic detail and bombast.

"...sweep for the miniature view. Instead of conducting a full-on exploration of the innumerable facets of this national tragedy,..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kinky Boots

One man's ailing boot factory and a transvestite's need for extra-large thigh-highs become a perfect match in this British comedy about tolerance.

"...the sort at all, but if you've seen The Full Monty (or Waking Ned Devine or Calendar Girls or..."

May 19, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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