Last Train Home

This small masterpiece of documentary filmmaking offers an intimate look at the impact of China’s industrial growth.

"...a story with a million echoes. And if this sounds as though it’s a situation happening on the other..."

Oct. 29, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Off the Record

Back in the saddle at the Phoenix Saloon, Woxy pulls the plug, and the latest on the Cactus Cafe

"...wrong with the move," assures co-owner John Mascarenhas of Future Sounds, the Caifornia-based multimedia company that acquired Woxy in..."

April 2, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Babylon A.D.

Vin Diesel stars as a mercenary hired to escort a woman with a dangerous virus out of Russia.

"...takes cyberpunky storylines and places them within a post-9/11 near-future (and frequently European setting) and then merges a streetwise..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

City Unplugged

"...keep the premature infant alive. As ludicrous as it sounds, City Unplugged has a fresh, dynamic feel to it,..."

Oct. 13, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Crooklyn

"...wonderfully captures the flavor of the period, its musical sounds, and its summer vacation rhythms (though why the kids..."

May 13, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Once Upon a Time in China

"...Westernization, but also themselves and their place in the future of their country. If that sounds like a rather..."

Dec. 4, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I'd Much Rather Be With the Girls

What a box set should be:'One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found'

"...voices. One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found is a fresh take on the..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Modulations

"...there is to know about electronica past, present, and future, but the information is parceled out in such small..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Faces Places

Celebrating faces in the crowd

"...and a thoughtful meditation on the past and the future of people and their French homeland. The film is..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Summer Wars

Charming anime about families, social media, and summer love

"...the more traditional narrative tropes that underlie Summer Wars’ the-future-is-now story. Family loyalty, friendship, self-sacrifice, and puppy love are..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ghost Town

A sweet, old-fashioned kind of picture content to burrow into the quiet spaces, where boring, ordinary adults live and fitfully try to love again. Oh, and occasionally talk to dead people.

"...buried under his sneer and silly DDS mock-turtleneck smock. Sounds a little bit cookie-cutter, but if you were going..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

The film story of Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's tough road to success is so melodramatic that if it weren't real it would be laughable.

"...out of New Jack City), he meets up with future manager Bama (Howard, of Hustle & Flow) and gets..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Adventures of Pluto Nash

"...Mighty Joe Young and Tremors. The moon of the future looks like some low-rent version of the slightly skanky..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Critical Care

"...of a top-flight urban medical center. He jeopardizes the future of his promising career when he follows his penis..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mrs. Winterbourne

"...Winterbourne, an anxious-to-please romantic comedy about mistaken identity that sounds vaguely familiar. Let's see: A lonely young woman with..."

April 26, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis

White Noise

Can Don DeLillo's postmodern landmark make it to the actual future?

"...is a little too on the nose, and hyperhybridism sounds like some adverse condition of electric car owners. No..."

Dec. 9, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Time Trap

Time-bending thriller needed more, well, time

"...The (over)use of voiceover is echo-y and off; it sounds like they’re in another room. Furby is a Goonies..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Creative Control

This whip-smart comedy received Special Jury Recognition at SXSW 2015

"...loves of a handful of Brooklynites in the near future, Benjamin Dickinson’s second feature is a whip-smart comedy that..."

March 11, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Shame

Exquisite control and spasmed anguish mark the performances of Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan in this dark, NC-17-rated story about a sex addict.

"...near-climax with a well-placed gaze – and if that sounds implausible, perhaps you've not yet laid eyes on Michael..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Young Victoria

The emotions of the teenage Princess Victoria (played by Emily Blunt) are the subject of this well-made palace tale.

"...all the sullenness you would expect from a shut-in future queen fending off attack from her maman and prospective..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Terminator Salvation

Despite a couple of good action sequences, Terminator Salvation is loud, talky, and entirely lacking any sort of soul or sense of good old summer-matinee fun.

"...have the requisite hero ring to it. John Connor sounds like the name of a high school gym teacher...."

May 22, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Honeydripper

John Sayles’ new drama is about life in a destitute African-American cotton-farming town in Jim Crow-era Alabama and the music that gave the region its mythology.

"...and drink and spend money to the energizing new sounds of rock & roll. The future is electrified, but..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Quiet

The first Burnt Orange Productions joint mixes The Piano with Poison Ivy. Perhaps future generations of film scholars will embrace The Quiet as a B-movie that problematizes the oppressive gaze, but for now, it's a misfire.

"...terribly timed – despite Babbit's television pedigree – and sounds stilted and clunky instead. And all this assumes a..."

Sept. 1, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Metropolis

"...animation and computer graphics, Metropolis is set in a future world where robots and humans coexist, albeit not as..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Record Reviews

Prince Paul

"...regarded as Paul's MC equivalent. If his gun-runner role sounds phoned in on A Prince Among Thieves, perhaps it's..."

May 14, 1999 Music Review

Breaking the Waves

"...apparently for life. Despairing of his life-loving bride's dismal future as caregiver to an invalid, he rocks her world..."

Dec. 27, 1996 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Love in the Time of Twilight

"...lively jumble of cute romantic comedy, Back to the Future-inspired time-travel excitement, and a surreal, special-effects-driven gagfest: Yeung and..."

April 12, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Rude Mechanicals

The Rudes blast off for the final frontier with this year's Eye Ball

"...As many a wise wag has observed, "The future just ain't what it used to be." Those sunny..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Page Two: Lost and Found

'Tis the season when the future is used up yet then renewed by singing each morning out of each night

"...Immediately, there are the sounds of sirens, followed by fire trucks and city officials..."

April 27, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Austin Music: What We're Listening to This Week

Future Museums, Charley Crockett, Merciful Heavens, Frederico7, Eric Unusual, and Bob Schneider

"...Future Musuems' Harpoon of Sunlight..."

Sept. 17, 2021 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

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