The Theory of Everything

Based on Jane Hawking's memoir about her marriage to the scientist Stephen Hawking, this film really shows what goes into a relationship.

"...The Theory of Everything delicately observes the boundless universe of love’s..."

Nov. 21, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

When the Game Stands Tall

It's all teamwork to the impediment of characterization in this sports drama based the 151-game winning streak of high school football coach Bob Ladouceur.

"...young athletes on the paramountcy of teamwork, When the Game Stands Tall may be useful viewing, but as a..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Game Developers Give Great Five

Developers get five minutes to wow a crowd of developers

"...The Austin arm of the International Game Developers Association had a brilliant idea. Developers love to..."

May 20, 2010 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Beside the Point: Game Over

How to win friends and influence budgets

"...A zero-sum game is one in which there must be a loser..."

June 22, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Delay of Game

Seaholm, Block 21 challenge the Downtown Domino theory

"...And, oh yes, in a comical game played out at the City Council presentation, Stratus' Beau..."

April 8, 2005 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Thomas Frank's 21st Century Corruption Theory

A Q&A with the author of What's the Matter With Kansas? and The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule

"...TF: People do very well in the political game there. And, you know, what's really kind of creepy..."

Aug. 15, 2008 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

The Huntress Captured by the Game

"...filled with a satisfying combination of tittle-tattle and intriguing theory. Smith posits that Diana suffered from "borderline personality," as..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Game Changer

A new football culture for Austin bars

"...It's football game day – a Saturday – and the scene is..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Food Feature by Lee Nichols

Council: The Numbers Game

Tumbling evermore into the budget

"...would substitute city sponsorship of some district programs, in theory allowing the district to lower its rate and avoid..."

May 26, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

'Sherlock' Season 3: The Game Is Back On!

But can you still keep up with all the players?

"...the intervening time trying to rip apart every possible theory for The Fall – egged on, of course, by..."

Jan. 19, 2014 Screens Post by Monica Riese

The Cable Channel Shell-Game Shuffle

The FCC is investigating Time Warner; African-American weekday news anchors are few and far between

"...an oft-repeated position by TV news managers. Under this theory, African-Americans are not taking journalism classes and pursuing TV..."

Nov. 28, 2008 News Feature by Kevin Brass

9/11 Conspiracy Theory Loaded With Contradictions

"...of holes, because this would tend to give the game away. The reports were supposed to be a cover-up..."

June 15, 2007 Postmarks

'The NFL Beat': Week 10

'Chronicle' fantasy column debuts

"...an Austin musician who has partnered with a statistical game theory expert and a frugal hired-gun jazz drummer nicknamed..."

Nov. 10, 2011 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

UT Volleyball Ignores Patrick Ewing, Thrives

Texas begins their 2010 title quest

"...Some theories are foolproof, like the theory of relativity. I have no interest with that. I..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Sports Post by Will Eidam

Now You Shouldn’t Be Scared

Del tha Funky Homosapien wakes up for ACL

"...take the cake. Oak-town’s most renowned bizarro switches the game on ACL Friday, 3:30pm on the AT&T Blue Room..."

Sept. 25, 2008 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Room 237

Pet theories about what really went down at the Overlook Hotel abound in this documentary about Stanley Kubrick's intentions in The Shining.

"...in that blurred space between textual analysis and conspiracy theory, the questions themselves can be more rewarding than the..."

April 5, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

A Beautiful Mind

"...that of an eccentric mathematics genius, whose postulations on game theory as a young academic revolutionized the field and..."

Dec. 28, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

What Women Want

"...to act more like women. At least, that's the theory espoused by toothsome Mel Gibson's new “rake-on-the-road-to-redemption” vehicle, What..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

BloodRayne

This video-game-to-movie adaptation of BloodRayne poses no threat to German filmmaker Uwe Boll's reputation as the modern-day Ed Wood.

"...Boll has delivered another in his dubious string of video-game-to-movie adaptations (see House of the Dead and Alone in..."

Jan. 6, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Waiting ...

This frequently offensive and doggedly disgusting film about working in the restaurant industry is technically inept and wholly crude.

"...rubbing foodstuffs on their genitals and playing the "penis-showing game." The elaborate rules of that game boil down to..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Souvenir

Isabelle Huppert as a musician reconsidering celebrity.

"...parked on the couch nursing an Alka-Seltzer, watching a game show on TV, when who appears on the screen?..."

March 16, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Stealth

Masterful aerial action sequences don't compensate for earthbound plot.

"...get a Mach-5 work-over in the newest big bang theory from Rob Cohen (XXX, The Fast and the Furious),..."

July 29, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Happenstance

The horoscope of a young woman (Amélie's Tautou) predicts that love is just around the corner.

"...Le Battement d'Ailes du Papillon -- refers to the theory that the flutter of a butterfly's wings can effect..."

May 3, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

An Immense World of Delight

It used to be a commonplace of moralists that man was the only creature in the animal kingdom to slaughter his own kind. But as Chronicle writer Roger Gathman points out, kind is slaughtered by kind routinely among ants, salamanders, and, as any child can tell you, guppies. The golden rule, in nature, is not "do unto others" -- it is "why waste the protein?"

"...the behavior of ants is at the heart of game theory, which mathematically models the concept of winning and..."

June 30, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Bad Manners

"...respectable Volvo People into escalating rounds of psychosexually warped game-playing that reveal them for the perverse sickos they really..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Designated Mourner

"...group of principals. Acclaimed actress Miranda Richardson (The Crying Game, Damage) and British theatre veteran David de Keyser join..."

July 25, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dear White People

This idea-packed comedy pokes holes in the notion of a post-racial America.

"...and all cultural majorities and minorities. In matters of theory and practice, Simien is the enemy of comfortable rationalization...."

Oct. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Eco: Beyond the Burlap Bag

Environmentalists ponder how to mainstream eco-culture

"...that he hopes will sway some minds. The Bay Game, developed by the University of Virginia and backed by..."

Oct. 10, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Don't All Thank Me at Once: The Lost Pop Genius of Scott Miller

Seminal pop savant uncovered

"...programmer and hardcore music nerd led his Eighties act Game Theory to college rock glory and his Nineties band..."

June 17, 2016 Music Feature by Michael Toland

22 to Think About

Austin Museum of Art shows new local art that engages the mind

"...... very Austin. Their exhibit is quite heavy in theory, both art historical and social. The artists included are..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

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