Dave Chappelle's Block Party

Although the film hasn't the distinctive fingerprints of Eternal Sunshine director Michel Gondry, Chappelle's party is nevertheless a fun blast of impromptu musicmaking, filmmaking, and comedy.

"...as a concert film, although it does feature some great performances by Erykah Badu, Mos Def, Kanye West, Dead..."

March 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postmarks

Hey, who put a vegetarian in my aquifer?

"...divided on these issues, but I haven't seen a great reason or vision that shows how old airport hangars..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Column

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...Kurtwood Smith, Wayne Knight, Maria Tucci, Holland Taylor. With great wit, humor, and style, this movie serves all America..."

Oct. 6, 1995 News Feature

Film

Film Reviews

"...The Hand That Rocks The Cradle with the hell-raising, white-trash terrors of Kalifornia. The result? A pathetically uninspired mishmash..."

Sept. 15, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...lengthy, perhaps, but much more accurate. 1.0 stars (M.S.) Great Hills, Lake Creek, Lakehills, Lincoln, Movies 12, Northcross, Roundrock..."

Sept. 1, 1995 News Feature

Peace Hotel

"...this promising prologue, which is stylishly filmed in grainy black-and-white, isn't anywhere near as confidently executed and the result..."

July 14, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Shelf Life

"...Turner. Director Paul Bartel has a talent for identifying great premises. As evidence, I offer examples like the “pound-of-flesh”..."

Nov. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Where Have All the Crypto Bros Gone?

Molly White, Web3's most visible skeptic, is busy debunking myths about tech before the next bubble

"...to SXSW featured speaker and software engineer-turned-Web3 critic Molly White...."

March 10, 2023 Features Feature by Tom Cheredar

Fair Game

The performances of Sean Penn and Naomi Watts make this film rendition of the Valerie Plame affair a study in acting.

"...Novak, acting on a tip from George W. Bush's White House, penned a column about her husband in The..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Atonement, Etc. -- Top 10-plus, Special 2002 bonus edition

Books for which we confess our true feelings, reconsider our disdain, or finally find room: top 10-plus, 2002 edition …

"...(Soft Skull) 7. Franklin Flyer by Nicholas Christopher (Dial)8. Great White Fathers: The Story of the Obsessive Quest to..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Books Feature

Book Reviews

John Taliaferro's biography of a man and a mountain

"...Great White Fathersby John Taliaferro..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Books Review by Shawn Badgley

Thirty Years on Location

An overview of the Texas Film Commission, which has been wedding film production and the state economy for 30 years.

"...a special place, if not in the pantheon of great filmmaking, then at the least in the history of..."

June 15, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

More tributes to Doug Sahm

"...and gracious and then cackled, " Goddamn man, that's great. That's just goddamn great!" and then he was back..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Column

The Watermelon Woman

An African-American lesbian filmmaker struggles entertainingly to find antecedents.

"...making a documentary film about the Watermelon Woman. With great difficulty, she begins piecing together fragments of the actress'..."

July 18, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Suture

"...by McGehee and Siegel, Suture draws inspiration from the great paranoid thrillers like Mirage and Seconds and, obviously, the..."

April 29, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Man Without a Face

"...debut in which he also stars. (Yeah right, and white men can jump, says I.) Not since Mickey Rourke..."

Aug. 27, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Black Harvest

"...from 1933 which depicts the Highlanders' first contact with white men via an Australian expedition led by a former..."

June 11, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Daughters of the Dust

"...there to work the isolated island wetlands while the white landowners stayed securely on the mainland. There developed amongst..."

Feb. 14, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Unlocking the Michael Schenker Festival

Sound pilgrim reveals the combination to his “whole story”

"...worth. Gary Barden, Graham Bonnet, Robin McAuley, and Doogie White all orbit a red-hot turbine at the center, German..."

May 16, 2019 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Upside

Remake of a true story of an unlikely friendship is the flattest version yet

"...situated in New York rather than Paris, comprises a white businessman (mais oui) and a black petty thief out..."

Jan. 18, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sipping From the Spigot, Vol. 2

The second Great Boxed-Wine Challenge, plus a very important lesson

"...several goals. First and foremost, who doesn't love a great glass of inexpensive wine? We were hoping to find..."

Nov. 18, 2011 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Off the Record

Paying tribute to Tony Campise and rolling out the red carpet for the Kashmere Stage Band and SXSW Film

"..."Kismet in Kashmere," Screens). "That was one of the great experiences of my life," Garlow beams. "Most of us..."

March 12, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Sipping From the Spigot

The time has come for the great boxed-wine challenge

"...Jim Johnson of Alamosa Wine Cellars not only makes great Texas wine; he has worked at some high-end California..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

No Dominion

A partial roll call of people who died in 2003.

"...Johnny Cash, Nina Simone, Warren Zevon, Elliott Smith, Barry White, Benny Carter, Celia Cruz, Robert Palmer, Earl King, Johnny..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Missing

Ron Howard directs Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett in tough Western drama.

"...from his family when he left the community of white settlers and "went Indian." After a couple of decades..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Beyond Borders

Donate your dollars directly to starving children instead of this Jolie adventure.

"...bonus, and that is this: Beyond Borders goes to great lengths to paint international relief workers in organizations such..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Winter Classic

South by Southwest 1998

"...too many records." Then, if you actually "make it," great, you're rich. Mattea: "I spent so many years being..."

March 27, 1998 Music Feature

Cobb

"...Scott Burkholder and Allan Mallamud. Ty Cobb was the greatest baseball player ever. Let's get that over with. Ron..."

Jan. 13, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Blue Chips

"...Shelton (the writer and director of Bull Durham and White Men Can't Jump), the story of Blue Chips explores..."

Feb. 25, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

I'll Do Anything

"...was eagerly awaited. I'll Do Anything, though, hit the white water rapids on the audience test market track and..."

Feb. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Louis Black

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