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Aug. 15, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Mississippi Grind
Ben Mendelsohn and Ryan Reynolds co-star as gambling buddies
"...the Mutt-and-Jeff bonding between two small-time gamblers in Mississippi Grind may strike you as strange, even unbelievable. There’s the..."
Oct. 2, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Back to the Grind House
On the occasion of QT 6, an ode to the demented poetry of triple bills in iniquitous theatres
"...street was lined on both sides with movie theatres, grind houses showing double or triple bills. The audiences for..."
Sept. 16, 2005 Screens Feature by Louis Black
Better Than the Usual Grind-House Glut of Narcissism
"...8]. It is so much better than the usual grind-house glut of narcissism that passes for journalism in the..."
Sept. 11, 2006 Postmarks
Japanese Iced Coffee Might Change Your Daily Grind
Locals warm up to cold-brew trend
June 16, 2017 Food Feature by Dan Gentile
Time to Grind
What happened at this morning's Grindhouse Q&A?
"...talked up the upcoming Rodriguez-Tarantino tribute to exploitation cinema, Grindhouse. A capacity crowd in the Convention Center main theatre..."
March 11, 2007 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker
The Cinema of Possibilities
Low budget or big, the energy and imagination of the grind-house circuit is reborn in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's tribute
"...Grindhouse, as you probably know, is a celebration of a..."
April 6, 2007 Screens Feature by Louis Black
Burlesque
Burlesque bumps and grinds. And then grinds and grinds and grinds.
"...Bell, Peter Gallagher and Alan Cumming. Burlesque bumps and grinds. And then it continues to grind and grind and..."
Dec. 3, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Shock and Awesomeness
Stephen Romano puts the movies in his mind down on paper in his fake-history coffeetable book, Shock Festival
"...wearing my Chucks as the projector's beam in this grind house of my mind splashes a never-ending wash of..."
Oct. 24, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
El Tule’s Final Show and More Crucial Concerts This Week
Catch Lucinda Williams, Escuela Grind, or Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold
"...a shot of agave ATX. – Raoul Hernandez Escuela GrindMohawk, Friday 19..."
Jan. 19, 2024 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez
You Deserve an Escape This Year, to Lakeway Resort & Spa
Because you don’t have to run yourself ragged 24/7/365
"...little escape, isn’t it? An escape from the humdrum, grind-you-down, workaday world – even when (or maybe especially when)..."
Jan. 7, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
The Assistant
The film industry’s quiet complicity in #MeToo crimes placed in stark context
"...benefits and promises of a great future, the daily grind is full of tension and knowing collaboration in wrongdoing,..."
Feb. 14, 2020 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
End of Watch
This believable L.A. cop drama, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena, is from the writer of Training Day, David Ayer.
"...duty in Afghanistan. Ayer throws us into their daily grind – and at times it is, indeed, a workaday..."
Sept. 21, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Kids Are All Right
A grin-cracking great portrait of a modern American family in minor and major crises.
"...(been there, seen that). It's about the slow, inevitable grind of marriage – any kind of marriage – with..."
July 23, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Confessions of a Superhero
What does Superman do when he's not posing for snapshots with tourists in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre? This documentary about Hollywood's ultimate poseurs tells all. SXSW Film Presents
"...it's here, in this strange purgatory between the daily grind of working solely for tips from (often) skinflint tourists..."
Nov. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Page Turner
In this quiet, French revenge film, a creeping malevolence wreaks havoc on an otherwise normal bourgeois family.
"...normal bourgeois family. The woman with the axe to grind is the inscrutable Mélanie (François), who, as a child,..."
May 25, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Factotum
Charles Bukowski's Henry Chinaski is back, played by Matt Dillon in a low-key, gorgeously beery performance; it's 100-proof Bukowski, but with a decent barkeep at the helm and Lili Taylor's Jan on his arm. Factotum, for all its grim grind, is funny-serious and smart-stupid.
"...and they know it. Factotum, for all its grim grind, is funny-serious, and smart-stupid. Just like you after four..."
Sept. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
See No Evil
Former porn auteur Gregory Dark advances to making this rote exercise in slasher-film tedium.
"...culminated with the Nabokovian, borderline creepy schoolgirl bump 'n' grind of Britney Spears' Hit Me Baby One More Time...."
May 26, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Occupation: Dreamland
In this amazingly candid documentary, soldiers from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division talk about their lives and their mission in Fallujah, Iraq, in early 2004, just weeks before the full strength of the Sunni insurgency becomes apparent.
"...correspondence from the war. Occupation: Dreamland shows the daily grind: the quotidian aspect of getting up and repeating the..."
Oct. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Eating Out
Crude comedy of sexual errors falls flat.
"...love. You can almost see the cogs and flywheels grind steadily toward some sort of disastrous, mistaken sexual identity..."
May 27, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Divine Intervention
"...laugh at the horrors as the machinations of statehood grind inexorably nowhere. What else is there to do, honestly?..."
May 9, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Gabriela
"...we cared. As a slew of obvious plot machinations grind onward (so labored is the plotting you can catch..."
May 11, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Save the Last Dance
"...and teaches the straight-laced Sara how to bump and grind like the best of them, while helping her rediscover..."
Jan. 12, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
The Girl Next Door
"...Anderson look she so admires, and endures the day-to-day grind (literally) that is her newfound career and support system...."
June 23, 2000 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola
Joe the King
"...Joe Henry (Fleiss) sad-sacks his way through a daily grind that includes the occasional noncommittal beating from his drunken..."
Nov. 19, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Excess Baggage
"...hear the low, groaning UNNNNGH! as the story's gears grind to a halt. Scene after static scene ensue, all..."
Sept. 5, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith
Striptease
"...dance routines are “artier” than the standard bump and grind. In the wake of the debacle known as Showgirls,..."
July 5, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Highway Patrolman
"...police action dramas. Highway Patrolman is about the daily grind of bribery, corruption and defeated aspirations that, inch by..."
April 8, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Combination Platter
"...the clatter, bickering and jesting that punctuate the daily grind of the Szechuan Inn. Anyone who has ever waited..."
March 11, 1994 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
"...out of town. Though he retired from the weekly grind of movie reviewing a couple months ago, he agreed..."
