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Nine Lives
Kevin Spacey gets trapped inside the body of his family's cat
"...kitty resembles Grumpy Cat on the verge of a hairball. Obviously, there was a limited visual-effects budget. Seven lives:..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Barbershop: The Next Cut
Cutting hair and cutting up
"...with the boys in the hood and offering free haircuts and blow-dries during the 48-hour period. The film’s idealistic..."

April 22, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Hello, My Name Is Doris
Sally Field is spectacular in this gently lovesick and funny dramedy
"...and ubiquitous big bow in a messy pile-up of hair, Doris is more huggable stray than prowling cougar as..."

March 18, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Legend
Tom Hardy pulls double duty playing both the criminal Kray twins
"...(Browning), a delicate neighborhood girl who catches his eye. Hair-trigger Ronnie – he’s the one in glasses; also: certifiably..."

Nov. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Luv Doc: Forest Fires!
Blue hair is flammable. Don't let any geezer tell you different.
"...with a shaky punk? Not pretty – and blue hair is flammable. Don't let any geezer tell you different...."

Sept. 4, 2015 Column by The Luv Doc

Joke 'Stache
Danny Palumbo wins Funniest Person in Austin 2015, advances equal rights for facial hair
"...Why is this sandwich wet?") How much his facial hair may have tipped the scales in Palumbo's favor is..."

May 22, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

American Hustle
It's all about the hair, the performances, and the grift and graft in this unpredictable new offering from David O. Russell.
"...It’s all about the hair in American Hustle: a small-time con man’s elaborate comb-over;..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Where Did All Those Kids Go?
From summer 1968 to ‘One Night with Janis Joplin’ in 2013
"...boas, tight skirts, costume jewelry, floppy hats, and wild hair...."

July 31, 2013 Music Post by Charles Beard

The East
This crypto-thriller that explores moral grounds before turning gauzy is the latest film from Sound of My Voice's Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij.
"...in which she remains on American soil, dyes her hair, removes the crucifix from around her neck, and adopts..."

June 14, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Kings of Summer
This Sundance favorite is a perfect yet offbeat summer movie about teens who ditch their families and try to live like men in a ground-level treehouse in the woods.
"...like at the age of 14. Never has facial hair looked so sweet, or so heartbreaking...."

June 7, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Stand Up Guys
The film stars Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, and Alan Arkin as a trio of petty crooks who reunite postretirement to settle some old scores and rediscover the meaning of friendship.
"...old, wish to see a 72-year-old Pacino sporting spiky hair and goatee, hollering in his “Tony Montana” voice about..."

Feb. 1, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Rock of Ages
Tom Cruise playing a dissolute rock god is the main attraction of this jukebox musical.
"...be your particular cup of (P)oison, then the wall-to-wall hair metal and power balladry of Rock of Ages will..."

June 15, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Interrupters
The Hoop Dreams filmmaker, Steve James, has a new documentary about a group working to halt crime in Chicago.
"...after violence occurs. The group mediates emotions in the hair-trigger spaces between sadness, grief, anger, and deadly action, and..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Blue Valentine
Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling play a pair of lovers from first meet to last fight.
"...in this town: He's a working-class hipster with mannered hair and a goofy grin. (One critic expressed puzzlement over..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

127 Hours
An unrelenting tour de force thanks to Simon Beaufoy's clever script, Danny Boyle's inspired direction, and James Franco's amazing performance, 127 Hours is primarily an unforgettable examination of the human spirit under extreme duress.
"...Danny Boyle's 127 Hours is the calm, cool, and tear-your-hair-out exciting mirror image of Tony Scott's bland and formulaic..."

Nov. 19, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Grown Ups
Grown Ups is the latest in an ongoing series of achingly nostalgic Adam Sandler schmaltzfests.
"...has come before. All but gone is the manic, hair-trigger man-child of Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore. Sandler has..."

June 25, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

MacGruber
Here's an idea that hasn't been tried in a few years: Turn a Saturday Night Live skit into a feature film.
"...the film by SNL regular Forte) apes MacGyver's long hair and lumberjack look, but not his coolness under pressure;..."

May 28, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Yellow Handkerchief
Based on an 800-word story by Pete Hamill, this small-scale relationship drama stars William Hurt, Kristen Stewart, Maria Bello, and Eddie Redmayne.
"...Martine (Twilight’s Stewart), a pretty girl with seriously volumized hair and a habit of making bad decisions. They are..."

April 2, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Edge of Darkness
This thriller marks a middling comeback for Mad Mel Gibson
"...age lines overcast by a small sprinkling of gray hair. He seems chastened – Catholic imagery is all over..."

Jan. 29, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Up in the Air
The director of Juno and Thank You for Smoking is back with another film that is perfectly in touch with the times.
"...of both timing and tone, can feel just a hair off in the film's imperfect first and third acts...."

Dec. 18, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Paranormal Activity
Should you believe the viral marketing hype about this techno-era haunted-house movie that's been playing sold-out midnight runs? Or Marc Savlov?
"...moviegoing public that only wants to have its collective hair raised. At 96 minutes, it's at least 90 minutes..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tickled Pink
Pink moves to Dripping Springs
"...before the Music Awards in 1991 to do my hair and makeup and I was hooked. She made me..."

July 6, 2009 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Bride Wars
Best friends become enemies when a scheduling snafu places their two weddings on the same day.
"...you already know the wages of war – the blue-hair sabotage, the tanning-salon incident, the wedding-aisle throwdown – and..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Punisher: War Zone
Marvel Comics' Frank Castle again comes to the screen as a one-man vengeance machine in this stylishly violent and gory opus.
"...even mussing a single strand of his perfectly slicked-back hair. The blood and gore quotients of Punisher: War Zone..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Queens of the Realm (or Part II: The Coronation)
Ushering in a new monarchy at the United Court of Austin.
"...presides is stocked with 9' tall glamazons (not counting hair). Imagine Danny Devito channeling Harvey Fierstein while convincingly playing..."

Aug. 18, 2008 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Hell Ride
This grindhousey biker film, executive-produced by Quentin Tarantino, is a convoluted, overly snazzy-looking tale of bad blood between even worse people.
"...ongoing impersonation of a hung-over Nick Nolte on a good-hair day – pretty much fucks the distinction over. Should..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

You Don't Mess With the Zohan
As far as we know, this Adam Sandler movie is the first Hollywood-made Jewish/Palestinian/immigrant comedy that also doubles as a surprisingly trenchant analysis of the Middle East's perpetual bloodbath.
"...Zohan really wants to do is cut and style hair for Paul Mitchell. After faking his demise in an..."

June 6, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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.
"...chins, and sporting a dark mop of greasy unkempt hair, Leto does look a lot like Chapman, and God..."

April 25, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Young@Heart
Even though this documentary about a choral group of lovable octogenarians whose perform songs by Sonic Youth and the Talking Heads sounds gimmicky, it is really about something to which we can all relate: our own mortality.
"...(often tongue-in-cheek) meaning when sung by someone with gray hair and wrinkles. Young@Heart more than subtly suggests that the..."

April 18, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Married Life
This film's wonderful, amoral resignation makes Married Life so deliciously different from other period-set crime stories, and its terrific cast keeps thing percolating.
"...moral flexibility as others might accept their height or hair color, develops eyes for Harry’s mistress. Phrases like “Dear,..."

March 28, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

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