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Page Two: Leaving It Up to Her
On Margaret Moser: Happy together, then, now, and forever
"...mouth, even as demented as I was in those days, I did realize that outrage over somebody making $35..."

June 30, 2017 Column by Louis Black

Mr. Popper's Penguins
Jim Carrey plays a man who inherits six penguins in this family film that finds the actor neither too manic nor mawkish.
"...sides of the spectrum but manages to find a happy medium – which is about right for a comedy..."

June 24, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gigantic
Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel play would-be lovers who are stymied by life and the outsized personalities of their fathers (played by Ed Asner and John Goodman).
"...scion of Asner's ’shroom-gobbling dad. Brian spends his angst-filled days selling overpriced mattresses from a shabby chic NYC loft..."

April 24, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Flushed Away
Flushed Away has a wicked, smart, and subtle sense of humor, and unlike so many kids movies these days, its characters are living, breathing parts of a small ecosystem.
"...of humor, and unlike so many kids movies these days, its characters – like the brilliant ennui-riddled French amphibious..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2005
Spike & Mike has always been a hit-or-miss program, and this year is no different, with a few genuinely brilliant pieces surrounded by examples of puerile fun and juvenile humor.
"...program this year. Gore is big, and Mondo Media’s "Happy Tree Friends" milks the severed tit of sorrow for..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Something's Gotta Give
Sure, the co-stars delight, but the script has more flab than its middle-aged lovers.
"...a heartbreaker: a moment of rare honesty in this gaffe-happy film about sex and the single girl … that..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Jerry Maguire
"...build toward, the kind of leaf-turning that signals a happy ending just around the bend and better days ahead...."

Dec. 13, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Efficiency Expert
"...out of a Never-Never-Land from the slow-paced good old days where ambition, technology, and progress take a back seat..."

Dec. 4, 1992 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

The Best Intentions
"...(who seems to be popping up all over these days -- he supplies the narration in the recent film..."

Sept. 25, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin Punk Chronicles: The Shock of the New – The Violators and the Skunks Invade Raul's
14 days after the Sex Pistols break up and mainstream media declares punk dead, Austin's scene begins at a Tejano bar on the Drag in Chapter 5, Part 1 of the "Austin Punk Chronicles"
"...gotta go!' It's music of my youth, and it's happy music, even if you're singing about revolution."..."

Aug. 5, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Swoop House’s Hospitality Honcho Has All the Luck
Stephen Shallcross carries on with Happy Foods and De Nada and more
"...its Swoop House headquarters and Supper Friends dinners and Happy Foods pivot, the Sawyer & Co. diner with its..."

Oct. 30, 2020 Food Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Spectacular Now
An outstanding cast and eloquent storytelling shape this delicate film that becomes a dark study of a budding, young alcoholic.
"...and Michael H. Weber prefaced their breakout film (500) Days of Summer with that warning, and I think it..."

Aug. 16, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Sky Blue
This gorgeously dystopian South Korean film rivals and, at times, surpasses the best of Japanese animé.
"...gorgeously dystopian South Korean film (alternately known as Wonderful Days) rivals and, at times, surpasses the best of Japanese..."

March 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Piece of Eden
"...240 acres of apple orchards that have seen better days. When patriarch Franco (Breuler), a bearded behemoth slowly going..."

July 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Return to Paradise
"...up wine, women, sun, and the requisite hash just days before they're scheduled to fly back to the States...."

Aug. 14, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Improvising Every Second
The secret history of Austin Circle of Theaters director Latifah Taormina, from Second City to the Committee and beyond
"...Show is a rather anemic affair. But in the days when the Committee made waves on it, when Carson..."

March 10, 2006 Arts Feature by Lowell Bartholomee

Loving Vincent
A lushly painted but boring story of the life of the famous artist
"...the film critic to point out that however many days or months or years you spend working on a..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Daddy's Home
Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg vie for the love of their shared family
"...up the other. Why Dusty tosses aside his gallivanting days in the hope of becoming a domestic paragon is..."

Dec. 25, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bill of the Week: Christmas Edition
Bohac wants some, er, Winter cheer in schools
"...'Twas six days before Christmas, And all through the Texas House, Not..."

Dec. 23, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Simpsons Movie
The film delivers familiar hilarity and some treats you’ll never get on the show (nudity and drunkenness) but steers shy of anything bold and new.
"...you’ll never get on the show, you’ll be a happy camper. If you’re looking for something bold and new,..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

X-Men: The Last Stand
This third outing in the franchise lays on the subtext even more heavily than its predecessors – racial, gender, and sexual politics are all over the place, as are the multiple strands of the story line.
"..."cure" that permanently supresses the gene. This is not happy news to Magneto, who, as played by McKellen, not..."

May 26, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Grandma's Boy
What's funnier than having to move back in with your parents? Why, moving in with your grandparents, of course.
"...wingnut wackiness. Produced under the banner of Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions, this mines much the same territory as..."

Jan. 13, 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.
"...camouflage and interact with the Iraqi citizenry. Nobody’s very happy: not the Iraqis or the Americans, but there’s little..."

Oct. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Schultze Gets the Blues
The life of a retired German miner and accordion player is spurred toward change by the sound of zydeco music.
"...from his daily schedule, the dowdy retiree fills his days with music (he plays the accordion), fishing, and hanging..."

March 25, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Terminal
Steven Spielberg enters his Capra period with this optimistic melting-pot tale starring pal Tom Hanks, whose underused comic instincts come to the fore.
"...(Tucci) to wait out the situation. Hours turn into days, then months, as Viktor gradually makes a place for..."

June 18, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dawn of the Dead
It's hard to keep a good zombie down
"...the living wander about dazed and confused like bipedal Happy Meals. Snyder’s director of photography, Matthew F. Leonetti, has..."

March 26, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Scorched
"...cast in the comic tradition of earlier films like Happy, Texas and Fun With Dick and Jane, movies in..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Big Trouble
"...also -- and this is high praise indeed these days -- orders of magnitude better than it has to..."

April 12, 2002 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Landline
The team behind Obvious Child is back
"...reckless affair with a cocky guy from her college days (Wittrock, all teeth and bad-boy charm), an anguished Dana..."

Aug. 4, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Don't Think Twice
In this comedy about comedy, Mike Birbiglia nails what's funny and true
"...the stage is theirs, while the rest of their days are spent laboring at the kind of dull, soul-sucking,..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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