Passion of Mind

"...this film was probably not a wise choice. Riding high on the praise for the unconventionality of his first..."

May 26, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Short Cuts

Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.

"...2, kicks off the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema's already notorious High Times Film Festival, featuring a triptych of bleary-eyed paeans..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Now & Then: From Frosh to Seniors

"...ethnically diverse cast, is a time when we escape high school's Orwellian regimentation only to face an even more..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Superstar

"...stretched. Though she only smells her armpits a few times and falls over a stack of chairs only once,..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Thomas Crown Affair

"...story, which, unfortunately, is murky at the best of times. Brosnan plays Thomas Crown, a phenomenally wealthy New York..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

American Pie

"...gridlock. It's as if the final print of Fast Times at Ridgemont High had been directed by the Farrelly..."

July 16, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wonder Seven

"...film full of fantastic action set-pieces: the Seven are high-octane dirtbike masters, gunslinging sharpshooters, and circus clowns all rolled..."

May 9, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Solo

"...Madden (Sadler, twitchy as always) to call in some high-powered mercenaries to “wipe him out.” While recuperating from injuries..."

Aug. 30, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Heaven's a Drag

"...first foray into solo directing (previous co-directions include Slaughter High and Living Doll) makes a valiant but ultimately uneven..."

Oct. 13, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

The Basketball Diaries

"...late Seventies, the movie clearly sets itself in contemporary times, yet in small ways it keeps sliding back and..."

April 28, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jury Duty

"...less said about this, the better. The bane of high-brow comedians everywhere stars in yet another tired, unfunny, sophomoric..."

April 14, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Brady Bunch Movie

"...Jan seems to have one foot in these perilous times. Suffering from “middle-child syndrome” and haunted by constantly bickering..."

Feb. 24, 1995 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Meteor Man

"...the gangs” is run into the ground so many times that by the time I left the theatre, I..."

Aug. 13, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Herman

"...the focus of their attention makes him uncomfortable at times. School life, as well, is no piece of cake:..."

July 2, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Actress

"...to Greta Garbo and one of that country's most highly regarded silent film stars -- is an occasionally compelling..."

March 26, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

All the Vermeers in New York

"...compose his shots and shooting with a new fine-grain, high-speed film stock, All the Vermeers is also one of..."

June 19, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tyler Mount's Broadway Success

Playbill vlog king hosts High School Musical Theatre Awards

"...When the Greater Austin High School Musical Theatre Awards begin tonight, Broadway will be..."

April 18, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

SXSW Unleashes Massive Film List

High-concept horror A Quiet Place to open fest

"...enters its second quarter-century, A Quiet Place – the high-concept horror from John Krasinski – leads today's massive announcement..."

Jan. 31, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Meet the New ATX6

Austin music export project unveils 2016 performers

"...“I was so interested to see who was going..."

June 20, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Doug Benson's Total Scam of a Life

The 411 on the 420 comedian

"...Comedian and Super High Me star Doug Benson should be God to every..."

July 2, 2014 Arts Post by Russ Espinoza

General Lee and Me

My life and dirty times as a Jam & Jelly Girl with Dino Lee & the White Trash Revue

"...up 3-foot-tall letters spelling D-I-N-O, huge penises, and an 8-foot-high vagina as part of the show...."

Oct. 26, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Luke Wilson Plays a Long and Lonely Game in 12 Mighty Orphans

The story behind the period drama about Texas' most unlikely high school football heroes

"...Harvey Nual "Rusty" Russell knew hard times. An orphan who lost his brother and some of..."

June 11, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Checking In: Country Soul Healer Charley Crockett Can Take This and Whatever’s Next

“I’ve made a career out of the most unlikely circumstances”

"...weightlessness to Charley Crockett’s country soul, a deeply Texan high lonesome made a lot less lonesome by its classic..."

July 24, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Monos

Colombian child-soldier drama is a bleak look into the cruelty of innocents

"...wild, otherworldly and very much a product of our times. A war movie that’s steadfastly anti-war, in which no..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

BlacKkKlansman

Spike Lee's wild true-life story would be a better documentary

"...most political filmmakers, but this is pure Lee, at times both scathingly satirical and trenchantly earnest. As the real..."

Aug. 10, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Baja

Kerouac-loving road trip stalls out fast.

"...better idea, and the two team up with their high school buds Lisa (Mandi) and Jessica (DeShon) to make..."

April 13, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness

Evangelical film franchise rolls into volume three.

"...later, the second film pitted a devout evangelical public high school teacher against an educational administration zealously intent upon..."

April 6, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Tillie Walden: Talking Comics

"If it was torture, I’d’ve given up by now.”

"...be at the Texas Book Festival this weekend. (For times, see below.) Until then, and after that, she’s –..."

Nov. 1, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Sunshine Superman

BASE-jumping trailblazer Carl Boenish is the subject of this doc tribute

"...people in primary-colored jumpsuits happily leaping off of various high-altitude objects, but she anchors the film with the presence..."

June 12, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Lambert & Stamp

Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp were two would-be filmmakers who wound up managing the Who

"...a storyline around a single band. That band, the High Numbers, turned out to become the Who, but when..."

May 15, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

« 1    ‹ BACK    2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11     NEXT ›    34 »