Hollow Man

"...cool? Well, yeah, but you wouldn't know it from Hollow Man, an effects-heavy take on that old standby that..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sleepy Hollow

"...is sent to the fog-bound upstate hamlet of Sleepy Hollow to discover the identity of a mysterious killer who..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Into the Woods at Scream Hollow

Behind the scenes at the local destination horror house

"...what lurks behind the trees at haunted attraction Scream Hollow lovely...."

Oct. 28, 2016 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

A Man Called Otto

Tom Hanks' "grumpy old man" phase stumbles with this discordant comedy about death

"...Directed by: Marc Forster. Starring: Tom Hanks, Mariana Treviño, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Rachel Keller, Truman Hanks, Juanita Jennings, Cameron Britton,..."

Jan. 6, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Amazing Spider-Man

The Amazing Spider-Meh might be a better name for this dullish retread.

"...taking over the role from Tobey Maguire, redefines the arachno-human Peter Parker as part put-upon high school mensch and..."

July 6, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Third Man Records Releases Ghost Wolves 7-inch

Austin duo pair up with Jack White’s label

"...with grindhouse themes, have joined the roster of Third Man Records. The Nashville indie label, founded by Jack White,..."

Sept. 6, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Man Writes About Woman!

Just about every story in Woodcuts of Women tells of male characters who suffer and sweat through long desert hours for the bitter perfume of sex, David Garza writes. But to label Gilb's effort at writing effectively and seductively about women an exclusively macho affair would be facile, if not plain lazy.

"...get the impression that the author is a macho man's man. Just about every story in Woodcuts of Women,..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Books Feature by David Garza

Somewhere

Filmmaker Sofia Coppola makes a dreamy, beautifully shot statement about the slow-burning dread of a truly hollow man, but Somewhere lacks the dry humor of Lost in Translation.

"...Starring: Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning, Chris Pontius and Lala Sloatman. Oh, the ennui. In Somewhere, it's so thick you..."

Jan. 21, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Félix & Meira

A Hasidic wife and a nonreligious man find love together in Montreal

"...Canadian film Félix and Meira, which recounts the unlikely romance between a rebellious young wife and mother (Yaron) in..."

May 29, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

In Stereo

Indie romantic comedy doesn't resonate

"...Directed by: Mel Rodriguez III. Starring: Micah Hauptman, Beau Garrett, Melissa Bolona, Kieran Campion, Mario Cantone, Maggie..."

July 3, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Last Butterfly

"...this relentlessly depressing -- albeit powerful -- film which manages to weave together mime, Nazis, and the story of..."

Aug. 13, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Cell

"...and The Cell, his cinematic version of a pretty hollow Christmas, is chock-full of bright eye candy in place..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Separation, La

"...but for what it doesn't. Who is the other man? Why, exactly, has Anne strayed from home base? What's..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Words and Pictures

The story is rather creaky, but who cares when the actors Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche are so sublime together?

"...Clive Owen, Juliette Binoche, Valerie Tian, Bruce Davison, Amy Brenneman, Navid Negahban, Adam DiMarco and Christian Scheider...."

June 6, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jimmy Hollywood

"...a string of successes with Good Morning, Vietnam, Rain Man, and Bugsy, he fizzled with the outmoded, Seventies-flashback Toys..."

April 1, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Once Upon a Time in China

"...his outrageous exploits so far), who, along with his many disciples (and it seems as though nearly everyone in..."

Dec. 4, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kong: Skull Island

The big ape is back

"...Starring: Brie Larson, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, John Goodman, Tian Jing, John Ortiz and John C. Reilly...."

March 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Wolfman

This monster reboot disappoints terribly, making up in blood and entrails what it lacks in heart and soul.

"...director Johnston doesn't feel a little bit like The Wolfman's hirsute lycanthrope, the moon-bedeviled Lawrence Talbot. While not under..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In the Valley of Elah

Paul Haggis and Tommy Lee Jones deliver a scorching film that's part police procedural, part family melodrama, and all about our national failures in Iraq.

"...What matters is that the boy has become the man his military father made him, and he’s now gone..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Lord of War

Gattaca writer-director Andrew Niccol shines his usual cynicism on the subject of gunrunning in his new film, a strange amalgam of compelling visuals and fascinating vocational details forged with deep moral ambivalence and often hollow didacticism.

"...and S1mOne (as well as the writer of The Truman Show and The Terminal), shines his usual cynicism on..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Suicide Kings

"...stock in trade over the years. Leary, as Barrett's right-hand-man Lono Vecchio, manages to inject some fiery rage into..."

April 24, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Star Trek: First Contact

"...One,” First Contact is what you might expect from Commander Will Riker (Frakes): action, action, chat, action. Not in..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

True Lies

After Terminator, Schwarzenegger and Cameron worked together again on this odd mixture of chockablock action movie and restive romantic comedy.

"...defense,” the shadowy Omega Sector. With the assistance of right-hand-man Gib (Tom Arnold, laying to rest once and for..."

July 22, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mimic

"...those Big Apple subways. First giant alligators, then cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers, and now giant, man-eating roaches -- with..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

About Schmidt

"...Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Kathy Bates, Dermot Mulroney, Howard Hessman and June Squibb. At the age of 66, Warren..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

1917

World War I drama shows heroism in saving, not taking, lives

"...Directed by: Sam Mendes. Starring: George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Andrew Scott, Colin Firth, Claire..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

What's the Buzz?

Guide to Summer Films

"...genre traditionally takes a back seat to everything save romance novels at your local Barnes & Noble, and its..."

May 26, 2000 Screens Feature by Marcel Meyer

The Fast and the Furious

"...it. The plot, courtesy of screenwriter Gary Scott Thompson (Hollow Man), is a flimsy thing from which all manner..."

June 22, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Total Recall

This futuristic science fiction is based on a Philip K. Dick short story, and features award-winning special effects (and, no, we don't mean Ah-nuld).

"...effects. It should provide the perfect warm-up to Verhoeven’s Hollow Man, due later this summer, and wash out the..."

July 5, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Beyond the Horizon with Denny Freeman

Austin lodestar offered the theories of life through a guitar

"...Every time Denny Freeman picked up his guitar, whether a lean and mean..."

April 27, 2021 Music Post by Bill Bentley

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