The Hunting Ground

Doc exposes rape culture on the university campus

"...Dick and producer Amy Ziering bring the war back home in harrowing detail. The battlefield presented here isn’t within..."

April 3, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Tale of Princess Kaguya

Stunningly beautiful, Studio Ghibli's latest animated film is a real work of art.

"...cupping the strange creature in his hands, brings her home to his wife, whereupon the tiny figure morphs into..."

Oct. 31, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bell Rings for Kinky in Agriculture Race

Former Dem governor hopeful endorses man that helped him lose in '06

"...has apparently endorsed Kinky Friedman in his party's primary run off for agriculture commissioner...."

May 7, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Somebody Up There Likes Bob Byington

The writer-director talks about his fifth feature

"...press for the movie. But it's funny that the home run for us would be to do really well..."

April 5, 2013 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Stoker

Starring Nicole Kidman, this first English-language outing of Korean fave Park Chan-wook is stylish but wanting.

"...is best known for his Vengeance Trilogy, the early-Aughties run of Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, and Lady Vengeance...."

March 22, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Welcome to the X-Men, David Marquez: Hope You Survive the Experience!

Local artist opens run on Marvel's merry mutants today

"...on Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man, and now his three issue run on All-New X-Men begins. With the comic on shelves..."

Jan. 16, 2013 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Paranormal Activity 4

Five years after the end of PA3, things are still going bump in the night.

"...into what is essentially a one-note gag that's been strung out over four distinct iterations. Sometimes a scary movie..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Billy Friedkin Kills It

Extended Q&A with the man behind 'The Exorcist,' 'French Connection'

"...how much you don’t. Obviously, those scenes could have run on and on and on, even longer. But I..."

Aug. 2, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

'Texas Baseball' Marred by Errors

Book chronicling state baseball history drops the ball

"...by erroneously stating that Yankee Roger Maris hit 60 home runs in 1961 — in sacred fact, he famously..."

June 15, 2012 Sports Post by Russ Espinoza

We P.2

Kate & Andy go on a road trip …

"...start with a setting of the scene, specifically, the homeplace. But how do you talk about a journey to..."

Jan. 10, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Long Time Coming

New Texas Rollergirls champions close out 2011 season

"...since 2003 and the Hell Marys broke their multiyear home field losing streak...."

Aug. 8, 2011 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

From the Watergate Break-in to a Broken News Media

Key players in All the President's Men reflect on what 35 years have wrought

"...Woodward and Bernstein – briefly, perhaps apocryphally, ignited a run on journalism schools. Every freshman with a reporter's notebook..."

April 15, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Red

Over-the-hill crime-fighters band together to save their own in this smirky, goofy mashup of a rom-com and action picture.

"...guard, permanently. Allied with Frank is Freeman's smooth talking, rest-home-residing Joe, Cox's bearish ex-Soviet superspy Ivan, Malkovich's justly paranoid..."

Oct. 15, 2010 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.

"...but everything following the character's return to his ancestral home and his reuniting with his equally dire paterfamilias (Hopkins,..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Fourth Kind

This pseudo-mockumentary starring Milla Jovovich echoes both The Blair Witch Project and The X-Files.

"...in her patients – and then in her own home – when various locals begin telling her about visitations..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Synecdoche, New York

Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s first venture as a director is audacious, ambitious, and amazing; it’s also intricate, self-referencing, and all-encompassing: in a word, a masterpiece.

"...a safe place for our conceptions of self to run loose and imagine the possibilities. Now, as the director..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Reputation. Image. Perception.

"...the point? Barry Bonds, and his massive frame, hits home run after home run into McCovey Cove and he’s..."

Feb. 7, 2008 Sports Post by Christopher Bond

P2

Horror overtakes a woman on level P2 of a parking garage, and the film's suspense plays on our collective unease with being alone, at night, surrounded by concrete and rebar.

"...Norman breaks bread with Janet Leigh's gal on the run, and then, of course, breaks into her cabin and..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Feel the Noise

In this overstuffed movie, an aspiring Harlem rapper finds his artistic calling and homeland pride with Puerto Rico's reggaeton.

"...advertisement for Puerto Rican pop culture: nothing to write home about but nothing to scratch your head at either...."

Oct. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Mr. Woodcock

Mr. Woodcock is funny for exactly five minutes, with the kind of subversive humor that boosted Billy Bob Thornton, but the rest is just a self-pitying, half-hearted retread.

"...commands one wheezing boy before sending him off to run laps.) One of his unfortunate charges is John Farley..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Open Season

The animated Open Season is long on manic energy and bathroom humor but short on real storytelling, emotion, and characters.

"...Kutcher); and their quest to find their way back home after being deposited deep in the woods – fighting..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Dark Water

Despite a dream cast, this Hollywood remake of a Japanese horror classic is all wet.

"...much as one of Dekkard’s bad dreams in Blade Runner. As Dahlia Williams, Academy Award-winner Connelly, who’s no stranger..."

July 15, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Secret Things

Violent French erotica about female empowerment is a turbocharged gender bender that's equal parts soft-core porn and overwrought symbolism.

"...make John Ashcroft’s head explode like a Cronenbergian scanner run amok. We’re first introduced to the doe-eyed Nathalie (Revel)..."

April 9, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Head of State

"...technically crude Head of State comes off as a home movie for the homeboys, rather than the satiric political..."

April 4, 2003 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Tuck Everlasting

"...meets a kind young boy (Jackson) who takes her home to his family in the woods. The Tucks (headed..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cats & Dogs

"...-- find their beloved bloodhound missing, they assume he's run off for good and Mrs. Brody promptly goes out..."

July 6, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Election

"...campaign for student council president -- unopposed -- she runs afoul of Broderick's civics prof, the denuded and deluded..."

May 7, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mouse Hunt

"...SKG (the K is for Jeffrey “I Used to Run Disney” Katzenberg) has at its center an evil mouse..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jewish in Austin

A Texas Jewboy Misses Home

"...the age of 16. I could have made a run at president of the San Antonio Federation of Temple..."

Dec. 27, 1996 News Feature

Cottage Industries

Eating locally never tasted so sweet

"...Sara Bircher, a stay-at-home mother of three, nuzzles her 5-month-old baby boy in..."

Nov. 25, 2011 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

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