Pan

Peter Pan origin story goes off the plank

"...following 2012’s misbegotten Anna Karenina) cooks up some nifty inventions, all airborne, like the squalling Neverbird, a delirious trip..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Mood Indigo

Michel Gondry's latest presents us with an elaborate yet handmade artifice that's thoroughly charming until its color drains away.

"...Gondry’s signature homemade aesthetic perfectly animates the nutty inventions that are commonplace in this particular world: an overenthusiastic..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Although this sendoff to the young leads feels a little thin, the culmination of the Harry-and-Voldemort show more than satisfies.

"...boy wizard Harry Potter and the marvelous, sometimes macabre inventions of author J.K. Rowling, brought to such vivid life..."

July 15, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Big Man Japan

Midnight madness doesn't begin to categorize this bizarre Japanese superhero/monster movie.

"...Don King-style haircut. The baddies he faces are bizarre inventions that seem like they're somebody's hallucinogenic outpourings on bad..."

April 25, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

The second year at the Hogwarts is better than the first, but still a bit sophomoric.

"...film adaptations is the visual realization of Rowling's many-splendored inventions: the owl-mail “howler,” the Whomping Willow tree, the airborne..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

102 Dalmatians

"...and Le Pelt rank as the film's most creative inventions. Children may experience a bit of puppy love for..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Technological Vertigo

Letters at 3AM

"...we too must be very grand. Identification with our inventions has become so automatic that it's become commonplace to..."

April 17, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura

Manufacturing Innovation

Will the next big thing be a product of inspiration, perspiration, or just dumb luck?

"...many good ideas, including some of history's most celebrated inventions, start out utterly useless. The classic example is the..."

March 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

Curriculum II: America Is an Artist

Letters at 3AM

"...we adapted and honed, creating the contemporary application of inventions -- in fact, our applications became inventions in themselves,..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Column by Michael Ventura

Beau Is Afraid

Joaquin Phoenix is the understated fool in this bloated Oedipal epic

"...lacks the narrative or conceptual discipline to turn those inventions into something functional. It's rare to watch a film..."

April 21, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, February 4-10

"...AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "All things are inventions of holiness," wrote poet Mary Oliver. "Some more rascally..."

Feb. 4, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

Day Trips: History of the Frozen Margarita

We’re all going to need a frozen margarita when this is all over

"...hot Texas day are one of the grandest culinary inventions of the modern world...."

April 3, 2020 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

This is the finest Potter film yet – darker, funnier, and more epic than everything that has come before.

"...as well as any "hey, look at me!" magical inventions; Deathly Hallows is all business – taut, fraught, and..."

Nov. 19, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Meet the Robinsons

While Disney’s latest animated feature might not be a sign of the apocalypse, it’s at least a sign that Disney needs to find some decent writers.

"...by Hansen and Fry), a boy-genius orphan whose crazy inventions prevent him from getting adopted. When his latest invention..."

April 6, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

dot the i

In his English-language debut, Gael García Bernal plays one of the sides of a twisted love triangle

"...dot the I: so in love with its own inventions and convolutions that it ignores all plausibility and audience..."

June 17, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Robots

There are no great animation advance in Robots, but neither is it a return to The Ice Age.

"...city and show Big Weld one of his own inventions. Turns out he’s a bit late: Big Weld has..."

March 11, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Letters at 3AM

War is how civilizations make love, so we should be careful of the partners we choose

"...Islamic fundamentalists can only hurt us with our own inventions. We invented the jets that crashed into the twin..."

April 30, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Final Destination 2

"...died in 1970, is best remembered today for his "Inventions" cartoons, which routinely featured ludicrously complex machines performing the..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kate & Leopold

"...duke is considered a mushy-headed romantic, preferring his wacky inventions (such as a prototypical elevator) to practical notions like..."

Dec. 28, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Letters at 3AM

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein offered a metaphor for the modern age, one in which the monster is the unacknowledged dark side of the inventor or creator.

"...of the West; and his monster, the emblem of inventions that would prove uncontrollable and would spread confusion and..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Cast Away

"...the recipients. His ingenuity turns their contents into makeshift inventions. More difficult to solve are his needs for companionship,..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postmarks

First, the good news ...

"...his "Letters at 3AM," I believe his list of inventions [Oct. 15] should have begun with the light bulb..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Column

Letters at 3AM

Is "progress" an unconscious compulsion?

"...utterly altered our external world. Every one of these inventions and insights, and their resultant modes of behavior --..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Marcel Duchamp's X-ray Specs

"...Henderson in her home office surrounded by her father’s inventions. photograph by Crawford Morgan My first encounter with Universityof..."

July 16, 1999 Books Feature by Sid Moody

Cliffhanger

This tale of rock jocks caught up in a Treasury Department heist gone bad, is a great action thriller and breathtaking to look at

"...too little to do. Cliffhanger's villains are despicably vile inventions marked by callous amorality. Arch-villain Lithgow's sardonic humor and..."

June 4, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Day Trips & Beyond: May Events Roundup

Warm up for summer with frozen margs and fests around Texas

"...Goodnight Invention Convention Historic sites and museums bring together inventions in their collections from 1836 and 1929, some that..."

May 1, 2025 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

All The Pieces Fall in to Place as SXSW Adds Tetris

New titles include experimental Visions and 24 Beats Per Second

"...activist Max Roach, his creative peaks, personal struggles, and re-inventions from the Jim Crow to Civil Rights eras, from..."

Feb. 1, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

An Intermediate's Guide to Marijuana Edibles

Now is the time to bake and get baked, in the comfort of home

"...mother, but that’s not why all these new edible inventions bubble up. It’s the weed. And so, I am..."

April 20, 2020 Food Post by Alice B. Toker

Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman

Sixties Baltimore is unveiled in this new crime novel

"...Neither Tessie nor Cleo are whole-cloth inventions on Lippman's part; their stories are inspired by the..."

Jan. 3, 2020 Arts Review by Rosalind Faires

Local Designer Looks to Perfect the Modern Storage Container

Rebecca Finell’s Zip Top Kickstarter raises over $1 million

"...of a Renaissance woman. She won awards for her inventions as a young child, went on to major in..."

Nov. 1, 2018 Food Post by Melanie Laporte

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