Kicking and Screaming

"...Eigeman, Carlos Jacott, Jason Wiles, Elliott Gould, Parker Posey and Cara Buono. "Twentysomething and fresh out of college" is..."

Feb. 10, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Squid and the Whale

In this expertly acted piece about the coming apart of a family of New York intellectuals, humor is served not with a smirk but with a helpless shrug.

"...Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, Halley Feiffer, William Baldwin and David Benger. The opening line lays it all out..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

At Home in the World of One's Woes, And It's a Wide, Wide World

The nitty-gritty of what speaks to us and why

"...isn’t RADIO Fight (but wouldn’t Terry Gross versus Click and Clack make a delicious kind of death match?), but..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Songwriters and Spirit Chasers

Resentments Jon Dee Graham and Stephen Bruton go mano a mano about their new albums.

"...It's not just that they're unlikely bandmates. After all, the Resentments are an unlikely band. But..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Drinking and Shrieking

This local Web site is dragging Austin clubs online and into the spotlight.

"..."There's a lot of really good bands in Austin that don't have distribution. They might have..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Cowboys and Controversy

Kyle Henry and the Texas Documentary Tour

"...a look into the world of gay rodeo competitions, and in particular the trials of rider Gene Mikulenka, a..."

May 8, 1998 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Out and About

13th Annual Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival

"...is based on the true story of Lilly Wust (and the Erica Fischer bestseller about her), the wife of..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Kicking & Screaming

Will Ferrell, Robert Duvall, and Mike Ditka all appear together in a film that sings the praises of kids soccer and caffeine addiction.

"...Duvall, Mike Ditka, Kate Walsh, Dylan McLaughlin, Josh Hutcherson and Elliot Cho. Did anybody bother to tell Richard Linklater..."

May 13, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: True Stories: Then and Now

Connecting the dots between the SIMS Foundation and a day on the set of David Byrne's sleeper hit film

"...True Stories, Sordid Confessions and Music From the Heart of the City is a..."

Nov. 18, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Kicking Television

Nels Cline sings low

"...a guitarist. He has an uncanny ability to bend and twist notes, coloring and shaping the sounds in ways..."

July 11, 2008 Music Post by Austin Powell

The Best of Enemies

Unlikely alliances grow as conversation finds common ground in this historical true-life drama

"...Ceesay, Wes Bentley, Nick Searcy, Caitlin Mehner, Bruce McGill and Gilbert Glenn Brown...."

April 5, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ghosts of Mississippi

"...James Woods, Craig T. Nelson, Susanna Thompson, Lucas Black and William H. Macy. Rob Reiner’s steadfastly upright take on..."

Jan. 10, 1997 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.

"...Directed by: David Bowers and Sam Fell. Somerset Maugham, The Third Man, Manchester United,..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Conjuring

This supernatural thriller from the director of Saw could be mistaken for The Amityville Exorcist.

"...Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Ron Livingston, Shanley Caswell, Hayley McFarland, Joey King, Mackenzie Foy, Kyla Deaver and Shannon Kook...."

July 19, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Random Hearts

"...Haysbert, Bonnie Hunt, Charles S. Dutton, Kristin Scott Thomas and Harrison Ford. Something akin to viewing dead grass not..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mr. Jealousy

"...Eigeman, Carlos Jacott, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Peter Bogdanovich, Bridget Fonda and John Lehr. A comedy of obsessive insecurity, Mr. Jealousy..."

July 10, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Marriage Story

Driver and Johansson are note perfect as a couple falling apart

"...Liotta, Alan Alda, Julie Hagerty, Merritt Wever, Wallace Shawn and Martha Kelly...."

Nov. 29, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mistress America

Greta Gerwig borrows from Holly Golightly in Noah Baumbach's new comedy

"...Matthew Shear, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Heather Lind, Michael Chernus and Cindy Cheung...."

Aug. 28, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Analyze This

"...Starring: Joe Viterelli, Chazz Palminteri, Lisa Kudrow, Billy Crystal and Robert De Niro. You don't need a psychology degree..."

March 12, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Austin @ Large: Vote, With Your Feet

This week's elections set the stage for years of citizen butt-kicking to come

"...most significant choices local voters would make all year. And yes, when I wrote that, I assumed that the..."

May 14, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

The Empire Strikes Back

Trans icon Sandy Stone receives this year's OUTsider Legacy Award

"...National transgender activist Sandy Stone, one of Austin's most underrated and influential artists,..."

Feb. 15, 2017 Arts Post by Courtney Naquin

Women on Top

The Risks and Rewards of Being a Woman In Austin's High Tech World

"...It was 1977, and Jones, a longtime Texan with the accent to prove..."

Nov. 24, 2000 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Brian Bosworth is Not Stone-Hearted

The Boz on football, drama and Stone Cold

"...Brian Bosworth wasn't looking to become a movie star, and he's still not too fond of how it happened...."

May 4, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Will Video Kill the Celluloid Star?

Most loves fade over time, and the romance of a hundred-plus years of filmmaking seems to be losing its luster as well. At least, that's what the new High Definition video vanguard, led by George Lucas and Robert Rodriguez, is saying. Is video the future of film?

"...crumbly from ill-use, the triumph of ease-of-use over tradition, and the slickly glossed sheen of better-faster beating out older-wiser-slower,..."

June 21, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Kicking and Screaming

Sure, its slacker characters incessantly dissect every little thing in circles and circles, harping on the most miniscule details of life and making the same old lame pop-culture references. But Kicking and Screaming rises above other comedies of the mid-Nineties Gen-X genre.

"...Kicking and Screaming (1995)..."

June 21, 2002 Screens Review by Henri Mazza

Kicking and Screaming

So how does it hold up, the arch back-and-forth of these kids treading water in dead-end video-store gigs and oddly affecting affairs with underage girls?

"...KICKING AND SCREAMING..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...quette, Dina Brooks, Burt Williams, Larry Maxwell, Charles Cavanaugh, Brandon Bo yce. (NR, 92 min.) Before there existed The..."

Nov. 17, 1995 News Feature

6 Underground

Michael Bay proves again that he's no James Cameron

"...Garcia-Rulfo, Corey Hawkins, Ben Hardy, Dave Franco, Lior Raz and Payman Maadi...."

Dec. 13, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Oh No, It's Mr. Bill!

Do Bill Bunch's Tactics Hurt the Springs He Loves?

"...of Austin is slowly being replaced by strip malls and asphalt...."

Oct. 18, 1996 News Feature by Alex de Marban

Beware of Failing Rock

An Austin Couple Says Their Insurer Let Them Down

"...Ronee couldn't bear to be away from home, couldn't stand to be separated from her parents, Tommy and Sheri..."

June 21, 1996 News Feature by Roseana Auten

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