A Half-Life at the Movies

In the Dark No More

"...really didn't know was that this habit would morph itself into a job and, eventually, something approximating a career...."

Sept. 20, 1996 Screens Feature by Patrick Taggart

A Half-Life at the Movies

In the Dark No More

"...really didn't know was that this habit would morph itself into a job and, eventually, something approximating a career...."

Sept. 6, 1996 Screens Feature by Patrick Taggart

A Life in Fragments

The Eloquence of Betye Saar's Art Assemblages

"...artist recontextualizes found objects and fragments from her own life to tell a new story. Wandering through Women &..."

July 26, 1996 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Life on the 38th Parallel

GAINing Ground

"...GAIN fears could attract transitory tenants while driving out life-long residents, GAIN members canvassed their own neighborhood with a..."

Jan. 12, 1996 News Feature

A Week in the Life of Budget Deliberations

Divvying up the pot

"...Member Delia Garza, and D4 CM Greg Casar – itself evoking some raised eyebrows from colleagues – the CMs..."

Sept. 15, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Gifts for Life's Every Occasion: Delysia Chocolatier

Delysia engineers specialized chocolate delights

"...firm, her hobby of making chocolate truffles slowly presented itself as a possible career change. "Those first truffles were..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

The Staff of Life

"...French Bread baker Ben Wilcott's passion for baking reveals itself with every "I'm really excited about," and then he's..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

The Staff of Life

"...room temperature or warmed, it's practically a meal by itself, but it also makes a nice accompaniment for a..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Food Feature by MM Pack

The Death and Life of Free Radio

Austin microradio lived fast and died young -- can the movement live to broadcast another day?

"...At the former home of Free Radio itself, the sun is shining, but the back yard is..."

June 22, 2001 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Bicentennial Man

"...into a better robot. From here, Columbus traces the “life” of Andrew and his dealings with the family over..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Gambler

Mark Wahlberg has one of his juiciest roles ever as a creative-writing professor by day and a compulsive gambler by night.

"...to make this self-flagellating hustler believably doomstruck. To Bennett, life itself is a losing proposition...."

Dec. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Office Killer

"...and e-mail, has for many become a substitute for life itself. Job equals identity, and when that job is..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

"...in no uncertain terms, is Mr. Death, master of life itself. It's a wry joke, of course. Fred Leuchter,..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rubber

Rubber is a movie about a sentient, telekinetic, and homicidal tire on a rampage.

"...The answer to the unasked question here is: because life itself is filled with no reason. Fans of Paul..."

April 1, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The General

"...The resulting picture is as muddled and murky as life itself, “unmovielike” to an often disturbing extent. But Cahill's..."

March 5, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Luv Doc: Lucky You

How can someone who has experienced such wealth and plenitude ever hope to live a life free of tortured conscience?

"...come from pretty much opposite backgrounds, and his whole life – from fancy private school to pretty much biannual..."

Feb. 15, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

SXSW Film Review: The In Between

Intimate doc captures life, loss on the U.S.-Mexico border

"...in the moment, but they’re also the stuff of life itself. Filmmaker Robie Flores takes these small, precious moments..."

March 10, 2024 Screens Post by Alejandra Martinez

Jeremy Nail Survives Cancer, Scales Mountain

Austin Music Awards performer previews May LP live

"...these recordings will outlive me. Love and gratitude for life itself makes us appreciate the good things.” Hear it..."

Feb. 23, 2016 Music Post by William Harries Graham

SXSW Film Gets Latest Apatow, Snowpiercer Premiere

Huge lineup includes new docs on St. Vincent, Ozzy, Zappa

"...Get ready for the raunch. SXSW has established itself as the Spring festival launchpad for R-rated comedies, and..."

Jan. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Captive State

Aliens vs. Chicago. Chicago loses.

"...even right, but every so often, a film proves itself to be far better than anyone had suspected. So..."

March 22, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

A Quiet Passion

A biographical sketch of poet Emily Dickinson

"...Was Emily Dickinson’s home life – to which the poet restricted herself in the..."

May 5, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

I Love You Phillip Morris

Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor star in this tale of Texas con man Steven Russell, which walks an unsteady line between outright farce and redemptive gay love story.

"...Corone and Brennan Brown. Loosely based on the outrageous life and incarcerated times of Texan con artist Steven Jay..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gamer

Gerard Butler stars in this futuristic thriller set in a multiplayer online gaming universe.

"...third-?) person-shooter video games and The Sims or Second Life social gaming experiments have evolved into their own corresponding..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Beauty in Trouble

In this Czech film, the tumultuous marriage of a couple, who only stop quarreling for bouts of sex, faces a reckoning.

"...it, you'll feel better about your own lot in life after watching the tumultuous sexual flailings of Marcela and..."

April 3, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

Joan Plowright stars in this bittersweet yet predictable story about an aging widow's new friendships.

"...Palfrey (the regal Plowright), a 70-ish widow seeking a life where she won’t burden her emotionally absent daughter. Her..."

June 2, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Used People

"...dramady set in 1969 Queens is unquestionably charmed by itself. Unfortunately, its opinion of itself is in the minority...."

Jan. 22, 1993 Movie Review by Steve Davis

A Private War

Rosamund Pike captures war journalist Marie Colvin

"...and let him make his feature debut with the real-life story of a legendary war correspondent. The math makes..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

We the Animals

Growing up dysfunctional in this literary adaptation

"...Animals isn’t the sort of film that much concerns itself with the more usual conventions of filmmaking, such as..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

SLC Punk!

"...this goofily affecting coming-of-rage story is a story in itself (and one that I don't have room to go..."

April 30, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Fifth Element

Besson's smart editing and sly sense of humor keep this science-fiction epic from bogging down. Despite a grim storyline, the film never takes itself too seriously.

"...involving a 5,000-year-old evil that seeks to destroy all life in the universe, and specifically life on earth. The..."

May 9, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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