Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip

Call the exterminator: The tuneful rodents are back

"...king John Waters, and a subsequent joke about his dogshit-eating masterpiece Pink Flamingos? (Crickets in the theatre when that..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Tanya Tagaq Owns Fusebox Music

Inuit throat singer reanimates Nanook of the North

"...other than Aussie spitfire Courtney Barnett netted instant conversion like Tanya Tagaq, a contemporary throat singer from the Canadian..."

April 3, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Shirley Manson: Still Mysterious and Delicious

Garbage singer on the industry, Obama, and the animal kingdom

"...think I’m paranoid!” Garbage’s lush sound accompanied the Nineties like its personal soundtrack, completes with crushes, stupid girls, and..."

Oct. 2, 2012 Music Post by Margaret Moser

The Apparition

A supernatural presence is released during a college experiment.

"...Dreamlike, in the sense that it lulls you to near..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Food Truck Trails: The South Austin Trailer Bazaar

The food trailer scene is still in high gear on South Lamar

"...It seems like anyone with a specialty, a modicum of culinary talent,..."

Aug. 14, 2012 Food Post by Rachel Feit

Monster Band: Susan Tedeschi Q&A

Susan Tedeschi likes big families

"...band. Revelator, their soulful debut, recalls traveling circus acts like Delaney & Bonnie & Friends. Tomorrow, Wednesday, the 11..."

Jan. 17, 2012 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

This new chapter in the series splits the difference between kickstarter Twilight’s stylish camp and follow-up New Moon’s turgid drama, but still does not come up a winner.

"...vampire beau, Edward. The two rivals bicker and tussle like schoolboys in a sandbox over a prized toy –..."

July 2, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Armored

An armored truck robbery of $42 million is an inside job in this action film starring Matt Dillon, Laurence Fishburne, and Jean Reno.

"...aims low and scores higher than you'd think. It's like the Schlitz of caper movies – it goes down..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Maryland Mayor Sues Cops Over Botched Drug Raid

Mayor Cheye Calvo says SWAT practices must change

"...in August 2008, when officials killed the their two dogs during a botched drug raid at their home...."

June 30, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Woody Allen's newest is by no means a bad film, but it’s irrefutable evidence that Allen has aged – or cloistered – himself into irrelevance.

"...sultry Spanish painter named Juan Antonio (Bardem). It sounds like the setup for a hot, sexy mess – and..."

Aug. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Charlie Bartlett

If Ferris Bueller and Max Fischer of Rushmore joined together and had a child, their spawn would most certainly turn out something like Charlie Bartlett.

"...child, their spawn would most certainly turn out something like this movie’s titular character, Charlie Bartlett (Yelchin). This new,..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Toddler and Me

The Music Awards walk, not crawl.

"...so that something as benign as playing with the dogs fills me with guilt. Everything takes a back seat..."

Feb. 18, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

Martin Lawrence is remarkably subdued in this story about a successful professional who returns home to rural Georgia and discovers that his family still makes him feel like a petulant teenager.

"...Jenkins, a hugely successful daytime-TV “doctor” with a Jerry Springer-like talk show who returns home to rural Georgia for..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Savages

Starring Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman, this smart, funny, thoughtful, and exquisitely realized film is one of the best of the year.

"...the synopsis of this film. It’ll make it sound like something for nonmasochists to sidestep, and nothing could be..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

NFL Midseason Report

"...bad. If you think this be a blood feud, like a Yankees/Red Sox conflict, you’re wrong. Tom Brady and..."

Oct. 29, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

Molière

This ragtag biographical portrait plays something like Meet the Parents vs. Shakespeare in Love: A Farce in Three Acts.

"...on the Book of Common Prayer, running from guard dogs, and gazing longingly at his muse’s cleavage. In other..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Triad Election

When the time comes for an aging gangster godfather in Hong Kong to step down, a bloody battle for control ensues in this vivid story about thug life.

"...stylist, his action stagings more modest; a sort of workmanlike grit pervades the film – bare-bones pacing, moments of..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Arena Rock

Wranglers share hot dogs and tax brackets with their fans

"..."It's like playing football in a hockey rink," he says. That's..."

May 4, 2007 Sports Feature by Jeremy Martin

The Ultimate Gift

In this inspirational film, a deceased tycoon's will decrees that his grandson perform a series of tasks to determine if the young man is worthy of inheriting the fortune.

"...terribly predictable. Playing Jason’s love interest, Hillis (Must Love Dogs) does her best with flatly contrived material as does..."

March 16, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Austin @ Large: Wreck on the Highway

Why the dogs can't catch the toll road speed machine

"...Molasseslike, maybe. The CAMPO board simply shut down (via a..."

Sept. 17, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Under the Tuscan Sun

Bella Italia substitutes for the Caribbean in this clunky but enjoyable version of How Frances Got Her Groove Back, starring Diane Lane.

"...has a nice, mellow, almost utopian vibe, indubitably. I liked its ragtag, democratic community of outsiders – literature professors,..."

Sept. 26, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Capitol Chronicle

This year's House budget debate reads suspiciously like Catch-22.

"...were Appropriations Committee and Subcommittee members and officers -- like Vilma Luna of Corpus Christi, Sylvester Turner of Houston,..."

April 25, 2003 News Column by Michael King

A Man Apart

"...shy of seething even when he's surrounded by puppy dogs, birthday cakes, and rainbows -- and his taciturn verbal..."

April 4, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mr. Smarty Pants

"...Some Iranian clerics don't like dogs because they are considered "unclean," and some have..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Happenstance

The horoscope of a young woman (Amélie's Tautou) predicts that love is just around the corner.

"...the lives of a dozen-plus Parisians, whose smallest actions, like throwing a shoe or missing the metro, add a..."

May 3, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Kissing Jessica Stein

"...get the blood pressure up -- that's what it's like, Kissing Jessica Stein, an indie romantic comedy that never..."

March 29, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Sorority Boys

"...that their new cross-dressing comedy Sorority Boys is Some Like It Hot by way of Animal House. The truth..."

March 22, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

3000 Miles to Graceland

"...Courteney Cox, Bokeem Woodbine, David Kaye and Kevin Pollak. Like great sex, a truly great action film leaves you..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ran

Kurosawa uses Shakespeare's King Lear as a template, but in Ran Lear's three scheming daughters are sons, and the action is transposed to a mythic, dreamlike, feudal Japan. Like an adrenalized fever dream of ultimate power gone awry, Ran reveals Kurosawa's grasp of visual splendor at its most powerful.

"...the action is transposed and commingled amidst a mythic, dreamlike feudal Japan – but the Bard's influence is heavy..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

102 Dalmatians

"...the rotten archvillainess that the only thing these 102 dogs need is a little dash of mustard. Sorry …..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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