Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Girl Ultra, Nori with strings, Maxo Kream, Mudhoney, Little Mazarn, and more recommended shows

"...Girl Ultra..."

May 13, 2022 Music Column by Christina Garcia

Fantastic Fest Honors Japanese Film Master Takashi Miike

Third wave includes special tribute to the J-horror innovator

"...superstar Masaaki Yuasa (The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl, Lu Over the Wall), while horror fans will be..."

Sept. 11, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Maiden

Astounding true story of first women in professional yachting's biggest race

"...hypermasculine test of speed, endurance, and more than a little lunacy that every three years circumnavigates the globe, some..."

July 26, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Miss Bala

Drug cartel action gets an unexpectedly glamorous makeover

"...she cut her teeth in Hollywood production design (Tank Girl, Vanilla Sky), and before that she majored in architecture..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Movie Review by Danielle White

The Promise

The Armenian Genocide as seen through a love triangle

"...Yet the film and its harrowing depiction of the too-little-examined genocide of the Armenian Turks – an extermination at..."

April 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tomorrowland

Seeming more like a calculation than a flight of fancy, this adventure tale has both hits and misses

"...something more complex, a film that actually spends relatively little time in the place called Tomorrowland; most of the..."

May 22, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Vampire Academy

This month's flavor in the teen vampire continuum.

"...series of young adult novels, Vampire Academy proves, if little else, that the tween/teen market for young vamps in..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gimme Shelter

Vanessa Hudgeons stars in this bland exercise in very serious and meaningful young-adult drama.

"...wife (Szostak) and two children (a boy and a girl, of course) – in his New Jersey mansion. Fraser..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

Fun Size

Broad-stroked but often funny, this is a teen tale of a Halloween night that doesn't go according to plan.

"...on the nerd in ascension (The O.C., Chuck, Gossip Girl). Fun Size – Schwartz’s feature directorial debut, with a..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Twelve

The private-school kids on New York's Upper East Side are definitely not all right in Joel Schumacher's sordid tale of young promise gone wrong.

"...Holden Caulfield. Now they are social climbers who harbor little more ambition than a mention in the “Page Six”..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2010: Animation

This year's five nominees for the best animated short Oscar are available for viewing. This year’s five Academy Award-nominated animated shorts include “A Matter of Loaf and Death,” the latest stop-motion Claymation piece from Nick Park and Aardman; “Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty” by Nicky Phelan; “The Lady and the Reaper" by Recio García; “French Roast” by Fabrice O. Joubert; and the winning “Logorama” by the H5 collective.

"...baker, falls in love with the zaftig former poster girl for low-fat bread, the Bake-o-Lite Girl, despite the serious..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Jumper

Jumper is pretty slick, entertaining stuff about what young male teens might do if given the ability to teleport.

"...Sith lord-cum-Tiger Beat pinup, here gets to keep a girl, although not the girl (and not at the Hotel..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I is back for seconds in this melodramatic sequel that emphasizes how the Virgin Queen lusted in her heart.

"...Morton, Abbie Cornish and Rhys Ifans. Nothing sets a girl's heart racing more than having her dreamboat name a..."

Oct. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Black Dahlia

Brian De Palma returns with a new crime thriller drawn from James Ellroy's fictional account of the notorious Los Angeles murder of a would-be Hollywood starlet dubbed the Black Dahlia.

"...which makes for lots of snappy repartée but very little sense. There hasn't been a studio-produced American noir as..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Woodsman

Writer-director Nicole Kassell’s debut film is a lean drama anchored by subject matter which, although difficult, remains distantly disquieting yet never challenging.

"...12 years for his felonious conduct with a young girl. Based on a play by Steven Fechter, The Woodsman..."

Jan. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Twisted

Ashley Judd thriller is routine at best.

"...Shepard, Ashley Judd is as cute as an angry little bug and nearly as effective. With a killer coif..."

March 5, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Lizzie McGuire Movie

"...her from behind the wheel of some really sweet little Eurocars, but is Paolo as cute and nonthreatening as..."

May 9, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Hot Chick

"...Even when decked out as an 18-year-old high school girl, Rob Schneider is just as funny as he ever..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Juke Joint Madonna

Toni Price comes clean.

"...Question is, would they react like that for a girl named Luiese?..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Double Down

Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn goof around and discuss the making of Made.

"...thing receding into the distance, with a pen and little pads of paper neatly arranged at every seat...."

July 27, 2001 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Anna Bella Eema

In Anna Bella Eema three women sitting behind TV trays spin an incredible tale of a girl who builds a girl out of mud and what happens when she comes to life. And as written by Lisa D'Amour and directed by Katie Pearl, it is glorious, with a beauty and depth almost beyond language.

"...in a trailer park with her mother. Mom's a little over the edge, a recluse, hasn't stepped outside the..."

May 18, 2001 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

X-Men

"...recall, who gave Peter Parker, that spectacular spider/man, constant girl trouble and loads of post-pubescent angst to go with..."

July 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Life Again in Oz

On the 20th anniversary of the premiere of her play Ozma of Oz, Suzan Zeder revisits Frank Baum's enchanted land to turn the show into a musical and finds a part of herself there.

"...of wisdom, I chose to -- there was one little line in the book: 'Uncle Henry as you know..."

April 21, 2000 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

The Dreamlife of Angels

This gritty film won the French Cesar award as well as Best Actress awards at Cannes for its two leads.

"...(we later learn that the mother is dead, the girl in a coma) and Marie is in charge of..."

May 14, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lost & Found

"...case of “yeah, right.” You can hardly see this little blonde smarmbo carrying a bowling ball, much less a..."

April 23, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Blast From the Past

"...big blast was actually a plane crash that destroyed little other than the plane and his suburban tract home?..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Christmas Records

Celtic Christmas Iv

"...a Celtic language as Manx or Cornish. Accompanied by little more than church organ and guitar with occasional flute,..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Music Review

Mulan

"...forces. Based on an ancient Chinese legend about a girl who masquerades as a soldier to replace her frail..."

June 19, 1998 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Beware of Failing Rock

An Austin Couple Says Their Insurer Let Them Down

"...summer, bubbly, nine-year-old Ronee Larivee changed into a scared little girl who didn't want to go out of her..."

June 21, 1996 News Feature by Roseana Auten

Happy Death Day

Living your death over and over again

"...and over again, albeit with slight variations. Something a little bit too close to real life, so why would..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

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