Short Cuts

"...and the adapter of The Bridges of Madison County), Living Out Loud featuring Holly Hunter, Danny DeVito, and Queen..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Saturday Night Live

Mayor Kirk Watson takes his downtown vision to the streets

"...No one has been more active or more vocal about the future of Austin's downtown than Mayor Kirk Watson...."

Oct. 2, 1998 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Ronin

"...Candidate, Seven Days in May, French Connection II) pulls out all the stops here, but ultimately Ronin is snafued..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Alamo

In this round of historical revisionism there's not much to remember except, maybe, Davy Crockett becoming a fiddler on the roof.

"...events that unfolded in 1836 San Antonio, rife with outsized characters and freighted with the full weight of Texas..."

April 9, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Two Family House

"...Perry Como, Buddy Visalo (Rispoli) is ready to move out. He's found the perfect home, a two-story house big..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Reality Bites: Looking Back at The Real World: Austin

Austin's film community shaped the reality show and vice versa

"...desperate early morning call. A group of young women living downtown were on deadline to finish a short film..."

July 22, 2024 Screens Post by Paul Stekler

Two Generations, One Art

Like twins who have grown up apart and are finally reunited, writer-performer Terry Galloway and the Austin theatre company Rude Mechanicals are creative soulmates who have at last discovered their kinship through their collaboration on Galloway's dark comedy In the House of the Moles.

"...other traits they share -- the fondness for being loud, messy, and nasty; the kick they get from throwing..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Rock Around the Biological Clock

Yes Sir, That's My Baby

"...increasingly more frequent gigs please her myriad fans, passionate about Hickman's thoughtful, pop- and rock-edged compositions. It was sweetly..."

May 7, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

"...Pet Detective. Jim Carrey (the white guy on In Living Color) mugs his way through this preposterous comedy about..."

Feb. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

My Life

"...he also makes his directorial debut in a story about an affluent public relations executive Bob (Keaton) who is..."

Nov. 19, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Alita: Battle Angel

The manga heroine comes to motion capture life

"...Centuries after a devastating war wiped out much of human civilization, survivors have gathered in the..."

Feb. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Friends With Money

Forget friends with money – how about friends with husbands, kids, mortgages, and so-called life plans? That’s the short list of differences between the depressed, single stoner, played by Jennifer Aniston, and her circle of female friends.

"...and Ty Burrell. Nicole Holofcener has made a career out of riffing on Henry Thoreau’s famous truism that “The..."

April 21, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Gerry

"...of nails on a chalkboard. Gerry is a movie about time, and textures, and living in the moment. The..."

March 21, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Heavenly Creatures

This early film by Jackson is a startling genre-bender that combines drama, comedy, fantasy, romance, and horror in a story about the friendship between two schoolgirls.

"...young schoolgirls: the shy, repressed Pauline (Lynskey) and the loud, flamboyant Juliet (Winslet). The pair instantly bond due to..."

Dec. 16, 1994 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Catching His Breath

For Performance Artist Sxip, It's All in the Breathing

"...made me want to talk to him, to find out how he came up with that music...."..."

April 11, 1997 Arts Feature

Black & White

Two Arts Groups Cross the Color Line Creatively

"...us, it's sharing a meal together." This process of living and working together to learn each others' cultural references..."

June 21, 1996 Arts Feature

CODA

Bawdy, touching and exhilarating fishing family drama takes a different look at deafness

"...Frank (Kotsur) is a fisherman trying to make a living on shrinking catches that are worth less and less,..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Jojo Rabbit

Anti-hate satire in the ruins of the Reich finds heart and humor in the chaos

"...bestie, Jojo Rabbit nonetheless braves the no-man’s-land between genuinely laugh-out-loud comic moments and the horrors of hate and succeeds,..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Wolfpack

This doc makes us privy to a family that's like none we've ever seen before

"...Side. Home-schooled and kept apart from the teeming city outside their small apartment’s windows, they’ve instead bonded together in..."

June 19, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Edge of Heaven

This Turkish film is a transgenerational, transborder microcosm of modern cultural melding.

"...humanity could be best illustrated cinematically by being as loud and fervent as possible, subtlety be damned. Now comes..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Old

Beach vacation, anyone?

"...a film. It craves enigma but then spells everything out. It is late-era M. Night Shyamalan at his most..."

July 30, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Skate Kitchen

Hybrid narrative/doc gets to the heart of NYC skater life

"...Similar in some ways to Larry Clark’s controversial youth-gone-wild flick Kids, Skate Kitchen revolves around a group of..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cabin Fever

A festival breakout shocker that twists genre conventions into a jarring battery of scares.

"...the year! Cabin Fever first screened as part of South by Southwest 2003, and although I missed the show,..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Sweep Them Out

"...a neighborhood. Now they are trying to push Leslie out of downtown. One only wonders how Mr. Watson would..."

June 4, 1999 Column

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...for the mysterious 12 Monkeys takes him in and out of various stages of madness? reality? some bizarre netherworld?..."

Jan. 5, 1996 News Feature

Kids

"...After the shockingly on-target coitus during which the practiced youth assuages his young lover's fears with hollow promises of..."

Sept. 1, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

WhatsintheMirror? Kicks Off Virtual Art Heals Festival

Four-day fest uses art to help end HIV and mental health stigma

"...off with the mission to advocate and raise awareness about HIV and mental health stigma...."

Aug. 27, 2020 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

Touching All Those Hands

Remembering Boyd Vance, his life and legacy

"...all of 23 years, and yet he knew more about playing to an audience than I ever will. The..."

April 29, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Inside the Spinning, Whirling World

"...formal structure. But it seemed that, in a conversation about Nigeria, creativity, and her work as a peformance ethnographer..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

Record Reviews

"...the best of the Seattle "grunge" bands, having put out a series of albums that grew progressively better without..."

May 1, 1998 Music Review

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