High Art

"...plays Syd, a lower-echelon editor at a sleek photography magazine whose functions are really no more than that of..."

June 26, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Office Killer

"...plays Dorine Douglas, a copy editor at Constant Consumer magazine. She's the kind of longtime employee who so often..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Peach Fuzz: A Nudie Mag Stripped

In their magazine, Kelly Dugan and Laura McNairy deliver all of the skin and none of the grossness

"...out, but then you need to put out more magazines ...."..."

Feb. 23, 2018 Arts Feature by Melany Jean

This Week's Waste of Time

What makes a game a Waste of Time?

"...as a response to the lengthy New York Times Magazine article about "stupid games" (their words, not mine) like..."

April 9, 2012 Screens Post by James Renovitch

True to Its Own Terroir

Can Saveur magazine save the soul of the Texas Hill Country Wine and Food Festival?

"...the event and hoped to find a national food magazine partnership such as Food & Wine has with the..."

April 4, 2003 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Austin Makes 2024 List of Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker

City comes in at number four on MovieMaker list

"...MovieMaker magazine has confirmed once again what everyone here has known..."

Jan. 20, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Makes Moviemaker's List of Best Places for Filmmakers

But where in the rankings did it land?

"...as it comes in at number three on MovieMaker magazine's prestigious annual Best Places to Live and Work as..."

Jan. 26, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Hustlers

True crime drama gets an A-list female empowerment sheen

"...true-crime drama based on Jessica Pressler's 2015 New York Magazine article "The Hustlers at Scores," offers a conventional narrative..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Traffik

Sleazy modern exploitation falls off its poorly staked moral high ground.

"...prey like a grimy photo spread in a fetish magazine. Noble intentions, ignoble results. In a more sophisticated filmmaker’s..."

April 27, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Rebel in the Rye

The early life of J.D. Salinger is explored

"...who are largely functional, save Columbia professor and Story magazine editor Whit Burnett (a pudgy Kevin Spacey) who exerts..."

Sept. 15, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

The Glass Castle

Jeanette Walls' beloved memoir hits the big screen

"...Larson plays Jeannette, a gossip columnist at New York magazine in the late Eighties. In a powerful course correction..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

American Honey

Youths hit the road in this rambling epic

"...real conviction. The teens are a group of traveling magazine sales reps, who drive by van from city to..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Queen of Katwe

This Disney film rises above the usual underdog sports cliches

"...Queen of Katwe, the movie based on an ESPN Magazine article and book by Tim Crothers. William Wheeler wrote..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Chris Woolfrey’s Got Issues With Intellectual Property. You Can Help.

You think information really wants to be free? That view may cost us all.

"...Woolfrey’s got a new project ready to ignite, a magazine series called Right to Copy that investigates matters of..."

June 8, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Spare Parts

This movie about undocumented teens building an attention-grabbing robot stands and delivers.

"...that could. Based on an article published in Wired Magazine, it recounts the uphill climb of four undocumented high..."

Jan. 16, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

This story of a milquetoast with a wild imagination stars Ben Stiller and is as pretty as it is busy. Opens 12/25.

"...A mild-mannered Life magazine photography editor capable of astonishing feats of derring-do in..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Punk Singer

Kathleen Hanna, the ultra-charismatic co-founder of the third-wave feminist riot grrrl movement and full-on DIY icon is the subject of this documentary.

"...that resonates and inspires, despite its archival nature. Time magazine famously asked “Is Feminism Dead?” The Punk Singer's resounding..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

TV Review: 'In Vogue: The Editor’s Eye’

Storied fashion mag has a big birthday and a little hindsight

"...a documentary looking back at 120 years of Vogue magazine...."

Dec. 6, 2012 Screens Post by Anne Harris

The Sessions

A sex therapist helps a man living in an iron lung experience human intimacy; John Hawkes and Helen Hunt keep things from becoming prurient.

"...need for intimacy and human contact. Upon receiving a magazine assignment to pen an article about sex and the..."

Nov. 9, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bill W.

Bill Wilson, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, is the subject of this admiring yet enlightening documentary.

"...his efforts by no less a source than Time magazine in its list of “100 Persons of the 20th..."

July 27, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Vampires Suck

From the filmmaking team that gave us Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans comes this inevitable spoof of teen vampire movies.

"...is better than Friedberg and Seltzer's endless, bargain-basement, sub-Cracked magazine un-comedy...."

Aug. 27, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cairo Time

Patricia Clarkson gives a glorious performance in this film about a woman's unexpected discovery of love.

"...Tom McCamus and Amina Annabi. Juliette (Clarkson), a busy magazine editor, has taken a break in her schedule to..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Girl Who Played With Fire

The world's favorite bisexual, black-leathered, dragon-tatted, hog-riding hacker is back in action.

"...paramour, Mikael Blomkvist (Nyqvist), a crusading journalist at Millennium magazine and the series' co-lead. As in the source book,..."

July 16, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The End of Poverty?

This documentary argues against economic globalization and corporate imperialism.

"...already trampled to death by countless other films, books, magazine articles, and grad-student theses, The End of Poverty? is,..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Critic vs. Blogger Myth

Or: Why Critics Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Web

"...job as critic. No Depression was a landmark music magazine, responsible for defining alt.country in the 1990s and fostering..."

March 25, 2009 Music Post by Doug Freeman

FunXGayXFunXSexyMusicTimes

Comin' down South? Bi? South by?

"...ever. Just looked at the newest issue of Butt Magazine, after a riveting night of ladies night bartending at..."

March 5, 2008 Qmmunity Post by Kate Getty

Demling's First Campaign Win?

First win, or only win?

"...a brutal brodown will ensue this Saturday at Misprint Magazine's 2nd Annual Beard and Moustache contest. (Honestly, who doesn't..."

Feb. 8, 2008 News Post by Wells Dunbar

American Gangster

A sizzling cast and their director do a crackerjack job of nailing the look and feel of New York City's bad old days of internal corruption and outer rot.

"...Morton and Common. Based on Mark Jacobson's New York magazine article, American Gangster does a crackerjack job at nailing..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Trade

This drama about international sex trafficking is tremendously sincere but also brutal.

"...Door,” published in 2004 in The New York Times Magazine. Thirteen-year-old Adriana (Gaitan) gets grabbed off her new pink..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Confetti

Even if it's not quite an affair to remember all year, this BBC Films mockumentary about three wacky weddings is pleasant and enjoyably diverting.

"...of British thesps better known across the pond. Confetti magazine's two editors (Montagu and comedian Carr) launch their annual..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

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