Sundance Announces Shorts Program

Texans get the nod

"...Sundance announced its 2010 short film program yesterday, and a handful of Texans made..."

Dec. 8, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

"Bike Like U Mean it"

"...Directed by: Rusty Martin and Susan Kirr. Local filmmakers Rusty Martin and Susan..."

April 30, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

In Point of Fact

Ken Martin Provides the Essentials

"...In Fact is reported, written, and edited by Ken Martin, formerly of the Austin Business Journal. Martin recently noticed..."

Aug. 2, 1996 News Column by Chris Walters

Scanlines

Martin

"...In true Romero fashion, the first few minutes of Martin are designed to grab the audience by the short..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Screens Feature

Aiming for the Big Kill

Scott Martin on the inaccurate West in his new gunslinger flick

"...their opponent with deadly accuracy? Never happened. When Scott Martin headed to the frontier for Big Kill, he made..."

Oct. 18, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Rules Don’t Apply

Beatty's Howard Hughes film is a frantic mess

"...Starring: Warren Beatty, Lily Collins, Alden Ehrenreich, Matthew Broderick, Martin Sheen, Candice Bergen, Annette Bening, Taissa Farmiga and Haley..."

Nov. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

A Whole Lotta Lava Going On

Winter/Spring Movie Sneaks

"...B.A.P.S. D: Robert Townsend; with Halle Berry, Martin Landau, Natalie Desselle...."

Feb. 14, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

TV Eye

What's so funny about being fat? Lots, if you're Jiminy Glick.

"...to offend me. Glick is the bone-headed celebrity journalist Martin Short plays on Primetime Glick, which returns to Comedy..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

What's Love Got to Do With It?

Rom-com look at arranged marriage in contemporary Britain

"...matchmaker, a one-scene comedy character in the mold of Martin Short's outrageous turn as wedding planner Franck Eggelhoffer in..."

May 5, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Official Secrets

True story of a whistleblower who saw the lies behind the Iraq War

"...is a linear narrative without an arc. The relatively short lead-up to Gun’s surreptitious disclosure of the damning memo..."

Sept. 6, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin

An authoritative film study of the career of the Little Tramp by the esteemed journalist Richard Schickel.

"...appearance (for Mack Sennett’s Keystone Films) in the obscure short "Making a Living," but it wasn’t until his appearance..."

Dec. 19, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

What It Is to Be Human

Actor Martin Burke, now in the midst of his fifth sell-out run as David Sedaris' Little Elf in The Santaland Diaries, talks about that show's success and his career as an actor.

"...down and talk for an hour or two with Martin Burke. This accomplished actor is as funny one-on-one as..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Isle of Dogs

Wes Anderson's stop motion wonder is a tail-wagger

"...Dahl, and his lesser-known but equally charming peer, J.P. Martin. And Anderson’s story is that now trademarkable mix of..."

March 23, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Down With Love

"...and the entirely fictional persona of NASA man Zip Martin, created solely to ensnare Barbara into falling in love..."

May 16, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Alive & Kicking

"...drama, Sister My Sister) from a screenplay by playwright Martin Sherman (Bent), Alive was shot in 1995, before protease..."

Sept. 26, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The AggreGAYtor: October 8

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...awkward moment, Antonin Scalia runs his mouth, and Ricky Martin is dubiously honored. Today’s AggreGAYtor will wear you out,..."

Oct. 8, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Here Today

Crystal and Haddish bond beautifully in this bittersweet comedy

"...are Broadway successes like Crystal's autobiographical 700 Sundays and Martin Short's deliberately anti-autobiographical Fame Becomes Me, both kind-hearted looks..."

May 7, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Love, Gilda

The SNL original in all her shining joy

"...the time she fell in with the likes of Martin Short and Eugene Levy, doing Toronto productions of Godspell,..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

"...Levy, but also John Candy, Harold Ramis, Catherine O’Hara, Martin Short, and other familiar names but that never quite..."

June 20, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Chèvre (The Goat), La

"...remade in America in 1991 as Pure Luck with Martin Short...."

April 27, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Public Notice

You name it, we stood left of it.

"...Labor Day of Love include Bill Maher, Casey Kasem, Martin Short, Ed McMahon, Marcel Marceau, Brendan Fraser, Mariah Carey,..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Column by Kate X Messer

Postmarks

Short Shrift

"...reviewed in your paper. I am talking about the shorts that appeared before many of the features. Only a..."

April 3, 1998 Column

Is That a Biography in Your Pocket...?

Film Folios and Screen Prints

"...director of Madonna's Truth or Dare, Alex Keshishian, falls short of at the end of that film when he..."

March 13, 1998 Books Review

Austin Film Critics Association Announces 2023 Award Nominees

Killers of the Flower Moon, Oppenheimer lead field

"...released its list of award nominees for 2023, and Martin Scorsese's searing historical crime drama Killers of the Flower..."

Jan. 3, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips & Beyond: April Events Roundup

Seize the day ... trip

"...Steve Martin and Martin Short April 7, Sugar Land, www.smartfinancialcentre.net..."

April 5, 2017 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Film Independent Spirit Award Nominations Announced

Boyhood, Kumiko earn multiple nods

"...The Film Independent Spirit Awards – sometimes shorthanded as the indie film Oscars – just announced its..."

Nov. 25, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

September Previews

"...D: Les Mayfield; with Martin Lawrence, Luke Wilson, Dave Chappelle, William Forsythe, Peter Greene,..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Screens Feature

Ring in the HollyDaze

Holiday Movie Previews

"...Brown, Pam Grier, Pierce Brosnan, Lisa Marie, Natalie Portman, Martin Short, Rod Steiger, Paul Winfield, Danny DeVito, Tom Jones...."

Nov. 29, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Let’s Start at the Very Beginning

Great short stories, great first lines

"...10 deadline for submissions to our annual ‘Austin Chronicle’ Short Story Contest, some of you may still be staring..."

Nov. 27, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Sci-fi Writer and Austin Literary Institution Howard Waldrop Dead at 77

Author leaves incalculable legacy of work and mentorship

"...mainstay of Austin's literary scene, a leviathan of sci-fi short stories, one of the very first writers for the..."

Jan. 22, 2024 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

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