Latter Days

A West Hollywood party boy and a Mormon missionary find love and understanding.

"...screenplay. There are lots of Big Speeches, Dickensian external mechanisms drive the plot, and the film is too long...."

March 12, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Just Another Girl On the I.R.T.

"...as it presents Chantel's life and shows her coping mechanisms and life strategies -- how she dumbs down her..."

April 16, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Luv Doc: Getting Over Someone

We're programmed to dream up worst-case scenarios as a survival mechanism

"...It's also possible that you developed coping mechanisms to help you deal with all the craziness and..."

May 24, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

Shape of Things to Come

What will the arts in Austin look like in 10 years? CreateAustin has a good idea – in fact, it has 10.

"...City Council and the community. It will also provide mechanisms for continuing advocacy, problem solving, leadership, and action. 2)..."

March 7, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...like living organisms in that they have many different mechanisms to keep themselves healthy. You can dump sludge into..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Column

Revolution: The Power to Begin

Letters at 3AM

"...(universities especially) will not teach you about the economic mechanisms that keep you in your place, nor about the..."

Oct. 27, 1995 Column

The End

End times musical doesn't go far enough

"...international community to punish Indonesian death squads through the mechanisms of theatre and eye examinations...."

Dec. 13, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Civil War

Stunning near-future drama about combat journalists

"...But for both, those defining character aspects are survival mechanisms to get the necessary job done. Garland’s script is..."

April 12, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Promised Land

Wildly ahistorical Danish epic adds an intriguing level of court intrigue and class aspiration to a familiar plot.

"...complexities, and its more mordant analyses of the arbitrary mechanisms of power, The Promised Land bears impressively bitter fruit...."

Feb. 2, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Free Chol Soo Lee

True-crime documentary reveals the depths of anti-Asian bigotry

"...seems to evade what are supposed to be the mechanisms of that justice...."

Nov. 25, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Uncharted

Video game adaptation gets away with running on star power

"...where historical objects are awash in conspiracies and secret mechanisms. Throw in a healthy dose of profanity – surprising..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Sex Sells: 40 Years of Forbidden Fruit

Terri Lynn Raridon gives Austin over to absolute pleasure

"...innovations that's come along. Also, changing the actual vibration mechanisms, from ones that are down at the base to..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Old

Beach vacation, anyone?

"...what to do with it. Through the clumsiest of mechanisms, every character is introduced by name and career because..."

July 30, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Here Today

Crystal and Haddish bond beautifully in this bittersweet comedy

"...only going to get worse, and that his coping mechanisms so far will fail. That's where Haddish's amazingly compassionate..."

May 7, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground

Austin slowly thaws out from an unprecedented – but not entirely unexpected – disaster

"...between generation and demand at all times through market mechanisms rather than regulation. Those mechanisms were swamped simultaneously by..."

Feb. 19, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

The Beach House

Terror rises like a tide in this unnerving lo-fi cosmic horror

"...Out of Space, or sound (Pontypool), and that the mechanisms of our inevitable destruction are so ubiquitous that we..."

July 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Council OK's Motel Purchase to Help Homeless

Also on the dais: parks, trains, trails, diapers

"...Council also directed staff to evaluate funding mechanisms for two new stations on the Capital MetroRail Red..."

Nov. 15, 2019 News Post by Austin Sanders

Funan

French animation gives translucent life to a family history of surviving the Khmer Rouge

"...skeletal jag of emaciation, the bitter costs of survival mechanisms like trading sex for food, the shadow of a..."

June 21, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

"Matthew Steinke: Deliriums" at Northern-Southern Gallery

Mental health disorders seldom look or sound this delightful

"...of something more humanoid than the programmed and beautiful mechanisms on display at Northern-Southern; so maybe just stick with..."

June 22, 2018 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Council: It’s Always Something

This week's City Council, courtesy of CodeNEXT

"...through the Office of the Police Monitor or other mechanisms). It's worth noting that, in management/union negotiations, concessions are..."

April 21, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Ponytrap's Robots Pound Out a Promethean Waltz at the Paramount

How do husband and wife duo Hilary & Quentin make music with robots?

"...drum, yes – but they’re not drum machines. They're servo-mechanisms of various shapes and sizes that use actual sticks..."

Jan. 20, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Crimson Peak

Guillermo del Toro goes Gothic, but falls short

"...hundreds of wide-winged black moths), whirring and clanking clockwork mechanisms, and shockingly sudden outbursts of decidedly unromantic, realistically visceral..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Earth Day Brings EnergySage to Rooftop Solar

New website promises quick solar cost analyses

"...and inverters, as well as the variety of financing mechanisms and rebates. "Each of them is making a different..."

April 17, 2015 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

DOJ Won't Review APD Tactics

Feds say Austin has tools to review its own work

"...of APD the city has "in place independent oversight mechanisms that can provide the perspective and expertise necessary for..."

Sept. 6, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Point Austin: The Reading Railroad

Mayor's search for rail funding earns cheap shot from 'Statesman'

"...and city staff would continue to consider various funding mechanisms for rail, not only for the initial investment but..."

May 10, 2013 News Column by Michael King

The Man With the Iron Fists

Wu-Tang Clan firebrand RZA branches out into directing a martial arts film.

"...forced by circumstances to fashion ever more lethal murder mechanisms for the Lion Clan, Wolf Clan, Gemini Twins, Zen..."

Nov. 9, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hugo

Martin Scorsese steps outside his comfort zone to create an effects-heavy children’s film set in France – and winds up creating one of his most splendid and personal films.

"...a Parisian train station amid the giant gears and mechanisms of the station’s numerous clocks, which he maintains and..."

Nov. 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel

Alvin, Simon, and Theodore have good reason to squeak: Girl chipmunks enter the picture.

"...spring-loaded and inhumane (I've been reviewing the various killing mechanisms of the Saw franchise for just that purpose). This..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Take

Take, with a very good performance by Minnie Driver, is a dreadfully misguided movie whose story of redemption is utterly irredeemable.

"...special-education classes and that Ana's already bare-bones economic survival mechanisms have been stretched beyond their limits. None of these..."

Aug. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Finding the Sweet Spot

For Austin's 'density bonus' development program – what's on our wish list?

"..."It was fascinating to understand the mechanisms underlying the built environment and the physical results we..."

Oct. 26, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

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