Film Flam: Neon, Blue Starlite, and Kiss

Movie news, Tim League, and Gene Simmons (not dueting, sadly)

"...Tom Quinn: Last year, they worked together to release Michael Moore's Where to Invade Next, and now they have..."

Jan. 20, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Split Screen: Reanimated

John Pierson's Split Screen begins streaming on FilmStruck

"...more than 20 first-time feature filmmakers, including Spike Lee, Michael Moore, Richard Linklater, and Kevin Smith...."

Dec. 9, 2016 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Luv Doc: In Favor of Waxing

There is far too much hair in the world already

"...One cautionary note, however, is that if you're going..."

Nov. 25, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

The Q&A Hole: Considering All the Different Gods Available to Humanity, How Do You Choose Which One to Believe In?

With Russell Glasser, Cristine H. Legare, David Wheeler, and more.

"...Lord, you are so big, so absolutely huge,” as Michael Palin intoned in Monty Python’s Meaning of Life. “Gosh,..."

Oct. 25, 2016 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Haskell Wexler and Taking a Stand

Editor Louis Black on the creative visionary

"...Shelton's Blaze (1989), Arthur Hiller's The Babe (1992), and Michael Moore's Canadian Bacon (1995), as well as Matewan (1987),..."

Dec. 30, 2015 Screens Post by Louis Black

Steve Stockman Finally Shuts Up

Congressman is mum about business ventures

"...money for a seemingly unfilmed documentary: TWISTED - Exposing Michael Moore ...."

Nov. 26, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

A Lot of Chatter

Things change, but Janeane Garofalo still loves to stand up on a stage and talk

"...theatre (Russian Transport), radio host (Air America), TV correspondent (Michael Moore's TV Nation). But through it all, this versatile..."

April 26, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

FF2012: 'The Conspiracy'

Who can you trust at Fantastic Fest?

"...Conspiracy succeeds, not just because it succesfuly mimics the post-Michael Moore generation of directors who love to put themselves..."

Sept. 24, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

'The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs'

Monologist Mike Daisey takes a slightly different bite of the Apple

"...normally addressed onstage. Think of Daisey as a theatrical Michael Moore, a town crier in the body of Family..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Arts Feature by Andrew Long

'Doctor Who' Watch

Recapping "Asylum of the Daleks"

"...a savior. Which is sorta like the NRA asking Michael Moore for help pamphleting...."

Sept. 2, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Sweat, Equity

How vegan doughnuts can help fix the economy

"...of a Texas-based grocery chain. She had just seen Michael Moore's 2009 documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, and was..."

June 8, 2012 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Is That a Wrap for Incentives?

Amid economic woes and a race-baiting controversy, the future of TV, video game, and film funding in Texas looks shaky

"...House-style bad light?") Lawmakers briefly batted around examples like Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, which might make Texas look bad..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

'Dialoguer' To Defend Liberty

"...etc. And who champions leftism? Marx, Nietzsche, Chomsky, Zinn, Michael Moore. Oy! And that doesn’t even include infamous leftist..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Postmarks

Corporate Free Speech

"...people forming a for-profit or nonprofit to finance a Michael Moore-style film, website, or coloring book with a political..."

Jan. 31, 2010 Postmarks

It's a Landslide ... Tie!

AFS Documentary Tour: Harvard Beats Yale 29-29

"...a good time. (He's also done camera work for Michael Moore's Roger & Me and Chris Hegedus and D.A...."

Oct. 9, 2009 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Fire Mission

Anti-war vet Casey Porter's latest mini-doc now online

"...place: The Blue Box [at] the top section of Michael Moore's site." Well, objective achieved...."

July 21, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

It Came From Down Under

Aussie films swarm SXSW 09

"...feature, he made a contemporary wartime film sans any Michael Moore politicizing. Newton tells a story of fear and..."

March 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Darcie Stevens

Appalled by Review

"...theatres, but to me it's just as legitimate as Michael Moore's movies, An Inconvenient Truth, or any other documentary...."

Nov. 30, 2008 Postmarks

Film News

Changing of the guard at SXSW Film, the Alamo Ritz gets boozy, Austin Golden Hour wants nothing to do with its namesake, and more

"...Linklater's Slacker, Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It, and Michael Moore's Roger & Me. "Austin has welcomed us so..."

April 25, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Happenings

March 27-April 3

"...HEALTH CARE FOR ALL TEXANS presents a screening of Michael Moore's Sicko, followed by a health-care panel discussion. 2:30pm...."

March 28, 2008 News Feature

War Stories

Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro collaborate to document one wounded soldier's transformation into 'anti-warrior'

"...sought, notes solicited from the likes of Elaine May, Michael Moore, and Donahue's wife, Marlo Thomas. Pity poor Colish,..."

March 14, 2008 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Dear Pillow

An 85-minute tribute to erotic confusion, the locally made Dear Pillow is both fascinated by and hostile to the absurdities of our culture's Puritanism and takes obvious joy in poking holes in them

"...Sicko: Special Edition (Weinstein Co., $29.95): Rotund rabble-rouser Michael Moore sets his sights on our failing health-care system..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Screens Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Happenings

Nov. 1-7

"...HEALTH CARE FOR ALL TEXAS hosts a screening of Michael Moore's Sicko, followed by a Q&A with Drs. Elliot..."

Nov. 2, 2007 News Feature

Page Two: Personalizing the Mythic

How a former president's understated decency and the hectic birth of rock & roll electrified Toronto screens

"...such as those one finds in the films of Michael Moore, but instead by maintaining an honest and modest..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Wallowing in the Misery of Having to Live With Other Americans

"...“progressive multiculturalism.” Savvy leftist propagandists from Noam Chomsky to Michael Moore tirelessly work to further the radical agenda; legitimizing..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Postmarks

Happenings

June 28-July 4

"...Austin chapter of the National Nurses Organizing Committee introduces Michael Moore's new exposé on U.S. health care, Sicko, and..."

June 29, 2007 News Feature

The Murder of Fred Hampton

"...time capsules of filmmakers like Alk and Gray to Michael Moore screeds and PowerPoint presentations, consider that right-wingers have..."

June 8, 2007 Screens Review by Spencer Parsons

Money for the Movies

The film production incentive bill is getting closer to being passed - but who will be excluded?

"...committee may be culturally: Sen. Kip Averitt, R-Waco, getting Michael Moore confused with Mike Myers. At least he knew..."

April 16, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: Let's Get Lost

An invocation on the eve of South by Southwest

"...forgetting where you are, only to wake up confused, unmoored, and lost – at mundane times, my grip slips...."

March 9, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Scratching the Surface

Festival films, the Austin Music Awards, and the truth about South by Southwest

"...Manufacturing Dissent turns into a very critical look at Michael Moore, from Canadian documentary filmmakers who started out intending..."

March 2, 2007 Column by Louis Black

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