Mother

Bong Joon-ho, the South Korean director of The Host, is back with an exquisitely rendered murder mystery fraught with psychological suspense.

"...proving himself to be an international master. Though with Mother, he strays from the popular horror fantasies on view..."

March 26, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mother Night

"...flag: That's the viewer's initiation into the world of Mother Night, the new film rendition of the 1961 Kurt..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

P.S. I Love You

Academy Award-winner Hilary Swank needs to call her agent before getting involved in any more romantic codswallop like this.

"...Dark Victory while acting and keeping house, as her mother notes, like a mad Miss Havisham. This sudden dashing..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Food of Love

"...from David Leavitt’s novel The Page Turner, Food of Love dips its toes – albeit ever so gently –..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

A Tale of Love and Darkness

Natalie Portman adapts Amos Oz's acclaimed memoir

"...from Amos Oz’s bestselling 2002 memoir, A Tale of Love and Darkness, the narrative ostensibly flows from Oz’s childhood..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mother's Day

The movie is a moneymaking contrivance, just like the holiday itself

"...Diaries. Lately, however, Marshall has fixated on holiday anthologies: Mother’s Day is the third one he’s directed this decade,..."

April 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Silent Love

A Mexican and Canadian production, A Silent Love puts an unusual spin on some of the clichés of the romantic comedy.

"...Peter Kosaka. A Mexican and Canadian production, A Silent Love puts an unusual spin on some of the clichés..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mother and Child

Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, and Kerry Washington lead a wonderful ensemble cast in this muzzy look into the rigors of adoption.

"...Amy Brenneman, David Ramsey and Elizabeth Peña. If the mother-child bond is the core human relationship, then this movie..."

June 18, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

My Mother Likes Women

In this mildly daffy Spanish import, a woman's grown daughters react to the news that their mother has taken a woman lover 20 years younger than she.

"...grown daughters – not only has she taken a lover, but the lover is a woman, and 20 years..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Love Liza

"...often feel, the left-behind, left-out, left-in-the-cold feeling that uncomprehending loved ones must endure. How could we not know? How..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Recommended Mother's Day Events in Austin

Celebrate that special maternal figure in your life

"...It's that time of year when we honor the mothers in our lives – whether or not they be..."

May 9, 2018 Chron Events Post by Danielle White

Review: A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder

Tony-winning musical serves pure stage magic & killer hilarity

"...and the perfect setting for A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, which asks us to look at both..."

March 22, 2018 Arts Post by Shanon Weaver

I Am Love

Tilda Swinton brings a haunting mix of ethereality and carnal gravitas to this fearlessly melodramatic Italian movie, which she also co-produced.

"...being Russian," explains Emma Recchi, the austere, well-heeled wife, mother, and woman at the center of this swirling and..."

July 2, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rich in Love

"...class one day to find a note from her mother declaring that she's left to start a new life...."

March 26, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Chef in Love

"...Germany, Belgium, and Ukraine, the much-lauded A Chef in Love is truly a labor d'amour, gastronomical and otherwise. Spanning..."

June 6, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Seven New Mother’s Day Dining Options

Because nothing’s too good for that maternal unit of yours, right?

"...list of seven more Austin restaurants serving up the Mother’s Day delivery and to-go options with taste and style...."

May 7, 2020 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Love

Gaspar Noé does the impossible: He gives us a boring, 3-D sex odyssey

"...new film would be a long-gestating dream project involving lovers engaged in unsimulated sex and shot in 3-D, my..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

I Love You Phillip Morris

Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor star in this tale of Texas con man Steven Russell, which walks an unsteady line between outright farce and redemptive gay love story.

"...times of Texan con artist Steven Jay Russell, I Love You Phillip Morris is every bit as strange as..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mother Falcon’s Still Life

Austin's animal collective

"...There’s nothing static about Mother Falcon’s Still Life EP, not when upwards of 14..."

Feb. 15, 2010 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Love Me if You Dare

Love and malice, as only the French can do it.

"...Lebas-Joly. In its native France, the title of this obsessive-love import, Jeux d’Enfants, translates to a very cheeky "child’s..."

June 11, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Mad Love

"...catalyzed by Philip's philandering and the death of Joan's mother, Isabella of Castile. Meanwhile, Philip and his Flemish toadies..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Big Bad Love

"...drifts through midday reveries and pines for his lost love … Haven't we seen this one before? Yes and..."

April 19, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Mother and the Whore

"...the most popular and successful of Eustache's films, The Mother and the Whore was a revelation when first released...."

April 4, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Love, Gilda

The SNL original in all her shining joy

"...and her life were an impeccable combination of a love of life and precise comic timing. There are beings..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Hounds of Love

A deft reimagination of the serial-killer genre

"...teenage Vicki (Cummings) has disappeared overnight from her divorced mother’s home...."

May 12, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Thomas in Love

"...the main character's computer screen, the Belgian Thomas in Love is amazingly interesting stuff. Set in the near future,..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mother Falcon Tour Video

A bird’s-eye-view of Austin’s indie orchestra on the fly

"...“This past June, Mother Falcon drove over 7,500 miles through the midwest and..."

Aug. 25, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

A Lot Like Love

This Ashton Kutcher/Amanda Peet romance film is a lot like mediocrity.

"...Penn, Taryn Manning and Gabriel Mann. A Lot Like Love takes place over the course of seven years, but..."

April 22, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Love Nest

First Comes Love...

"...was a gay man who happened to be in love with a woman -- who had forsaken all others..."

Feb. 16, 1996 Books Feature by Marion Winik

Unleashing the Hounds of Love

Director Ben Young on his serial-killer couple drama

"...hideous dynamic inspired Ben Young to film Hounds of Love. He said, "We've all seen 'girl gets kidnapped' stories..."

May 12, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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