Mysterious Ways

Jones Family Singers doc preaches the gospel of understanding

March 17, 2015 SXSW Post by Joe O'Connell

Mysterious Ways

Novelist Katie Williams offers advice to Short Story Contest hopefuls

Nov. 26, 2012 Books Post by Katie Williams

Bob Dylan’s Devil Complex and Mysterious Stage Pose

Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour satisfies at Austin stop

"...first inclusion from his 2020 LP, Rough and Rowdy Ways. That fan-pleasing record’s replete with first-person declarations that defy,..."

March 17, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Austin Weird Homes Tour: The Mysterious Planchette

In this virtual Weird Homes Tour presentation, Brandon Hodge wanted to have a few (spirit-channeled) words with you

"...I mean, it worked well, in two distinct ways. Because, first, I thought the tour would be, ah,..."

May 1, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Wedding Plan

A rom-com with a twist

"...among this community of Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem will always be confined by the participants’ traditional customs and beliefs...."

June 2, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Dancer Upstairs

"...slowly that it’s difficult not to try to find ways to pass the time in between the graphic terrorist..."

May 16, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Punch-Drunk Love

Sandler plays a socially inept, outwardly calm warehouse worker who harbors a maelstrom of rage.

"...-- Barry is in a minor war with a mysterious phone-sex operator trying to blackmail him, he's found a..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Marvel's crime caper comedy sequel gets bigger, smaller, but still fun

"...van Dyne (Lilly) has had enough of his irresponsible ways. At least he still has his adoring daughter Cassie..."

July 6, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Ismael's Ghosts

French drama follows the artist split between two women.

"...vexing. Sometimes they come to us in strange and mysterious ways, secretive and obtuse, a conduit for creativity that..."

April 13, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Blumhouse's Truth or Dare

Truth or dare? We say pass on this demonic schlock.

"...last year’s Academy Award-winning Get Out is far more mysterious than anything that happens onscreen in Blumhouse’s Truth or..."

April 13, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Enemy of the State

"...to fight back, and eventually finds one in the mysterious spook Brill (Hackman, essentially updating his role from Coppola's..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Point of No Return

"...excellent as the enigmatic “Bob,” her mentor in the ways of the shadow government. A volatile mixture of steely..."

March 26, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Quiet Place

As monsters lurk, the world survives with a whisper

"...in the woods, and the streets, and everywhere; a mysterious something that hones in on the slightest sound, strikes..."

April 6, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Central Intelligence

Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart make for passable action buddies

"...in the midst of some MacGuffin plot involving a mysterious hacker called "Black Badger" and, naturally, stolen, ever-important satellite..."

June 17, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Mood Indigo

Michel Gondry's latest presents us with an elaborate yet handmade artifice that's thoroughly charming until its color drains away.

"...blindingly charismatic Nicolas (Sy) is counsel and in many ways caretaker to the daffy pair, while new lovers Chick..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Earth to Echo

A trio of suburban kids befriend an alien entity in this Spielberg-influenced family film.

"...all three see their phones lit up by a mysterious beacon and they bike off into the nearby desert..."

July 4, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

Let the Right One In

This multi-award-winning Swedish film might be summarized as a vampire tween romance, but that cheap and tawdry sum-up does zero justice to the magnificent emotional resonance of this gem. A discussion of the adaptation follows the film.

"...and everything seems frighteningly freighted with the surreal, the mysterious, the forbidden. Hedebrant, in one of the film's two..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

La Vie Promise

Isabelle Huppert stars in this French road movie about a selfish streetwalker, her unwanted teenage daughter, and the escaped convict who befriends them both.

"...strangers to one another: a selfish streetwalker with a mysterious past, the unwanted teenaged daughter who falls back into..."

May 28, 2004 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Statement

The pace of this political thriller about a Nazi collaborator on the run for four decades (Michael Caine) is as listless as the justice system that pursued him.

"...France, the French government’s pursuit of him, and a mysterious assassin’s pursuit of him as well – lack any..."

March 12, 2004 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Girl With a Pearl Earring

Bona fide "art" movie starring this season's It Girl, Scarlett Johansson, is as flat and enigmatic as the titular portrait by Vermeer.

"...The movie also toys with sex roles in other ways: Vermeer’s mother-in-law wears the figurative pantaloons in the family...."

Jan. 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Solaris

"...of creating beautiful loops and flourishes. Solaris is a mysterious and powerful movie, much like the strange planet at..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Double Take

"...murders he didn't commit, pursued by multiple pairs of mysterious thugs on varying sides of the law, and thrown..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Three Wishes

"...of past films like Lost in Yonkers and Angie always seem to be a little too something -- melodramatic,..."

Oct. 27, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Red

"...Red, a masterful film of chance encounters, parallel lives, mysterious coincidence, and mutual wonderment, is the latest from director..."

Jan. 20, 1995 Movie Review by Jeff Mccord

The Man Without a Face

"...fairly evident from the trailer; adolescent boy needs tutor, mysterious and embittered stranger needs to re-connect with humanity. What..."

Aug. 27, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Color Out of Space

Lovecraft adaptation finally captures eldritch horror

"...the rules of reality start to collapse in horrifying ways...."

Jan. 24, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Blade Runner 2049

This visually lush sequel was worth the wait.

"...with much of Los Angeles, the victim of a mysterious “blackout” that has rendered the Bradbury Building and surround..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Undead

This Australian horror film arrives at the tail end of a recent and very substantial cinematic zombie overdose. Unfortunately, there are only so many ways to slice the walking dead.

"...madcap debut Bad Taste), is a worthy setup. As always, there’s the combustible band of mismatched survivors, here led..."

July 8, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Steam: The Turkish Bath

"...Is this a film about a Westerner experiencing the mysterious allure of an exotic culture, à la Paul Bowles?..."

April 23, 1999 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Smilla's Sense of Snow

"...to make you cry, but in all the wrong ways. As a result of her multi-layered ethnicity, Smilla is..."

March 21, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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