Creed

Stallone's Rocky trains Apollo Creed's son in worthy franchise reboot

"...He ages gracefully and passes the torch to a new generation. Sylvester Stallone’s creation has boxed on through five..."

Nov. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Friday Picks

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...Crowley and Renee Woodward as Braless (now rechristened the New Hot Damn), but Trish Murphy solo is no slouch...."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...arrangements. Led by Waco Brother Deano Schlabowske, Chicago's brand new Dollar Store puts bluegrass, rock, and country in a..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Cine Las Americas 2023 Review: Amor y matemáticas (Love and Mathematics)

Mexican satire pokes at suburban life after boy band fame

"...band member, stuck in a miserable marriage, with a new baby and a small dog. Billy is aimless, spending..."

June 27, 2023 Screens Post by Alejandra Martinez

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Should you have a bad feeling about this stand-alone Star Wars?

"...Joonas Suotamo, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Paul Bettany, Jon Favreau and Linda Hunt...."

May 25, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Gay Place

Love Jones brings queer black romance to the stage

"...together music and poetry into a tale of budding romance between two black men. The show's creation began last..."

Feb. 2, 2018 Column by Sarah Marloff

Local Opera Local Artists' We Might Be Struck by Lightning

In this new pastiche chamber opera, LOLA takes us on a bold musical journey

"...the lyricism that goes with being carried away by romance...."

Aug. 25, 2017 Arts Review by Michelle Haché

La La Land

This bittersweet musical will make your heart soar

"...series of barky meet-cutes. The film doesn’t rush their romance, instead following their parallel tracks in pursuit of their..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

DVDanger: Lace Crater

Ghostly romance reinvented, plus more DVD and VOD releases

"...Gothic romance is not defined by gargoyles and dark moorlands. It's..."

Aug. 15, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Bigger Splash

Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, and others meet and mix in the sun

"...in the end one might have hoped for the new film to, um …, make a bigger splash...."

May 20, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sleeping With Other People

Raunchy but sweet rom-com stars Alison Brie and Jason Sudeikis

"...Sudeikis and Alison Brie run the table as a new-gen Harry and Sally in this overt update of the..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Why He Fought

New AFS series considers Frank Capra's pre-World War II films

"...a clue into what Capra was fighting for. A new Austin Film Society series gives audiences the opportunity to..."

May 29, 2015 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Food Issue Extra Helpings: A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You

Take your love and your love for food on a journey this V-Day

"...to the commercial-driven expectations for an evening of epic romance or plan to go about your day as if..."

Feb. 13, 2014 Food Post by Lizzie Jespersen

Austin Top 10

One hundred individual LP choices

"...10) The Carrots, New Romance (Elefant) Jim Caligiuri..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Music Feature

Love Charli XCX

Young UK singer sells out Sunday night at the Parish

"...Charli XCX’s new hit single “Super Love,” whose video was filmed in..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2013: Animation

A dog in Eden, Maggie Simpson in an Ayn Rand daycare center, and creative guacamole making are some of the ideas conjured in this collection.

"...toward the sentimental, especially the two nominees that consider romance. Timothy Reckart’s stop-motion film “Head Over Heels” illustrates a..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Cracks in the Ceiling

An extended Q&A with Ann Richards biographer Jan Reid

"...for a conversation with Jan Reid, author of the new biography, Let the People In: The Life and Times..."

Oct. 25, 2012 Arts Post by Michael King

Jeff, Who Lives at Home

The Duplass brothers return with this finely observed slice of life starring Jason Segel, Ed Helms, and Susan Sarandon.

"...Home was filmed in Mark and Jay Duplass' native New Orleans and its surrounding areas, but they mostly abstain..."

March 16, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Hedgehog

Eleven-year-old Paloma moves from girlish self-destruction to engagement with the world without ever leaving the confines of her French apartment building.

"...existential almost all the time, Paloma obsesses over the meaninglessnewss of life in what she calls her “fishbowl." She..."

Oct. 7, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Emily Hagins' Unsucky Fundraiser

"My Sucky Teen Romance" Benefit at Scholz Garden

"...17-year-old filmmaker Emily Hagins upcoming horror/comedy My Sucky Teen Romance...."

July 21, 2010 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Did You Hear About the Morgans?

Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker play a feuding New York City couple who rediscover their love while out West.

"...and Meryl Morgan (Grant and Parker) are a high-profile New York City couple who have separated due to Paul’s..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

I Know Thee Not, Old Man

"...is ours to do with as we please. The newness is all...."

Aug. 20, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Brick Lane

Brick Lane shows us the life of a Bangladeshi woman, who moves to London to marry a man she's never met, keep house, raise a family, and eventually act on her squelched yearnings.

"...of their emotionally stilted lives and finding joy in new romance and self-celebration, take heart in the fact that..."

July 18, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Hottest State

Ethan Hawke writes and directs this story based on his own novel about a lovesick narcissist in New York City.

"...who is at the start of his career in New York City, The Hottest State is destined to a..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hairspray

While there’s nothing offensive about the wholesomeness of this new version of John Waters' 1988 cult classic, you wish that it didn’t feel as if every hair were in place.

"...While there’s nothing offensive about the wholesomeness of this new Hairspray, you wish that it didn’t feel as if..."

July 20, 2007 Movie Review by Steve Davis

I Think I Love My Wife

Who would have ever guessed that Chris Rock would be the guy to film an American remake of Eric Rohmer's meditation on fidelity, Chloe in the Afternoon?

"...A onetime editor of Cahiers du Cinéma and French New Wave filmmaker, Rohmer is known for his meditations on..."

March 23, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Music and Lyrics

Drew Barrymore plays lyricist to Hugh Grant's has-been musician in this Valentine's Day romantic comedy.

"...cuts his shirt deeply to the navel in this newest addition to the pantheon of entertaining but inconsequential Hollywood..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Man Push Cart

A small gem of a film about a small man doing small things in a very, very, very large world.

"...is likewise saddled with the unenviable lot of the new arrival in the big, bad city. Hailing from Pakistan,..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Peaceful Warrior

It's mostly hoo-hah, but there are moments in this New Agey, feel-semi-good crowd-pleaser that rise above and beyond the gymnastics and psychobabble.

"...equally adept away from the role's physical demands; his quasi-romance with Socrates' pal (friend? daughter? It's never explained) Joy..."

June 23, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

My Favorite Year

In an extraordinary season of four premieres, playwright Robert Schenkkan brings UT, his old school, a new screwball comedy

"...is over the moon about its premiere of a new script by 1975 grad Robert Schenkkan...."

Nov. 4, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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