Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens' picaresque teems with wonderful performances and bright direction by McGrath (who also did the same for Jane Austen in Emma).

"...Generally considered to be one of Dickens' lesser novels, Nicholas Nickleby has been adapted to film at least twice..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Review: Hyde Park Theatre's St. Nicholas

Conor McPherson revival is a retelling of a tall tale worth repeating

"...Such is the case with his fourth play, St. Nicholas...."

March 21, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Young Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is the original Spy Kid in this Chris Columbus-penned story about the master sleuth in a youth. The more one knows about Holmes lore, the more the film's foreshadowings of future cases will be evident.

"...Starring: Susan Fleetwood, Anthony Higgins, Sophie Ward, Alan Cox, Nicholas Rowe and Freddie Jones. Sherlock Holmes is the original..."

Jan. 16, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Minister of Grace

At the age of 88, legendary dancer Fayard Nicholas continues to spread the good word of tap, and this week he does it in Austin as the Festival Legend at the third Soul to Sole Tap Festival organized by Tapestry Dance Company.

"...The two men are Fayard and Harold Nicholas, the brothers who danced their way to fame with..."

June 6, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Neighbors

Lively performances from Seth Rogen and others brighten an otherwise perfunctory revenge comedy.

"...Directed by: Nicholas Stoller. Starring: Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Zac Efron, Dave..."

May 9, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Imposter

This documentary about a bizarre case of identity theft is a puzzle of lies, duplicity, and suppositions.

"...The facts: In 1994, blond-haired, blue-eyed, 13-year-old Nicholas Barclay disappeared from his hometown of San Antonio, Texas...."

Aug. 17, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Arbitrage

Richard Gere stars in this thriller as a duplicitous hedge-fund manager who, nevertheless, has all the right moves.

"...Directed by: Nicholas Jarecki. Starring: Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Tim Roth, Brit..."

Sept. 14, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Center Stage

Students at the American Ballet Academy in New York vie to join the professional corps.

"...Directed by: Nicholas Hytner. Starring: Debra Monk, Zoë Saldaña, Donna Murphy, Sascha..."

May 12, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Broken English

"...Directed by: Gregor Nicholas. Starring: Aleksandra Vujcic, Rade Serbedzija and Julian Arahanga. With..."

May 23, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

She Got Rhythm

In the world of rhythm tap, female dancers are a minority, and women who are masters of the form, as Acia Gray is, are merely a fraction of the whole. But with the debut of the Soul to Sole Festival, Gray hopes to give women who tap their due.

"...Rastus Brown, John Bubbles, Fred Astaire, Harold and Fayard Nicholas, aka the Nicholas Brothers, Gene Kelly, Honi Coles, Donald..."

May 18, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Fred Claus

Awash with amazingly talented actors – Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti, Miranda Richardson, Rachel Weisz, Kathy Bates, Kevin Spacey, to name a few – Fred Claus is sadly just an early lump of coal under the tree.

"...Fred, the embittered older brother of the sainted (literally) Nicholas “Santa” Claus (Giamatti). The story begins in some vague..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

The Distance Danced

Between its old and new versions of 'Swingin' Then & Now,' Tapestry Dance Company has swung a long way, baby

"...Sole tap festival, which twice featured tap legend Fayard Nicholas before his passing this year; Gray's induction into the..."

April 21, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Choice

Nicholas Sparks' romantic yearnings once again flood our screens

"...11th film adaptation of a novel by bestselling author Nicholas Sparks scales new heights of mediocrity and then some...."

Feb. 12, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Doubt

Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams star in the film version of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning play.

"...plays Sister Aloysius, the unwavering principal of the St. Nicholas school, run by an order that still wears the..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Buck

The real-life "horse whisperer," Dan "Buck" Brannaman, is the subject of this documentary that reveals how he derived his hard-won knowledge.

"...mind. He's less a horse whisperer, as popularized in Nicholas Evans’ book or Robert Redford's film, than a calm,..."

June 24, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Krampus

This horror-comedy brings a demon to the holiday gathering

"...title refers to the shaggy, horned, and cloven-hoofed anti-St. Nicholas of Austro-Germanic myth that punishes bad little boys and..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Vow

A woman awakes from a coma with severe memory loss, forcing her husband to win her love all over again. Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum star.

"...for his followup, the I Can't Believe It's Not Nicholas Sparks weepie The Vow, the cinematic equivalent of a..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Last Song

Miley Cyrus steps out of her Hannah Montana comfort zone to play a rebellious teen in this Nicholas Sparks melodrama.

"...Montana tween-star identity with The Last Song, the latest Nicholas Sparks-penned romance to be made into a movie. (In..."

April 2, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dear John

In this obvious romance, a soldier on leave falls for a girl, which leads to an anguished correspondence.

"...Tatum’s costuming. Based on a weepie by bestselling novelist Nicholas Sparks, Dear John frontloads its action to the beginning,..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Eastern Promises

In Cronenberg's film about the Russian mob in London, the director and star Viggo Mortensen relates a corker of a story.

"...midwife Anna (Watts) delivers the baby of a very young, needle-scarred mystery girl, who dies, leaving behind only her..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

A stilted, manipulative, and altogether unfun film starring Tim Allen and Martin Short.

"...cavorting and scheming against Allen's ponderous depiction of St. Nicholas. Let's mince neither words nor meat: Walt Disney Pictures..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Well Inside

In The Well Inside, Sally Jacques' extraordinary site-specific work, dancers suspended high in the air swing and sway and spin, right side-up and upside-down, exhibiting athleticism and daring that take your breath away but also convey an isolation and yearning for connection with amazing grace.

"...Laura Cannon, Theresa Hardy, Alby Roblejo, Andee Scott, and Nicholas Young -- exhibit levels of athleticism and daring that..."

May 24, 2002 Arts Review by Robert Faires

.com

You know the way Dilbert can sometimes get the whole office / cyber scene down perfectly? That's what Tapestry Dance Company does in their new show .com, and just as cleverly -- but with dance. And with some real depth and beauty worked in there, too. It was like the best of Dilbert, but with Dilbert as drawn by one of the Wyeths.

"...choreographed the show with one of the other members, Nicholas Young, and she dances up an awesome storm herself,..."

June 8, 2001 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Message in a Bottle

"...Savage, Paul Newman, Robin Wright and Kevin Costner. A young woman running along a drizzly Atlantic shoreline. A bottle..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

A Dog’s Purpose

Reincarnated dog film is full of cliches

"...course, with the gateway drug of a couple of Nicholas Sparks adaptations, blended with 2009’s Hachi: A Dog’s Tale..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Acia Gray

Local rhythm tap legend to be honored with a major national award

"...alive but without the fame or attention accorded to younger dancers such as Savion Glover. Acknowledgment of their efforts..."

July 2, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Informers

Bret Easton Ellis' collection of linked short stories are translated for the screen, but the result is less than zero.

"...stories, The Informers (which is co-scripted by Ellis and Nicholas Jarecki) seems to be going for something like Robert..."

April 24, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Call + Response

Documentary pairs celebrities with musicians to inform viewers about the issues of child slavery and human trafficking in the U.S. and around the world.

"...years ago, West Coast-based singer-songwriter Justin Dillon met a young Russian translator who awakened him to the horrors of..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Horse Whisperer

"...golden statuette wafting in the breeze. Redford's adaptation of Nicholas Evans' bestselling novel is a countrified, monolithic thing of..."

May 15, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fallen

"...of David Fincher's Seven, it's deep in Exorcist/Omen territory. Nicholas Kazan's script makes much of the fact that Hobbes..."

Jan. 16, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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