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

"...chunk of machinery through a car-snarled metropolitan intersection? There's no dancing for that immigrant (or native, more likely), nor..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Extra Ordinary

Irish supernatural comedy is a cracker

"...Directed by: Mike Ahern and Edna Loughman. Starring: Maeve Higgins, Barry Ward, Will Forte, Emma Coleman,..."

March 6, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Ordinary Seamen and Ordinary Nobodies

New and Noteworthy

"...The Ordinary Seaman Atlantic Monthly Press, $23 hard The number of..."

April 11, 1997 Books Feature

My Extraordinary Ordinary Life

Sissy Spacek's memoir is as easy to read as it is a pleasure to digest

"...had her moments when the door was closed and no window opened, only that My Extraordinary Ordinary Life is..."

May 4, 2012 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Lives Less Ordinary

The Austin Film Society's neorealism and Beyond: Italian Cinema, 1948-1970

"...civil servants, prostitutes, children, war widows. Its stars were nonprofessionals: university professors, cabaret singers, steelworkers thrust before the camera...."

Jan. 16, 2004 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

Dead Man Blues

7-CD box set contains all anyone could ever want to know about Charley Patton.

"...is the blues. It's when you're so good-looking a man would cut your throat because he thinks you were..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Music Feature by Clay Smith

Man With the Light Touch

Peter Bay leads the Austin Symphony with the finesse of Astaire

"...startled upon seeing Peter Bay take the podium. The now well-established director of the Austin Symphony Orchestra – he's..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Point Austin: No Bill

Grand jury clears APD's Olsen, but questions remain

"...No indictment does not mean no problem...."

Aug. 17, 2007 News Column by Michael King

No Time Like the Present

As usual, dancemaker Deborah Hay is making every moment count

"...(death giving academia that comfortable distance for rendering judgments). Not Deborah Hay. At the University of Texas on April..."

April 2, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

How One Man Started the Local Mesquite Movement

A baking challenge led Sandeep Gyawali to this little-known flour

"...It started off simply enough: Bake something using a unique ingredient. Who would have..."

Aug. 3, 2018 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Shot Caller

The metamorphosis of the prison system

"...Directed by: Ric Roman Waugh. Starring: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lake Bell, Jon Bernthal, Omari..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Arlington Road

"...Joan Cusack, Hope Davis, Tim Robbins and Jeff Bridges. Paranoia strikes deep in Arlington Road, a political thriller in..."

July 16, 1999 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Julian Schnabel's unorthodox but true story about a protagonist who is stripped of all self-movement and expression is equal parts reverie, despair, and social experiment.

"...Directed by: Julian Schnabel. Starring: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

aGLIFF Launches a Mini Film-a-Thon for Pride Month

Taking Pride in Austin’s queer film fest

"...The queer film canon is an ever-growing coterie of movies based around the..."

May 28, 2021 Screens Feature by James Scott

Runnin' With the Wolf

One man takes on the used-game business model

"...of misfit toys, Game Over Videogames lingers on the north edge of Austin waiting to take in unloved video..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

DVD Watch: ‘Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene’

The first American-produced portrait of the titan of British letters

"...When profiling a man who made his living on the page, the visual..."

April 30, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Public Notice

Resolution No. 10

"...What standards are utilized to determine the "Public Notice" Top Ten? Weeeeelllllllll... None, really. It's all fairly random,..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Column by Kate X Messer

Boots, Buckles, & Spurs

50 Songs Celebrate 50 Years of Cowboy

"...Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, and George Strait, there's still nothing that compares to the immaculate yodel of Austin's late..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Our Kind of Traitor

Stellan Skarsgård and Damien Lewis rock this John le Carré adaptation

"...Ewan McGregor, Naomie Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Damian Lewis, Jeremy Northam, Saskia Reeves and Grigoriy Dobrygin...."

July 1, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

As Good as It Gets

Nicholson and Hunt both won Oscars for their respective roles as a rude and obsessive-compulsive writer and the waitress who grows to love him.

"...that this movie would've, could've, should've been better. Make no mistake, As Good as It Gets' winning combo of..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Love, Simon

Coming-out story remembers the romance.

"...and sweet-natured high school senior Simon Spier (Robinson) matter-of-factly announces at the outset of this groundbreaking, yet refreshingly ordinary..."

March 16, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Wanted

Based on Mark Millar’s ultraviolent comic-book miniseries, Wanted isn’t so much a movie as it is a parade of fast cars, big guns, heavy metal guitars, exposed cleavage, and tests of masculinity.

"...Directed by: Timur Bekmambetov. Starring: James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie, Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann, Common and Kristen..."

June 27, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Charlotte Gray

"...melodrama has to mean it -- to be pulp, not pap. It's the difference between weighty and wan, between..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Sudden Manhattan

"...debut were a CD, it would arrive with the pronouncement “File Under Quirky” with an attachment: “If you enjoy..."

Aug. 29, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lorenzo's Oil

"...Directed by: George Miller. Starring: Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Noah Banks and Peter Ustinov. This is..."

Jan. 29, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Other Stars in the Galaxy

"...by Marjorie Baumgarten, Sarah Hepola, Marcel Meyer, and Jessica Reisman..."

May 21, 1999 Screens Feature

The Disenchanted

"...Directed by: Benoît Jacquot. Starring: Judith Godrèche, Marcel Bozonnet, Thérèse Liotard, Ivan..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Number 23

Joel Schumacher and Jim Carrey combine their dubious talents to create an even more dubious movie in which a man becomes obsessed with the number 23.

"...Schumacher. Starring: Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Danny Huston, Logan Lerman, Lynn Collins, Rhona Mitra, Michelle Arthur and Mark Pellegrino...."

March 2, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Eye of God

"...as it appears? First-time filmmaker Tim Blake Nelson makes no bones about his concerns in this bleak Bible Belt..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Small Faces

"...Directed by: Gillies Mackinnon. Starring: Iain Robertson, Joseph Mcfadden, J.s. Duffy, Laura Fraser,..."

Oct. 25, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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