Daddy Nostalgia

"...is the kind of stuff that makes up Daddy Nostalgia. No big revelations here. Just little truths, pieces of..."

June 14, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Nostalgia

A life well lived examined in a film uninspiringly made.

"...an insufferably maudlin piano score that telegraphs every emotion, Nostalgia feels like an incomplete reverie, an exploration of loss..."

March 2, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Qmmunity: Net Nostalgia

Editor James reflects on what being on the computer used to mean

"...computer, now? I really dunno. But maybe a little nostalgia-driven action wouldn’t go unappreciated. Get yourself a copy of..."

May 23, 2025 Column by James Scott

On Murder Indictments and the Rise of Emo-Rock Nostalgia

LISTEN: The Austin Chronicle Show on KOOP Radio

"...me to talk about his deep dive into emo-rock nostalgia and the rise of emo nights at Austin clubs...."

Sept. 3, 2021 News Post by Kimberley Jones

Elizabeth Chapin: "Deconstructing Nostalgia" at Wally Workman Gallery

This "type of padded cell of Southern culture" is, pardon us, insanely beautiful

"...Workman Gallery – is worth experiencing. “Elizabeth Chapin: Deconstructing Nostalgia”Wally Workman Gallery, 1202 W. Sixth, 512/472-7428 www.wallyworkmangallery.com Through March..."

March 8, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Pillowcore Duo Hovvdy Captures a Lifetime's Worth of Nostalgia

Lo-fi locals release sophomore LP Cranberry

"...the way the choruses ring has this kind of nostalgia," offers Taylor. "I think it's more traceable in the..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Harry Styles’ Near Riotous Nostalgia

UK heartthrob brings Beatlemania to the Moody Theater

"...Ultimately, nostalgia hogged the spotlight with the appearance of a rock..."

Oct. 12, 2017 Music Post by Isabella Castro-Cota

Austin's Unlikable Hippy Nostalgia

"...one man could encapsulate everything I dislike about Austin's nostalgia for the hippy days gone by. First of all,..."

Dec. 22, 2007 Postmarks

Nostalgia for World War II

"...succeeds this war by two and sometimes three generations. Nostalgia for World War II is not a unique phenomenon...."

May 18, 2004 Postmarks

The Good Eye: Nostalgia for the New

Pull up that Arvin and read about from whence it came

July 18, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

CHIPS

The California Highway Patrol rides again

"...writer, director, and star of this charmless exercise in nostalgia. That’s not nostalgia for the popular late-1970s TV show..."

March 31, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Of Stars and Scars

AFS Doc Nights: Nostalgia for the Light

"...His latest film, Nostalgia for the Light – actually, more of a meditative..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Calendar Girl

"...Calendar Girl's fatal error is that it is a nostalgia piece designed for today's teen fans of Beverly Hills..."

Sept. 10, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rock of Ages

Tom Cruise playing a dissolute rock god is the main attraction of this jukebox musical.

"...If Eighties rock nostalgia happens to be your particular cup of (P)oison, then..."

June 15, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rad

Hal Needham's BMX action flick restored

"...If you’ve yet to reach your threshold of Eighties nostalgia, and also happen to find an empty hole in..."

Sept. 25, 2020 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Stan & Ollie

Coogan and Reilly breathe tender life into the Hollywood icons

"...like a museum tour. The bits are tinged with nostalgia, a perpetually unalleviated regret...."

Jan. 25, 2019 Movie Review by Danielle White

Hunter Killer

Cold War flashbacks as Gerard Butler takes on the Russkies

"...Eighties military paperback thrillers, it’s a welcome bit of nostalgia. Sometimes it’s nice to pretend like there’s a single..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Uncle Drew

Kyrie Irving's soda campaign gets a movie spin-off

"...Of course, Nineties nostalgia cuts both ways, and the story elements that make..."

July 6, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Hit the Spot Cafe

This local library’s diner serves up cheese, grease, and nostalgia

"...I think – for a paralyzingly potent hit of nostalgia that'll knock you out all afternoon. Of course, that..."

Jan. 12, 2018 Food Column by Emily Beyda

California Typewriter

An ode to the analog

"...curiosity, but it is hardly a piece of ephemeral nostalgia. It is an investigation into the various contraptions (in..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

When the Movies You Loved as a Kid Don’t Hold Up

Shedding film nostalgia

"...BuzzFeed listicle, running on a steady diet of manufactured nostalgia and a yearning for the days of the laser..."

July 29, 2016 Screens Feature by Beejoli Shah

Little Boy

Can the power of faith change the course of history?

"...Awash in a gauzy glaze of engineered nostalgia, the precocious Little Boy is a Norman Rockwell knockoff..."

May 1, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

While We're Young

Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts suffer a midlife funk in Noah Baumbach's latest

"...middle age and the millennial tendency to transform yesterday’s nostalgia into today’s kitsch. The story stumbles once the wedge..."

April 10, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Uzumasa Limelight

The hero of this beguiling Japanese film is a kirare-yaku or “sliced actor” – a certain kind of Japanese actor/stuntman who always dies by sword in the shadows.

"...falls hurt), and makes the case that it’s not nostalgia if you actually did it, but yeah, the old..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The slang-slinging, sewer-dwelling, pizza-loving lot are back.

"...new to the Turtles won’t know any better, and nostalgia-driven parents probably couldn’t care less. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

The Way, Way Back

In this indie comedy, a young teen finds confidence at a local water park after suffering emotional abuse from his insensitive, would-be stepfather.

"...The Way, Way Back savors a Generation X nostalgia for the good ol’ days. Its time-warped sensibility invokes..."

July 12, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Emperor

Tommy Lee Jones is Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Matthew Fox his adviser in this historical drama set in postwar Japan in which the general must decide the fate of the Japanese emperor.

"...The film is an act of nostalgia, a study of power, and a romantic memoir told..."

March 8, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest

The actor Michael Rapaport turns director for this admiring portrait of the seminal Nineties hip-hop outfit.

"...song's sampled bassline and snare, this opening incites both nostalgia and excitation, and those good vibes propel what is..."

July 29, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Take Me Home Tonight

In this Eighties-set romance, a guy spends an unforgettable evening chasing the woman of his high school dreams.

"...kindest thing that might be said of this Eighties nostalgia trip is that its formulaic plot and overall mirthlessness..."

March 11, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

I Defy You, Ira Glass

"...self-deprecating little tales of white, middle-class foibles and monotone nostalgia, drives me nuts. All those hushed voices and ironic..."

Oct. 16, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

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