Ordinary Love

By-the-numbers cancer drama lives because of its performances

Feb. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

A Life Less Ordinary

"...this woefully botched tale of that unholy, clichéd triumvirate: love, kidnapping, and angels. Hodge actually wrote this script before..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Love, Simon

Coming-out story remembers the romance.

"...announces at the outset of this groundbreaking, yet refreshingly ordinary movie about a young man learning to exhale after..."

March 16, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Jimmy Stewart Is Crazy in Love

Passion’s pitfalls bedevil Jimmy Stewart in three classics

"...month at the Paramount, and it’s all because of love. Three romances playing this month in the Paramount Summer..."

Aug. 1, 2014 Screens Post by Erica Todd

Ordinary Seamen and Ordinary Nobodies

New and Noteworthy

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

April 11, 1997 Books Feature

Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt

Vivid yet impressionistic, this documentary tribute to the musician Townes Van Zandt brings the life and the music of this songwriter's songwriter into focus.

"...tune, titled "Waiting Round to Die," rather than some love ballad or other romantic fodder. Be Here to Love..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Capitalism: A Love Story

Michael Moore wants to know where our money went.

"...“ism,” and, much like its ambiguous title, Capitalism: A Love Story, Moore’s film is an unmethodical survey of a..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Top 10 Reasons (+3) I Stayed in Love With Theatre in 2014

Valentines to theatre and comedic craft played a large part in making 2014 a memorable year in theatre

"...exuberant performers spun a lively tall tale of a lovelorn academic getting trapped in Lucifer's B&B. The devilishly clever..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Lives Less Ordinary

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

"...are the same "little" people: office workers and machinists, ordinary men and women with flaws, bad luck, or an..."

Jan. 16, 2004 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

No Ordinary Folk

Producer Fred Miller remembers the making of this antiwar documentary, which focuses on the music of folk legends Peter, Paul & Mary.

"...and 1970 -- Peter, Paul & Mary: Song Is Love -- to the Alamo Drafthouse as part of the..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mighty Atom

Atomic City's Jim 'Prince' Hughes is punk rock daikaiju at a whole different level

"...mention enough postwar Japanese pop-culture ephemera to send your ordinary gaijin's ("foreigner") head spinning: Godzilla rules supreme, but also..."

June 8, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Qmmunity: Cooking Up Qmmunity Love

Plus, allgo's community healing fair, Poo Poo Platter, and more queer events

"...grrrls of Poo Poo Platter pay tribute to no ordinary chanteuses with a drag battle between Team Sade and..."

March 12, 2021 Column by Beth Sullivan

Top 10 Reasons I Stayed in Love With Theatre in 2013

Austin thespians played for keeps, with boundless commitment and imagination, in the year's most memorable theatre

"...of playwrights Steve Moore and Zeb West in this extraordinary meditation on mortality and community. It imagined one man's..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Spider-Man 2

Even superheroes have to do their own laundry in Sam Raimi's truly spectacular vision that combines human pathos and breathtaking action.

"...aided and abetted immensely by a terrific script from Ordinary People’s Alvin Sargent (with a co-story credit to, among..."

July 2, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

White Dog

With typically blunt, disturbing, combative, unconventional storytelling, Fuller tackles the disease of bigotry with this story about a racist dog.

"...makes movies without rule books, movies lacking naturalism and ordinary coherency but brimming with logic and recognizability, movies that..."

July 10, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lovers of the Arctic Circle

Using impressionistic and circular stragies, this Spanish film tells the story of two lovers from the time they meet at the age of 8 to the age of 25, when they may or may not meet again.

"...ways, using impressionistic strategies that poke holes in our ordinary assumptions about time, space, and logic. Lovers of the..."

June 18, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ghost Town

A sweet, old-fashioned kind of picture content to burrow into the quiet spaces, where boring, ordinary adults live and fitfully try to love again. Oh, and occasionally talk to dead people.

"...the first one to admit that it’s a boring, ordinary story. But then something extraordinary happens to him: While..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Gospel

An R&B singer rediscovers his roots in this faith-based drama that successfully captures the ecstatic experience of gospel performance.

"...first! But here you are as the sassy single-mom love interest for R&B singer David Taylor (Kodjoe), who returns..."

Oct. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The King's Speech

Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, and Helena Bonham Carter act up a royal storm in this movie about King George VI of Great Britain overcoming his speech impediment.

"...peerless period drama featuring a stammering, unsure, and borderline ordinary (as ordinary as a duke can be) man forced..."

Dec. 24, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Shameless

"...of three friends caught up in a very Austin love triangle. Rhodes (whom you may remember from Richard Linklater's..."

June 4, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wild Wheels, Over the Hedge

"...odyssey that explores the subcultural extremities in the American love affair with automobiles knows as Car Art (which are..."

Feb. 19, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

About Time

Love Actually maestro wants to make you cry with this romantic dramedy.

"...feels like a gift: to nestle in with these extraordinary, ordinary people and get to know them...."

Nov. 1, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Nicolas Cage plays a master sorcerer who selects a seemingly average guy to become his protégé and save New York City from his arch-nemesis.

"...will have the power to break free Balthazar’s sorceress love, Veronica (Bellucci), from the curse that causes her to..."

July 16, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Your Friends & Neighbors

"...depicts are our “friends and neighbors,” our recognizable and ordinary selves rather than the distanced corporate villains of In..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fantasy Island

Our advice? Get back on the plane

"...confused the seven season magical mystery show with The Love Boat. Instead, it was "The Monkey's Paw" on a..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Wild Tales

Anthology film from Argentina finds the dark humor in six revenge stories

"...Keyser Söze) – to the freewheeling final episode displaying love’s absurdities at the wedding reception from hell, this inspired..."

March 27, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

It's Complicated

Far from complicated, this rom-com starring Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, and Steve Martin is a wish-fulfillment fantasy for women of a certain age.

"...a certain age have wonderful careers, picture-perfect homes, and love affairs aplenty. Their affluent careers seem to require no..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Finding North

"...between Tanya Wexler's debut feature is anything but your ordinary bridge story. Vibrantly funny and shot through with a..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lotto Land

"...importance you might expect. This is a film about ordinary lives, not people acquiring riches. Without dissolving into sentimentality,..."

Oct. 6, 1995 Movie Review by Patrick Taggart

A Kid in King Arthur's Court

"...singularly human attributes such as courage and honor and love. Nichols essentially reprises his Rookie of the Year role..."

Aug. 18, 1995 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

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