DVDanger: 'Wolverine Origin'

No, not the terrible movie. The groundbreaking comic, animated.

"...Grimm, aka The Thing: All super heroes have an origin story, uncah Ben, so what's mine? "Haw!" laughs Grimm...."

July 20, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Ouija: Origin of Evil

This horror sequel is vastly superior to its cheesy precursor

"...heyday. Vastly superior to its cheesy, contemporary precursor, Ouija: Origin is a slow burner of a horror film that’s..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Meow Wolf: Origin Story

How the legendary art collective beat the world and kept its soul

"...a convergence of creativity, money, and iconoclasts, Meow Wolf: Origin Story is a tale that to my knowledge has..."

Nov. 30, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Origin

Ava DuVernay's plainly spoken look at the underpinnings of bigotry

"...journalist Isabel Wilkerson's essential 2020 nonfiction book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, which explores the commonalities in America’s..."

Jan. 19, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Origin

Omnipresent

"...Origin Omnipresent (Nuclear Blast)..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Coffee Clutch: Three Liqueurs, Canned Cocktails, and Origin-Roasted Beans

Because we know that the java is what you’re craving

"...neighboring state of Louisiana, where so much mudbug-mad mafficking originates at this time of year and an admirable new..."

Feb. 7, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Vaya con Dios, Z’Tejas! Bye-Bye, Sala & Betty! Howdy, Origin at Mueller! Greetings, Chief Taco Officer at Favor! And, uh, How’s It Hangin’, New Wardrobe From Tiki Tatsu-Ya?

All the news that's fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...how about a little of the brighter side? The Origin Hotel has opened in the middle of Austin’s Mueller..."

July 13, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Via con Dios, Z’Tejas! Bye-bye, Sala & Betty! Howdy, Origin at Mueller! Greetings, Chief Taco Officer at Favor! And, uh, How’s It Hangin’, New Wardrobe from Tiki Tatsu-Ya?

All the news that's fit to get your taste buds quivering

July 15, 2022 Food Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Origin Story of the Liberty Lunch Brand

Former venue owner Mark Pratz on Stubb’s potential re-branding

"...us on their property back in 1999 [following the original site’s redevelopment]. We tried for two years and the..."

July 10, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Origin Story

May 31, 2015 Postmarks

Origin Story

New Mondo Gallery show frames first efforts

Jan. 25, 2013 Screens Feature

Goodbye Christopher Robin

The story of A.A. Milne and Winnie-the-Pooh

"...Comic book characters have origin stories, so why not a film about the origin..."

Oct. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Batman Begins

Batman Begins … and it's about time. The movie is great fun, and also a terrific relief.

"...Wayne’s radical, deeply Freudian transformation into Batman. As an origin story it succeeds admirably, showing us not only the..."

June 17, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

How Austin Made DC’s Blue Beetle Fly

Director and Fantastic Fest regular Ángel Manuel Soto reveals his own secret origin

"...Blue Beetle is in many ways a classic superhero origin story, as law school grad and first-generation immigrant Jaime..."

Aug. 18, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Fabelmans

Steven Spielberg presents his own origin story

"...to create what is inevitably a self-indulgent yet delightful origin story, appropriately called The Fabelmans...."

Nov. 25, 2022 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Residential Address: Jon Dee Graham and the Snakes of Central Texas

Wednesdays @ Continental Club, 9:30pm-close

"...form that I had a 'neurological event of unknown origin.' When she wrote it, I thought to myself, 'A..."

Sept. 16, 2022 Music Column by Gary Lindsey

Scoob!

The Scooby Gang is back (for the first time)

"...Not reviewed at press time. Last year's unexpected origin story for the Scooby Gang finally gets a theatrical..."

May 21, 2021 Movie Review

Joker

This joke isn't funny anymore (and wasn't to begin with)

"...Which is why it was just kismet that an origin story on the Joker, Batman’s biggest foil for 80-plus..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

The transcendent history of one of the greatest musicals ever

"...most beloved musicals of the last century gets its origin story in the doc Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles,..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Sword of Trust

Marc Maron like you've never seen him in this oddball Southern road trip to the truth

"...a comedy about a Civil War sword of dubious origin gently tickles the ribs, like when someone close to..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Becoming Astrid

Pippi Longstocking creator's life story isn't for kids

"...in southern Sweden. One perhaps might think that the origin story of one of the most beloved children’s authors..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

The paternity mystery is solved, but the ABBA hits keep coming

"...the tide, I was no great fan of the original stage musical, which was constructed around the beloved song..."

July 20, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Eating Animals

Natalie Portman narrated documentary about the ethics of farming versus factory farming.

"...it is that we actively seek information about the origin of our food. Specifically, the animals we eat and..."

June 29, 2018 Movie Review by Jessi Cape

Paddington 2

Everyone's favorite polite bear returns with marmalade sandwiches for all in a thrilling birthday present hunt

"...bear returns in this sequel to 2014’s perfectly executed origin story. As sequels go, Paddington 2 is up to..."

Jan. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Man Who Invented Christmas

How Charles Dickens created Ebenezer Scrooge

"...Invented Christmas, beloved fictional miser Ebenezer Scrooge gets the origin-story treatment. In the fall of 1843, Charles Dickens (Stevens)..."

Nov. 21, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

Marshall

Supreme Court judge biopic has bite

"...even care? Therein lies the rub, and a fine origin story for a real-life superhero (complete with macho foibles)..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rebel in the Rye

The early life of J.D. Salinger is explored

"...in the Rye begins. If Holden Caulfield had an origin story, this is it, as Salinger (or “Jerry” as..."

Sept. 15, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

Patti Cake$

A hip-hop star is born in New Jersey

"...you’d get if you shifted the gritty Midwestern musician origin stories of Eminem’s 8 Mile and Prince’s Purple Rain..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Baywatch

Some people stand in the darkness ...

"...most part, Baywatch resembles a scarce amount of its origin and relies on a none-too-arch humor that misses more..."

May 26, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Sleight

A street magician must save his kidnapped sister

"...place. Like its protagonist, Sleight is a scrappy, semi-super origin story that lacks the existential heft of, say, M...."

May 5, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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