The People Person

Peter Hedges' Pieces of April brings the novelist-screenwriter out of the quiet and into the filmmaking fray.

"...as Nick Hornby's About a Boy for Chris and Paul Weitz, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Wimbledon

A terribly tender, good-hearted romantic comedy from across the pond.

"...Directed by: Richard Loncraine. Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Paul Bettany, Sam Neill, Jon Favreau, James McAvoy, Eleanor Bron..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Austin Film Festival Announces Full Lineup

AFF's finalized lineup

"...Reichardt's followup to Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, are Paul Schrader's Adam Resurrected (starring Jeff Goldblum), videogame adaptation/fanboy-bait Max..."

Sept. 24, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

It's a Russell Crowe's nest of a performance in this seafaring adventure.

"...Directed by: Peter Weir. Starring: Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, Billy Boyd, James D’Arcy, Edward Woodall, Chris Larkin..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Anomaly

Kiss at the Frank Erwin Center tonight ain't Kiss with Ace Frehley (and Peter Criss).

"...Instead, one’s left with Abbott (Gene Simmons) and Costello (Paul Stanley)...."

Dec. 4, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

AFF Knows We Like to Watch

Local film Harmony and Me tops sneak peek at festival lineup

"...Carpenter, Frank Darabont, David Hayter, William Goldman, Guinevere Turner, Paul Schrader, Zak Penn Regional Premiere Possibly the most comprehensive..."

Aug. 26, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Peter Yarrow Songbook: Favorite Folk Songs

"...an accompanying CD by famed folkie Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul & Mary fame). Yet when I sat down..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Analyze This

"...about this farcical tale of a powerful mobster named Paul Vitti who consults a shrink when mysterious anxiety attacks..."

March 12, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Exhibitionism

The Suida Manning Collection: the Renaissance Is Here

"...Madonna with child flanked by Saint Peter and Saint Paul. Moving through the gallery, we enter the 1500s and..."

March 12, 1999 Arts Review

Let Him Have It

"...Directed by: Peter Medak. Starring: Christopher Eccleston, Paul Reynolds, Tom Bell and Eileen Atkins. London, 1941. The..."

April 10, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

More proves to be less for Spidey this time out.

"...Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Colm Feore, Felicity Jones, Paul Giamatti, Sally Field, Embeth Davidtz, Campbell Scott and Marton..."

May 2, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

RoboCop

The überviolent 1987 action film gets a pointless reboot.

"...The pointless reboot RoboCop is a castrated version of Paul Verhoeven’s grim, überviolent 1987 action film about a viciously..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

You Don't Mess With the Zohan

As far as we know, this Adam Sandler movie is the first Hollywood-made Jewish/Palestinian/immigrant comedy that also doubles as a surprisingly trenchant analysis of the Middle East's perpetual bloodbath.

"...wants to do is cut and style hair for Paul Mitchell. After faking his demise in an equally inspired..."

June 6, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Peter Paul & Mary

"...Peter Paul & MaryCarry It On (Rhino) On their 2002 LP,..."

May 7, 2004 Music Review by Melanie Haupt

Analyze That

"...this film, which re-teams De Niro's angsty mob boss Paul Vitti and Crystal's wry, Jewish psychiatrist Ben Sobel. Vitti,..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Isn't She Great

"...of the day. As reimagined by ace comedy writer Paul Rudnick (In & Out, Jeffrey), Susann (Midler) is a..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Pope Must Diet

"...Father is more into entertaining orphans with his Les Paul than he is the Papacy, he soon takes control..."

Sept. 27, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Spy

The Paul Feig/Melissa McCarthy comedy onslaught continues with a Bond parody

"...Directed by: Paul Feig. Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne, Jude Law, Jason..."

June 5, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Robert Plant Crowns Austin Music Awards

Fortune teller to unspool vintage Twine Time at local Grammys

"...special closing segment honoring KUTX’s late Twine Time host Paul Ray. It will be the singer’s only South by..."

March 15, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Station Agent

Award-winning indie favorite shows how human beings form emotional connections – despite their best efforts not to.

"...Tom McCarthy. Starring: Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson, Bobby Cannavale, Paul Benjamin and Raven Goodwin. Fans of independent movies will..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Marshmallow Love

The 31st annual Kerrville Folk Festival

"...Peter Yarrow Peter Yarrow, activist, folksinger, and member of Peter, Paul & Mary, has been involved with the Festival..."

May 24, 2002 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

John Fogerty Won’t Back Down

From Pete Seeger and Tom Petty to the romance of the Sixties

"...at all the people who grew up first hearing Peter, Paul & Mary singing “Blowin’ in the Wind” and..."

Oct. 25, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Sue's Turn

After years of thwarting the singing kids on Glee, Jane Lynch takes the stage to belt some tunes herself

"...JL: Yeah, well, growing up I knew Peter, Paul, and Mary very well. I discovered folk music..."

March 6, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Snake Charmer

Ray Wylie Hubbard survived the crash, recovered the black box, and continues to fly high and get lowdown with 'Snake Farm.'

"...assemblies) and B.W. Stevenson. The clean-cut folk music of Peter, Paul & Mary; the Chad Mitchell Trio; and the..."

June 23, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Renaissance (and Baroque) Man

As a curator for UT's Blanton Museum of Art, Jonathan Bober played a pivotal role in securing the Suida-Manning and Steinberg art collections, thereby giving some of the world's great art a home in Austin.

"...landscapes and livestock, rendered by the likes of Peter Paul Rubens, Albrecht Dürer, Giorgio Ghisi, Simon Vouet, Schiavone, Guercino,..."

April 4, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Angel in the Dark

The last release from pop noir princess Laura Nyro.

"...appearance before an audience. Laura Nyro was 17 when Peter, Paul & Mary recorded "And When I Die" two..."

April 6, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Dancing About Architecture

Clifford Antone receives a sentence; Heinz Geissler takes over the Antone's Records label; Ed Hamell is hospitalized after a car accident.

"...had her fill of courtrooms as well; her boyfriend Paul Saustrup was aquitted of murder in a controversial case..."

June 2, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Song is Love

"...Sixties document of “Puff the Magic Dragon” folkie group Peter, Paul & Mary, but I guess it just goes..."

Dec. 2, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Daytime TV Diaries

TV Eye

"...Grateful Dead, Loreena McKennitt, B.B.King, Leo Kottke, Benny Goodman, Peter, Paul & Mary... sound like a genre-expanded Austin Music..."

Aug. 8, 1997 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

Housebound

This New Zealand horror/comedy nimbly jumps through the tropes, and inventively subverts them along the way.

"...by: Gerard Johnstone. Starring: Morgana O’Reilly, Rima Te Wiata, Glen-Paul Waru and Ross Harper...."

Oct. 17, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

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