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The Quick & the Dead: A Novel

Dec. 29, 2000 Books Review by Martin Wilson

Readings From the Fringe

Jan. 22, 1999 Books Review by Mike Shea

Readings All Over

May 5, 1995 Books Feature

The Naked Play
The Power of Play Readings
"...there are four this week alone. They're called play readings. If you've only considered the play reading as a..."

May 5, 1995 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Beam Me Up, Literati
Monofonus Press' Teleportal Readings 3 teams up with McSweeney's
"...publishing, so it comes as no surprise its book readings are just as outside the box. Or outside the..."

March 29, 2010 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Looking for Richard
"...Pacino seeks insight from the discussions that arise during readings and rehearsals for a production of Richard III that..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Pacific Rim Uprising
Robots vs. monsters sequel is pure scrap.
"...bigness, especially if nonsensical plot devices and wooden line readings are “your thing.”..."

March 23, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Council: Nickels, Dimes … and Millions
Budget readings slog through a difficult fiscal year
"...began their final fiscal year 2018 budget deliberations (aka "readings") this week, City Council seemed determined to refashion its..."

Sept. 15, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Brush With Danger
The obvious martial arts skills of the brother and sister filmmakers, Ken and Livi Zheng, don't compensate for this film's wooden drama.
"...hobbled by a paucity of credible acting. Oaken line readings reverberate between the well-choreographed kickboxing action and the narrative..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Remember Me
Robert Pattinson gets to sink his teeth into something more than posturing in this refreshingly rendered love story.
"...accents (he's British; she's Australian), which lends their line readings unique, not entirely intuitive cadences and inflections. Pattinson already..."

March 12, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
The director of Doom takes on another video-game franchise, this time one about a female martial artist seeking justice.
"...is laden with such godawful dialogue (and worse line readings), a lame vendetta plot that was ancient prior to..."

March 6, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bab'Aziz: The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul
In the Tunisian desert, a young girl and her grandfather spin stories of woe, lost love, and religious disenchantment in this trancelike movie.
"...little more than a random collection of ecstatic poetry readings, muezzins, sandstorms, and mystical dance parties. And finally, imagine..."

July 11, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!
Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, and Carol Burnett provide just-right voices for these Seussian characters who offer the perfect antidote to the injustices experienced in childhood.
"...a lovable goofball than a frenzied nut job. Carell's readings as the Mayor are perfectly on target, although Burnett's..."

March 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rush Hour 3
It's The Bourne Ultimatum's evil twin, relying, as it repeatedly does, on tired, cookie-cutter, cliché action set-pieces.
"...falls flat faster than most of Chan's goofy line readings – he's never quite mastered the idiomatic inflections of..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bukowski: Born Into This
Every young writer goes through a Bukowski phase, but only the skid row author himself was "born into it."
"...in the form of the author himself, giving beery readings to Berkeley audiences clearly enjoying a contact high or..."

Jan. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Timeline
Time-traveling archeologists can't make the time pass quickly enough.
"...festival minus the fun, to the perpetually limp line readings courtesy of Paul Walker, an actor so wooden in..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Alias Betty
"...sociopaths and their marks. I'm not sure, but both readings of this taut French thriller seem fair. Based on..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Five Wives, Three Secretaries and Me
"...artistic stirrings of his own in sporadic cocktail-hour poetry readings and piano balladeering. By gently coaxing forth the unguarded..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Source
"...conducted for this movie with archival sources and dramatized readings by Johnny Depp, Dennis Hopper, and John Turturro. The..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cop Land
"...newfound luster. All kidding aside, Stallone is dynamite, his readings clear and sharp and never unintentionally mumbled, his frame..."

Aug. 15, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jingle All the Way
"...the sooty, hobnailed boots of evil Santas and line readings so wooden you could heat your house with them..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Eraser
"...but most certainly not least, those charmingly incomprehensible line readings. However, despite having all the tried-and-true elements set firmly..."

June 28, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Safe
Everyone is having a hard time putting a finger on Carol's problem, but nothing seems to cure her discomfort and, steadily, she wastes away. Is her problem medical, societal, or psychological? All of the above?
"...even an allegorical rendering of the AIDS epidemic. Such readings would be in keeping with Haynes' last feature Poison..."

Sept. 22, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hackers
Horny teenagers in goofy clothes avert eco-disaster and triumph over the government.
"...is uniformly well chosen, both for their boisterous, goony line-readings and their charisma (a special Best Pouty Lips Award..."

Sept. 22, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rain Without Thunder
"...the welcome novelty of its subject matter, the terrific readings by all the players and the heartfelt and committed..."

March 19, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Two by Pratibha Parmar: A Place of Rage, Khush
"...the Neville Brothers and the Staple Singers, rousing poetry readings by Jordan and commentary by others whom they touch...."

Feb. 21, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Voice of the Writer
Readings From the Texas Book Festival
"...Texas Institute of Letters, Hoggard proved in two short readings that he is a hell of a writer, with..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Books Feature

Inside the Small Presses Driving Austin’s Literary Scene
Meet the local small presses committed to publishing diverse literature
"...series her friend Jennifer Lewis launched in 2013. Poetry readings are a “longstanding literary tradition” on the West Coast,..."

May 31, 2024 Arts Feature by Carys Anderson

Everybody's Talking at You
Austin's reading series scene is booking good
"...good citizen, and put your hands together for Teleportal Readings. For Five Things. For Utter Reading. For Whiskey Rebellion...."

July 30, 2010 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Reasonably Offensive
Two civil suits against live music venues downtown call into question Austin's sound ordinance.
"...the APD themselves after they've conducted their own meter readings, at least one nightclub has found out that's not..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

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