Once Upon a Time in the Midlands

British romantic tale uses the gunslinger mythos as a means to explore romance and regret.

"...Directed by: Shane Meadows. Starring: Robert Carlyle, Rhys Ifans, Shirley Henderson, Kathy Burke, Finn Atkins..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Enemy of the State

"...Lisa Bonet, Jason Lee, James Le Gros and Jack Black. Love him or hate him, Tony Scott only steals..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Unzipped

Fashion photographer Douglas Keeve turns his camera on designer Isaac Mizrahi for an intriguing and often funny look into the making of a seasonal fashion collection.

"...roots in a number of diverse gestures: images from Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North, Seventies sitcom single goddess..."

Sept. 29, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Search and Destroy

"...visual artists to enter the ranks of film directing. Robert Longo recently released his debut feature Johnny Mnemonic and..."

June 9, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Frank and Jesse

"...Directed by: Robert Boris. Starring: Rob Lowe, Bill Paxton and Randy Travis...."

Oct. 28, 1994 Movie Review by Brian Baker

Kalifornia

"...white trash squalor collides head-on with the urban artsy, always-dressed-in-black set in this moderately suspenseful crime drama that bears..."

Sept. 10, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

1991 Festival of Animation

"...Festival brings with it a decidedly loopy sense of black humor and a few of the most twisted short..."

Aug. 23, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Adds Iron Man, Captain Kirk, New Order to Speaker List

Robert Downey Jr., William Shatner, Deepak Chopra headed to Austin

"...star studded to date, with Oscar-winner Tilda Swinton, Oscar-nominees Robert Downey Jr. and Paul Giamatti, and electronic pioneers New..."

Feb. 14, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

First Look: Fixe

Addictive Downtown Southern

"...operations at Eddie V’s took his executive chef, James Robert, to lunch and made a proposition...."

Feb. 16, 2015 Food Post by Rachel Feit

Insidious: Chapter 2

All the same gang's back for this follow-up to the hit spooker.

"...Barbara Hershey, channeling the recently departed horror icon Karen Black, remanifests as well. Hershey is the most thrilling, human..."

Sept. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...looking for a new communications director. Longtime Perry aide Robert Black announced on July 14 that he will be..."

July 18, 2008 News Feature

Down We Go

Revisiting Renaissance man Robert Thom's prolific and hellish Hollywood visions

"...way to introduce the film but also its maker, Robert Thom, who wrote and directed. If it were all..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Big Trouble

"...by reliable laffmeister Barry Sonnenfeld (Get Shorty, Men in Black), and featuring a cast of some of film's most..."

April 12, 2002 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Detroit 9000

Blaxploitation classic re-released in 1999 by Quentin Tarantino's Rolling Thunder distribution company.

"...masterpiece by comparison. When a fundraising ball held by black gubernatorial challenger Clayton (the aptly named Challenger) is raided..."

July 23, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Three Kings of “No Kings But Us”

Austin DIY icon Tim Kerr and Houston legends Robert Hodge and Russel Gonzalez create “No Kings But Us”

"...Big Medium from HodgeKerr, aka Third Ward visual mastermind/musician Robert Hodge and Austin DIY punk icon and self-described self-expressionist..."

Jan. 19, 2024 Arts Feature by Haris Qureshi

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

"...and documentaries on subjects from the Grateful Dead to Black Lives Matter...."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Man Who Knew Infinity

Mathematics prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan is the subject of this biopic

"...theories have now proved critical in the study of black holes – the most practical takeaway I gained from..."

May 6, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Making Trouble Look Good

How Kurt Volk got to be Robert Rodriguez's go-to poster designer

"...the comics of Frank Miller. But Volk's not some Robert Rodriguez obsessive completist. This is Volk's work. For a..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Seven Fun Facts About 7 Walkers

Strange but true…

"...extraordinaire Matt Hubbard, and honorary fifth member and lyricist Robert Hunter. There’s plenty more to the story, though...."

Nov. 25, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

Predators

This Robert Rodriguez-produced film doesn't try to be a sequel to the Schwarzenegger picture but, instead, is a new story about humans hunted by the merciless Predators.

"...manage a full moon, all the better.) Produced by Robert Rodriguez's Troublemaker Studios and largely shot in and around..."

July 16, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Terribly Happy

This Danish import is a wonderfully unhinged and a painstakingly constructed meditation on a place where good and evil meet, mate, and make sour times sublime.

"...metropolitan betters recognize as weird, queer, and just plain black-ice wrong. But like John Mellencamp said, people are born,..."

March 12, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Rocker

Rainn Wilson's goofy, puppylike charm makes this comedy about overage, overweight rockers passing on the glories of rock & roll to the next generation a palatable exercise.

"...will go down in history as the first Jack Black film to exist independently of the manic star himself...."

Aug. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I Am Legend

After a terrific start marked by the film's striking views of a desolate Manhattan island, Will Smith's mostly solo action movie devolves into a monster-movie malaise.

"...April Grace and Joanna Numata. In a bit of black irony any cynic would have to appreciate, the virus..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

I'm Not There

This meditation on Bob Dylan is infused with love – not the slavish kind but a true-eyed tribute to the artist who belongs to nobody and everybody at once.

"...in the life of the artist formally known as Robert Zimmerman, from a young strummer’s worship at the altar..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Cinema of Possibilities

Low budget or big, the energy and imagination of the grind-house circuit is reborn in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's tribute

"...of cinematic fare and the theatres that showed it. Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino each directed a feature and..."

April 6, 2007 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Monster House

This animated tale of a carnivorous, haunted house and the band of neighborhood kids who decide to put it out of commission feels maddeningly unfinished.

"...Pettler) – the writing team behind the cult Jack Black/Owen Wilson pilot Heat Vision and Jack – is a..."

July 21, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Thirteen Days

"...House between President Kennedy (Greenwood); his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy (Culp); and, both the President and the audience's..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

U-571

"...Bon Jovi?!), a throwback to the glory days of Robert Wise's Run Silent Run Deep, a slickly crafted bit..."

April 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wild Wild West

"...G-man Jim West (played on the small screen by Robert Conrad and here by Smith) and inventor-cum-master of disguise..."

July 2, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Modulations

"...genre as Cage (who is captured in some obscure black-and-white footage expounding on some even more obscure musical theorems)..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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