Trouble With the Curve

Despite its love of baseball lore, this film, starring Clint Easstwood and Amy Adams, is really a melodrama about the reconciliation of a father and daughter.

"...This ode to the old-school world of baseball scouting arrives almost as though in..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Beaver

Jodie Foster directs Mel Gibson in this odd family drama.

"...friend Jodie Foster, whom he has known since their days filming Maverick in 1994. Foster co-stars as well as..."

May 6, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The 'Tease That Binds

The Texas Burlesque Festival builds community among those who are hip to the strip

"...finding venues that combine the crushed-velvet-and-martinis feel of the old-school days with the punk DIY ethos that powers the..."

April 15, 2011 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Grown Ups

Grown Ups is the latest in an ongoing series of achingly nostalgic Adam Sandler schmaltzfests.

"...Tim Meadows. Who is Adam Sandler's presumed audience these days? Is it a) men who came of age during..."

June 25, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Planet 51

In a switcheroo, animated aliens fear the human in their midst.

"...equivalent of being held back a year in middle school for coloring outside their minds. A co-production of Madrid-based..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Zeppelin 3

"...gang of music thugs in the back of a school bus in the 7th or 8th grade and bullied..."

March 28, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2008

Another compilation of old and new animated spectacles guaranteed to rot your eyeballs.

"...or otherwise) that back in those halcyon, pre-Web 2.0 days could only be discovered via the likes of Spike..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Although it tries mightily to top 2005's origin story by introducing fanboy favorite the Silver Surfer, this film is nevertheless relentlessly dull and curiously bombastic.

"...in a sequel that has dumbed itself down to grade-school level. The oft-delayed wedding of Reed Richards (the bland..."

June 22, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams

This first feature from Bosnian director/writer Jasmila Zbanic offers up a slice of life after hell in which a widowed mother and daughter still veer perilously between fear and hope.

"...– a martyr of the war. She's not alone: School-yard tough boy Samir (Catic), previously a source of football..."

May 18, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Half Nelson

Ryan Gosling's bleakly hopeful turn as crack-addicted teacher Dan in Half Nelson is matched only by the smoldering realism of newcomer Shareeka Epps.

"...again. But Gosling, as Dan, a Brooklyn junior high school teacher hooked on crack, has met his match in..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

AISD Budget

District may have resources to reverse cuts if it can muster the courage to raise taxes

"...$604.4 million that will be spent during the 2006-07 school year is almost $56 million more than last year's..."

June 30, 2006 News Feature by Michael May

X-Men: The Last Stand

This third outing in the franchise lays on the subtext even more heavily than its predecessors – racial, gender, and sexual politics are all over the place, as are the multiple strands of the story line.

"...and ends up coming across like an overearnest grad school dissertation on toxic love and the society what done..."

May 26, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

There Goes the Neighborhood

Ray Pride's 'Beauty School' Crack Pipes: No day at the ballpark

"...musical evolution. You can also hear it on Beauty School, the Crack Pipes' fourth and most fully realized album..."

July 29, 2005 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2005

Spike & Mike has always been a hit-or-miss program, and this year is no different, with a few genuinely brilliant pieces surrounded by examples of puerile fun and juvenile humor.

"...the zany animals-in-jeopardy (with their viscera hanging from trees) school of comedy that give The Simpsons’ Itchy & Scratchy..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Man on Fire

Denzel Washington heads up a pulsating kidnapping thriller.

"...a bodyguard job in Mexico City, essentially chauffeuring to school Pita (Fanning), the daughter of an industrialist (recording star..."

April 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Starsky & Hutch

Seventies TV shows live on through Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, and Snoop Dog.

"...a hit last year with the equally oddball Old School, has a goldmine at his command in the forms..."

March 5, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Along Came Polly

Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston date and become more than just friends.

"...back into the manic, borderline-subversive comedy of his earlier days (Zoolander came awfully close on that point), and the..."

Jan. 16, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Last Kiss

The Italian film which was adapted for the American remake starring Zach Braff.

"...trying out sex and drugs at younger ages these days, so it follows that they're having their meltdowns sooner,..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Scorpion King

"...a physique that's straight out of the Steve Reeves school of beefy hardbodies -- he's already a cartoon, and..."

April 19, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ice Age

Prehistoric buddy cartoon.

"...most American children's animation, descendants all of the Disney school of storytelling. A 20th Century Fox production, Ice Age..."

March 15, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

Candidate Gus Garcia takes on the school district

"...mayor since, he is a former president of the school board. (In fact, he became president when One Tough..."

Nov. 2, 2001 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

15 Minutes

"...off. Director John Herzfeld's last film was 1995's 2 Days in the Valley. Since then, it's clear he hasn't..."

March 9, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Smiling Fish and Goat On Fire

"...for aspiring filmmakers. It's the “write what you know” school of storytelling. Fair enough -- but problems arise when..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Disenchanted

"...delivers biting essays on Rimbaud to her class at school. Jacquot's talent here is his ability to make the..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hurricane Streets

"...on a Bowery childhood. Fifteen-year-old Marcus (Sexton) spends his days pulling minor scams -- shoplifting and such -- with..."

April 24, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Waiting for Guffman

Guest's mockumentary tracks visiting drama teacher Corky St. Clair's biggest challenge: creating a workable musical revue celebrating his Missouri town's sesquicentennial using only local players.

"...Blaine, Missouri, Corky St. Clair (Guest), the visiting high school drama teacher and Off-Off-Off-Broadway refugee, is faced with the..."

March 28, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ghosts of Mississippi

"...that have become something of a cottage industry these days. The outcome of the trial is a matter of..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Favor

"...And it is big: Kathy (Kozak), facing a high school reunion and haunted by dreams of the hunky boyfriend..."

May 6, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Brainscan

"...Ryder Smith and Jamie Marsh. Flashback. It's tough these days, I suppose, to come up with a genuinely original..."

April 22, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dennis the Menace

This film adaptation is based more on the TV series than on the comic strip.

"...Lea Thompson and Paul Winfield. Writer-producer-director John Hughes these days comes dangerously close to promoting child abuse. What started..."

June 25, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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