Frank's Wild Years

The back roads of Ramsay Midwood

"...club, Ramsay, guitarist Bill Mullin, who also drums when Scott Mason can't make it, plus Bryan Mammel on keyboards..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

In for the Long Haul

Scott Frank speaks about how to sustain a career in screenwriting

"...So says screenwriter-turned-director Scott Frank, the pen behind some of Hollywood's most durably..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Safe Cracking

Longtime screenwriter and first-time director Scott Frank on The Lookout

"...Scott Frank's The Lookout isn't a film about brain injuries...."

March 30, 2007 Screens Feature by Darcie Stevens

Dead Again

"...Jacobi, Robin Williams, Andy Garcia, Hanna Schygulla and Campbell Scott. Hopelessly muddled but doggedly entertaining, Dead Again resurrects film..."

Aug. 30, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Wolverine

With perma-snarl intact, Hugh Jackman is back as the Wolverine hunts new prey in Japan.

"...two X-Men pictures, screenwriters Christopher McQuarrie, Mark Bomback, and Scott Frank do get some mileage out of the setting,..."

July 26, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Little Man Tate

"...as a child rather than a child prodigy. Although Scott Frank's screenplay has more than a few holes in..."

Nov. 8, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Lookout

The Lookout, an odd caper story, marks Scott Frank’s directorial debut after years of working as a screenwriter on movies like Get Shorty and Out of Sight.

"...Directed by: Scott Frank. Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Isla..."

March 30, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Austin Film Festival to Honor Ed Wood Writers

Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski to receive Bill Wittliff Award

"...it will celebrate two quiet giants of the art: Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski...."

May 30, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Walk Among the Tombstones

Liam Neeson has taken to shooting at bad guys again in this slow-burning Matthew Scudder mystery.

"...Directed by: Scott Frank. Starring: Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, David Harbour, Boyd..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Matchstick Men

Neurotic con artist reunites with abandoned daughter in a surprisingly sweet bait-and-switch.

"...Directed by: Ridley Scott. Starring: Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Alison Lohman, Bruce Altman,..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Here Comes the Boom

Kevin James plays a biology teacher who moonlights as a mixed martial-arts fighter; Salma Hayek is his love interest.

"...Directed by: Frank Coraci. Starring: Kevin James, Salma Hayek, Henry Winkler, Greg..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

American Gangster

A sizzling cast and their director do a crackerjack job of nailing the look and feel of New York City's bad old days of internal corruption and outer rot.

"...Directed by: Ridley Scott. Starring: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Josh Brolin, Ruby Dee,..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Stepford Wives

Remake will quickly go from an idea that's misbegotten to a movie that's completely forgotten.

"...Directed by: Frank Oz. Starring: Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Glenn Close, Bette..."

June 11, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The House

They say the house always wins, but sometimes ...

"...her choice gets obliterated by this film’s unbelievable mechanics. Scott (Ferrell) and Kate (Poehler) team up with their gambling-..."

July 7, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Saint Ralph

This strange youth dramedy from Canada has a brisk, sunny aplomb.

"...Directed by: Michael McGowan. Starring: Adam Butcher, Campbell Scott, Gordon Pinsent, Jennifer Tilly, Shauna MacDonald and Michael Kanev...."

Aug. 26, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Jodorowsky's Dune

What's tantalizing but never was? This Fantastic Fest award-winner talks with the famed surrealist and others about their plans for this aborted project.

"...Directed by: Frank Pavich...."

May 9, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

KAZI's True Colors

The Reverend Frank Garrett Pushes KAZI to the Edge

"...has a PR problem -- he is the Reverend Frank Garrett, Jr., host of the morning talk show Wake..."

Nov. 17, 1995 News Feature

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

"...Directed by: Rob Cohen. Starring: Jason Scott Lee, Lauren Holly, Nancy Kwan, Robert Wagner and Michael..."

May 7, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Music and Lyrics

Drew Barrymore plays lyricist to Hugh Grant's has-been musician in this Valentine's Day romantic comedy.

"...Barrymore, Haley Bennett, Brad Garrett, Kristen Johnston and Campbell Scott. If there’s one thing you can be sure about..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Flight of the Phoenix

Sticking closely to the tone of its predecessor, this remake of Robert Aldrich’s 1965 adventure film lacks the tang of the original, and trades the late-vintage Jimmy Stewart for the shirtless Dennis Quaid.

"...its predecessor in both tone and tenor. Quaid plays Frank Towns, pilot of an aging cargo plane sent to..."

Dec. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Live Music This Weekend, Aug. 18-20

Soundtracking this weekend’s sweat-fests

"...on Friday. Check in with Bone Thugs-n-Harmony and Creed’s Scott Stapp at Bat Fest on Saturday. And Sunday’s the..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Music Post by James Renovitch

Up at the Villa

"...Directed by: Philip Haas. Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Sean Penn, Anne Bancroft, James Fox, Jeremy Davies,..."

May 19, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The AggreGAYtor: December 6

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...Marco Rubio gives a sound bite, Scott Evans rips from the headlines, and One Million Moms..."

Dec. 6, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Malice

"...Pullman, Bebe Neuwirth, Peter Gallagher, Josef Sommer, George C. Scott and Anne Bancroft. Malice is well-named. It's a seething..."

Oct. 1, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...D: Robert Redford; with Robert Redford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Neill, Dianne Weist, Chris Cooper...."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Bad Boy Boogie

“Let There Be Rock,” pronounced AC/DC - on the silver screen, in 1980. With Bon Scott.

"...San Antonio’s AT&T Center last December, and tonight the Frank Erwin Center’s sprinkler system tests its mettle against the..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

In Print

'Screenwriters' Masterclass'

"...Edited by Kevin Conroy Scott..."

April 28, 2006 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Interpreter

Although The Interpreter is intelligent, intriguing, and topical, it's hampered by its own good intentions, too many plot convolutions, and character ambiguities that try to pass for suspense.

"...(The Life of David Gale) and the rewrites by Scott Frank (Out of Sight) and Steve Zaillian (Schindler’s List)..."

April 22, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Get Shorty

"...was adapted from an Elmore Leonard novel by screenwriter Scott Frank (Little Man Tate). The film is wickedly hilarious..."

Oct. 20, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Preserving a 'Special Kind of Place'

Scott Swearingen on the ‘environmental city’

"...I sat down recently with Scott Swearingen to talk about his new book, Environmental City:..."

April 23, 2010 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

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