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The Mummy
Tom Cruise does the monster mash
"...the blame here, chiefly because so many of the set-pieces and sequences have been lifted part and parcel from..."

June 9, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

John Wick: Chapter 2
The body count increases exponentially in this new installment
"...has the same action verve and flair for inventive set-pieces that the first film did, and if anything, returning..."

Feb. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Everybody Wants Some!!
Time moves on, but Richard Linklater's characters still walk and talk
"...called a “spiritual sequel” to Austin auteur Richard Linklater’s Seventies-set Dazed and Confused, this charmingly meandering look at the..."

April 1, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Day Fest: Willie Nelson's Luck Reunion
Shelter from the storm in Luck, Texas
"...shelter, everything moved incredibly quickly in Willie Nelson’s fake movie-set town of Luck. The imminent storm, however, did not...."

March 19, 2016 SXSW Post by Doug Freeman

Carol
Everything about this Fifties lesbian romance is sublime
"...perfectly on point, as is the Fifties costume and set design. Ed Lachman’s exquisite camerawork captures every minor detail..."

Dec. 25, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Estate Sale Roundup: May 15-19
Sales may be few this week, but the pickings are hardly slim.
"...Set the timer on the percolator early this week so..."

May 15, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

Snitch
A socially conscious action adventure that stars Dwayne Johnson, Snitch is an indictment of our federal minimum-punishment guidelines for drug offenses.
"...closest friends. Unfortunately, it’s a DEA trap that’s been set up by this friend in a plea deal to..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Sufjan Stevens’ Seasonal Affective Disorder Yuletide Disaster Pageant on Ice
Saturday night at Emo's East
"...involved no ice, nor pageant, but the elaborate stage set and costumes of both band and fans took holiday..."

Dec. 2, 2012 Music Post by Zoe Cordes Selbin

The Good, the Bad, the Weird
This rollicking South Korean film mines the traditional Western genre and infuses it with fresh, frequently hilarious life.
"...nowhere more evident than in the first breathtaking sequence set aboard a moving train. The sequence introduces motorcycle-riding bandit..."

April 30, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Devotion + Doubt of Richard Buckner
A man of few words gets intimate
"...star Leatherbag opened the night with a stripped down set, featuring only frontman Randy Reynolds with guitarist Geoff Dupree...."

May 12, 2009 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Burleson Co. Judge: $1 Million to Free Graves
"...U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordering the state to set a bond for Anthony Graves – whose murder conviction..."

Dec. 20, 2006 News Post by Jordan Smith

Steamboy
Japanese anime director Katsuhiro Ôtomo, best known for Akira, here delivers a dazzlingly straightforward rush that thrusts its protagonist into astonishing action set-piece after set-piece.
"...replaced this time out with an almost elegiac story set in the Victorian era, a place and time that’s..."

March 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DiG!
DiG! transcends the typical "rock movie" format and aspires to something greater: an examination of why we create and what we receive from art.
"...never say I’m sorry.") While BJM plays a 10-hour set at the Communist Party headquarters in Cleveland, Capitol Records..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Powerpuff Girls Movie
"...smorgasbord filtered through the lens of Fifties kitsch and set to a hipster beat that makes you want snap..."

July 12, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pearl Harbor
"...turned out) Pacific fleet, as well as a sequence set in the pockmarked skies above Dover's white cliffs and..."

May 25, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Executive Decision
"...of each new scene is accompanied by a new set of annoying intertitles. Then, just when you're about to..."

March 22, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Vanya On 42nd Street
"...work is the twist on how it's staged. The set is bare bones. It is set in the old..."

Feb. 10, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Passion inflamed in this study of women repressed and resurgent
"...Céline Sciamma gives the Gothic romance a feminist workout. Set in the late 18th century, the story unfolds primarily..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lucy Dacus Takes Center Stage in ACL Debut
Julien Baker’s last-minute cancellation spotlights Virginian
"...of her career ascent thus far. She opened the set solo, gazing shyly out into the modest crowd before..."

July 31, 2019 Music Post by Libby Webster

Joel Hodgson on MST30K
Reflecting on 30 years on the Satellite of Love
"...a hit in 2017, so a new season is set to drop on Thanksgiving, 30 years after the first..."

Oct. 31, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

ACL Live Review: Travis Scott
Astroworld’s roller coaster ride races through Zilker
"...conscious of the smartphone generation. His weekend one closing set on Sunday proved songs are merely the Houston rapper’s..."

Oct. 8, 2018 Music Post by Jeremy Steinberger

Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Tom Cruise risks life and limb in one of the best missions yet
"...by Rob Hardy’s fluid and kinetic cinematography. There are set-pieces in this film, especially the last 30 minutes, that..."

July 27, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Justice League
Another ho-hum entry to the DC Extended Universe
"...(Hinds) to touch down on Earth to reclaim a set of three “mother boxes,” the joining of which will..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Church Cuts Loose
Aussie jangle-pop legacy encores SXSW 2015
"...remained at full strength, while delivering an expansive, two-hour set for a full house...."

Sept. 19, 2017 Music Post by Michael Toland

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Star-Lord and co. return in the popular Marvel series
"...Set against a somewhat rambling plot involving the theft of..."

May 12, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Moontower Review: Ali Wong
Has motherhood made the Baby Cobra star a cleaner comic? No.
"...“the luxury of anonymity.” As she noted in her set Friday night, sure, you’re rich, but it means you..."

April 24, 2017 Arts Post by Ashley Moreno

Austin Music Awards’ Message of Love
35th annual local prom sets a new standard
"...the “Femmes for SIMS” peaked in the first music set, country sirens the Trishas took the stage with Savannah..."

March 13, 2017 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Rosenwald
Chicago-based, Jewish philanthropist Julius Rosenwald is profiled
"...construction of some 5,300 schoolhouses, many of which were set ablaze by the Klan, rebuilt, set ablaze again, and..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Listen to the Mockingbird!
Before her new book's out, hear Harper Lee's first read aloud
"...and her father, Atticus, as Harper Lee's novel Go Set a Watchman, set two decades after the author's much..."

July 13, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Best of Me
It's getting hard to tell one Nicholas Sparks adaptation from another amid all the dross.
"...them apart, because as grownups they’ve become, respectively, a sweater-set mom with a high ponytail (Monaghan) and a lonely..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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