Venus: Shocking Blue & Cabanel

The Shocking Blue scores Alexandre Cabanel's Birth of Venus

"...a mountain top, Was burning like a silver flame. The summit of beauty and love, And Venus was her..."

July 20, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Must Love Dogs

Convinced that one is the loneliest number, a divorced woman uses man's best friend to catch a new mate.

"...Diane Lane, John Cusack, Elizabeth Perkins, Christopher Plummer, Dermot Mulroney, Stockard Channing and Ben Shenkman. Writer/director Gary David Goldberg..."

July 29, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Something's Gotta Give

Sure, the co-stars delight, but the script has more flab than its middle-aged lovers.

"...a filmmaker is lucky, he or she stumbles across one moment of truth in a film. It sounds like..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Filth and Wisdom

Madonna's film-directing debut, which stars Gogol Bordello charismatic frontman Eugene Hutz, is a slight and philosophically dubious effort.

"...Inder Manocha and Stephen Graham. With Filth and Wisdom, the Material Girl has now spliced the title of film..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Meet Finley Sexton

Second generation Sexton takes center stage

"...with Todd Wolfson, Kathy McCarty, and Kacy Crowley at the Monkey’s Nest. Since then, she’s become a regular for..."

April 17, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Natalie Zoe's Birthday Bash

Natalie turns 60 at the Saxon Friday

"...you don’t mind me plugging your CD release for The High Road this Friday, Feb. 24, at the Saxon..."

Feb. 20, 2012 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Youth in Revolt

Teen angst is on the docket in this Michael Cera vehicle that's pleasant but never delivers on the revolt promised in the title.

"...Payne’s early Nineties epistolary novel, Youth in Revolt chronicles the tortured life of Nick Twisp (Cera), a teen living..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Sydney White

Teen popularity traumas are translated here into a loosely updated version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

"...2. A loosely updated version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the story follows young Sydney (Bynes) as..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Me and Miss Jones

Shirley Jones looks back at playing against type.

"...Call her Mrs. Partridge, call her Marian the librarian, call her Lulu Bains. Call her by the..."

Sept. 12, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser

I Know Who Killed Me

Lindsay Lohan knows there are fates worse than her current legal quagmire – starring in this clunker, for example.

"...Garrett. If you think getting arrested for driving under the influence and drug possession only a few days after..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Aquaholics Anonymous

Austin's got a drinking problem.

"...The City Council Notebook's going to be a little sparse..."

May 7, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Freedom Writers

Although based on a true story, this is another movie in which the cute white lady goes into an irascible high school and makes everybody love learnin'.

"...Glenn, Imelda Staunton, April Lee Hernandez and Jason Finn. The success story of English teacher Erin Gruwell (Swank) and..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Elektra

Watching Jennifer Garner as Elektra turn somersaults over her foes in her drop-dead-sexy assassin’s gear isn’t nearly as invigorating as it ought to be.

"...assassin Elektra, I could have sworn, was somewhat dead the last time we saw her. No matter, because this..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

For a Good Time Call …

The Apatowian bromance has found its reverse-gender equivalent in this comedy about two gals who enter the phone-sex biz.

"...This was inevitable: The Apatowian bromance – the dominant trend in comedy for..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Five and a Half Things About Sheryl Cole's Re-Election Kick-Off

SMDs to education, the Capitol Complex to … lipstick?

"...Cole is not running for mayor. That fact wasn’t mentioned in a press release touting her “campaign announcement” today,..."

Nov. 30, 2011 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Dancing and Singing With Dry Cleaning

Erin Ivey's talents are many

"...If you’ve watched local television in the past month or so, you've probably seen Erin Ivey...."

April 29, 2009 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Prime

With genuine sparks between its two lovestruck leads and a delightfully flinchy performance from Meryl Streep, this comedy is just what its title implies: prime.

"...this light romantic comedy, but it helps. Younger directed the terrific Wall Street-wannabes flick Boiler Room in 2000, and..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Aliens in America

Q&A with speculative fiction writer Robert Jackson Bennett

"...Edgar Award-winning Austin author Robert Jackson Bennett takes on the aliens and the atomic age in his latest book,..."

Feb. 14, 2013 Books Post by Amy Gentry

'Justified' Recap: 'This Bird has Flown'

Ladies have flown the coop and Raylan owns birds worth a goodly sum

"...is kind of an odd duck. It doesn’t advance the Where’s Waldo/Drew Thompson/Panamanian diplomatic pouch mystery plot at all..."

Feb. 1, 2013 Screens Post by Virginia B. Wood

HAAM Happy

A little girlie action at Nancy Coplin's big six-0

"...birthday, she threw herself a party Sunday evening at Antone’s to benefit the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians. And..."

March 31, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Honey

Jennifer Alba's hoodrat find her inner Flashdance.

"...Angel Jessica Alba’s lanky, streamlined frame and planklike abdomen, Honey is a knockout – there are nearly as many..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'Doctor Who' Watch

Recapping "Asylum of the Daleks"

"...There was never any question season 7 opener “Asylum of..."

Sept. 2, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Celeste & Jesse Forever

This romantic comedy starring Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg is far funnier than you’d expect a film about a tortuous split to be – and more deft.

"...Directed by: Lee Toland Krieger. Starring: Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, Chris Messina, Elijah Wood, Ari Graynor, Eric..."

Aug. 24, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Made in Dagenham

This film dramatizes a historic labor strike for equal pay that was conducted by the women of a British auto plant in 1968.

"...Andrea Riseborough, Geraldine James, Rosamund Pike, Miranda Richardson, Jaime Winstone, Daniel Mays, Kenneth Cranham, Rupert Graves and Richard Schiff...."

Jan. 7, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Premonition

Sandra Bullock again turns toward the supernatural in this thriller in which she plays a housewife who's uncertain whether her husband is alive or dead.

"...Stormare. Now you see him, now you don’t. That’s the time-tripping premise of Premonition, a mess of a movie..."

March 23, 2007 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Superman Returns

Superman returns to Earth seeming more like a humbled prodigal son than an invincible superhero.

"...son than an invincible superhero. He crash-lands back on the Midwestern farm of his boyhood after an absence of..."

June 30, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Undiscovered

A musician and an actress circle and sniff, and generally run through every cliché in the why-can’t-we-be-together playbook.

"...for her ailment after two hours of fighting back the bile watching Undiscovered, in which she costars as a..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous

No medals will be awarded for this Sandra Bullock follow-up, although the actress proves herself an ever-game comic actress.

"...Bullock, Regina King, Enrique Murciano, William Shatner, Ernie Hudson, Heather Burns, Diedrich Bader and Treat Williams. Sandra Bullock is..."

March 25, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bewafaa

Bollywood romance glosses over the cultural ramifications of marriage and adultery, but is heavy on the music and melodramatics.

"...has arrived in town (courtesy of Cinemark’s Tinseltown South theatre, which has tentative plans to bring in more Indian..."

March 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In My Skin

Disturbing French drama about a woman who cuts her own skin as a prelude to gnawing on her flesh.

"...Léa Drucker. An antidote to holiday cheer like no other, this French tale of psychological horror is as harsh..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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