Songcatcher

"...product. Songcatcher is as hammy as they come, its characters laden with a “golly-gee” sensibility and facial theatrics more..."

June 29, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

aGLIFF Schedule

"...09/01FRI 7:30pm Under Heat 9:45pm Sister My Sister Midnight Heavy Equipment 09/02SAT 2:30pm *The Young..."

Sept. 1, 1995 Screens Feature

Dance Me Outside

"...which, despite taking a questionable turn in its third act, proves to be a pleasant enough diversion all the..."

Aug. 4, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

True Legend

The great martial-arts choreographer Yuen Woo-ping directs this saga about the inventor of Drunken Fist fighting.

"...is on full display, the filmmaker also supplements these action illusions with CGI work that is much less convincing...."

May 13, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Elizabethtown

Cameron Crowe's romantic comedy doesn't make the attraction between the characters played by Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom believable and then goes off in dozens more unprofitable directions.

"...ingenious, Rube Goldberg-esque suicide attempt is aborted when his sister Heather (Greer) calls with news of their father’s death..."

Oct. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Clay Pigeons

"...that eventually threatens half the town. Much more threatening, actually, is Vaughn as Lester Long, a trucker-cum-drifter who breezes..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Star Maps

"...hustles; a little here, a little there, it's a fact. But in Miguel Arteta's first feature film, Star Maps,..."

Aug. 8, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Broadway Leading Lady Carolee Carmello on Taking Over Dolly!

Hello, Dolly prepares for run at Bass Concert Hall

"...Broadway credits: Abigail Adams in 1776, Mother Superior is Sister Act, Lilli Vanessi/Kate in Kiss Me, Kate, Cordelia in..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Arts Post by Paul Beutel

Frozen II

Back to Arendelle, but has the story grown up with the audience?

"...a quest to an enchanted forest with her spunky sister Anna (Bell) and Anna’s steady Kristoff (Groff), where they..."

Nov. 22, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Beyond the Night

Small town thriller intrigues, but never satisfies

"...some time ago. The film teases out but never actually confirms this supernatural element, that perhaps the girl has..."

Jan. 26, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Time Trap

Time-bending thriller needed more, well, time

"...teaming up with Taylor’s maybe-girlfriend Cara (Gifford), her little sister Veeves (Draguicevich), and Veeves’ friend – OMG, hello Nineties..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Boundaries

Take a pleasant road trip with Christopher Plummer up the PCH

"...music biz drama Country Strong, has crafted some interesting characters, I just wish they were in a better movie...."

July 13, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Ocean's 8

Sandra Bullock is the other Ocean sibling in this all-female revamp of the heist franchise

"...In the opening scene, Debbie Ocean (Bullock), Danny’s kid sister, is just being released from prison after serving five..."

June 8, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Measure of a Man

Even Donald Sutherland reciting fortune cookie wisdom doesn't save this YA snore.

"...begin with the overly articulate voiceover from our main character Bobby (Cooper), who has body issues, an emotionally unavailable..."

May 11, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

2 Days in New York

This ebullient domestic comedy by Julie Delpy, in which she co-stars with Chris Rock, is a follow-up to 2007’s 2 Days in Paris.

"...2 Days in New York, French filmmaker and actress Julie Delpy’s tangential follow-up to 2007’s 2 Days in..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

I Saw the Devil

A serial killer meets his match – and then some – in this nasty revenge drama from South Korea that's nevertheless executed with superlative style and wit.

"...release. Each time he finds the killer in the act, Soo-hyun leaves him a little worse off yet still..."

March 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

27 Dresses

We predict a happy union between 27 Dresses and cable TV, forever rerunning with commercial breaks tailor-made for laundry-loading and sandwich-making.

"...dresses mark the time Jane has spent, as one character puts it, in the taffeta ghetto of bridesmaidery. Lucky..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Jeepers Creepers

"...story is the essence of spooky simplicity: Brother and sister Darius (Long) and Trish (Philips) are taking the scenic..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Solid Roots Support the Tiarras' Indie Chicana Sound

No longer Tiarra Girls, the outspoken sister trio still puts family first

"...air from behind the drum set. Tiffany held eye contact with her as she maintained a steady bassline. Then..."

July 28, 2023 Music Feature by Wayne Lim

SXSW Unloads Headliners

Avett Brothers, Weezer, Wu-Tang Clan plus 134 more

"...a tribute to the Memphis cult heroes 1975 album Third/Sister Lovers. Meanwhile, the music fest also taps roots songstress..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Get Him to the Greek

Jonah Hill and Russell Brand make a well-matched odd couple, and their path to Hollywood is littered with the excesses of drugs and rock & roll.

"...comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall have taken that film’s breakout character Aldous Snow, a debauched rock & roll travesty, and..."

June 4, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bedtime Stories

Adam Sandler has finally found his audience: 3-year-olds. Maybe he should stop making movies already and just rent himself out for kids’ parties.

"...over the hotel instead of him and that his sister (Cox) needs him to look after her two young..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Secret Life of Bees

Despite the sincere coming-of-age story at the heart of this movie rife with singers-turned-actresses, there's no denying the pleasures found in the film's soulful matriarchy.

"...she discovers at the homestead of the unusual Boatwright sisters. Set in 1964 against the background of the newly..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gracie

Davis Guggenheim (director of An Inconvenient Truth) tells this more-or-less true story of one New Jersey girl's struggle to play soccer in the male-dominated sports world of the late Seventies.

"...story of the Shue family (Elisabeth and Andrew both act in the film, while Elisabeth's husband Guggenheim directs). Doubtless..."

June 1, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

The Last Mimzy

Solid performances elevate this mild but hardly magical children's sci-fi story.

"...to include references to homeland security and the PATRIOT Act and various New Age-y beliefs. Nevertheless, the plot raises..."

March 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Green Street Hooligans

The psychotically testosterized world of British football hooliganism, with its crimson tide of fist-in-mouth male bonding and lager-lout bad manners, is captured in this post LOTR Elijah Wood movie.

"...up as a drug-scandal patsy. Moving in with his sister, Shannon (Forlani), the naive, button-down Yank quickly finds himself..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fat Albert

Bill Cosby's animated kids get a live-action makeover.

"...animated TV show has been transposed into a mostly live-action film. It begins when Fat Albert’s gang (a motley..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Napoleon Dynamite

Indie film about teenage dork celebrates the youthful underdog.

"...length that one wonders if it isn’t exploiting its characters, who are poor and rural and creepy and odd,..."

June 25, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Muse

"...Jack Warrick (Bridges), who in turn sets up Steven's fractured ego with an honest-to-goodness muse named Sarah (Stone). Daughters..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Relax … It's Just Sex

"...less enthusiastic about starting a family than she. In fact, conflict seems the only constant in the lives of..."

June 25, 1999 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

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