Happy Feet

Raise your flippers in praise of these animated yet flightless fowl, who sing and dance and fight the eco-wars.

"...any hasty conclusions that the animated new film Happy Feet represents a cynical plundering for profit of the popular..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Under One Roof

Can the City Make Good on Its Affordable Housing Promise?

"...Life pastor J.R. Williams told the crowd, remembering the six years since Youth Works executive director Richard Halpin approached..."

July 28, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Six-String Reverb

In the Beginning ...

"...Justin McGuire and Jeffrey Falcon in Six-String Samurai The soft-spoken Mungia readily admits to having entered..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Page Two: Other Shoes, Other Feet

Republicans blame it all on the Democrats, while outraged activists flirt with censorship

"...If the Republicans had spent the first six years of the Bush administration acting like Republicans, it..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Broken

Heather Graham is an L.A. transplant whose dreams of a music career become soiled by her relationship with her junkie boyfriend, played by Jeremy Sisto.

"...Hope's junkie freakout of an ex. As played by Six Feet Under's Sisto, there is never any other way..."

Oct. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lars and the Real Girl

This movie's high-concept premise would be easy to dismiss were it not so flawlessly executed.

"...by Nancy Oliver, who penned many scripts for HBO's Six Feet Under, carries over some of that show's tonal..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Last Supper

"...is lying in the backyard, pushing up tomatoes from six feet under. A ruckus ensues once the guest starts..."

June 7, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Afternoon Delight

A woman creates a tempest in her domestic teapot when she invites a lap dancer to stay with her family.

"...and, yes, probably it’s also connected to the unexplained six-month absence of sex with her husband Jeff (Radnor)...."

Sept. 13, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

TV Eye

The cure to the summer rerun doldrums? HBO's Sex and the City and Six Feet Under.

"...Sex and the City and the series premiere of Six Feet Under, both on HBO. What an interesting evening..."

June 8, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Who was left off the list for this year's Emmy nominees.

"...Outstanding Drama series nominees: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (CBS), Six Feet Under (HBO), The Sopranos (HBO), 24 (Fox), The..."

July 25, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Keeping one eye on television and the other on pop culture.

"...new shows like 24 (Fox), The Shield (FX), and Six Feet Under (HBO)...."

Sept. 20, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Breaking more ground: Six Feet Under returns for a third season.

"...Appointment television is back when Six Feet Under returns for its third season this Sunday...."

Feb. 28, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Keeping Cesar Alive

Actor Ed Begley Jr. explains how he was inspired to write a musical honoring his friend Cesar Chavez

"...in Best in Show, his sexually liberated hairdresser on Six Feet Under, his Emmy-nominated turn as Dr. Victor Ehrlich..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

TV Eye

Belinda Acosta got touched by a TV

"...her family before leaving home in the series finale, Six Feet Under..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Another day, another blah awards show

"...a place among Best Drama Series nominees that included Six Feet Under and The Sopranos (both on HBO), along..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

TV Top 10s

"...1. Six Feet Under (HBO). Unlike The Sopranos and The West..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

New in Town

A strident Renée Zellweger stars in this forgettable fish-out-of-water comedy.

"...she arrives in small-town Minnesota to shake up its underproducing factory. It pains me to report that the film..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Hammer of the Gods

Scandinavia brings the lobster tail to SXSW 07

"...the cartoonish 22-Pistepirkko carves dreamy pop into the Velvet Underground; blond ivory-tickler Astrid Swan shakes down some redheaded Tori..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Screening Calls

What to see and when and where to see it at SXSW Film 04

"...their 12-year-old daughter, also appears. Krawitz's approach is cinematically understated, with crisp parallel editing. There are minor day-to-day moments..."

March 12, 2004 Screens Feature

TV Eye

Zen and the art of Samurai cartoonage

"...Of the 20-plus people who gathered at a Sixth Street pub, each had either written or called Time..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Holiday television fare

"...December. On Wednesdays in December, the first season of Six Feet Under and last season's Oz will also have..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...compatriot wound up as one of last year's criminally under-heard albums. If Freund's SXSW showcase lands him another deal..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Possessor Uncut

Identity melts in this psychotropic assassination brainblender

"...way of determining the strength of the assassin’s psychological underpinnings. Have they come unmoored? Eventually Vos, who has an..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bone Tomahawk

Hybrid Western/horror film starring Kurt Russell is a brutal delight

"...rely on one prominent hero supported by several charismatic underlings, and Bone Tomahawk is no exception. Russell’s Sheriff Hunt..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Stone

Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Milla Jovovich, and Frances Conroy become tangled in a narrative web of deceit, religion, carnality, and incarceration.

"...good; in a less showy but still essential part, Six Feet Under's Conroy practically folds her body into itself..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Humboldt County

This fine ensemble piece – thoughtful and cheering, even giddy in stabs – presents a seriocomic, sympathetic portrait of a pot-growing family operating along the coast of Northern California.

"...extended, cannabis-farming family led by genre stalwart Dourif and Six Feet Under's Conroy. His screen debut is one of..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Towelhead

Alan Ball's film is guaranteed to discomfit and dismay with its dangerous plunge into an adolescent girl's discovery of sexuality and self-identity.

"...Oscar-winning script for American Beauty and creating HBO’s eccentric Six Feet Under. Personally, I have never been too enthusiastic..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Visitor

The writer/director of The Station Agent is back with another interpersonal drama that is strangely both predictable and unpredictable.

"...not his role as the deceased father on HBO's Six Feet Under) is uncharacteristically cast in the lead by..."

April 25, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

No Reservations

While No Reservations is no Big Night, it's surprisingly winsome in parts, by virtue of Catherine Zeta-Jones' performance, and a romantic fable that lingers on the palette of the mind's eye.

"...the chef at a tony Manhattan restaurant owned by Six Feet Under alumna Clarkson. She's more brio than Brie,..."

July 27, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Civic Duty

The line separating civic duty from vigilantism is the focus of this paranoid thriller set squarely in the new age of terrorism.

"...challenging our allegiances to these characters. In the film, Six Feet Under's Krause plays an accountant named Terry Allen..."

May 4, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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