The Wrecking Crew

The great L.A. session band gets the doc treatment

"...who played on virtually every hit record of the Sixties and early Seventies, may seem like it follows in..."

March 27, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Psychedelic Acid Trope

Exhibits at the Bullock, Briscoe, and LBJ explore our recall of the Sixties

"...Close your eyes and say it out loud: "The Sixties."..."

July 18, 2014 Arts Feature by Kate X Messer

Inside Llewyn Davis

The latest from the Coen Brothers nails the Sixties folk-music scene, and delivers another of their memorably flawed heroes.

"...shivers. It’s set in Greenwich Village in the early Sixties, the same time Dylan was starting to make a..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Company You Keep

Members of the Weather Underground resurface in this contemporary thriller directed by Robert Redford.

"...the pursued. The photo of Grant as a long-haired Sixties radical is actually a picture of Redford from Butch..."

April 26, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead

Every generation gets the George A. Romero socio-political zombie opus they deserve. We must be living right, because this new film cuts right to the heart.

"...and bored-looking dead folks. Too, it had a genuine Sixties echo in Dennis Hopper, a living, breathing actor who..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

You Ain't Goin' Nowhere

Has Todd Haynes reinvented the biopic? Or has he reinvented the Todd Haynes film?

"...Dancing, which is supposed to take place in the Sixties, you know you're really watching a movie that is..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Across the Universe

Julie Taymor takes the timelessness of the Beatles' music and yanks it earthward into a minefield of literalism.

"...music of the Beatles and the zeitgeist of the Sixties by the time a character named Prudence barges into..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sir! No Sir!

The GI anti-war movement during the Vietnam war is recounted in this revelatory documentary whose current implications cannot be underestimated.

"...into the iconography of the American counterculture of the Sixties and Seventies. Yet the story of the war’s most..."

May 19, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ram Dass: Fierce Grace

"...professor, blossomed into Ram Dass, spiritual teacher to a Sixties counterculture that responded to his invitation to “Be here..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rebels With a Cause

Compelling documentary about the Sixties" Students for a Democratic Society includes commentary from such leaders as Tom Hayden and Austin's Alice Embree and Jeff Shero Nightbyrd.

"...in a solid explanation of America in the early Sixties. What makes Rebels so compelling is Garvy's effusive on-camera..."

March 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Thomas Crown Affair

"...still cloaking the whole proceeding in a vaguely disjointed Sixties retro kitsch. It goes without saying that Brosnan, while..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Avengers

"...of way, full of dry British wit and spare Sixties pop art set design. Macnee's trusty bowler and bumbershoot..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sonobeat Records

Late-Sixties local label Sonobeat – the missing link between the Vulcan Gas Company and Stubb's?

"...in the roots of Austin's recording history in the Sixties – the eventual topic of his American studies thesis..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Get Folked!

An interview with the men behind the Folksmen.

"...A Mighty Wind is a faux documentary on Sixties-era folk singing groups that reunite for a final time..."

May 9, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Theatre Review: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical

ZACH creates a tapestry of Sixties poppy fun in this jukebox musical

"...the ZACH audience during my showing lapped up the Sixties anthems with wild enthusiasm. There were hoots. There were..."

Aug. 16, 2024 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

The transcendent history of one of the greatest musicals ever

"...experience and the social and civil revolutions of the Sixties. The film is a heady brew of analysis and..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

David Crosby: Remember My Name

The most hated man in folk rock on his career in bridge-burning

"...the answers Crosby provides don’t dig very deep. A Sixties survivor who by his own account has crossed lines..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Dog’s Way Home

They're all good doggo adventures, Brent

"...ever known. It’s like one of those sentimentally charged Sixties-era, hourlong episodes of The Wonderful World of Disney, albeit..."

Jan. 18, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Other Side of the Wind

Should Orson Welles' last film have stayed lost?

"...one that Hannaford is screening, a wordless look at Sixties counterculture starring a Native American woman (Kodar) and a..."

Nov. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Studio 54

The rise, fall, and legacy of NYC's most famous nightclub

"...women’s liberation and the gay rights movement in the Sixties and the political backlash and AIDS epidemic that colored..."

Oct. 19, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Don't Leave Home

A strange trip to the Emerald Isle

"...that harks back to the supernaturally charged mysteries of Sixties and Seventies British cinema. Thirty years later, American artist..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Operation Finale

Nazi hunting history may be accurate, but lacks tension or gravity

"...Jewish problem” by a group of Mossad agents in Sixties Argentina...."

Aug. 31, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Avengers: Infinity War

Earth's mightiest heroes face their greatest, most nuanced threat

"...like this since the great wartime ensembles of the Sixties and Seventies, the A Bridge Too Fars and The..."

April 27, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Final Portrait

High art in Paris with Armie Hammer and Geoffrey Rush.

"...for a sense of place – Paris in the Sixties – and while the scenes in Giacometti’s studio are..."

April 20, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

In Memoriam: Ken Johnson

Remembering the versatile theatre artist, who died March 2

"...and popularity of the stage scene here in the Sixties and Seventies has left us. Ken Johnson – or..."

March 8, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography

Errol Morris' latest doc profiles Boston photographer

"...Elsa Dorfman, a photographer since the Sixties, is an engaging figure, talking with Morris in her..."

July 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo

Doc on the men behind the astronauts

"...an absorbing document of the Space Race of the Sixties (aka another endless instance of global dick-measuring), and the..."

April 14, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The LEGO Batman Movie

The Dark Knight returns to Legoland

"...cultural phenomenon. Channeling D.C. Comics, Christopher Nolan, and campy Sixties television, The LEGO Batman Movie elevates Emmet Brickowski’s sidekick..."

Feb. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Doctor Strange

The Doctor is out, far out

"...exists beyond time itself perfectly recalls the comic’s mid-to-late Sixties heyday. Austinite C. Robert Cargill scripted alongside Scott Derrickson..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ouija: Origin of Evil

This horror sequel is vastly superior to its cheesy precursor

"...planchette panache of the actual board game in its mid-Sixties through mid-Seventies heyday. Vastly superior to its cheesy, contemporary..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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