De Palma

Director Brian De Palma reveals tales and insights from his career

"...by the European arthouse films of the Fifties and Sixties. Reaching their first blossom in the Seventies, many like..."

June 24, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Darling

A woman appears to go ’round the bend in this well-done horror film

"...mostly by Roman Polanski and Ingmar Bergman in the Sixties, but with this and Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of..."

April 15, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Moonwalkers

A stoner comedy frames this moon-landing conspiracy-theory romp

"...Moonwalkers blends a strange mélange of Swinging Sixties, drug-addled humor with that slow-motion, gangster gunplay that Guy..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Darling Mickey

Prolific director Mickey Keating dials in to the Sixties

"...Stanley Kubrick's early work, Keating describes Darling as "a Sixties-style descent into madness." It follows the title character (Lauren..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

’71

A kinetic chase movie uses the Troubles of Northern Ireland as its setting

"...convulsed parts of Northern Ireland beginning in the late Sixties was a bloody, nightmarish affair that lasted for about..."

March 13, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Zombies for HAAM

Rod Argent’s down with the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians

"...The Zombies, known for Sixties hits “Time of the Season,” “She’s Not There,” and..."

Sept. 22, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

God Help the Girl

Belle & Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch's first film is a charming movie musical in the key of Mod.

"...defining summer might as well be bussed in from Sixties Mod cinema. (They’ve got the knack, no question about..."

Sept. 12, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Mr. Peabody & Sherman

The genius dog and his adopted human son return for these animated adventures in time travel.

"...Sherman first popped up on TV in the early Sixties as interstitial entertainment on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show...."

March 7, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

I Am Divine

Harris Glenn Milstead, the actor better known as the 300-pound sex symbol named Divine who appeared in those early John Waters' movies, is remembered in this doc.

"...David Lochary, and Mink Stole, among others) in the mid-Sixties, Milstead found his calling. In short time, he had..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Muscle Shoals

The Alabama town that birthed two music studios and inspired great recordings by Aretha, the Rolling Stones, and scores more is viewed in this laid-back documentary.

"...recorded at this dot on the map during the Sixties and Seventies are the stuff of legend. You can..."

Oct. 18, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

ACL Interview: Dynamites feat. Charles Walker

Nashville Northern soul combo’s epic journey

"...The Sixties run deep on Love is Only Everything, the Dynamites..."

Oct. 11, 2013 Music Post by Greg Beets

Jayne Mansfield's Car

This Billy Bob Thornton vehicle hits the skids with its confessional monologues and confrontational encounters, even though Robert Duvall provides some redeeming moments.

"...Set in a small, Alabama town in the late Sixties, Jayne Mansfield’s Car initially positions itself as a clash..."

Sept. 13, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Cutie and the Boxer

The 40-year marriage of two visual artists is explored in this documentary.

"...painter Ushio Shinohara, who rose to fame in the Sixties, and his wife Noriko, who is anxious to shed..."

Aug. 30, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Sapphires

Exuberant but fairly formulaic, this Australian film is a backstage story about an all-girl singing group from the outback in the Sixties.

"...leading man. The film captures the trappings of the Sixties accurately, with its miniskirts, black American GIs, and the..."

April 12, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVD Watch

Olive Films collects three of Otto Preminger's last films

"...The late Sixties were not terribly flattering to Otto Preminger. The filmmaker..."

Nov. 13, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

The House I Live In

Eugene Jarecki examines America's war on drugs and the collateral and self-inflicted damage it has caused within one African-American family.

"...ultimately equates it with the racial inequality of the Sixties and the lingering failures of the civil rights movement...."

Oct. 26, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Face to Face with Chris Gerniottis

Zakary Thaks frontman parties like it's 1969

"...thoroughly like the Ugly Beats because they have the Sixties sound dialed in precisely. They're one of the tightest..."

Oct. 16, 2012 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Battleship

Crass and hugely dumb aliens vs. multiple earthling navies: Must mean the start of summer movies has arrived.

"...little plastic pegs that came with the film’s namesake Sixties board game by Hasbro. Taylor Kitsch, in an opening..."

May 18, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Raven

John Cusack plays Edgar Allan Poe in this historically imaginative but dull and off-putting detective story set in old Baltimore.

"...recommend Roger Corman's series of Poe-flavored films from the mid-Sixties, shot for American International Pictures. They're so much more..."

May 4, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kill the Irishman

The life of Danny Greene, an Irish mobster in Cleveland during the Sixties and Seventies, is recounted in this film.

"...a mobland film that’s set in Cleveland during the Sixties and Seventies. Certainly the filmmakers rounded up the right..."

April 15, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sucker Punch

In this visually compelling but narratively bankrupt action fantasy, an institutionalized young girl finds escape through her vivid imagination.

"...elaborate alternate reality as the new girl in a Sixties-era bordello. Here, she's known as Baby Doll, and indeed,..."

April 1, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Yogi Bear

This mixture of animated talking animals and live action is unbearable.

"...Bear Show, which ran on TV in the early Sixties, have clawed their way onto the silver screen. All..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Talk to Me

Cheadle leads a great cast through a musical glance at D.C. in the Sixties and Seventies.

"...a huge following in Washington, D.C., during the late Sixties and Seventies. With his wild appearance and scratchy cadence,..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Patti, Mary, and Miriam

Girl talk with Patti, Mary, and Miriam.

"...recorded and written by Ernie K-Doe in the early Sixties as “A Certain Girl,” the song irresistibly bounces along..."

May 7, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Dreamgirls

Dreamgirls is an infectious experience of sequins and songs that lives up to the hype. Opens Monday.

"...the hype. Spanning the musical spectrum from the pre-Motown Sixties to the disco era in the late Seventies –..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The U.S. vs. John Lennon

Documentary about Lennon's political activism and time spent in New York basks in the legend's presence but offers little new on the subject.

"...a story about the political ferment of the late Sixties and early Seventies and Lennon’s participation in the political..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tsotsi

Winner of the 2005 Best Foreign Language Oscar, this South African entry is a harsh but ultimately redemptive tale of a young gang leader who lives in a Johannesburg shantytown.

"...is based on a novel written in the early Sixties by famed playwright Athol Fugard, and adapted for the..."

March 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

2046

At once tremendously dense and gossamer-thin, this period romance/sci-fi hybrid from Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-Wai is a riot of sight and sound that has an irresistible, elemental pull.

"...for Singapore, Chow returns to Hong Kong in the mid-Sixties. He’s degenerated into a slick, serial womanizer with a..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Bewitched

Again Kidman goes for another nose-centric role, yet Nora Ephron's very meta remake of the old TV show still misfires.

"...is cast in a TV remake of the classic Sixties show starring Elizabeth Montgomery. Playing her TV husband, Darren,..."

June 24, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Ocean's Twelve

Like Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven and 1960’s Rat-Packing original, Ocean's Twelve is an elaborate and delightful excuse to get the screen’s biggest and most gorgeous stars in the same film.

"...here revels in the funky, retro-cool of both early Sixties’ machismo mythologizing (as perfected by Frank, Dino, Sammy, and..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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