Discus Maximus

New and nifty dvds

"...Walt Disney Home Video ($29.99)Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Charlie's Angels

Gen Z get their wings in Elizabeth Banks' Angels continuation

"...fast, has ever so slowly tapped into casting (mostly white, svelte) women in action films’ lead roles, from Alien’s..."

Nov. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Beth Sullivan

Mulan

Forget the cartoon, Disney goes back to the source for the Chinese warrior legend

"...the camp deliciousness of Charlize Theron’s similar figure in Snow White and the Huntsman, or mined her instead for..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Cinderella

Simple, elegant, and lovely, this live-action fairy tale enchants

"...of a sleepy Maine hamlet, or big-screen adaptations like Snow White and the Huntsman and Maleficent, which play more..."

March 13, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

1999 Critics' Table Nominations

"...Red, White and Tuna, Joe Sears, Jaston Williams, and Ed Howard..."

May 21, 1999 Arts Feature

Downhill

Tepid Hollywood remake of marriage dramedy Force Majeure never leaves the training slope

"...Force Majeure, minor squabbles about texting and meal schedules snowball into marriage-threatening discord after husband Pete (Ferrell) temporarily abandons..."

Feb. 14, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Christmas in the Clouds

This Native American romantic comedy, which won the Audience Award at the 2001 Austin Film Festival, arrives in theatres four years late but seasonally right on time.

"...right on time. It owes a small debt to White Christmas, sharing with that Bing Crosby crooner a hotel-resort..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Is That a Biography in Your Pocket...?

Film Folios and Screen Prints

"...which failed to beat out Disney's first animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, "which Mae said would..."

March 13, 1998 Books Review

A Girl Cut in Two

French master Claude Chabrol's latest film is the tale of the downfall of a cheery, open-faced weathergirl in Lyons who falls in love with two different men.

"...Sagnier's angel face and a last name that means “snow,” the character is practically bound by movie law to..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Into the Wilds With Hundreds of Beavers

Is this the first Dogme 96 snowstick comedy?

"...Snowstick (Noun): Any physical comedy that takes place all in..."

April 30, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: "Travelin' Ted"

Was it hatred that melted several million cubic feet of snow?

"...few days me and my wife have been boiling snow for toilet water, taking whore's baths, and sleeping with..."

Feb. 26, 2021 Column by The Luv Doc

The Innocents

Polish nuns raped by soldiers during WWII trigger wider moral issues

"...It’s a conception that’s anything but immaculate. The film’s snow-dappled setting, exquisitely captured in the shadows-and-light cinematography of Caroline..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Boxtrolls

The third time isn't the charm for this animated film from the studio that gave us the magical Coraline and ParaNorman.

"...the lugubrious villain shall be gifted with a coveted white hat. (Don’t ask.)..."

Sept. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Review: Revel's Existential Solstice

In a concert evoking winter's cold and darkness, warmth

"...The wind blew, the snow fell, and the darkness of winter enveloped us. And..."

Dec. 5, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Robot Dreams

Dog and Robot find companionship in this lovely and touching Oscar-nominated animated film

"...not his first no-talkie; 2003’s Blancanieves, a black & white film that retold Snow White with matadors, used the..."

June 14, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Doogal

A clunker if there ever was one, Doogal is so mind-numbingly incoherent that parents and children alike will stare dazedly at the movie screen wondering what the heck is going on.

"...broke the mold, subverting the traditional Disney formula of white-bread romantic leads and their anthropomorphic animal pals with abundant..."

March 3, 2006 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Barnyardy, Yardbirds, Snow White, and more

"...mashed banana, ¹⁄³ squeezed orange, 9 pressed red and white grapes, and a dash of lime juice...."

Dec. 2, 2011 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Encounters at the End of the World

Werner Herzog, contemporary cinema's most consistently lyrical examiner of the (in)human condition, returns to the documentary form in yet another wonderfully improbable locale: Antarctica.

"...useless, the climate is negative 70 degrees Fahrenheit and white all over, and a community of misanthropic misfits not..."

July 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Weather Man

In this heartfelt comic drama, a wonderfully controlled Nicolas Cage plays a man who, despite the appearance of success, is despondent over his superficiality.

"...belongs to that dissatisfied modern movie breed of privileged white men who reach some kind of spiritual breaking point..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Climb

"...effort, after all, with its requisite aerial photography of snow-capped vistas. The production values are probably better than they..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Fear & Loathing on the Inaugural Trail

One man's journey to the Bush inauguration confirms more than it denies.

"...spared the interpretive stylings of normally sober and hard-working white people loosening up for the first time in four..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Features Feature by Michael Bolduc

Wish

We just wish that this animated feature for Disney's 100th anniversary was better

"...its game these days. The studio that started with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and created epic classics..."

Nov. 24, 2023 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Belle

Icelandic reimagining of Beauty and the Beast can't balance camp and carnage

"...round includes this year’s The Little Mermaid, the live-action Snow White movie coming in 2024, and writer/director Max Gold’s..."

Aug. 18, 2023 Movie Review by Amelia Nonemacher

Pencils Vs Pixels

Touching documentary draws on the incredible history of animation

"...his fortune and the whole company on projects like Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia, and on, and on...."

July 14, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

“Marianne Levy: Grimm Re-Articulated” at the Dougherty Arts Center

This exhibition of ceramic sculptures recasts fairy tales with animals who are more human than the people in the originals

"...Majesty "Who's the Fairest in the Land" in Disney's Snow White, right? She's even holding a mirror...."

July 10, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

John Lee Hancock Heads to the Texas Film Hall of Fame

A writer, a director, and a writer/director

"...Throw in pure fiction script credits for Snow White and the Huntsman and A Perfect World, and..."

March 1, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Ghost in the Shell

Scar Jo as cybernetic warrior

"...more slo-mo Scarlett dystopian mediocrity. As helmed by Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman), this is truly a shell..."

April 7, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: Here Be Monsters

Back in the home-release stack after SXSW

"...Cinderella (complete with Leonardo da Vinci) would be a post-Snow White and the Huntsman summer tentpole palate-cleanser...."

April 4, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Animated Adventures of Don Bluth and Gary Goldman

The men behind 'The Secret of NIMH' visit Austin this weekend

"...on most of Disney’s feature animated films, starting with Snow White. He was very encouraging, and tolerant of my..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Rooster Teeth Marks Tenth Birthday With Fireworks

Because everyone deserves a slo-mo "Nooooooo" moment

"...camera work for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Snow White and the Huntsman, Dredd 3D, and part two..."

May 1, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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