When Did You Last See Your Father?

Based on British poet Blake Morrison’s written memoir, this film is a very particular yet universal story about the eternal knot between fathers and sons.

"...universal story about the eternal knot between fathers and sons. Told from the son’s perspective, Tucker’s film places the..."

July 4, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Genius

Editor Maxwell Perkins and author Thomas Wolfe collaborate in biopic

"...has proven that statement shortsighted: While at Charles Scribner's Sons, Perkins also championed F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway,..."

June 24, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Noah

Partly allegorical, partly spectacular, and wholly sincere, Darren Aronofsky gives us another memorable movie about a driven individual.

"...Creator. After trekking with his wife Naameh (Connelly), three sons (Lerman, Booth, and Carroll), and adopted daughter (Watson) to..."

April 4, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

That Fighting Spirit

Sons of Perdition

"...from your family and left to fend for yourself? Sons of Perdition explores that very situation in its emotional..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Resurrecting the Champ

Several morality plays vie for attention in this story about a workmanlike sportswriter who latches on to a tale told by a homeless alcoholic as his ticket out of palookaville.

"...And it’s also a sentimental drama about fathers and sons and the emotional distances between them. Though most of..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Covenant

The Covenant is a sleek yet empty picture about four handsome high school seniors who possess supernatural powers and impossibly chiseled stomachs.

"...aspiring Calvin Klein models go by the name the Sons of Ipswich, and they are the latest descendents in..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Recurring Character

Four Texas writers on fathers and sons

"...of which, it was said, there were only two seasons: salt and pepper. And yet he was a gentleman...."

June 17, 2005 Books Feature

Winter Solstice

Neither a change of seasons nor truly wonderful performances can breathe life into the dismally enervated drama Winter Solstice.

"...Sexton III and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. Neither a change of seasons nor truly wonderful performances can breathe life into the..."

April 29, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tully

"...Birmingham's thoughtful piece about a father, his two grown sons, and the imminent foreclosure of their Nebraska farm. There's..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Bread and Tulips

An endearing romantic daydream about an underappreciated housewife who decides on whim to not return home.

"...housewife, quieted by her husband's indifference and her teenage sons' diminished need for her. We also learn that Rosalba..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

We Wanted the Whole World to Know

The Sons of Sahm

"...always wanted the whole world to know." What the "Sons of Sahm" always wanted the whole world to know..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Some Mother's Son

"...the dull haze of imminent death in their gaunt sons’ eyes, the mothers shelve their ideological differences to jointly..."

Jan. 31, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Three Wishes

"...as Jeanne Holman, a young mother trying to raise sons Tom (Mazzello) and Gunny (Mumy) in the absence of..."

Oct. 27, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Safe Passage

"...hot for Patrick and the next I had seven sons.” Now six of the seven are grown and have..."

Jan. 6, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Does DNA Testing Prove Skinner's Guilt?

That depends on whom you ask

"...in Pampa of Twila Busby and her two grown sons, Elwin and Randy, it is unlikely that questions would..."

Feb. 6, 2014 News Post by Jordan Smith

Back When: 2011

One last look at 2011

"...new discoveries of Austinites like the Carper Family and Sons of Fathers...."

Jan. 4, 2012 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

In Person

Gregg Cantrell and the Sons of the Republic of Texas

"...least known," Cantrell said two weeks ago to the Sons of the Republic of Texas, 12 of whose members..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Strange World

Disney animated adventure revamps pulp fun with a story of fathers and sons

"...story charmingly explores the complex ways that fathers and sons can be so alike and so different...."

Nov. 25, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Torn

New documentary sees a family in a legendary mountaineer’s shadow

"...eventually marrying the widowed Jenni and raising the three sons – Max, Sam, and Isaac – she’d had with..."

Jan. 14, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Encounter

A veteran fears that unearthly forces are after his sons

"...veteran who fears that unearthly forces are after his sons...."

Dec. 3, 2021 Movie Review

Downhill

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

"...abandons his wife Billie (Louis-Dreyfus) and their two preteen sons when a controlled avalanche goes awry and nearly buries..."

Feb. 14, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Three Identical Strangers

Deception, research, and an almost unbelievable mystery of triplets divided at birth

"...which had any knowledge of the existence of their sons’ doppelgängers. The story is told by those intimately familiar..."

July 6, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Midnight Sun

Ill met by daylight in this photosensitive romance.

"...doorknob and the lizard-person looks of one of Trump’s sons, who she had fallen in love with already as..."

March 30, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Daddy's Home 2

The daddy's daddy crash Christmas in this unneeded sequel

"...Brad/Brad’s dad (both grandfather characters are extensions of their sons) can withstand, and this gets old quickly. With all..."

Nov. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

Wind River

Crime and punishment on a Wyoming reservation

"...Sheridan, the actor best known for his work in Sons of Anarchy, became a much-heralded screenwriter with his scripts..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Dinner

Family ties come undone in this dark drama

"...But the reason they have gathered concerns their respective sons, who, after getting wasted at a party one night,..."

May 5, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Frantz

A bitter-sweet romance in the aftermath of WWI

"...here. The scars of families who have lost their sons to war, and thereby their legacies. The pervasive resentment..."

April 7, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Last Days in the Desert

Ewan McGregor plays both Jesus and the devil in this secular imagining

"...boils down to the eternal conflict between fathers and sons, a struggle depicted in two parallel storylines. As the..."

May 20, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Goodnight Mommy

Nine-year-old twins suspect that someone is impersonating their mother

"...mother’s relationship to and comprehension of her 9-year-old twin sons – and vice versa – gone weirdly haywire, Goodnight..."

Sept. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Going Somewhere?

Jeff Davis statue to stay put for now

"...spokesman Gary Susswein. The order, which was requested by Sons of Confederate Veterans, has not been granted by a..."

Aug. 21, 2015 News Feature by Mac McCann

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