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Jan. 31, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
SXSW Film Jury and Special Awards Announced
Texas filmmakers take top feature competition prizes
"...SXSW Film announced the winners for Jury and Special Award competitions this evening at a ceremony hosted by..."
March 17, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones
Austin’s Leading Independent Concert Promoters Resound and Heard Presents Join Forces
The two Central Texas bookers merge staffs and venue portfolio
"...concert promoters, Resound Presents and Heard Presents, have joined forces in a new business partnership announced this morning...."
May 5, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe
Marshalling Forces and Strange Bedfellows
Will Tom Craddick be able to muster enough votes to hang on as speaker if there's a special session?
"...Tom Craddick would be laying low, praying for no special session. But, as noted earlier today, that may not..."
July 23, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Looking at the Lege After a Flaccid Special Session
Alpha males Abbott and Patrick can't get their red meat passed
"...bill he wants passed. He gives himself one 30-day special session to pass 20 bills he likes, but the..."
Aug. 18, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff
Texas Democrats Request Special Session on Guns
Legislators in five cities press Gov. Abbott
"...that Gov. Abbott has a responsibility to call a special session to respond to the ongoing gun violence, and..."
Sept. 4, 2019 News Post by Michael King
Special Session 2.0: Wendy Davis Responds
SB 5 filibuster senator fires back at Perry's renewed anti-health call
"...health care in Texas matters little to the 'pro-life' forces...."
June 26, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker
New Law Forces End of Central Health's Abortion Services
Board says it can't risk jeopardizing its overall health care mission
"...to a provision passed by lawmakers during this summer's special session, which would withhold state money from any hospital..."
Aug. 19, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Dark Forces Gathering
ArmadilloCon 32
"...Stoker Award-nominated horror writer Joe McKinney. What makes ArmadilloCon special, Burton said, is that it "is really a place..."
Aug. 27, 2010 Books Feature by Richard Whittaker
Gardeners and Librarians Join Forces to Catalog Seeds
Seed banking on the future
"...the Central Branch Downtown is home to a very special project hub where librarians are cataloging and storing a..."
April 22, 2022 Food Feature by Jessi Cape
AFS Cinema Joins Forces with Sundance Film Festival
Local arthouse becomes satellite venue for the Utah fest
"...provide programming of 2021 Sundance titles, as well as special events that will add a local twist to the..."
Dec. 2, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
This Week in Campaign Fail: Perry Special
GOP press event. Giant chicken. Awesome.
"...turning up, did a massive Tweet-out, and got the forces out to yell "Debate Bill Now!"..."
June 16, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Jade Helm and Tinfoil Hats
Abbott, Cruz, Jade Helm, and the death of the sane GOP
"...the GOP response to "Jade Helm 15," the federal special forces training operation taking place partially in Texas, logic..."
May 5, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker
12 Strong
High-tech bombs and horseback soldiers fight together in the U.S. war in Afghanistan
"...U.S. began the ramp-up to a full invasion, a special forces team was dropped into Afghanistan to help Northern..."
Jan. 19, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Black Panther
High drama and high action as Marvel gives Wakanda life.
"...Stevens (Jordan, simmering with a righteous anger), a U.S. Special Forces soldier with a plan and a malevolent connection..."
Feb. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Killer Elite
Action-film icon Jason Statham is stuck in an overlong, perfunctory thriller.
"...Arab state of Oman and leads to an ex-British special-forces operative (played by Owen with a dirty little mustache)...."
Sept. 30, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
The Losers
In this action movie, a U.S. Special Forces unit on a mission in the jungles of Bolivia becomes the target for assassination and must figure out who is double-crossing them.
"...is Colonel Clay, the hulking leader of a covert Special Forces team that is double-crossed by superiors when, on..."
April 30, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
28 Weeks Later
This continuing story of a populace that fears infection from a "rage virus," forges ahead with panic-paced sequences of graphic, random violence.
"...getting the job done, meter by bloody meter. Enter Special Forces sniper Doyle (Renner), who, although he and his..."
May 11, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Condemned
Steve Austin stars in this WWE-produced movie about a death row convict who is brought to a remote island to fight nine other killers to the death for a televised bout.
"...slimeball (Mammone). Millions tune in. Two others: a crazy Special Forces motherfucker (Jones) and the high-minded producer’s girlfriend (Mussett),..."
April 27, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Walking Tall
Contemporary remake of the 1973 grassroots classic retains and updates the basic plot while losing much of the original’s heart and soul.
"...despite being a decorated former member of the U.S. Special Forces. This remake transplants the story to the U.S...."
April 2, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
A commando unit takes on the Nazis in this hyperviolent Guy Ritchie action-comedy
"...from the shadows, denied official recognition from British armed forces. Who will lead this motley crew? Only one man..."
April 19, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Step Into Liquid
Surf's up! It's The Endless Summer: The Next Generation.
"...surfing sequences filmed from dangerously low-flying helicopters and with special camera gear that allowed him to actually be inside..."
Sept. 5, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
"...both the sci-fi/action genre and the art of computer-generated special effects (which that film’s director James Cameron helped revolutionize)..."
July 4, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Black Hawk Down
"...visits us in our sweat-soaked overnights. For the American Special Forces and Rangers that entered Mogadishu on what was..."
Jan. 18, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Miss Congeniality
America's Sweetheart plays a detective who goes undercover to vie in a beauty pageant.
"...Lawrence, who also penned last year's underrated Bullock vehicle Forces of Nature, clearly knows his way around comedy of..."
Dec. 20, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Trial and Error
Questions raised about whether cards were stacked against Davidians in their civil suit against the federal government.
"...extent of training given to the ATF by Army Special Forces at Fort Hood...."
Aug. 18, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce
Dragonheart
"...of a burned-out 10th-century knight (Dennis Quaid) who joins forces with an 18-foot-high, 43-foot-long, fire-breathing dragon (a computer-generated creation..."
June 7, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan
Sirens
"...has asked the Reverend Anthony Campion to make a special trip to the mountain retreat of controversial artist Norman..."
March 25, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Warlock: The Armageddon
"...let loose the apocalypse. Massing against him are the forces of good, an aging band of Americanized Druids and..."
Oct. 1, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Muppet Christmas Carol
The Muppets bring cheer to Ebenezer Scrooge.
"...signs dancing in their heads -- when they joined forces to produce The Muppet Christmas Carol, a cute, and..."
