Screens Top 10s

"...MAN' Tom Ford's delirious meditation on the life, death, and rebirth of desire is, simply put, a flawless and..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Enter Austin Post

New online venture seeks to create a 'conversational democracy'

"...When veteran local writer Spike Gillespie realized that Austin Post was yet another new..."

July 10, 2009 News Feature by Kevin Brass

After a Fashion

Stephen finds the natural 'Segway' between Critical Mass and SaladShooters

"...AGAIN? We had a near-miss with a small group of members of Critical Mass (wouldn't that be an Inconsequential..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Risk Immersion

Time again to sink deeply into FronteraFest's exhilarating experiments in performance

"...FronteraFest, our annual jamboree of homegrown performance, where anyone and everyone is encouraged to..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar kicks ass. But you knew that already.

"...attend the Kick Ass Awards produced by the fabulous Spike Gillespie. My friend and regular "After a Fashion" photographer..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Valkyrie

Tom Cruise seems somewhat out of place as a German officer in this thriller about the attempt on Adolf Hitler's life in July 1944.

"...Tom Wilkinson, Terence Stamp, Carice van Houten, Thomas Kretschmann and Eddie Izzard. We all know how it ends, and..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Synecdoche, New York

Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s first venture as a director is audacious, ambitious, and amazing; it’s also intricate, self-referencing, and all-encompassing: in a word, a masterpiece.

"...Directed by: Charlie Kaufman. Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Catherine Keener, Michelle Williams, Emily Watson, Dianne..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Trouble the Water

This film about the human toll of Hurricane Katrina is one of the best and most inspirational things to come out of the disaster.

"...Directed by: Tia Lessin and Carl Deal. Miracles can occur, even in the face..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Righteous Kill

There's nothing righteous about this tired and tiresome good cop/bad cop NYPD procedural.

"...Pacino, Curtis Jackson, Carla Gugino, John Leguizamo, Donnie Wahlberg and Brian Dennehy. There's nothing righteous about this tired and..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Exit Music for a Film Fest Producer

Sending off South by Southwest's Matt Dentler

"...the time that the 2008 South by Southwest Film Festival –which he had labored at all year to produce..."

May 2, 2008 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Flushed Away

Flushed Away has a wicked, smart, and subtle sense of humor, and unlike so many kids movies these days, its characters are living, breathing parts of a small ecosystem.

"...Directed by: David Bowers and Sam Fell. Somerset Maugham, The Third Man, Manchester United,..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

Montiel's debut feature about growing up in Astoria, Queens, in the mid-Eighties is full of the filmmaker's instinctive brio and inchoate ideas and the elaborations of a brilliant ensemble cast.

"...LaBeouf, Chazz Palminteri, Dianne Wiest, Rosario Dawson, Channing Tatum and Eric Roberts. Montiel's debut feature about growing up in..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fall to Grace

Shot in Austin with a mostly local cast and buoyed by a fine, evocative score, Fall to Grace is a quiet little ensemble film that pulses with its own unique heartbeat.

"...Polozova, David Stokey, Bill Johnson, René Alvarado, Amparo Garcia and Cassidy Rose Johnson. You may need a flow chart..."

June 16, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Sentinel

This serviceable action thriller disintegrates into an implausible mess that's barely salvaged by the presence of old pros like Michael Douglas and Kim Basinger

"...Directed by: Clark Johnson. Starring: Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Kim Basinger, Eva Longoria and David Rasche. This serviceable..."

April 28, 2006 Movie Review by Steve Davis

CSA: The Confederate States of America

Scathingly satirical, often horrific mockumentary examines what America might look like if the South had won the Civil War.

"...Evamarii Johnson, Rupert Pate, Larry J. Peterson, Charles Frank, Fernando Arenas and Sean Blake. It’s hard to know how..."

April 7, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Game 6

Novelist Don DeLillo's first foray as a screenwriter uses the legendary sixth game of the 1986 World Series as the central metaphor in this film starring Michael Keaton and Robert Downey Jr.

"...Directed by: Michael Hoffman. Starring: Michael Keaton, Robert Downey Jr., Griffin Dunne, Bebe..."

April 7, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Otaku* Overload!!!

After Monster Island Studios sank, Austin's acting community and Houston animé giant A.D. Vision unleashed talent bent on vengeance and redemption (*otaku = animé geek)

"...Some of my earliest memories are of woefully dubbed English emanating..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Keepin' It Weird

In Zach's original production 'Keepin' It Weird,' Dave Steakley displays examples of Austin weirdness as lovable freaks in self-referential spectacle

"...to become jaded about weirdness having an inexplicable label of chic. Who fits the culturally coded adjective? In Dave..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

Reel Paradise

This documentary shows what happens when famed producer’s rep/author/gadabout John Pierson convinces his family to move with him to Fiji, where, if all goes according to plan, he can leave behind the indie-film rat race, immerse himself in a completely foreign culture, and, best of all, screen all sorts of movies for the natives.

"...crises, some guys buy Porsches, some nail hot blondes, and some just muddle through. Freshly minted Austinite and famed..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

Burton's best work in ages is eye candy of the highest order and as eminently watchable as a hilltop Halloween pyre or a Día de los Muertos parade run amok.

"...Directed by: Mike Johnson and Tim Burton. The dead have more fun than the..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Eating Out

Crude comedy of sexual errors falls flat.

"...Allan Brocka. Starring: Scott Lunsford, Jim Verraros, Emily Stiles and Ryan Carnes. If you’ve been waiting for a gay/straight..."

May 27, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Academy Award-Nominated Short Films 2004

A program of eight short films nominated for live-action and animated Academy Awards in 2004.

"...collection doesn’t suffer from the qualitative unevenness common to Spike and Mike’s frequent outings. Opener Jeff Fowler’s "Gopher Broke"..."

April 1, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Culture Flash!

Esther's crowns new wits, and Chase Staggs gets a check from SVT

"...• Esther's Follies and the American-Statesman crown the city's newest wits this weekend,..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Arts Column

Soldier's Heart

Thousands of Iraq War veterans will come home to face serious psychological problems and a system unready to help them

"...The first time Kristin Peterson's husband hit her, she was asleep in their bed...."

Dec. 24, 2004 News Feature by Dan Frosch

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Quote of the Week: "This is just one of those things..."

Dec. 24, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

7 & 7 is

7 & 7 is

"...abnormality zone, "7 & 7 Is" always either 7 and 12 (inches), or 331/3 and 45 (revolutions per minute)...."

Oct. 22, 2004 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Me Talk Dirty One Day

Bryan Poyser and Jacob Vaughan come clean on their 'Dear Pillow'

"...hundred disparate but related characters search for the meaning of life and a good cup of coffee. It is..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Screens Feature by John Pierson

Coffee and Cigarettes

Jim Jarmusch's new brew is lukewarm.

"...Molina, Steve Coogan, GZA, RZA, Bill Murray, Bill Rice and Taylor Mead. Jarmusch’s latest is a movie about resonance...."

July 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Never Die Alone

Every known hip-hop gangster cliché comes to the fore in this film starring DMX and David Arquette.

"...DMX, Michael Ealy, David Arquette, Antwon Tanner, Drew Sidora and Jennifer Sky. What the hell happened to Ernest R...."

March 26, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Almost Famous

Red vs Blue's Machinima stars

"...says founder Burnie Burns, pointing to co-creator Jason Saldaña, "and he's a craft service guy whose claim to fame..."

March 5, 2004 Screens Feature by Courtney Fitzgerald

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