Review: Spinning

Tillie Walden's graphic novel is a powerful coming-of-age tale

"...in masterful combination. A graphic novel, yes. It’s called Spinning...."

Nov. 3, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

AFF2012: 'Spinning Plates'

A revealing look inside three American restaurants

"...to life. That’s why Texas native Joseph Levy’s documentary Spinning Plates was such a pleasant revelation...."

Oct. 19, 2012 Screens Post by Virginia B. Wood

Spinning Flavor

The MALI conference celebrates a decade of diversity

"..."It's kind of like a DJ: I'm spinning different flavors. And with different-flavor spinnin', what happens is..."

May 20, 2011 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Inside the Spinning, Whirling World

"...I say, "Look, this is the spinning, whirling world. You have your moment inside of it."..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

Spinning Wheels and Spinning Discs

Big day for Derby with 'Whip It' and WFTDA rankings both released

Jan. 26, 2010 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

Spinning Gold

The crazy story of Casablanca, the label behind Kiss, P-Funk, and disco

March 31, 2023 Movie Review

Spinning The Color Wheel

Bob Byington supplies the Q's, Alex Ross Perry the A's

July 27, 2012 Screens Post by Robert Byington

Transportation: Spinning in Place

Thinking local on transpo taxes

March 4, 2011 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Record Spinning

Los Lobos, the Dream Syndicate, and more

Aug. 11, 2010 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Page Two: Spinning Tales

The GOP masterfully weaves a tapestry of deceit

Sept. 26, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Circular Argument, Spinning Its Wheels

July 8, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Spinning and Campaigning for Props

May 2, 2006 Postmarks

The Big Three Bike Projects – Still Spinning Their Wheels?

Austin still struggles with bicycle mobility

Dec. 10, 2004 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Senate Wheels Still Spinning

The upper house dawdles (thank God) as the special session clock ticks

May 14, 2004 News Column by Michael King

Spinning the Story

The APD and U.S. Attorney's official position on Mala Sangre

Feb. 16, 2001 News Feature by Michael King

Spinning Yarns

Tracing generations' worth of jazz and R&B history through the Texas Trumpets

Nov. 19, 1999 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Spinning Out of Control?

Business Is Booming

Feb. 12, 1999 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Tillie Walden: Talking Comics

"If it was torture, I’d’ve given up by now.”

"...Walden, that Ignatz-winning author of the new graphic novel Spinning, will be at the Texas Book Festival this weekend...."

Nov. 1, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt's metaphorical novel gets an award-season adaptation

"...a haphazard attempt at taking an award-winning novel and spinning it into a grab for the gold ring (or..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Mountain

Scenes from the edge of the world in this meditative documentary

"...dropping from spiderweb cradles strung between buttes, or mountaineers spinning prayer wheels in the Himalayas, she questions why we..."

June 8, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Beirut

John Hamm sweats stylishly in gritty, grim spy thriller.

"...and still look stylish, sends the film's moral compass spinning – exactly as it should...."

April 6, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Circle

An absurd cautionary tale on technology

"...is utterly ineffectual as a techno-thriller. Like that endlessly spinning disc signifying a problem with your computer, The Circle..."

May 5, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Their Finest

How to make a propaganda film in World War II England

"...angles of view, yet Scherfig keeps all the plates spinning with seeming ease. And though her role may be..."

April 14, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hail, Caesar!

The Coen brothers celebrate and eviscerate old Hollywood

"...Forties/Fifties biblical epics and elastic musicals, while keeping everything spinning in the orbit of planet Coen, Hail, Caesar! is..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Our Brand Is Crisis

Sandra Bullock shines in David Gordon Green's political comedy

"...semi-comedic, overtly cynical drama about soulless American political strategists spinning a Bolivian presidential election into a personal grudge match...."

Oct. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Taken 3

Liam Neeson's back in action.

"...90 minutes, tacking on an extra reel’s worth of wheel-spinning as Bryan’s daughter, Kim (Grace), needlessly hides her pregnancy..."

Jan. 16, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor

Perry's melodrama centers an ambitious, married woman's dalliance with a handsome billionaire.

"...plot. Perry has now built a media empire from spinning his own wheels. It might be nice if he..."

April 5, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Verts: Berlin-Inspired Success Story Grows Beyond Campus

Austin's putting the bap in döner kebap (shoo bap).

"...sight of a sizzling 60 pound cone of meat spinning before a wall of fire. Three of them, side-by-side,..."

Oct. 18, 2012 Food Post by Kenny Pailes

Arbitrage

Richard Gere stars in this thriller as a duplicitous hedge-fund manager who, nevertheless, has all the right moves.

"...opening scenes, the collective moral compass of Arbitrage begins spinning wildly – long before the fatal car accident that..."

Sept. 14, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ted

Mark Wahlberg and the teddy bear he willed to life as a child stay BFFs into adulthood in Seth McFarlane's zany first foray onto the big screen.

"...television Family. Cutting forward to the present, John is spinning his wheels in a dead-end job while sharing wake..."

June 29, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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