Tainted

Cold Canadian crime drama wears its sins on its sleeves

"...Hollywood fantasy of gang life, riddled with the same broad-strokes breakdowns of gangs along ethnic lines, with the Russians..."

June 19, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: Pineapple Pizza

A big ol' meaty, cheesy, greasy gastronomical death trap

"...In any case, why ruin a big ol' meaty,..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

"Matt Rebholz and Rachel Wolfson Smith: We Can See Through Time" at ICOSA

Drawings in red and blue ink, intended to be viewed through 3-D glasses, pull the viewer in to landscapes that make the familiar look alien

"...off: a blurry arrangement of distinct red and blue strokes. Glasses on again: Everything pulls back into focus. It..."

Sept. 28, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

Review: 2018 Austin Chamber Music Festival

How the Attacca Quartet, Emerson Quartet, and invoke played

"...with exuberant flourishes matched with the composer’s familiar bolder strokes, a dichotomy that had the quartet bouncing in their..."

July 17, 2018 Arts Post by Robi Polgar

"Spencer Fidler: Vasculum" at Flatbed

This solo show reveals the artist's daily practice of preservation of craft and creativity

"...are identifiable, they are often drawn with scrawling, gestural strokes. At times, ink trickles down the paper. The daily..."

April 27, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

Miss You Already

Drew Barrymore and Toni Collette co-star as best friends facing crises

"...(Frances de la Tour), fitting Milly for a wig, strokes her thinning hair and palms her freshly shorn skull...."

Nov. 6, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Playback: ACL Fest Then & Now

What's changed and remained the same for ACL Fest over its 13 years

"...country (Dwight Yoakam, Sturgill Simpson), arena rock (Foo Fighters, Strokes), NPR darlings (Decemberists, Alt-J), and big buzz up-and-comers (Leon..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

2015 Austin City Limits Music Festival Lineup

Foo Fighters, Drake, the Weeknd, and Deadmau5 top fall fest

"...holders have to choose between weekend one exclusives the Strokes and Alabama Shakes, and weekend two headliners Florence +..."

May 5, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

OUTsider Begins

Hold on to your manties, Austin's premier queer fest is here

"...• Different Strokes! Queer Crafting with Marcus Sanchez 5-7pm. The Vortex, 2307..."

Feb. 18, 2015 Qmmunity Post by Blake McCoy

The Terror: Flaming Lips at SXSW

Auditorium Shores’ gratis mega-bills hit a new high

"...Ice Cube, the Strokes – remember those Auditorium Shores SXSW headliners? The masses..."

Feb. 21, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

A Haunted House

Marlon Wayans spoofs Paranormal Activity.

"...move, this documentary aesthetic: By eliminating the winking, broad strokes of the filmmakers’ more successful spoofs, they’ve made a..."

Jan. 18, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Simon and the Oaks

This Swedish import is a family saga that's shaped by the looming Nazi invasion, forbidden love, and unsound decisions.

"...this melodrama’s most significant point of interest. In broad strokes, then: There is the disconnect between Simon’s longings for..."

Nov. 9, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Names of Love

This French romantic comedy is a gratifyingly grown-up kind of love story.

"...swear off whimsy, but they do enrich its broad strokes with a nuanced and substantive inquiry into racial identity...."

Oct. 21, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Chinese women's relationships in the past and the present are told in parallel stories in this film based on Lisa See's bestselling novel.

"...look into female intimacy and instead uses broad-scale melodramatic strokes. One story is set in 19th century China, while..."

July 29, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

When Sitcom Sincerity Attacks

Another 'Very Special' Episode at the Alamo

"...AIDS ("probably the least sitcom-appropriate topic ever"), the Diff'rent Strokes episode about daughter Kimberly's bulimia ("It gets pretty gratuitous..."

Feb. 11, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Off the Record

Austin City Limits Music Festival 2010: No rain, no dust, no problem

"...delivering headliners that did in fact deliver – the Strokes, Phish, the Eagles – and a middle tier that..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

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.

"...um, a loser in the broadest and most memorable strokes. It's not a masterpiece, either, but it'll do until..."

April 30, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Saturday Picks & Sleepers

The blurbing of SXSW 2010

"...vintage pop-rock is admirable. It's Elvis Costello meets the Strokes, the latter of which is no coincidence, as single..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Everybody's Fine

Robert De Niro is the father of grown children (played by Drew Barrymore, Sam Rockwell, and Kate Beckinsale) in a family that has trouble communicating.

"...give you a sense of the film’s generously broad strokes), and one of the few things to be thankful..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Michael Cera and Kat Dennings star as the titular bridge-and-tunnel kids at the heart of this New York City after-dark romantic comedy.

"...slight and ephemeral it might as well be the Strokes' career, and, as far as NYC nights go, it's..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Albert Hammond Jr.

"...sexy six-string swagger one would expect from the 'froed Strokes guitarist, but it does yield enough Top 40 radio..."

March 16, 2007 Music Review by Austin Powell

Tears of the Black Tiger

This Thai film is part melodrama and part spaghetti western, as if Sirk and Peckinpah fell into a blender and out poured tear-soaked Polaroids, giant exploding squibs and blown-up heads, tearful Asian songbird ballads, and homoerotic outlaw bonding.

"...(though they will appreciate it best). With its broad strokes and Saturday-matinee enthusiasm, it’s a welcome departure from February..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Fast Food Nation

Richard Linklater and Eric Schlosser's noble and worthy film about meat processing and consumption smacks of good-guy agitprop and fails as a character-driven narrative.

"...storlyine. Why again? Fast Food Nation succeeds in broad strokes, pointedly drawing a parallel between the ceding of populist..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Stranger Than Fiction

A good movie but not a great one, Stranger Than Fiction is reminiscent of the films of Charlie Kaufman but lacks that writer’s conceptual rigor and imaginative power.

"...and personality quirks; it even counts the number of strokes of his toothbrush (a number that never changes). At..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Marie Antoinette

Don’t fear the film’s early reviews from Cannes, which too often slighted it for being fluffy (it isn’t, though its heroine is) or ahistorical (it isn’t, though it is contemporary).

"...girl and surrounding her with Manolo Blahniks and the Strokes, Coppola draws a connection between her audience (domestically, at..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

World Trade Center

This is not the 9/11 film we expected from Stone, who tells the fact-based story of two individuals who somehow survived the collapse of the World Trade Center and with a remarkable economy of expressionistic detail and bombast.

"...this subject. Most commonly recognized for his bold, broad strokes and contrarian investigations, Stone here abandons the grand sweep..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

What Do You See

In his first Austin show, Lubbock's Joe Romero presents abstract paintings that utilize a variety of colors and patterns to summon forth archaic subjects for the viewer to contemplate

"...Utilizing drips, long strokes, negating wipes, and a variety of colors, Romero creates..."

June 23, 2006 Arts Review by Salvador Castillo

Room

Room wears the skin of a psychological thriller, but plays out as something far darker, weirder, and more distancing. The film was invited to Cannes and earned Independent Spirit Award nominations for its Austin artists, Kyle Henry and Cyndi Williams.

"...refusing accessibility. That inaccessibility – at least in broad strokes – extends to the whole film, which wears the..."

April 7, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

This Chinese film presents an uncharacteristically romantic look at the Cultural Revolution.

"...two acts – painting the government with broad, buffoonish strokes. (The novel is banned in the People’s Republic not..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Sea Inside

Moving chronicle of the real-life 30-year battle waged by paraplegic Ramón Sampedro (played by Javier Bardem) to end his life.

"...doctor saves the patient. I felt good, in broad strokes, about the human condition, yet, looking back on it..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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