Glutard Girls Just Want to Have Fun

Favorite treats and sweets around town

"...and relief to enjoy a dough-based treat, a little sweet to make up for all the other things you’re..."

May 21, 2013 Food Post by Margaret Shugart

Paper Heart

Ultra-introverted mumblenerd comedian Charlene Yi shines in this faux documentary that problematically blurs the line between staged, improvised, and "real" events.

"...the mysteries of the human heart, it's fascinating and sweet without becoming overtly cloying. Ultra-introverted mumblenerd comedian Yi (Knocked..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kikujiro

"...movie by popular star Takeshi “Beat” Kitano is a sweet and amusing picaresque tale of the physical and emotional..."

June 30, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

My Dog Skip

"...about it years later. Without question, this is a sweet, sweet movie; it's just one that celebrates the bond..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Felicia's Journey

"...the multifaceted gem that Atom Egoyan's previous film The Sweet Hereafter was, the director's film adaptation of William Trevor's..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Standout Sister Act

Gentle Heat and Soothing Sweet at Mirabelle

"...a splash of green apple puree (for tang) and sweet-sour fig slaw (for crunch). Despite the complexity of such..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Food Feature by Pableaux Johnson

The Beans of Egypt, Maine

"...little screen time. McGraw successfully transforms Beal from a sweet-natured, lusty young boy into a man brutalized by Egypt's..."

Feb. 10, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Marcel the Shell With Shoes On

Sweet and funny story of a talking shell will fill your heart

"...The easiest way to describe the irreverent, sweet, moving, and endlessly funny Marcel the Shell With Shoes..."

July 1, 2022 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

New Vegan Pizza and Ice Cream Shop Open in North Austin

Big Nonna’s makes the ultimate cruelty-free comfort combo

"...pizza and the answer you’ll hear most often is “Sweet Ritual.”..."

Dec. 3, 2020 Food Post by Alisha McDarris

Almost Christmas

Home for the holidays (again)

"...down with the same smooth, tasty ease of the sweet potato pie that becomes one of the film’s central..."

Nov. 18, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Playback: Charlie Pierce Burns It Down

Charlie Pierce, the Gibby Haynes of piano, speaks out; Sweet Spirit serenades Spoon in a tour diary excerpt; and Phil Anselmo says maybe next year for a Housecore Horror ATX return

"...performance at Eastside lounge Stay Gold on Saturday night. Sweet Spirit's Spoon Diary..."

May 29, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Fault in Our Stars

The film does justice to the popular novel in this judicious teen tearjerker.

"...that feels true to a teenager who is terribly sweet, eager to please, and ga-ga about a very special..."

June 6, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Muscle Shoals

The Alabama town that birthed two music studios and inspired great recordings by Aretha, the Rolling Stones, and scores more is viewed in this laid-back documentary.

"...bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd, who lovingly immortalized it in “Sweet Home Alabama”...."

Oct. 18, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Farmers Market Report: July 6-7, 2013

Midsummer: melons, onions, squash, blackberries

"...Happy Children Farm. 2 Happy Children also have enormous sweet cantaloupes, and both kinds of melon are quite inexpensive...."

July 5, 2013 Food Post by Kate Thornberry

The Croods

Animated cave dwellers are stealth charmers.

"...Stoopid title. Sweet movie. And not the crack-your-teeth, cloying kind of sweet:..."

March 22, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Wreck-It Ralph

"...meets Tron by way of Nintendo's Donkey Kong, a sweet splash of treacly Disneyana, a dollop of Pixar's Cars,..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Imagine That

Eddie Murphy has made an agreeable, family-friendly, kid-centric film without – lo and behold – a single fart joke.

"...Trading Places, the scathing stand-up of Raw, and the sweet-natured romance of Coming to America in what now feels..."

June 12, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Home at the End of the World

Michael Cunningham's novel is the basis for this story of a love triangle in which everyone's in love with Bobby (played by Colin Farrell).

"...horror, but there’s such a powerful sway about the sweet-natured Bobby that no one can resist him. It’s the..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Stuck on You

The Farrelly brothers deliver the ultimate buddy movie.

"...it recaptures the difficult middle ground between gross and sweet that There’s Something About Mary managed so well. It’s..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pieces of April

A Thanksgiving from hell with the family and all the neighbors upstairs.

"...guy with the dog fetish upstairs and the non-English-speaking sweet Asian family next door. The film is fraught with..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

House of Fools

"...are played by nonprofessional, real-life patients), Janna is a sweet naif who believes that she is engaged to the..."

June 13, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Powers in Goldmember

"...he's like some mad genius running on Ritalin and Sweet Tarts, rooting out the charm in every crass moment...."

July 26, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Mutant Aliens

"...films are truly singular -- surreal, lovably crude, and sweet-natured but grosser than heck, with blown-up heads and bitten-off..."

July 5, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Billy Elliot

"...or Ginger Rogers?” you know you're in for a sticky-sweet ride aboard the treacle train, and that's exactly what..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Rugrats Movie

The babies' first theatrical adventure is nonstop, but padded with lots of pop tunes.

"...who are caught and held by the Nickelodeon show's sweet, sly wit. Each half-hour show features two short segments..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Still Breathing

"...McKean and Junior Brown. Fletcher McBracken (Fraser) is a sweet, dreamy young man who suffers the same curse that..."

May 1, 1998 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Beautiful Thing

This is a sweet yet unsentimental coming-of-age film about two teenage boys in a working-class London suburb who fall in love.

"...Empson, Ben Daniels and Jeillo Edwards. Beautiful, indeed. This sweet yet unsentimental coming-of-age film about two teenage boys in..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Frankie Starlight

"...time, a novelist-professor named Chet Raymo wrote a magically sweet story called The Dork of Cork. Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg..."

April 12, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Forever Young

"...Wendt, Jamie Lee Curtis and Elijah Wood. Ah, the sweet, sentimental, sacrificial nature of lost love slipping beyond the..."

Dec. 18, 1992 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

For Those About to Eat: A Menu of Music at Hot Luck

Shannon & the Clams, Sweet Spirit, Colleen Green, Superchunk, and DJ Jazzy Jeff make the cuisine scene

"...But if you think the glammy heart-on-sleeve pop act Sweet Spirit sounds like an after-dinner cocktail, or fellow Austinite..."

May 20, 2022 Food Feature by Kevin Curtin

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