'There's No Place Like Home'

One superfan's quest to bring the rules of basketball back home

"...for 30 documentaries because there are so many ways that each story can be presented. Co-directors Josh Swade and..."

Oct. 16, 2012 Sports Post by Will Eidam

Everything Evil: How Longlegs Is Osgood Perkins’ Popcorn Movie

Channeling Silence of the Lambs for his horror club sandwich

"...Daughter, and his latest, Longlegs. But for the director that’s not what really binds the two films together...."

July 12, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Gay Place

More Rebecca Havemeyer than you can Soileau

"...RIFFING WITH PABLEAUX Truth: Gay Place really likes Paul Soileau. And yes, Frenchy, it is..."

Jan. 29, 2010 Column by Kate X Messer

Gay Place

Rescheduled Pride doesn't miss a beat

"...we usually cherish at Pride. Though Austin Pride requested that the city reschedule the fest and parade together, we..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Column by Sarah Marloff

Gay Place: OUTside of Society, Indeed

OUTsider: And so it begins

"...room setting in the cozy neighborhood known as French Place. Thu.-Sat., Feb. 19-21, 11am. See OUTsider schedule for location...."

Feb. 20, 2015 Column

Gay Place

Celebrating Pride Week amidst stupidity and hate

"...friend, activist, and very talented artist recently told me that "our communities are feeling worn thin," and I couldn't..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Column by Sarah Marloff

Gay Place

It's been a couple of big weeks for the pair behind Austin's beloved GayBiGayGay

"...Mouthfeel. Plus free dinner! Well, free chips and salsa, that is. Thu., May 5, 6-8pm. Cheer Up Charlies, 900..."

May 6, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

That Old Revival Spirit

Testifying About Movies

"...We're not here to mourn. Because what's important is that we continue to watch these movies from that past..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

Feasts That Define the Millennium

Food, the Original Commodity

"...original commodity, plays a starring role in a production that brings groups of people together, honors events from the..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Gay Place

Women's Alliance for Leadership empowers LGBTQ women to succeed in education and their careers

"...You might notice this week that there's a new(er) nonprofit on the block. WAL, or..."

June 10, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

Pop Culture That's a Keeper

Browsing the collectibles at Guzu Gallery

"...who loses, the audience/player/art lover wins. Or at least that's how it looks from inside the two-month-old Guzu Gallery...."

May 18, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Food-o-File

Chocolate and the surprising tang of dill pickle popcorn: Need we say more?

"...alarming piece of information to my attention. It seems that an industry group called the Chocolate Manufacturers Association of..."

May 4, 2007 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Ant-Man

The Marvel Universe expands to include comedy

"...Affleck is the new Batman, and I’m okay with that (seriously, though, it’s going to be fine, people). All..."

July 17, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Hyde Park Theatre's The Flick

Annie Baker's drama movingly shows us that the drama in a movie theatre isn't only on the screen

"...the movies, our eyes stay locked on the screen. That's where the action is, after all, in the larger-than-life..."

July 22, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Archangel

"...As far as I can tell, the film takes place in the Arctic Russian city of the title, during..."

Nov. 29, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Panic Room

"...go. Coming off of Fight Club, a cultural zeitgeist that closed out the last century, Fincher has delivered another..."

March 29, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Cellular

Feels like a B-picture, but a smart, finely tuned one that wouldn’t have been out of place in Roger Corman’s mid-Seventies stable.

"...of emulating the master these days. Wrong man, wrong place, wrong time is the crux of the story here..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Carandiru

In prison in Brazil is a woeful place to be.

"...photo of São Paulo, Brazil, where the film takes place. That simple, ethereal shot sets the stage for the..."

July 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Freddie as F. R. O. 7.

"...overgrown Saturday morning cartoon for a real movie. But that's what the forces behind this work want us to..."

Sept. 4, 1992 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Japón

"...makes Japón a strikingly individualistic work and also one that wears its cinematic influences on its sleeve. The most..."

May 16, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Captain Marvel

Brie Larson confidently lays the next cornerstone of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

"...the history of Marvel Comics, there's been few characters that have been through more changes than Carol Danvers. An..."

March 8, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Rabbit-Proof Fence

Set in 1931 Australia and based on a true event, Noyce's film shows what three half-caste aboriginal girls experience when they escape the camp where they have been forcibly sent in order to become anglicized. The music is by Peter Gabriel.

"...film is clearly of the hot-pursuit variety, it takes place almost entirely on foot, in the flat, dusty, dead..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Snatch

Ritchie's second feature is part broad comic farce and part grisly charnel house humor.

"...new bride) know for sure. What is certain is that Snatch, Ritchie's follow-up to last year's smash hit Lock,..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Would You Believe, National Caramel Day?

Five delicious reasons that will make you go yum

"...delicious AF reasons – for you to actually celebrate that random fact...."

April 2, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Summer Fun: Season’s Screenings

Austin filmmakers pick their favorite summer movies

"...heat is from a cool remove on the couch (popcorn optional). To that end, we asked eight Austin filmmakers..."

May 14, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

V for Vendetta

This is a thinking person’s action film – a futuristic slice of pop-culture agitprop, replete with a costumed antihero, lovingly choreographed action sequences, cunningly ornate dialogue, and a terrific, rousing score.

"...and broken British citizenry in the year 2020, a place we quickly discover is at once heavily, obviously redolent..."

March 17, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Battle: Los Angeles

Aliens fight the U.S. Marines in a gritty urban war. Viewers are the losers.

"...the respect (immediately, since the events depicted here take place within a three-hour time frame) of this new group..."

March 11, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Chronicles of Riddick

Vin Diesel revs up the sci-fi franchise.

"...alien being alongside Vin Diesel’s superhuman antihero Riddick. Taking place five years after the events in the previous film,..."

June 11, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

White House Down

Roland Emmerich blows up the White House real good, so who cares if it doesn't all compute when you have Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx (as an Obama-ish prez) battling to become last men standing?

"...White House Down is the second movie this year that has as its premise the takeover and destruction of..."

June 28, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Spike & Mike's 1999 Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation

"...Juliet Aubrey, Rachael Stirling, Hans Matheson and Helena Bergström. That masterful, enigmatically calibrated gauge which is the human sense..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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