The Brothers Grimm

Terry Gilliam's skewed fantasy is pure jabberwocky.

"...at it again: bringing one more skewed fantasy to the screen. It’s been a while since his last directorial..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sistering the Brothers Grimm

Austin-born artist Natalie Frank makes fables viscerally visual in her exhibition at the Blanton

"...In the old times, but not so very long ago as..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

"The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb"

"...John Schofield and Mike Gifford. Like a cross between the Brothers Quay, Jan Svankmajer, and David Lynch, Tom Thumb..."

April 7, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tito and the Birds

Brazilian animation goes for the throat of Late Capitalism

"...enhancement, it creates a world just a hair over the brink of insanity from where we currently live: The..."

Feb. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Danielle White

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

"...Harlan, Scotty Mattraw and Roy Atwell. “Mirror, mirror, on the wall...” In 1937 Disney animators turned this Brothers Grimm..."

July 2, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Princess and the Frog

Disney's 49th animated feature film is set in Jazz Age New Orleans and stars a black cast of characters.

"...fit for All Hallows Eve than it does for the holiday season. No matter – the Disney 2-D animators,..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Into the Woods With Gretel & Hansel Director Osgood Perkins

How the retelling of the classic fairytale remained true to its roots

"...Once upon a time, there was a man called Osgood Perkins, and he decided..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Skeleton Key

A top-notch cast is mostly wasted in this atmospheric but prosaic hoodoo spooker.

"...Peter Sarsgaard and Joy Bryant. A top-notch cast was gathered and then wasted in this atmospheric but prosaic hoodoo..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hyde Park Theatre's The Antipodes

A ton of tales enliven this play by Annie Baker, but what do they tell us about the state of storytelling?

"...six skilled storytellers were assembled in one room for the purpose of spinning a new tale that would be..."

July 27, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

SXSW Film Review: Beware the Slenderman

Doc examines notorious teen stabbing

"...nightmare but it’s also every iPad adolescent’s escape from the mundane, frustrating world around them. Irene Taylor Brodsky’s documentary..."

March 12, 2016 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Review: Into the Woods is a Breath of Fresh Air

Zach Theatre's al fresco production is best at its most timeless

"...Stephen Sondheim's sly interweaving of the Brothers Grimm's greatest hits may seem like an ensemble..."

Oct. 22, 2021 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: The Return of Artsploitation

Indie label returns with three psychosexual horrors

"...respite from mainstream cinema, or even mainstream indie cinema, there's a whole globe of bizarre and envelope-pushing movies. The..."

June 17, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Top of the Line

The nominees for the 2011 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...For the 19th year, an informal affiliation of local arts critics..."

May 27, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Ballet Austin's Grimm Tales Gets Brutally Frank

Stephen Mills and company embody an artist’s fabulous vision

"...Once, in a thriving city by a river, there was a company of dancers who brought to their..."

March 29, 2019 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

How Many Fables in the Naked City?

More than usual this weekend, thanks to Vertigo and Natalie Frank

"...Because there’s fables, and then there’s fables...."

Aug. 13, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Critics Table's Grand Tales

The winners of the 2018-19 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Anyone who has attended previous awards ceremonies hosted by the Austin Critics Table – most often, lengthy affairs that..."

June 4, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Ballet Austin II Launches Fables of the World Series

A more inclusive happily ever after with Maria and the Mouse Deer

"...For generations of young people, the wide world of fables was actually quite small –..."

Oct. 14, 2022 Arts Feature by Leila Saidane

The City of Lost Children

This follow-up from the same Frenchmen who made Delicatessen fancies itself a fairy tale – albeit a dark and scary one that's jam-packed with enough strange characters and wild mythologies for at least three movies.

"...and Jean-Claude Dreyfus. From Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, the distinctive French wunderkinder responsible for 1991's dazzling genre-bender Delicatessen,..."

March 1, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

All the Literature That's Fit to Draw & Paint?

The latest volume of 'The Graphic Canon' galumphs on in

"...I'm not gonna preview this second volume of The Graphic Canon, from the fierce offices of Seven Stories..."

Aug. 14, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Off the Bookshelf

D.A.: Prosecutors in Their Own Words

"...by Mark Baker Simon and Schuster, $24 hard..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Books Review

Grimm Guignol

Ryan Gosling's directorial debut melds fantasy and realism

"...No nation on Earth self-mythologizes like the United States. Growing up in Montreal, the young Ryan..."

April 10, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The New Adventures of Snow White

"...Dutree and Walter Giller. This West German import combines Grimm Brothers fairy tales with soft-core porn...."

Nov. 4, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lit-urday: All the Single Ladies

The life cycle of a female worker bee sounds strangely familiar

"...The Bees..."

July 26, 2014 Books Post by Jessi Cape

Mirror Mirror

Holding on to the Snow White fairy tale's most tiresome aspects, this iteration has some visual sass but is devoid of wit.

"...The Brothers Grimm first transcribed the folk tale of Snow..."

April 6, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Tangled

Disney does Rapunzel.

"...Directed by: Nathan Greno and Byron Howard. The venerable Disney animators have climbed aboard both the CGI..."

Nov. 26, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Blood and Chocolate

Lycanthropy and young love: not as yummy as it sounds but nowhere near as godawful as Van Helsing, a small mercy but very much appreciated.

"...young love: Even more than those eternally chic "nosferatim," the primal bristling and crunchy animalistic proclivities inherited by the..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gretel & Hansel

The woods are dark and deep, but far from lovely ...

"...directing credits to his name, it’s a testament to the skill of Osgood Perkins that he is considered one..."

Feb. 7, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

The titular siblings turn bounty hunters after a traumatic childhood incident with an oven.

"...Peter Stormare and Pihla Viitala. In this retooling of the original Brothers Grimm tale, the candy-loving kid sibs survive..."

Feb. 1, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Spirited Away

Spirited Away, about a young girl who is trapped between the real and the ghost-worlds, melds bits of Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz with Eastern-angled spookiness and an outré sensibility that borders on the indescribable.

"...Hayao Miyazaki. If you haven't yet seen any of the films (among them the great Princess Mononoke and the..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'Eggheads'

Novelist Joseph Skibell reflects on his adventures in the screen trade that produced this screwball comedy

"...If the sight of a midcentury office drone dreamily dancing his..."

Sept. 6, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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