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House of Gucci
Ridley Scott is a bad fit for the tale of the fashion house's fall
"...The one question to ask about House of Gucci is..."

Nov. 26, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Tribeca Film Festival Interview: Fathom
Austin filmmakers travel to where the whales sing
"...Whether you're a researcher into cetacean communication, or you're a..."

June 18, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Ad Astra
Brad Pitt deals with a case of the space ... madness!
"...Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Liv Tyler and Donald Sutherland...."

Sept. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

AGLIFF Closing With Mapplethorpe
Festival adds major bio-pic, plus complete line-up
"...AGLIFF, the All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival, has just..."

July 26, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Eye Wide Open on Lance Letscher
With two major solo shows and a new documentary about him, the Austin collage artist readies to be seen in a new way
"...pieces are housed in permanent collections at museums around the world. Letscher swats off the praise he gets at..."

March 3, 2017 Arts Feature by Sean L. Malin

Great World of Sound
David Wingo's success scoring film fuels his band Ola Podrida
"...The field across the street from David Wingo's house rises..."

May 24, 2013 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

While My Ukulele Gently Weeps
Get ready to see a lot more ukuleles
"...out brushfire folk songs on a tarnished guitar first. Then a ukulele was produced from backstage. He smiled...."

Feb. 1, 2013 Music Feature by Luke Winkie

Page Two: Getting Our Bearings
The world is far bigger than it might seem
"...A seasonal report: musing over the weather, thinking about time, considering the end of days,..."

May 7, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Honor Roll
Behind the new stunner of a short from Austin film mainstay Steve Mims
"...amazed by it. We were able to use all these nice 35-millimeter lenses. It's easy, it's fun, and that's..."

April 9, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Rolling Into 2010
Hotrod, Heartbreakers take first wins of the TXRG regular season
"...It's always the quiet ones, even in Roller Derby. In the opening..."

March 29, 2010 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

WALL-E
By turns sad, hilarious, exciting, and ultimately, hopeful, this is a film of Great Truths masquerading as child's play.
"...Isaac Asimov – have made of Pixar's WALL-E? It's the story of the last functioning robot (a "Waste Allocation..."

June 27, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Vacancy
Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale play a couple who try to escape from the snuff-film motel at which they're stranded.
"...66, and I am here to tell you that the darker the night, the lonelier the road, the more..."

April 27, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Snakes on a Plane
This solid little B-movie arrives cloaked in the dodgy garb of a fanboy phenomenon.
"...Sunny Mabrey. A solid little B-movie arriving cloaked in the dodgy garb of a fanboy phenomenon, Snakes on a..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Movies and Shakers
The production companies behind – and ahead of – the boom, and how they might be able to help you
"...a production company, but we don't do development in the traditional sense of finding material, hiring a writer, writing..."

May 26, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

That One Sad One
Second place
"...The bees loitering around the trash bucket a couple feet..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Books Feature by Will Furgeson

Occupation: Dreamland
In this amazingly candid documentary, soldiers from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division talk about their lives and their mission in Fallujah, Iraq, in early 2004, just weeks before the full strength of the Sunni insurgency becomes apparent.
"...Fallujah, Iraq, and Occupation: Dreamland’s filmmakers are bunked with the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, who’ve been charged with the..."

Oct. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Woman Thou Art Loosed
Based on a novel by Bishop T.D. Jakes, a black evangelical preacher and author who also co-stars, this unusual film is part revivalist sermon, part narrative drama, and wholly urgent and engaging.
"...always successful drama that is also part revivalist sermon. The film is based on a novel by Bishop T.D...."

Oct. 22, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dear Pillow
Provocative Austin-made feature pushes sexual buttons meant to arouse and provoke, but never satisfy.
"...and John Erler. Filmed in Austin and currently making the festival rounds in addition to a feature engagement at..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

We Don't Live Here Anymore
What people fight about when they fight about love.
"...from two short stories by Andre Dubus, it was the recollection of another story – by Raymond Carver, one..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

My Life Without Me
Unusual film about dying young avoids sentimentality.
"...Speedman, Deborah Harry and Maria de Medeiros. One of the most difficult film genres to manage successfully is that..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Far From Heaven
"...Douglas Sirk's 1952 Hollywood melodrama All That Heaven Allows: The camera cranes through a grove of treetops, through their..."

Nov. 21, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

10 Things I Hate About You
This updated version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew provides a sharp examination of teen dating rituals.
"...Keegan, Susan May Pratt, Gabrielle Union and Larry Miller. There's a charming scene in this film that has the..."

April 9, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Next Stop, Wonderland
"...Anderson's new, low-budget romantic comedy Next Stop, Wonderland for the overinflated sum of $6 million, he was quoted as..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hana-Bi (Fireworks)
"...poetry, and lord knows what else. But until now, the absurdly prolific 50-year-old auteur has hardly breached the perimeter..."

May 22, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Naked City
Off the Desk:
"...Multimedia producer David Stansbury has jumped the Human Code ship to head up the editorial end..."

Nov. 8, 1996 News Feature

Beautiful Girls
"...Annabeth Gish and David Arquette. Although its title suggests otherwise, Beautiful Girls is firmly attuned to the twentysomething male..."

Feb. 9, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Eat, Drink, Man, Woman
Dim Sum Under the Rainbow
"...Early in the summer, Chronicle bookeeper cindy soo piped up in a..."

Oct. 6, 1995 Arts Feature

Top 10 Festival Films of 2021 You Haven't Seen Yet
From retro horror to COVID survival, the best of the fests
"...The 2022 film festival is just around the corner (even..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Professors of Pleasure
Their name may suggest a lack of intelligence, but make no mistake, the Flaming Idiots are wise men when it comes to comedy.
"...floating, just floating, about a dozen feet up in the air. It's not really doing anything else, just kind..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Interactive Announces Programming
Panels, sessions, meet ups, and more
"...In addition to the big names announced last week – including Russell Brand,..."

Oct. 20, 2014 Screens Post by James Renovitch

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