Let It Bleed

Riverboat Gamblers: The most thrilling (and battle scarred) punk band this side of the Mason-Dixon Line

"...The Great State of Texas, whose image has been battered..."

April 21, 2006 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

O Brother

How a bluegrass soundtrack turned out to be the biggest music business success story since Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction.

"...Question: Besides unnaturally high-pitched singing voices for members of the male sex, what do Axl Rose and Ralph Stanley..."

July 19, 2002 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Things Have Changed

A brief, very general overview of the year in albums 2001

"...Even before 9/11, 2001 was a wash musically speaking. The ever accelerating fragmentation of the mainstream music industry, brought..."

Jan. 4, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Strokes @ Stubb's

Live Shot

"...The Strokes @ Stubb'sOctober 23..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Music Review by Michael Chamy

Monsters University

This sequel is a prequel about the school days of the future Monsters, Inc. employees, Sulley and Mike.

"...Remember the nifty idea behind Monsters, Inc., wherein the city of..."

June 21, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Strokes

Record review

"...The Strokes..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Strokes

SXSW showcase reviews

"...The StrokesAuditorium Shores, Thursday, March 17..."

March 18, 2011 Music Review by Greg Beets

The Strokes

Record Review

"...The StrokesIs This It (RCA)..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Strokes

"...The StrokesZilker Park, Oct. 8..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Obvious Child

Jenny Slate stars as a standup comic in this indie film about abortion that comes snuggled in the broad strokes of a quirky comedy.

"...At the start of the film, a struggling Brooklyn stand-up comic..."

June 20, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Diary of a Mad Black Woman

The fitful story of how one black woman gets her groove back

"...Stella a few years ago, this new movie tells the story of how yet another black woman, Helen McCarter..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Marci X

A hip-hop artist and a Jewish American Princess discover that bling-bling makes the world go ’round.

"...American princess and a chart-topping rapper have in common? The answer is da bling-bling. Who knew the power of..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lucky Numbers

"...downright sublime. Mind you, he's not toting around half the special make-up in this one (unless you count his..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

White Man's Burden

"...Avery, Carrie Snodgress, Willie Carpenter and Robert Gossett. From the Lawrence Bender production company A Band Apart (Reservoir Dogs,..."

Dec. 8, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Million to Juan

"...Cheech Marin, Edward James Olmos and Paul Williams. Unlike the ongoing boom in films made by and aimed (primarily)..."

May 20, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Playback: ACL Fest's First Weeknd Moves Mountains

ACL Fest 2015 weekend one wrap

"...good festival, with Mach nine orgies as far as the eye can see," said Father John Misty from the..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

A Most Wanted Man

This post-9/11 espionage thriller is adapted from John Le Carré’s 2008 novel and stars Philip Seymour Hoffman at the head of a top-notch cast.

"...opens on a battered sea wall. It sits at the lip of Hamburg, Germany, a port city on high..."

July 25, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

ACL Music Fest Friday Listings

ACL Friday by the blurbs

"...summer tradition at Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, offering the evening counterpart to a drunken float down the Guadalupe...."

Oct. 8, 2010 Music Feature

Broken Embraces

Penélope Cruz stars in Pedro Almodóvar's latest, which plays like the lost love child of Douglas Sirk and Alfred Hitchcock.

"...Tamar Novas, Ángela Molina and Rossy de Palma. Ever the lush and melodramatic filmmaker, Almodóvar appears to be adding..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Superman Returns

Superman returns to Earth seeming more like a humbled prodigal son than an invincible superhero.

"...son than an invincible superhero. He crash-lands back on the Midwestern farm of his boyhood after an absence of..."

June 30, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Don't Move

Italian story of a surgeon who falls in love with a country girl (Penélope Cruz), flirts with the self-pitying mindset of the slumming elite, and becomes something of an apology for bourgeois classism.

"...Penélope Cruz, Claudia Gerini and Elena Perino. Based on the novel Non Ti Muovere by the director and co-star’s..."

June 3, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Zatôichi

Beneath its layers of epic detail, this Zatôichi is cinematic cotton candy.

"...Tachibana. You may know a certain blind swordsman from the pulp novels of Kan Shimozawa and the films of..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Deliver Us From Eva

"...Mel Jackson, Dartanyan Edmonds, Jazsmin Lewis and Kim Whitley. The fact that there’s little new in the roundabout urban..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

God Said “HA!”

"...Directed by: Julia Sweeney. “The feel-good cervical cancer movie of the year!” That's how..."

May 7, 1999 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Cucaracha, La

"...of near-Shakespearean proportions, Jack Perez reimagines Old Mexico and the gringo expat's place in it as a manic fever..."

April 23, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Once Upon a Time … When We Were Colored

"...a set of characters that are not seen on the silver screen with the regularity of, say, exploding motor..."

May 17, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Love Field

"...quietly engaging and uncharacteristic little period piece set in the American South in the early Sixties that tells the..."

Feb. 26, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cape Fear

"...Thoughtful. Well-planned. Well-acted. If this is Scorsese's bid for the commercial big time, then let the cash registers ring...."

Nov. 22, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Albert Hammond Jr.

"...The solo debut from Albert Hammond Jr. doesn't have the..."

March 16, 2007 Music Review by Austin Powell

ACL Review: Albert Hammond Jr.

Strokes stringer remains his own man solo

"...Albert Hammond Jr. doesn’t put on a Strokes show. The group’s guitarist doesn’t try to. While the..."

Oct. 10, 2015 Music Post

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