Fast & Furious

This third franchise sequel doesn't have as much smarts as speed, but it's still an uncomplicated, undemanding lark.

"...rigs. My, how the times have changed: In this third sequel in the Fast/Furious franchise, Toretto and his team..."

April 3, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

Despite being the third entry in the Underworld series, this is a prequel story about the age-old war between the vampires and the werewolves.

"...a testament to Bill Nighy's cadaverous panache that this third entry in the ongoing exsanguinators vs. lycanthropes franchise (that's..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Man in the White Hat

Larry Joe Doherty rides into the battle for CD 10

"...field, he decided he wasn't going to save the world one lawyer at a time and took a colorful..."

Oct. 3, 2008 News Feature by Lee Nichols

ASL Powerhouse Gets Shut Down

The Austin Chronicle defeats BookPeople 9-5 and clinch a spot in the Alternative Softball League playoffs

"...up one, tie, BookPeople up one, then ending the third inning tied at 2. In the first Shannon Stott..."

Aug. 21, 2008 Sports Post by Kristine Tofte

Waterloo Records Recycles the 'Chronicle'

The Chronicle, not able to pull it together offensively, loses to Waterloo in the end, 12-8

"...ended the inning with a great catch for the third out. We are all so glad he is back..."

July 25, 2008 Sports Post by Kristine Tofte

The Bubble

This gay-tinged Romeo and Juliet story set largely in Tel Aviv shows the complexities of love in a land where the conflicts are as old as Western religion and as new as suicide bombers.

"...Liba, Shredy Jabarin and Ruba Blal. Until the film's third act when the plot grows ultra-melodramatic, this gay-tinged Romeo..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

In the Valley of Elah

Paul Haggis and Tommy Lee Jones deliver a scorching film that's part police procedural, part family melodrama, and all about our national failures in Iraq.

"...three movies in one: one fine, another brilliant, the third neither fine nor brilliant. First and foremost, it’s an..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Spider-Man 3

When cascading through the cityscape, Spider-Man 3 still makes us gasp with delight, but on Earth those gasps come solely in reaction to the cynical dreariness of the script.

"...and visual audacity, expectations have run high for this third entry in the series. Having defied the odds once,..."

May 4, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

A stilted, manipulative, and altogether unfun film starring Tim Allen and Martin Short.

"...noose while various and sundry villains associated with this third entry in the Santa Clause franchise of flaccidly feel-good,..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

ATL

Wicked smart examination of black kids in modern Atlanta features talented young actors navigating the circuitous path to adulthood while spending their downtime at the local roller rink.

"...they might well create the greatest roller-skating drama the world has ever seen – sorry, Xanadu.) Populated by a..."

March 31, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Keane

An unconventional psychological thriller without much plot, Keane is the gripping and uncompromising story of a man's attempt to hang on to his sanity.

"...unheralded, filmmakers of our time, and with Keane, his third feature, he finally shows himself to be in full..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Green Street Hooligans

The psychotically testosterized world of British football hooliganism, with its crimson tide of fist-in-mouth male bonding and lager-lout bad manners, is captured in this post LOTR Elijah Wood movie.

"...battles and territorial pissings that mark the psychotically testosterized world of British football hooliganism (aka "supporting the home team")...."

Oct. 7, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Eating Out

Crude comedy of sexual errors falls flat.

"...steadily toward some sort of disastrous, mistaken sexual identity third act as Kyle urges the none-too-bright Caleb to pretend..."

May 27, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Surviving Christmas

Money can buy happiness goes the moral of this cynical yet mildly amusing comedy starring Ben Affleck and James Gandolfini.

"...Powers). The film’s jokes are pretty constant, despite a third act that mostly spins its wheels. If one were..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

It Runs in the Family

"...and unevenly paced. Until it pulls together in the third act, Family is a workmanlike collection of predictably heartwarming..."

April 25, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Page Two

If we want to make sure this country remembers its commitment to Iraq and does not get into other military misadventures, a new kind of political activism must evolve.

"...most militarily powerful nation in the history of the world successfully invaded a Third World country that had been..."

April 11, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Minority Report

"...long, Minority Report suffers from some of the same third-act entropy that waylaid the director's far more ambitious A.I.;..."

June 21, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Insomnia

"...Dormer, a man clearly more at home in the world of film noir than in the land of the..."

May 24, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...mile in Barton Springs, stroll into Antone's for some world-class blues on a Monday night, or catch an opening..."

May 10, 2002 Column

Songcatcher

"...happy to oblige the fancy lady from “the other world.” Viney's scruffy grandson, Tom Bledsoe (Quinn), is the only..."

June 29, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Dish

"...to eclipsing Neil Armstrong's first tentative step onto another world, and though the dotty citizenry of Parkes is clearly..."

April 27, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Death of Rock & Roll

Top 10s: Year, Decade, Eternity

"...American revolution. Spreading like smallpox brought to the New World by European settlers, it soon became the preeminent form..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Everywhere Is War

A beginner's discography to Rock en Español

"..."Oye Como Va" is the shot heard round the world. The birth of "Rock en Español." Rearranging Latin jazz..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

October Sky

"...without its setbacks. As the film opens, the American world is reeling from the announcement that the Soviets have..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

She's All That

On a bet, a high school jock turns a plain-looking girl into a prom queen.

"...onboard as a Puck-like refugee from MTV's The Real World, although even his mugging to Rick James during a..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Trip to Bountiful

The Third Visit to Tuna Still Yields a Profusion of Delights

"...feels. The set for Red, White, and Tuna, the third visit to Texas' third smallest community, is familiar from..."

May 15, 1998 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Beverly Hills Cop III

"...clearly going for the same groove. This is the third pairing of director John Landis and Murphy, who previously..."

May 27, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Heaven & Earth

"...latest film is a project he views as the third part of his “Vietnam trilogy,” following Platoon and Born..."

Dec. 24, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Texas Gets Spirited Away

Taste-testing Texas liquors against the world

"...blind, against some of the best competitors in the world. Do they deserve a place on your liquor shelf?..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Gypsy Rose

The 'Rockabilly Filly' bucks back into Austin

"...lonesome, predestined to waft out of honky-tonks around the world. Always one to go with the flow in order..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

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