Wild Things

The film is a fun, sexy never-ending game of double-cross.

"...Dillon plays Sam Lombardo, the ladykiller-cum-boating instructor at a tony South Florida high school who finds himself accused of..."

March 27, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Love! Valour! Compassion!

"...a copycat. It's just that… I don't know, there's always the distracting sense that the story's undergarments are poking..."

June 13, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Emily Wells, Dwight Yoakam, Sir Woman, Tony Kamel, Jake Lloyd, and more recommended shows

"...including just months before the venue closed to make way for an H-E-B last November. So when Round Rock..."

June 3, 2022 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The AggreGAYtor: December 17

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...Tony Perkins wins his hater badge, Matt Damon keeps it..."

Dec. 17, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Postmarks

United Way Clarifies

"...Share ["Coming of Age," Vol.17, No.39] implies that United Way/Capital Area functions like a monopoly, limiting nonprofits in workplace..."

June 12, 1998 Column

We Are Your Friends

A wan Saturday Night Fever wannabe about four millennials

"...to mentor Cole, things start to happen, but not always in a good way. Soon, ho’s come before bros..."

Aug. 28, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Killer Joe

Matthew McConaughey's Killer Joe is sociopathy incarnate; William Friedkin adds visual punch to the venality within Tracy Letts' screenplay.

"...they come, and I mean that in a nice way. It's thoroughly riddled with a cast of wormy characters..."

Aug. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Analyze That

"...Sopranos central gag now seems unavoidably dated and tired. Tony Soprano and Dr. Melfi's convoluted relationship on HBO has..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Step

Inspiring doc on Baltimore teenagers

"...Step has been directed by Tony Award-winning Broadway producer Amanda Lipitz, who makes her feature-film..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

House at the End of the Street

This scary-house movie starring Jennifer Lawrence is a strictly middling nonshocker.

"...securing a theatrical release. It's purely meh-ville all the way and the asking price ($7.50 for a matinee) is..."

Sept. 28, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

From Prada to Nada

Former Spy Kid Alexa Vega co-stars in this comedy that provides a Hispanic spin on Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.

"...et al.), Nora quickly finds a position at a tony legal firm where she attracts the attention of Anglo..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Red Riding: 1974

This is the first of three absorbing adaptations (filmed concurrently by different directors) of David Peace’s linked novels about crime and corruption in Yorkshire, England.

"...announce its era upfront, but its roots go back way deeper. This is a noir, the kind where the..."

March 19, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

State of Play

Starring Russell Crowe, this American redo of a great BBC miniseries about investigative journalism and nefarious institutions neither embarrasses the original nor is superior to it in any way.

"...the original nor is superior to it in any way. But it does make a case for its own..."

April 17, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Disaster Movie

We're running out of genres to spoof: This time it's disaster movies.

"...Nicole Parker, Kimberly Kardashian, Ike Barinholtz, Carmen Electra and Tony Cox. There’s no nice way to say this, so..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Hairspray

While there’s nothing offensive about the wholesomeness of this new version of John Waters' 1988 cult classic, you wish that it didn’t feel as if every hair were in place.

"...effervescent good humor, this film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical feels oddly lacquered – it’s John Waters by..."

July 20, 2007 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Nomi Song

A documentary ode to the legendary outsider's outsider, Klaus Nomi – a singer, performance artist, and genuine human anomaly.

"...Horn’s endlessly fascinating documentary not only acts as a gateway for a whole new generation of artistically inclined freaks..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Notebook

The love sap flows freely in this movie romance told in retrospect.

"...Notebook might have been if they’d just found a way to get rid of the damned notebook. Within its..."

June 25, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Brother

"...Takeshi, the name he uses as a performer) has always had a fluid style; his editing melds one act..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Snatch

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

"...of honor, transposed to modern-day comic-Cockney London. In other ways, Snatch also updates classic British heist comedies such as..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Split Second

"...Directed by: Tony Maylam. Starring: Rutger Hauer and Kim Cattrall. Let's get..."

May 8, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Full Arthur Miller Archive Lands at UT

Ransom Center acquires complete papers by The Crucible author

"...the full archive of this "profoundly American writer," as Tony Kushner called him, will reside at the University of..."

Jan. 12, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Kate Shindle Talks Fun Home

The former Miss America on why she loves starring in the national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical

"...I saw the "Ring of Keys" performance on the Tony Awards and sobbed uncontrollably –..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Audra McDonald

The Tony-winning actress reveals how life has informed her singing

"...to New York from Los Angeles; a return to Broadway to play Bess in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess,..."

Oct. 18, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Rove's Got Them Happy Feet (Updated)

Karl Rove dances while the New Rome burns. Less at 11.

"...some easy targets, they hired Whose Line Is It Anyway's Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood (to which a nation..."

March 29, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

X Games Austin: What To Do Before, During and After

Your cheat sheet for the very first X Games Austin.

"...frequent the street corners and parks. It's an easy way to get gourmet food that doesn't break the bank...."

June 4, 2014 Events Post by Adam Gestwicki

Big Changes in Big D

Cowboys offseason happenings

"...hand may have been brought in to back up Tony Romo, but over the last two years the 36-year-old..."

March 5, 2009 Sports Post by Justin Sanders

Attack of the Robocaller!

WilCo Dem county attorney challenger claims attack piece breaks federal law

"...Williamson County voters have been recieving a robocall from Tony Dale, the traditional concerned businessman of such pieces. In..."

Oct. 28, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Teenage Mutant Ninja Politics

The Hypocritical Limits of Campaign Finance Reform

"...handicapping in the governor's race, in the end novice Tony Sanchez was able to bury the more seasoned Dan..."

April 5, 2002 News Column by Michael King

If It Ain't Bruch, Don't Fix It

Just a drummer from Iowa? Just a culinary badass? Hold his beer.

"...Yeah, that’s the way to refer to a human being, right? As a..."

Dec. 21, 2017 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Peter Hook: Life in a Northern Town

Joy Division/New Order bassist resurrects two classic LPs

"...It’s a long way from rain-drenched Manchester to sun-baked Texas. For Peter Hook,..."

Sept. 17, 2013 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

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