Grimm Guignol

Ryan Gosling's directorial debut melds fantasy and realism

"...houses next to them are burnt down or being torn down, and yet they stay. It's moving. It's scary,..."

April 10, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Dumb and Dumber To

They're ba-ack!!!

"...Turner, Rob Riggle, Rachel Melvin, Laurie Holden and Steve Torn...."

Nov. 21, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVDanger: The Evil That Men Do

Nothing Bad Can Happen, and other meditations on darkness

"...God is dead, and the social contract has been torn up. As he explains to the wounded Rey (Robert..."

Oct. 14, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

America: Imagine the World Without Her

Another book by conservative political commentator Dinesh D'Souza gets the documentary treatment.

"...D’Souza’s impassioned narration. It claims that America’s critics have torn at our past and present and hurled accusations that,..."

July 4, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

Science Goes to Court

Death row case sets new state law against prosecutorial resistance

"...injuries – including a severed pancreas and a colon torn from its blood supply...."

Nov. 1, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Lebanon Calling

The Lebanese connection: ACL booker Charles Attal's bond with Zilker Park

"...their humble roots is well-known. Yet not until Austin attorney Philip Joseph, Cater's grandson, researched and printed out an..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

'Another Long Stretch of Continuous Soft Rock'

The third-place story

"...CopyZone manager pats his shirt pocket and finds the torn paper from the opened end of a Rolaids pack...."

Feb. 8, 2013 Books Feature by Josh Justice

Page Two

"...(at right), "We don't think this is a town torn by dissension. Instead, there is a remarkable shared vision..."

Aug. 3, 2012 Column by Louis Black

The Great $100 Lottery Scam

Texas Lottery pursues bearers of 'previously paid' but forgotten scratch-off tickets

"...The TLC – and the county attorney's office, which is prosecuting the case – appears unpersuaded..."

June 8, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

My Extraordinary Ordinary Life

Sissy Spacek's memoir is as easy to read as it is a pleasure to digest

"...of her cousin and his wife – actors Rip Torn and Geraldine Page – turned her interest from music..."

May 4, 2012 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Family Matters

Exploring identity at the Austin Jewish Film Festival

"...withheld from you your whole life? Ronit Kertsner's documentary Torn explores what happens when a man of faith suddenly..."

March 23, 2012 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

In a Better World

This Danish import by Susanne Bier deservedly won this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

"...refugee camps and aid shelters where people have been torn from their homes and horribly maimed and disfigured by..."

April 29, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

You Can Win If You Don't Play?

At the Lege, the most meaningful votes may not be votes at all

"...indicate "present, not voting." (For more, see "Family Planning Torn Asunder.")..."

April 8, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

DI-Wyatt

Wyatt Cenac on emceeing the Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

"...Film Hall of Fame Awards, which will induct Rip Torn, Renée Zellweger, John Hawkes, the cast of Friday Night..."

March 11, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Film Flam

Texas Film Hall of Fame high-fives John Hawkes and Spoon, Bob Byington narrowly avoids probing Down Under, and more

"...lineup: Joining previously announced inductees Renée Zellweger and Rip Torn and emcee Wyatt Cenac (The Daily Show With Jon..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Screens Column by Kimberley Jones

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar confides in Secret Circus and tattles on Texas Film Hall of Fame

"...John Hawkes movies, while my sister Margaret watches Rip Torn movies. Why? It's Texas Film Hall of Fame time..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Try To Remember

How two kids from UT changed the course of the American musical

"...Allen Ludden, Pat Hingle, Barbara Barrie, Jayne Mansfield, Rip Torn, and Harry Blackstone Jr. That meant that students who..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Page Two: The Ways Sisyphus Had It Easy

Consequences of perception

"...possible if, as we claim, we had been so torn up by the tumultuous, violent rushing of the rigid..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Column by Louis Black

In Memory of Dennis Hopper

'A walkin' contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction'

"...crazy, maybe not as completely tapped out as Rip Torn but close. He was of a loose generation of..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Afghan Star

In Afghanistan's version of American Idol, there's a lot more at stake than the glory.

"...step in and bring "culture" and "modernization" to weary, war-torn Afghanistan. Now that's entertainment. If you're a nihilist. (See..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Post Grad

Bland to the point of pointlessness, Post Grad follows the inane highs and lows of a perky young optimist.

"...fares little better. Although best-friend-without-benefits Adam (Gilford) – himself torn between becoming a singer-songwriter or a lawyer (!) –..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lemon Tree

This moving Israeli film tells the fraught story of a Palestinian widow whose lemon grove is threatened when the country's defense minister moves next door.

"...her sack – and she sympathizes but says nothing, torn between her responsibility to her husband's political position and..."

June 5, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: R.I.P.

Edwin 'Bud' Shrake and Stephen Bruton

"...Songwriter: McLeish (Rip Torn) finds his wife, Pattie (Sage Parker), in bed with..."

May 15, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Defiance

In this true story, Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber play two Jewish brothers who escape into the forest to elude capture by the Nazis and wind up birthing a small village of escapees.

"...the same coin, humanists and murderers in different proportions, torn between the desire to help their fellow Jews and..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

High School Musical 3: Senior Year

College approaches, but that's no reason to stop singing and dancing.

"...about to be separated by college, a basketball captain torn between attending his dad's alma mater or pursuing a..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Duchess

Keira Knightley stars as the titular Duchess, a legendary wit and arbiter of taste, but the film is a curiously inert: a whole lot of pomp and incircumstance.

"...his sleep, and Knightley never convincingly portrays a woman torn asunder by her contradictory impulses toward maternal duty and..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?

Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me fame chases after the world's most wanted man and comes up empty but fulfilled.

"...like the compact between filmmaker and viewer has been torn and burned and its ashes scattered to the wind...."

April 18, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Shrapnel

"...ShrapnelTorn From Existence..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Control

Control, Anton Corbijn's narrative portrait of Joy Division's suicidal singer, Ian Curtis, is easily one of the finest films ever made about the collision of music, madness, and the human heart.

"...bomb than a heartsick, often physically ill young man torn between two women and one band. The women –..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Eastern Promises

In Cronenberg's film about the Russian mob in London, the director and star Viggo Mortensen relates a corker of a story.

"...physical sequence that rivals the farmhouse murder in Hitchcock's Torn Curtain for sheer, sweaty realism. It's Cronenberg's film, but..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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