Texas Trademark War

A new app makes life easier for UT students – but not for UT's lawyers, apparently

"...newest apps, raising questions about the breadth of UT's trademark claims in the process...."

Feb. 12, 2010 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

TradeMark of the Beast

Sept. 21, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Common Law

Nuts and bolts of trademark registration

"...does it help my business if I register a trademark? How do I register a trademark? Is it a..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Column by Luke Ellis

The Common Law

Trademark My Small Business?

"...small business, and several people have told me to trademark the name. What is a trademark, and how would..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Column by Luke Ellis

The Common Law

Do trademark laws affect my local business?

"...hope will grow over time. Should I do a trademark search for the product that I plan to offer?..."

Oct. 12, 2007 Column by Luke Ellis

Faust

"...date, filled as it is with not only his trademark clay and stop-motion animation, but also involving a (more..."

Oct. 14, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jojo Rabbit

Anti-hate satire in the ruins of the Reich finds heart and humor in the chaos

"...coming-of-age story unlike any other, filled with the director’s trademark heart and a soul-stirring argument against the ever ready..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Taken 3

Liam Neeson's back in action.

"...All the while, Neeson retains his God-given gravitas and trademark ferocity; he’s as comfortable bantering with a giant stuffed..."

Jan. 16, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Tim's Vermeer

Vermeer must have painted by using a camera obscura and Tim Jenison spends four years proving the method in this fascinating documentary by Penn & Teller.

"...magical, often mechanical, and always amazing is practically their trademark. I was surprised that Ricky Jay didn’t pop up..."

March 21, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Arthur Christmas

The folks at Aardman Animation, who gave us Wallace & Gromit, seve up an instant – and funny – holiday classic.

"...Run, among many others. This time, they've left their trademark Plasticine stop-motion designs behind in favor of CGI and..."

Nov. 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Eye

In this Hong Kong horror remake, Jessica Alba stars as a blind violinist whose cure turns out to be worse than the disease.

"...the original film's decidedly downbeat vision but with the trademark LASIK laziness of Hollywood's stylistically blank remake factory. It..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

300

Both Frank Miller's comic about the legendary battle of Thermopylae and Zack Snyder's cinematic adaptation are bloodthirsty affairs, awash in spectacle.

"...to bloody life and loses none of the author's trademark visual kineticism in the transfer from page to screen...."

March 9, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Stranger Than Fiction

A good movie but not a great one, Stranger Than Fiction is reminiscent of the films of Charlie Kaufman but lacks that writer’s conceptual rigor and imaginative power.

"...point of lifelessness. Unable to fall back on his trademark frat-boy boorishness and chronic nudism, the former Saturday Night..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Army of Shadows

Although made in 1969, this French masterpiece by Jean-Pierre Melville is receiving its first stateside release.

"...other puffery. Army of Shadows bears some of Melville’s trademark touches, such as his film noir aesthetic and focus..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tideland

Terry Gilliam misfires completely in this dreary, unfocused, and exhausting psychodrama.

"...as dreary, unfocused, and exhausting as Tideland, the director’s trademark dreamscapes and disorienting camera angles feel like so much..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Saraband

Ingmar Bergman’s final film continues his exploration into mankind’s willful inability to accept the inevitable, whatever that may be.

"...that follow – Saraband is dense with the director’s trademark dialogues, which arise from the deep, dark, endless night..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Saw

Saw is indeed a horror movie, but not necessarily in the manner the filmmakers intended.

"...David Fincher’s Seven and any number of Danny Glover’s trademark cop films), but it also contains some of the..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Brother

"...traditional Japanese yakuza epic, it has plenty of Kitano's trademark hyperviolence but little of the contemplative mood of such..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mission: Impossible Two

"...and far between. With M:i-2, Woo has combined his trademark flair for elaborate action set-pieces with his more classically..."

May 26, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Splendor

"...That's not to say it's cloying; plenty of Araki's trademark sass and naughty invective is still being hurled about...."

Nov. 19, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Stendahl Syndrome

"...mind. Stendahl's Syndrome is also rife with the director's trademark camera obscurities: swooping, airborne shots; the maniac's POV shots,..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Astronaut's Wife

"...The Astronaut's Wife is remarkably neither. Depp has his trademark intensity throttled all the way up here, but it's..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Teaching Mrs. Tingle

"...sad affair, devoid of shocks, surprises, or even his trademark clever dialogue. Events are telegraphed far too much in..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Black Mask

"...alumnus Tsui Hark, the film is drenched in Hark's trademark neo-psychedelics, from the mind-blowing shots of Li, Yip, and..."

May 21, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Starship Troopers

In this spectacle, lethal insects from outer space do battle with student soldiers. When in Austin recently, Oliver Stone called Starship Troopers "One of the best war films in recent years."

"...of Showgirls' mastur-mind, though in this adolescent context, Verhoeven's trademark salaciousness seems perfectly apropos. Leading the warriors into the..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Fargo

The Coen brothers return to their Blood Simple roots with this bizarre, dialect-strewn tale of a kidnapping gone very wrong that's filled with the their trademark graveyard wit and unique camera angles.

"...every time a door slams. Filled with the Coens' trademark graveyard wit and unique camera angles (it occasionally seems..."

March 22, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Four Rooms

"...Bedhead and Austin Stories: Filled with the director's brilliant, trademark rapid edits and a story that actually goes somewhere,..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Snake in the Eagle's Shadow

The directing debut of acclaimed kung fy choreographer Yuen also helped popularize the burgeoning “kung fu comedy” genre and it primary star, Jackie Chan.

"...hit, puts the engaging kung fu hero in his trademark role of the good-hearted loser who learns how to..."

Sept. 29, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Mamma Roma

In this early Pasolini film marked by the director's sumptuous neo-realism, Magnani plays a middle-aged prostitute who retires from the trade to become a full-time mother to her 16-year-old son.

"...punchy, gorgeous masterpiece, filled to bursting with the director's trademark dialogue, early neo-realism, and enough beautiful cinematography (by Tonino..."

June 23, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gordy

"...thus becoming pig hero to the nation and the trademark that revitalizes the father's company. There is, of course,..."

May 12, 1995 Movie Review by Louis Black

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