A Lot Like Love

This Ashton Kutcher/Amanda Peet romance film is a lot like mediocrity.

"...at which takeout is served. There’s a wearisome coincidence waiting for them around every corner, and they’re surrounded by..."

April 22, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Insomniac Reader

There is an impulse in all of us that is solicited by the night: to look in a stranger's window; to walk, alone, into a seedy bar; to dare to make that pathetic 3am call to an ex

"...city overrun with hookers, swingers, and famous people all waiting to see Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis beat the..."

April 22, 2005 Books Review by Audra Schroeder

The Animation Show 2005

This second incarnation of the Mike Judge- and Don Hertzfeldt-produced animation anthology is, if anything, even better than the first.

"...blast from the past. Finally, there’s what everybody’s been waiting on for the past four years: Hertzfeldt’s new film,..."

April 15, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wednesday Picks

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...term memory loss or not, Devin is an obsession waiting to happen. – Robert GabrielROBYN HITCHCOCK8pm, Emo's Main Last..."

March 11, 2005 Music Feature

Wednesday Sleepers

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...Old 97's-style ride out West. – Christopher GrayAMERICA IS WAITING9:45pm, Hard Rock Cafe Picking up where fellow Texan resisters..."

March 11, 2005 Music Feature

TCB

Bracing for SXSW, hailing the Dicks, avoiding the cow pies

"...Though people waiting for the purported Geto Boys reunion will have to..."

March 11, 2005 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Here Today, There Tomorrow

Austin ISD Schools grapple with high student turnover – and all its consequences

"...a month. While some subsidized housing is available, the waiting list for government-subsidized ("Section 8") complexes tops 5,000 families...."

March 11, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Bigger Than the Sky

Despite some bright spots in this woefully earnest modern romance, Bigger Than the Sky is awash in the obvious and sports a cloying adulation of theatre folk.

"...the inevitable hip-hop take on Beckett’s existential yawn – Waiting for Good Dough – just to watch it run..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Naked City

Officer Marquez recently disciplined for improper force

"...Mehcad Brooks is still waiting to hear when (or, perhaps, if) he will be..."

Feb. 11, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Alone in the Dark

There's a certain majesty to German director Boll's style of filmmaking: a freedom from art, talent, skill of any formal kind, and the sheer pigheadedness to keep going at any cost.

"...has it Boll has yet another video game adaptation waiting in the wings. We can hardly wait...."

Feb. 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Mob House Rules

Trail of Dead introduces their new epic release to the world

"...second term – "Finally, the moment we've all been waiting for," observes Jon Stewart, "the official halfway point of..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Anybody's Home?

The Texas Documentary Tour: Liz Lambert's 'The Last Days of the San José'

"...front of Jazz on Sixth Street, who we see waiting for his big music-business break; the single mom with..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Mighty Fine

Dixiecrat Jesse Dayton ain't banging his head against a wall

"..."I'm waiting for somebody to slam me, so I know I..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Flight of the Phoenix

Sticking closely to the tone of its predecessor, this remake of Robert Aldrich’s 1965 adventure film lacks the tang of the original, and trades the late-vintage Jimmy Stewart for the shirtless Dennis Quaid.

"...and rapper Sticky Fingaz hovers in the background, presumably waiting for his film career to take off. Ribisi’s Elliott..."

Dec. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Waiting on Godot

Theatre review

"...Waiting on GodotHyde Park Theatre, through Nov. 20..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Sideways

A sophisticated date movie about male midlife malcontents and the women who love them, from the director of Election.

"...whose wine-connosseurism probably hides a nasty alcoholic streak. He’s waiting to hear if his unsold novel will be picked..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Master of the Improbable

When someone says something can't be done, trust Turk Pipkin to say 'Wanna bet?'

"...his now preserved for the ages in the film Waiting for Guffman). No doubt his family looked at him..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Books Feature by Robert Faires

Rick

Directed by Gus Van Sant's longtime editor and written by Lemony Snicket author Daniel Handler, Rick is a harsh but compelling tale that loosely mixes tragedy and comedy.

"...When they run into a rejected job applicant (Oh) waiting tables in a bar and cause her to lose..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Texas, Art Texas

When it comes to Lone Star art, Rebecca Cohen wrote the book (finally!)

"...be finished fell apart. Some are still out there waiting to be completed. There's a Western museum in Kerrville..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

First Daughter

This movie's tortured young protagonist and clueless dad just happen to be members of the First Family of the United States.

"...ones in the first hour alone). The director of Waiting to Exhale and Hope Floats has done better than..."

Oct. 1, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Around the World in 80 Days

Jackie Chan finally emerges as plausible English-language star in this international romp that's as light as a hot-air balloon.

"...of your motley crew, this film divertissement will be waiting with open arms. Only a devotee of the original..."

June 18, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Terminal

Steven Spielberg enters his Capra period with this optimistic melting-pot tale starring pal Tom Hanks, whose underused comic instincts come to the fore.

"...within the transitional world of the terminal. "Life is waiting," reminds the movie’s promotional tagline. But what the movie..."

June 18, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Saddest Music in the World

Strange, marvelous, and unique, Guy Maddin's new film starring Isabella Rossellini is his best work to date.

"...Mexicans, Indian dancing girls, and Serbs all huddle together waiting for their turn to perform. They’re eliminated by a..."

June 4, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Westward Ho!

In-progress or proposed developments for near-western Hill Country rise overnight like so many toxic mushrooms

"...Hogge Canyon Springs (or "Pigs Waiting at the Trough Inc.")..."

May 28, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Van Helsing

Hugh Jackman's mysterious monster hunter is pittefd against nearly the entire pantheon of Universal’s classic monsters, including Dracula and and the Wolf-Man.

"...Count Dracula as The Bat From Oz. You keep waiting for him to break into song and for his..."

May 7, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'Never the Same Again'

Jesse Sublett's 'Rock 'n' Roll Gothic': an excerpt

"...The waiting room is empty. On the other side of the..."

May 7, 2004 Books Feature

Mean Girls

Clique comedy about teen groupthink lacks real bite.

"...a proto-feminist subtext. The world will have to keep waiting for that movie. One scene gets it dreadfully right:..."

April 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Academy Award-Nominated Short Films 2003

A package of some of the most recent animated and live-action Oscar nominees.

"...goes into a breech labor, and a choral troupe waiting for a train tentatively rehearses in the barn in..."

April 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Screening Calls

What to see and when and where to see it at SXSW Film 04

"...Long Island's Farmingville, alien day laborers line street corners, waiting for work. But the white townspeople are scared. What..."

March 12, 2004 Screens Feature

The Lighter Side

Todd Smiley is the gaffer in Austin

"...or "juiced" (as an electrician) on Dazed and Confused, Waiting for Guffman, four Robert Rodriguez films, and "35 or..."

Feb. 27, 2004 Screens Feature by Courtney Fitzgerald

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