Fuel

Fuel is a two-hour infomercial for biodiesel and the virtues of other alternative energy sources that won the Audience Award for a documentary at Sundance.

"...for biodiesel that somehow managed to escape from whatever environmental convention at which it was supposed to quietly screen..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Are Dems Already Outvoting Republicans?

Both sides tout early numbers showing problems for GOP

"...sure until early voting totals are released at 7pm on Nov. 4, but Harris County Democratic Party Chair Gerry..."

Oct. 24, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols

Radio Stars Who Are Fit to Print

Radio players in print

"...Vowell's newest book, The Wordy Shipmates. Vowell, of course, first sprung to national attention as a contributor (later "consigliere")..."

Oct. 23, 2008 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Ghost Town

A sweet, old-fashioned kind of picture content to burrow into the quiet spaces, where boring, ordinary adults live and fitfully try to love again. Oh, and occasionally talk to dead people.

"...Directed by: David Koepp. Starring: Ricky Gervais, Téa Leoni, Greg Kinnear, Billy Campbell, Kristen Wiig and Dana Ivey...."

Sept. 19, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Closing Arguments

Olivier versus Branagh

"...First of all, Miss Jones, if you take away my..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Ripple Effect

Like a pilgrim seeking salvation, Ripple Effect is awash in self-important questions, becoming an exercise in pop mysticism which stars Forest Whitaker.

"...Jerry Katell and Orlando Seale. Like a pilgrim seeking salvation, Ripple Effect is awash in questions. Big questions, weighty..."

Aug. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Campaign Cash: Finance Reports Come In

Noriega still running uphill; locally, Dems prepared to solidify power

"...lot about a political race by looking at the contribution and expenditure reports. Here’s some tidbits I picked up..."

July 18, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols

The Love Parade

Star-cross'd love, superhero-style

"..."I know you said that the X-Men movies constitute 'art,' but would you really put them in the..."

July 8, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Reprise

This bracingly good Norwegian film is many things at once: portraits of mental illness, obsessive love, the uneasy transition from punk rock youth to “upstanding” adulthood, and fraternal competitiveness.

"...Klouman-Høiner, Viktoria Winge, Henrik Elvestad, Christian Rubeck, Odd Magnus Williamson and Rebekka Karijord. We open on two young men..."

June 27, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

TSOP

"...sizzled days accompanying 3am nights of “Philadelphia Freedom” in conjunction with last week’s 31st Annual Association of Alternative Newsweeklies..."

June 13, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

My Brother Is an Only Child

This Italian film is a coming-of-age story about a young man who – like the era he was born into – has no idea how to come of age, except by fits and starts.

"...Angela Finocchiaro, Massimo Popolizio, Alba Rohrwacher, Luca Zingaretti, Anna Bonaiuto, Diane Fleri and Vittorio Emanuele Propizio. When we first..."

May 16, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Austin Mojo Limits

Bettye and Pinetop reach Austin City Limits

"...Bettye LaVette wants some attention. The 62-year-old soul survivor has played plenty of rooms..."

April 22, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Crock of Love, Too

Scouring the wreckage of Rock of Love 2.

"...night, I started worrying about those two stars tattooed on Daisy de la Hoya’s neck. For those of you..."

April 21, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Slow Motion Sound

"...A pioneer of minimalism, Steve Reich is perhaps the most important..."

March 15, 2008 Music Post by Austin Powell

An Interview With the Toros/Clippers Andre Barrett

"...league. And I think he may not be for long.” That was Quin Snyder discussing the newest Austin Toro,..."

March 7, 2008 Sports Post by Matt Moore

Definitely, Maybe

Before giving in to romantic frippery, Definitely, Maybe functions as a believable, era-zagging retelling of one man’s overlapping love affairs with three women.

"...the title – which references a woman’s answer to one of several marriage proposals that political strategist Will Hayes..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Bringing Up Baby

Baby Dee creates magic out of life

"...she played organ in a church in the South Bronx, played harp in Central Park dressed in a bear..."

Feb. 14, 2008 Music Post by Darcie Stevens

Reputation. Image. Perception.

"...of sport, these three words are intertwined. An athlete’s reputation dictates an image. That image is based on how..."

Feb. 7, 2008 Sports Post by Christopher Bond

Meeker Officially Declares for Council

RG4N spokesman challenges Leffingwell.

"...After what seemed like an eternity of almost-but-not-quite declaring, Jason Meeker, the communications chairman of Responsible Growth for Northcross,..."

Feb. 6, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols

Over Her Dead Body

In this DOA romantic comedy, Eva Longoria Parker plays a ghost who haunts her former fiancé-to-be when it's time for him to move on.

"...Directed by: Jeff Lowell. Starring: Eva Longoria Parker, Paul Rudd, Lake Bell, Jason Biggs, Lindsay Sloane,..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

27 Dresses

We predict a happy union between 27 Dresses and cable TV, forever rerunning with commercial breaks tailor-made for laundry-loading and sandwich-making.

"...looks like TBS. Maybe TNT. I predict a happy union between 27 Dresses and cable TV, forever rerunning with..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Toros on Top

"...year’s D-League tragedians are sitting high atop the Southwest Division standings at 13-5, four games ahead of closest rival..."

Jan. 14, 2008 Sports Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Josh Rosenblatt Has Seen the Future, and It Isn't Pretty

Magic eight-balling 2008, month by month

"...The Year 2008 in Film, Culture, Uprising: Speculation This week, my fellow Chronicle Film critics and I..."

Jan. 3, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

Nicolas Cage is again on the prowl in this sequel to the 2004 smash success.

"...Directed by: Jon Turteltaub. Starring: Nicolas Cage, Jon Voight, Ed Harris, Helen..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

NFL Midseason Report

"...this be a blood feud, like a Yankees/Red Sox conflict, you’re wrong. Tom Brady and Peyton Manning are chums..."

Oct. 29, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

Things We Lost in the Fire

This film starring Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro is an impeccably constructed and perfectly paced drama of domestic and internal volatility.

"...David Duchovny, Alexis Llewellyn, Micah Berry, John Carroll Lynch, Alison Lohman and Robin Weigert. If you’re bored some Saturday..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Jane Austen Book Club

Though it’s as estrogenic as dong quai, this amiable film about six friends and their book club is thoughtfully rendered with a certain universality of spirit.

"...Redgrave and Jimmy Smits. Though it’s as estrogenic as dong quai, this amiable adaptation of Karen Joy Fowler’s eponymous..."

Oct. 5, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Game Plan

The Rock plays a quarterback whose life is altered by the daughter he didn't know he had.

"...Directed by: Andy Fickman. Starring: Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson, Madison Pettis, Kyra Sedgwick, Roselyn Sanchez, Morris Chestnut, Brian..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Die With Your Boots On

"...young twentysomething stood over a garbage can near La Zona Rosa’s front entrance and heaved pulpy orange liquid in..."

Sept. 25, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

The Assassination of Jesse James may be the world’s first epic of misguided hero worship.

"...Nick Cave. At two hours and 40 minutes, The Assassination of Jesse James may be the world’s first epic..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

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