20,000 Days on Earth

This documentary (for which Nick Cave receives a script credit), gets inside the artist's notoriously fussy creative process.

"...You might think the inside of murder balladeer Nick Cave’s head would be a dismal place overflowing with..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Eight Days a Week

"...that Erica is already going steady with lunkhead jock Nick (Green) is irrelevant to lovestruck Peter. Braving Nick's jealous..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

Executed serial killer Aileen Wuornos leaves little doubt as to her sanity in this second Nick Broomfield documentary on the subject.

"...Directed by: Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill. As a documentarian, Nick Broomfield..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Twelve

The private-school kids on New York's Upper East Side are definitely not all right in Joel Schumacher's sordid tale of young promise gone wrong.

"...is – how tone deaf it is to its young protagonists and how vapid its ersatz production design seems...."

Aug. 6, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Twogether

"...Directed by: Andrew Chiaramonte. Starring: Nick Cassavetes, Brenda Bakke, Jeremy Piven and Jim Beaver. Somewhere..."

April 30, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

What We Do in the Shadows

Cleverly executed, this vampire spoof by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, is a lot of fun.

"...send-up of Twilight tropes and undead issues. Think The Young Ones meets Flight of the Conchords by way of..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

John Q.

"...Directed by: Nick Cassavetes. Starring: Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall, Kimberly Elise, Ray..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Jonas Brothers Confront Superstar Past & Present at Erwin Center

Disney breakouts effortlessly transcend boy bandom

"...Jonas raised on a platform with his two brothers, Nick and Kevin, responded with screams and raised hands. “Now..."

Dec. 9, 2019 Music Post by Alejandra Ramirez

Spider-Man: Far From Home

Everyone's favorite web-slinger returns for a new era of Marvel

"...Avengers: Endgame swept the pieces off the table, now young Spider-Man (Holland) is trying to work out how to..."

July 5, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil

A taste of Eighties-style buddy-cop action-comedy hits all the right faces

"...about a grizzled old mob boss and a cocky young cop hunting down a serial killer, handed the script..."

June 21, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Texas Book Festival 2016: The Full List

TBF hosts Don DeLillo, Thomas Dolby, Emma Cline, 277 more

"...Don DeLillo, Thomas Dolby, Emma Cline, Jane Alexander, and Nick Offerman – you're sure to start salivating...."

Sept. 15, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Brooklyn

When looking homeward do we glance toward the past or the future?

"...native land so intensely they literally pined away. The young immigrant Eilis Lacey (Ronan) also feels as though she..."

Nov. 20, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Cold in July

A dream lineup is one of many treats in this East Texas neo-noir based on a Joe Lansdale book.

"...C. Hall, Don Johnson, Sam Shepard, Vinessa Shaw and Nick Damici...."

June 6, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Smashed

Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul portray a married couple who are plagued by the disease of alcoholism.

"...Ponsoldt. Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul, Octavia Spencer, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally and Mary Kay Place...."

Nov. 9, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bluesmen & Pink Ribbon Cowgirls

The deaths of Brenda Hutchison and Nick Curran give us pause

"...Did Brenda Hutchison and Nick Curran know each other? Their deaths were about a..."

Oct. 8, 2012 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Now & Then: From Frosh to Seniors

"...of its content in flashback.) Though each of these young men and women are bright, self-possessed, and obviously much..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Spike & Mike's '97 Festival of Animation

"...rudimentary puppet work to tell the tale of a young girl and her father and a very, very surreal..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Scanlines

The Young Ones in "Demolition," "Bomb," & "Sick"

"...The Young Ones (clockwise from top): Neil, Vyvyan, Mike and Rik..."

Jan. 3, 1997 Screens Feature

American Heart

"...The film's most compelling element is Furlong's lost adolescent, Nick. He's perched on that impossible ledge between childhood and..."

Aug. 13, 1993 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Dear Pillow

Provocative Austin-made feature pushes sexual buttons meant to arouse and provoke, but never satisfy.

"...and unrequited longing, the film follows Wes (Kelley), a young kid desperate to lose his virginity, and his new..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mary Moody Northen Theatre's Violet

In this moving production, a young woman learns the nature of true beauty and true love

"...then some), but for a new face. As a young girl, her cheek met the business end of an..."

April 20, 2018 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

Chasing Mavericks

Starring Gerard Butler, this inspirational surfing drama somehow fails to inspire.

"...one wants to learn to ride them more than young Jay. But before he can do that, he has..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rocky Balboa

This final chapter in the Rocky saga is terrific – maybe not great, like that first kiss of fist in ’76, but good, solid, exhilarating entertainment of the stand-up-and-cheer variety.

"...Directed by: Sylvester Stallone. Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Burt Young, Antonio Tarver, Geraldine Hughes, Milo Ventimiglia, Tony Burton, A.J...."

Dec. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Brad's Status

Ben Stiller shines in this character study

"...himself to be the life of the party, the young man who was most likely to turn into the..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Sense of an Ending

A man's past comes back to haunt him in the form of a letter

"...Barnes’ novel, the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner, playwright Nick Payne does a clever thing with the opening minutes..."

March 24, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Shallows

Blake Lively is trapped by a shark on her own bikini island

"...no end of terror. I saw Jaws way too young (I was 7), and don’t get me started on..."

July 1, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Lawless

Abundantly violent yet decidedly listless, there’s very little kick to this moonshining picture from director John Hillcoat and musician/screenwriter Nick Cave.

"...director John Hillcoat combined forces with musician and now-screenwriter Nick Cave to make the dark, brooding Australian Western, The..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience

The tween music sensations take to the big screen.

"...Kevin (the cute one), Joe (the cute one), and Nick (the cute one) are fabrications; they’re crops grown on..."

March 6, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Young Nick

"...Young NickGone EP (Dirty Politics Entertainment)..."

Aug. 1, 2008 Music Review by Chase Hoffberger

The Proposition

The Western is alive and well in the Australian outback, as this gritty film with a screenplay and score by musician Nick Cave demonstrates.

"...screenplay and score are by cult musician of gloom Nick Cave, follows in the gritty tradition of Sam Peckinpah,..."

June 9, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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