Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House

Account of the informant who brought down Nixon's administration

"...the final cinematic word on Watergate rests firmly with Alan J. Pakula’s All the President’s Men, a film that..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wayne Alan Brenner's Top 10 Arts-Related Things I Enjoyed in 2017

Bold takes on history and art that moved around the city spoke to a growing, changing Austin this year

"...way or another, but especially if we're not 1) white and/or 2) dripping with money. Which is why we..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Fun Run for the White House

How many candidates really are trying to run for president?

"...Savior got into the next Democratic debate? And does Alan Keyes really stand more of a shot at being..."

Dec. 12, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Broken

Heather Graham is an L.A. transplant whose dreams of a music career become soiled by her relationship with her junkie boyfriend, played by Jeremy Sisto.

"...Directed by: Alan White. Starring: Heather Graham, Jeremy Sisto, Jake Busey, Michael..."

Oct. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Winter Guest

"...Directed by: Alan Rickman. Starring: Phyllida Law, Emma Thompson, Gary Hollywood, Arlene..."

March 20, 1998 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Trixie

"...Directed by: Alan Rudolph. Starring: Will Patton, Lesley Ann Warren, Brittany Murphy,..."

July 21, 2000 Movie Review by Bryan Poyser

Amplifying Little Voices

The Alan Lomax Collection

"...Almost 40 years ago, folklorist Alan Lomax embarked on two journeys through America's Deep Sout@..."

June 27, 1997 Music Feature by Karl Pallmeyer

Truth Seeker

Photographer Sebastião Salgado bears witness to the world in black and white

"...all to see in extraordinary images of black and white. Fortunately, he does not belong to any one nation...."

Dec. 19, 2008 Arts Feature by Andrew Long

I'll Sleep When I Figure Out Why I Can't

Analyzing Alan Berliner's most personal documentary yet

"...no stretch to say that with his latest effort, Alan Berliner has created the Personal Essay Film. No small..."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

True Blues

Alan Govenar's blues tome doesn't need to correct blues mythos. Blues is myth and vice versa.

"...own horn than Texas blues, and with good reason. Alan Govenar's new book, Texas Blues: The Rise of a..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Camp

"...one), has been scoring high marks from the Great White Wayfarers with this "edgy" examination of what goes on..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Twentyfourseven

"...youth chafing against the yoke of Thatcherism. Hoskins plays Alan Darcy, a working-class stiff with dreams of renovating his..."

May 8, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Blood in the Face

"...of the picture, and more or less give the white-separatists a good ten-to-twenty miles of hemp to hang themselves..."

June 21, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Substitute

"...last year's Dangerous Minds, despite being an even sillier white bread fantasy. Like that film, The Substitute features a..."

April 26, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

The Boxtrolls

The third time isn't the charm for this animated film from the studio that gave us the magical Coraline and ParaNorman.

"...the lugubrious villain shall be gifted with a coveted white hat. (Don’t ask.)..."

Sept. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Watchmen

Although this hotly anticipated film has ideas galore, it remains bizarrely cold and uninvolving.

"...in nearly every regard (save the ending) to writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons' landmark DC Comics series..."

March 6, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rebels With a Cause

Compelling documentary about the Sixties" Students for a Democratic Society includes commentary from such leaders as Tom Hayden and Austin's Alice Embree and Jeff Shero Nightbyrd.

"...see. Garvy also appears on camera, a typhoon of white hair rising from her head, her face lined with..."

March 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Remember the Titans

"...Patton (co-star of Bruckheimer's Armageddon) as the marginally racist white coach who, thanks to that dang integration, suddenly finds..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The AggreGAYtor: July 23

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...Minnesotans get sick on fondant, Alan Turing gets a belated reprieve, and Big Freedia gets..."

July 23, 2013 Qmmunity Post

SXSW Film Reviews

Beautifully shot (to a fault), meticulously edited, and well-acted, Risk comes off as a watered-down Hollywood-style caper movie with a little more grit than your average Tom Cruise fare.

"...RiskD: Alan White; with Bryan Brown, Tom Long, Claudia Karvan, Jason..."

March 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Marcel Meyer

If the Horseshoe Fits

White campaign toughens up on Perry's money trail

"...stomach for a real fight. Seems like the Bill White campaign is prepared to test the mettle of Gov...."

Aug. 3, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Lee Daniels' The Butler

The stars shine bright in this broad yet moving overview of the last 90 years of African-American history.

"...Jr., Lenny Kravitz, John Cusack, James Marsden, Robin Williams, Alan Rickman, Liev Schreiber, Jane Fonda, Minka Kelly, Vanessa Redgrave,..."

Aug. 16, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness

Evangelical film franchise rolls into volume three.

"...Corbett, Ted McGinley, Tatum O'Neal, Shane Harper, David A.R. White, Gregory Alan Williams, Samantha Boscarino, Shwayze and Mike C...."

April 6, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Cuisine From Spain, Salt From Iceland, Whiskey From Scotland

This past week, the best things came in a sequence of three

"...There were three things of note that were also..."

Oct. 31, 2019 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Love the Coopers

A comedy gathering as dreary as your own family get-togethers

"...Wilde, Jake Lacy, Marisa Tomei, Ed Helms, Amanda Seyfried, Alan Arkin, June Squibb, Anthony Mackie, Timothée Chalamet and Alex..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Spy Kids

The first entry in Rodriguez's kids action movie remains the best in the series.

"...Starring: Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alexa Vega, Daryl Sabara, Alan Cumming, Teri Hatcher, Cheech Marin, Danny Trejo, Robert Patrick..."

March 30, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Totally F***ed Up

Queer New Wave classic tracks six teenagers living in Los Angeles.

"...Susan Behshid, Jenee Gill, Gilbert Luna, Lance May and Alan Boyce. The ordinary struggle of adolescence is bad enough,..."

Nov. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Steve Davis

It's Gonna Get Pitch Black at Other Worlds

David Twohy named this year's Defender of the Universe

"...Battlestar Galactica director Alan J. Levi. Wrath of Khan mastermind Nicholas Meyer. The..."

Nov. 17, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Casual Strangers Administer Turing Test

Who or what created the universe – woman, robot, or God?

"...premise for the Turing Test, an experiment developed by Alan Turing in 1950 that evaluated artificial intelligence on the..."

Aug. 8, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Review: Broadway in Austin’s Disney’s Aladdin

Poster child for Broadway's Disneyfication still crazy entertaining

"...a medieval Persian folk tale – that’s been sanitized, white-washed, and turned to saccharine...."

Feb. 16, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

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