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The Purge: Anarchy
Back after last year's Purge struck such a unlikely chord, this story about an annual eruption of violence returns in stronger form.
"...Verhoeven’s ultraviolent satire, but a start) and the righteous anger of the targeted lower class (personified by Michael K...."

July 18, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

Hellion
Austin filmmaker Kat Candler explores the sins of the father in this dark drama starring Aaron Paul.
"...sounds this anguish, its dissonance signifying the pain and anger enveloping the Wilsons.) The father (a bearded and nearly..."

June 27, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

A Tall Drink of Water
Stars we love at the Paramount Summer Classic Film series
"...billed here as Leaf Phoenix), but there's an acidic anger penetrating the performance, suggesting that Helen is more than..."

May 16, 2014 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

Cesar Chavez
The United Farm Workers leader and civil rights activist who managed to get housewives to stop buying grapes is the subject of this biopic.
"...solidly as Chavez. An even temper keeps the character’s anger in check. Yet, the screenplay (by Keir Pearson and..."

March 28, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dallas Buyers Club
Matthew McConaughey gives a searing performance in this true-life story set in the early years of the AIDS epidemic.
"...month to live. Predictably, the diagnosis is met with anger and denial by Woodroof, but gradually his survival instinct..."

Nov. 15, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

12 Years a Slave
Brutal yet elegant, Steve McQueen's latest is a beautifully rendered punch to the gut about the most shameful chapter in American history.
"...field and unwittingly triggers Epps’ perverse lust and uncontrollable anger, newcomer Nyong’o exhibits the strength and the frailty of..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Luv Doc: Forgiveness
Waiting for the other person to die
"...you cross her mind she feels bitterness, resentment, and anger. Those feelings don’t do anyone any good. To paraphrase..."

Aug. 30, 2013 Column by The Luv Doc

The Purge
Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey star in this suspenseful horror film that's set in the near future and poses dark possibilities and even darker lighting.
"...society’s have-nots would use the occasion to vent their anger toward those who lord over them the rest of..."

June 7, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

From the Vaults: Angry Old Man
Before he was in 'Quartet,' Tom Courtenay was part of a much bigger club
"...theatre, with playwright John Osborne’s seminal Look Back in Anger, a searing look at working class discontentment in the..."

Jan. 26, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

'Doctor Who' Watch
Recapping "Asylum of the Daleks"
"...over the body, a process that is hastened by anger – that “divine hatred” the Daleks value above all...."

Sept. 2, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Then There's This: Shake-up
How green was my Austin Energy
"...of the five Kübler-Ross stages of grief – denial, anger, sadness, and acceptance. But anger is the dominant theme,..."

June 15, 2012 News Column by Amy Smith

'There To Tell the Truth'
Seymour Hersh on journalism, politics, presidents, and war
"...bodies. So their fear is just palpable, and the anger is palpable, because you don't see anybody. Would anybody..."

March 30, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

The Scare Game
Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon on what went wrong with horror and where to go from here
"...the world. And between the two of us, that anger combined to form what eventually became this film."..."

March 9, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

A Neighborhood's Story
John Langmore turns his lens on East Austin and discovers a rich history and community
"...the pictures. I've had the full range of reactions: anger at me for leaving something important out, anger at..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Spring Awakening
At Zach, foot-stomping teens score a victory for love and courage over fear
"...behavior sets the pattern for the play: shame and anger, shame and anger. In this complicated environment, the teenage..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Footloose
Finally, a remake that’s not a just a mindless retread.
"...a couple of points (most notably, Ren releasing his anger in a solo dance-it-out sequence in an empty warehouse),..."

Oct. 14, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Abduction
Twilight's Taylor Lautner makes his bid for solo action stardom.
"...Bennett (Weaver), whom the teen has been seeing for “anger issues.” Gradually, Nathan’s recurring dream that the shrink always..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

True Legend
The great martial-arts choreographer Yuen Woo-ping directs this saga about the inventor of Drunken Fist fighting.
"...Can later marries Ying and has a child. Yuan’s anger has apparently festered in silence for years before he..."

May 13, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Made in Dagenham
This film dramatizes a historic labor strike for equal pay that was conducted by the women of a British auto plant in 1968.
"...Shop steward Connie (James) is sympathetic to the women’s anger when they are informed that their work grade was..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two: Budgetary Fantasies
Those who think budget-cutting is easy will soon learn otherwise
"...people who are angry at the government. Sometimes this anger is due to very specific actions, but often it..."

Nov. 26, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
Guest blogger professor Dana Cloud answers Frank's post
"...movement is not frustration so much as a fierce anger and renewed willingness to be part once again of..."

Oct. 27, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Page Two: We Are the Walrus
... And other tales of circles unbroken
"...up over the years. There was a return to anger, passion, energy, and disregard, where attitude was much more..."

July 9, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Inspiring Words
Columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. keynotes the Austin African American Book Festival
"...thing is, for me at least, as a writer, anger has a way of clarifying a whole lot of..."

June 25, 2010 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

No Failure to Communicate
Caroline Koebel grew up without TV. She's been pursuing flickering images ever since.
"...I will never stop being in love with Kenneth Anger's work from the Fifties. "Fireworks," "Scorpio Rising," "Eaux d'artifice,"..."

April 23, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Where the Wild Things Are
This very special film is the rare children’s offering that isn’t coded for adults or made corny and flip for kids.
"...named Carol (voiced by Gandolfini), a furred giant with anger issues and a nose that looks rawed by whiskey...."

Oct. 16, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Q&A: Austin’s Coastal Neighbors
How Galveston looks to its past to prepare for its future – and what that means for Austin
"...did not and have not concentrated enough on the dangers of a surge. What Galveston was left with was..."

Sept. 11, 2009 News Feature by Kate X Messer

In the Loop
In the Loop is a scabrous and funny study of how an offhand remark by a career politician can metastasize into an international conflict and, ultimately, war.
"...fully stocked quiver of shiny new razor-tipped arrows of anger, suitable for deployment at both bar mitzvahs and break-ups...."

Aug. 14, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Moon
A man (Sam Rockwell) and his computer (voiced pitch-perfectly by Kevin Spacey) – alone on a moon-based work station of the future – plumb the depths of identity and inner space.
"...Bells at once, and new Sam – quick to anger and Tom Cruise-cool in aviator shades and flight suit..."

July 10, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Page Two: R.I.P.
Edwin 'Bud' Shrake and Stephen Bruton
"...Sucks!" champions are far more interested in conveying dismissive anger and expressing an extraordinary contempt, as though by those..."

May 15, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Observe and Report
With more of a resemblance to The Cable Guy than Paul Blart: Mall Cop, this Seth Rogen comedy about a bipolar mall security guard is decidedly dark.
"...as one-note foils – total ditz and ball of anger, respectively. Hill’s uninventive visual style further removes any possibility..."

April 10, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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