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Barbara Sarafian’s jaundiced but stoic portrait of exasperated middled-age womanhood is the big revelation of this Belgian import.

Daily Reviews and Interviews

Daily Reviews and Interviews

Catherine Deneuve stars as the matriarch of this family, whose holiday gathering is like some marvelous do-si-do in which the characters partake in endless swirls of accusations, confessions, and glimpses of grace.

The third annual Austin Underground Film Festival

Samuel Jackson and Bernie Mac play a couple of washed-up and forgotten R&B backup singers, who are on an improbable road back to fame.

Claire Danes eyes an Austin shoot

Oddball tale of a directionless young man who moves in with his sister-in-law, whose husband is in Iraq with his National Guard unit, is quirky but unaffecting.

As far as we know, this Adam Sandler movie is the first Hollywood-made Jewish/Palestinian/immigrant comedy that also doubles as a surprisingly trenchant analysis of the Middle East's perpetual bloodbath.

For all the film’s rallying efforts, its meandering structure and absence of a central focal point result in a film about genocide that is, as unbelievable as it sounds, kind of boring.

White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The Dirty Projectors' Dave Longstreth discusses the remaking of a hardcore classic.

Drummer Lisa Cameron talks with ex-bandmate Kathy McCarty about her transition into self

Presidents and Pandagon

Dreamgirls is an infectious experience of sequins and songs that lives up to the hype. Opens Monday.

As friends and legends pass, art and memory burst from the present and warn the future

With an award-winning performance by Maggie Cheung, Clean is one of the most emotionally honest movies about drug addiction ever made.

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If Tejano music isn't on the radio, does it still exist?

Jury rules in favor of officer, but APD policy still stings

In this amazingly candid documentary, soldiers from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division talk about their lives and their mission in Fallujah, Iraq, in early 2004, just weeks before the full strength of the Sunni insurgency becomes apparent.

It was 20 years ago today, Ed Lowry taught the gang to play.

The No Nonsense campaign gears up to derail the national anti-gay crusade

In his impressive solo show, 'The Evidence of Silence Broken,' spoken word performer Zell Miller III wears his heart, his mind, and his very soul on his sleeve

A superstar DJ goes deaf in Ibeza in this mockumentary that observes his process of coping.

Sandler and Rock keep the ball in play for this old prison football gem, although they fail to score any new points.

Uncle Sam says 'tough break' to regular taxpaying citizens, 'anything for you, Lockheed'; and working stiffs sponge up the stress of globalization

Saxon Pub, Friday, November 26, 2004

The Bushites harass a grieving war mom; and the prez cozies up to Pervez

The 11th Annual Austin Film Festival