Boundaries

Take a pleasant road trip with Christopher Plummer up the PCH

"...Hollywood commodities (We're the Millers). Where writer/director Shana Feste’s Boundaries falls is somewhere between those latter two. It has..."

July 13, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Proposed Southwest School Boundaries Spark Concerns

Parents fear a new middle school in Southwest Austin will fracture a community

"...committee intended to draw up the new school's attendance-zone boundaries. On Oct. 7, the task force presented a draft..."

Nov. 14, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Contrast Film Festival Pushes Boundaries, Defies Gender

New film festival presents America: The Remix

"...and performance art, the new event aims to push boundaries, defy gender, and just might be the queerest fest..."

July 20, 2018 Screens Feature by Sarah Marloff

The Luv Doc: Always Exploring Boundaries

Austin has a long tradition of allowing children into unseemly places

"...on. Kids are little miracles, aren't they? Always exploring boundaries. Anyway, the end result for me was that I..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Column by The Luv Doc

Time To Redraw Board Boundaries

"...if they are in a district, given the new boundaries."..."

April 15, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

School Boundaries: Please All, Please None

Another map emerges in building enrollment for new middle school

"...zone for the new school (See "Proposed Southwest School Boundaries Spark Concerns," Nov. 14), containing the controversial proposal to..."

Nov. 28, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

ARC Site Within Lakeway Boundaries

"...straddle the line; it is entirely within the legal boundaries of the city of Lakeway. The Hills, ultimately, has..."

Jan. 3, 2006 Postmarks

FronteraFest Is Back to Push New Boundaries

The theatrical fringe festival proves there's still space to experiment in a crowded Austin

Jan. 13, 2023 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Pushing Virtual Boundaries at the Austin Arthouse Film Festival

Celebration of experimentation does some experimenting of its own

Dec. 25, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Small World and Blurred Boundaries: AFS Essential Cinema

Crossing Borders: Immigration in Global Cinema

April 3, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Great Music Knows No Color Boundaries

June 21, 2005 Postmarks

Pushing Boundaries

The Territory Begins 21st Season on KLRU-TV

Oct. 4, 1996 Screens Feature by Alison Macor

Viva la Revolution!

Installation art may be notoriously hard to define, but its role in art history isn't. It helped change the way we look at art, and the Blanton Museum of Art's survey of three decades of installation art, "Blurring the Boundaries," provides a window on the revolution.

"...installations, one of which is included in "Blurring the Boundaries: Installation Art, 1969-1996," the new exhibition at the Jack..."

March 17, 2000 Arts Feature by Ben Willcott

The Joy Luck Club

"...a contemporary and an eternal story about the interlinked boundaries between mothers and daughters. Genes, cultural identity, compensatory behaviors,..."

Oct. 8, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Luv Doc: Not Your Gig

Boundaries, motherf*ckers. Boundaries.

"...Nonetheless, it is very clear he is overstepping the boundaries of your acquaintanceship to satisfy his personal needs which,..."

May 13, 2022 Column by The Luv Doc

Quills

"...as ever. This examination of writers and their sexual boundaries -- and those of society at large -- is..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

AISD Sends Signals on Future Budget Cuts

School closures and the redrawing of school boundaries eyed as potential ways to address $29 million deficit

"...being debated. School closures and the redrawing of school boundaries top the list, since they offer some of the..."

Nov. 16, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders

The Circle

An absurd cautionary tale on technology

"...carrying a coffee cup everywhere he goes. Eradicating the boundaries of personal privacy in the guise of social justice,..."

May 5, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Game of Aces

World War I thriller gets lost in the desert

"...and sometimes inexplicably pushes the images outside the strict boundaries of the frame. Writer/director Damien Lay’s screenplay has some..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Touched With Fire

Two manic-depressive poets meet in group therapy and fall in love

"...and further their relationship in the world beyond the boundaries of the mental institution where they met. Are they..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Overnight

A good cast and a provocative setup still can't make this indie rom-com soar

"...all-night free-for-all for four thirtysomethings gingerly considering pushing the boundaries of their marriages, but without the vitriolic relish of..."

June 26, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Where Hope Grows

A sinner finds redemption with the help of a a young man with Down syndrome

"...strikes, that I thought the film might transgress the boundaries of its genre, but perhaps I was expecting too..."

May 15, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Under the Skin

Scarlett Johansson is the blank alien who prowls for earthmen in this spare and disorienting genre smash-up.

"...Under the Skin defies, shatters, and ultimately consumes genre boundaries like a randy wolf tonguing the raw marrow out..."

April 18, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Better Life

An undocumented Mexican worker in Los Angeles who struggles to earn a living and keep his teenage son from joining a gang is the subject of this heartfelt drama.

"...unlike its multifaceted director, the film never stretches its boundaries...."

July 8, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

Too bad this sumptuously appointed film unfolds on a screen instead of a catwalk.

"...kindred soul, a daring artist working outside the cultural boundaries. Years later, Chanel sees him again, once he has..."

July 16, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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.

"...to director Ben Stiller’s darker comedies that push the boundaries of awkward embarrassment – something along the lines of..."

April 10, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Soul Men

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.

"...The Dukes of Hazzard TV show – straining the boundaries of narrative plausibility as they go and gradually becoming..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay

Everyone's favorite stoner pals are back; this time running from the law after being mistaken for terrorists.

"...while expanding on its predecessor’s mandate to push the boundaries of racial insensitivity. Once again the lion’s share of..."

May 2, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Sicko

Professional gadfly Michael Moore alights on the topic of the shortcomings of the American health-care system, and crafts his most widely accessible film to date.

"...is one that cuts through all political and social boundaries, disease being an enemy that strikes indiscriminately. Sure, the..."

June 29, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Marebito

Although long on style and concept, this film lacks the primal urgency of Shimizu’s 2003 J-horror blockbuster Ju-on.

"...– about grief, about rage, and about the permeable boundaries between the mundane and the supernatural worlds – with..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

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