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"...Girls Rock Austin program, handled the direction, editing, and choreography...."

March 6, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Killer Choreography

Ellen Bartel's blood-spattered new dance 'Killsport' mocks our love of the old ultraviolence

March 18, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Hocus Pocus

In this comedy, sister witches from the 17th century re-emerge in modern-day Salem, Mass.

"...are fun to watch. But the sets, costumes and choreography are the real stars of this show. The Sanderson..."

July 16, 1993 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

The Tango Lesson

"...the sexual dynamic is formalized into a highly stylized choreography, both Sally the fictional character and Potter the actual..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

John Wick

Keanu Reeves and the filmmakers deliver the goods in this well-constructed revenge picture.

"...the Matrix trilogy, first-time director Chad Stahelski respects the choreography of his profession with sustained action sequences worthy of..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

The Raid 2

This breathtaker is a relentless wall of action filmmaking that sets a new, bloody standard.

"...glorious ultraviolence, with an emphasis on the hypnotic, brutal choreography of the Indonesian fighting style of pencak silat. It..."

April 11, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

The titular siblings turn bounty hunters after a traumatic childhood incident with an oven.

"...that drops away for the same battering-ram-to-the-senses, hand-to-hand combat choreography of every other B-movie actioner currently clogging multiplexes. In..."

Feb. 1, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Glee: The 3D Concert Movie

They're on TV. They're on tour. And now they're onscreen in a concert film recorded during their summer tour.

"...many musical numbers, to greatly diminished effect, with lackluster choreography and all the narrative appeal stripped away. Glee 3D..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

High School Musical 3: Senior Year

College approaches, but that's no reason to stop singing and dancing.

"...limits. Full of color, energy, precision, and creativity, Ortega's choreography unleashes the true spirit of movie musicals, which exist..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Stick It

Bring It On's scribe Jessica Bendinger writes and directs this teen movie set in the world of competitive gymnastics, and features leotard-clad girls who learn to stick together to fight injustice.

"...A few completely diversionary interludes that ape the elaborate choreography of Busby Berkeley sequences are delightfully out of place,..."

April 28, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Resident Evil: Apocalypse

You can't keep a bad zombie down.

"...an eye for night-lensed chaos, but ultimately his fight choreography ends up being so muddled with rapid-fire editing that..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

You Got Served

Wild style street dancing trumps storyline.

"...that’s remarkable about the film, apart from the jaw-dropping choreography from Shane Sparks and Wade J. Robson (the latter..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Down With Love

"...stock footage, split screens, obsessive detail to costume and choreography) makes the experience that much more fun. And above..."

May 16, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Read My Lips

In this startling thriller, a mousy but frustrated office worker and an unrepentant thief pull off a heist that depends in equal measures on quick thinking and creative choreography.

"...depends in equal measures on quick thinking and creative choreography. No, that's not really it either. Last try: Read..."

Sept. 6, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jailhouse Rock

"...of the best tunes in an Elvis movie, the choreography is great too...."

Aug. 20, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Beau Travail

Claire Denis' deceptively dreamlike film about a French Foreign Legionnaire in Northern Africa

"...East African desert sun. Their sinewy bodies are a choreography of muscular movement as they exercise and perform their..."

July 28, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cannibal! the Musical

"...over-the-top carnival of gore, sophomorically sly humor, and cheese-whiz choreography that manages -- above all odds -- to be..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dirty Dancing

"...grains of truth -- not to mention some fab choreography, a solid-gold title, and a couple of pristine examples..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fire Down Below

"...there's seldom a nanosecond of suspense, and the fight choreography has all the sophistication of Seventies drive-in fare such..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Wonder Seven

"...Ching eschews the slow-motion and freeze-frame technique of action choreography and, instead, peppers the film with martial arts set-pieces..."

May 9, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Master of the Flying Guillotine

"...And these battles are pretty lively: With martial arts choreography by the famed Lui Brothers (one of whom, Lui..."

Oct. 20, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Drunken Master

Jackie Chan's kung fu/comedy classic turns a folk legend on its ear.

"...Woo Ping's direction is wildly energetic, and his fight choreography -- strongly assisted by Jackie, no doubt -- is..."

Aug. 18, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Ashes of Time

"...the fine electronic music score, Samo Hung's energetic fight choreography (deliriously photographed in a variety of slow-motion and step-framing..."

June 9, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Boys' Shorts: The New Queer Cinema

"...film deals with the subject of gay-bashing with a choreography conceived in violence, yet a trajectory that systematically blurs..."

Feb. 18, 1994 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

"...films. It has some well-thought-out action sequences and camera choreography. Also, star Jason Scott Lee (no relation to Bruce..."

May 7, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Together Alone

"...movie's appeal but its dramatic tension comes from its choreography and pace of revelations. The script (Castellaneta wrote, produced..."

Feb. 26, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Diggstown

"...Sting, by way of some of Raging Bull's fight choreography. Woods plays a con man named Caine who, fresh..."

Aug. 14, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Young Soul Rebels

"...all the various social situations with equal mixtures of choreography and documentation that unfailingly locate the authenticity of each..."

Jan. 31, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Movers & Shakers

A guide to Austin dance

"...in movement. Mills' sinewy, sexy, and not infrequently sassy choreography isn't the only new dance at BA; more is..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Extending a Dance's Life: Deborah Hay

Deborah Hay forges her own answer to the issue of how one keeps choreography alive beyond one's own physical and mortal limitations with Nine Nights of Music in May, in which her solo "Music" is performed and adapted by four diverse artists.

"...work with a burning question: How does one keep choreography alive beyond one's own physical and mortal limitations? Choreographers..."

May 3, 2002 Arts Feature by Dawn Davis Loring

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