For Colored Girls
Tyler Perry tackles Ntozake Shange's beloved play.
"...development. Still, no one would argue that Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf..."
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Nov. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Once Upon a Time … When We Were Colored
"...titled Once Upon a Time … When We Were Colored simply by virtue of its heartfelt attempt to offer..."
May 17, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan
'The King of Colored Town'
An excerpt
"...have left his neighborhood in Tallahassee for Laureate and Colored Town. He would have remained without doubt in French..."
June 15, 2007 Books Feature by Darryl Wimberley
How One Hair Salon Is Getting Back to Neon-Colored Business
Shell Vega of Urban Hair weighs her options
May 22, 2020 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse
Through Rosé Colored Glasses
Rae Wilson helps Austin reconsider the pink drink
July 25, 2014 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón
Get Out Your Colored Pencils
The San Antonio court says it will draw its own maps, and sparks begin to fly
Oct. 7, 2011 News Feature by Michael King
Tear Time, Drop by Steel-Colored Drop
Nov. 10, 2000 Music Feature
Rose-Colored MUD
Feb. 7, 1997 News Feature
Decision Reached on Fate of Oakwood Cemetery's Unidentified Graves
City will exhume and re-inter 25 bodies discovered in former "colored grounds"
"...in 1859 – one of them known as the "Colored Grounds," for people of color who lived in Austin...."
May 26, 2017 News Feature by Montinique Monroe
"Secrets of Earth" at Raw Paw Gallery
Serigraphic alchemist Chris Dock invites you to look through his rose-colored lenses
"...Mountain sort of vibe; those glasses with the round, rose-colored lenses shift his baby blues to a sort of..."
July 19, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner
Walking on Water
Portrait of renowned environmental artist Christo is more of a thumbnail sketch
"...made from interlocking plastic cubes sheathed in a shimmering saffron-colored fabric, much as tourists walk the High Line in..."
May 24, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis
UglyDolls
Ugly is as ugly does in this animated toy movie
"...to be yourself, UglyDolls is likely to be a candy-colored crowd-pleaser for the littlest of littles. There were literal..."
May 10, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Studio 54
The rise, fall, and legacy of NYC's most famous nightclub
"...Sixties and the political backlash and AIDS epidemic that colored the Eighties – is a concept frequently repeated throughout...."
Oct. 19, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Chavela
A tribute to the life of iconic ranchera singer
"...stage until her late-career resurgence in popularity that was colored by a climate of gay-acceptance and greater inclusiveness...."
Nov. 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
La Leyenda del Chupacabras
Dark animated tale may be too frightening for children
"...be annihilated by the legendary chupacabras. Meanwhile, two alebrijes (clown-colored fantastical creatures seen in previous Leyenda films) gab, and..."
Oct. 21, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
"Erin Curtis: Narrow Escape From History"
The brightly colored patterns in this show's paintings pull one into Big Medium for some pleasurable viewing
"...of its Canopy-based gallery is completely overrun by brightly colored stripes and cut-out patterns of various textures and sizes...."
Sept. 18, 2015 Arts Review by Seth Orion Schwaiger
Minions
The Minions have moved from background work to starring in their own animated movie
"...Toddler-tiny, banana-colored, and clad in denim bib overalls and vaguely steampunk..."
July 10, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Infinitely Polar Bear
Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana star in this intimate family drama
"...If the scariness of Cam’s illness is portrayed through rose-colored glasses, the realism of the characters shines through in..."
July 10, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Arlo & Julie
Steve Mims concocts a mischievous story about a happy, if rudderless Austin couple
"...too.) Austin looks terrific; this is a crisp, vibrantly colored picture of our current metropolis. But what’s most endearing..."
May 8, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Guardians of the Galaxy
These lesser-known, misfit, comic-book characters are a grand addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
"...occasional red-eye to another dimension in the Thor pictures), candy-colored and bopping where the other Marvel movies are muted..."
Aug. 1, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Spring Breakers
In turns appealing and horrifying, those contrasts are at the heart of Harmony Korine’s latest outing.
"...bikinis a glutton could want, parading its excesses through candy-colored lens filters and a backing soundtrack by Cliff Martinez..."
March 22, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Katy Perry: Part of Me
The film is an inoffensive slice of canny brand (or is that non-Brand?) management and marketing.
"...watched the pre-release, “for the fans” screening of this candy-colored, pseudo-documentary whatsit was less than one-quarter full. I'd fully..."
July 6, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family
Madea is tasked once again with fixing a broken family.
"...bid for respectability with last year’s literary adaptation For Colored Girls and his ensemble piece Why Did I Get..."
April 29, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Hall Pass
Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis star in this Farrelly brothers comedy about two guys given a free pass by their wives from the vows of matrimony.
"...visual pizzazz of an According to Jim episode, only dun-colored with fecal propulsives tapped not once but twice for..."
March 4, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
The Little Traitor
Set in the British Mandate of Palestine in the summer of 1947, The Little Traitor stars Alfred Molina and tells its story through the eyes of a young innocent.
"...makes The Little Traitor anything more than a gratingly rose-colored and mawkish tale of youthful political indiscretions, puppy love,..."
April 30, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
A Town Called Panic
This whimsical, Belgian import is an animated stop-motion fantasy that uses childhood toys as characters who find themselves in all manner of goofy yet compelling adventures.
"...live there. This whimsical, thoroughly Belgian import imagines a primary-colored world in which the tiny toy cowboy, Indian, and..."
Jan. 22, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Cheri
Another dangerous liaison, this one based on the Colette novella, reunites director Stephen Frears and star Michelle Pfeiffer.
"...Léa’s feelings for each other emerge – complex feelings colored by real-world concerns of practicality, propriety, and the tragic..."
June 26, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Bangkok Dangerous
The Pang brothers' remake of their own film is all cock and no bang.
"...for a comely pharmacist amidst much blood, cordite, and candy-colored redemption – but it feels vapid and underwhelming and..."
Sept. 12, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Macbeth
This Australian film puts a modern, hyperstylized spin on an old tale: Should it be, "Out, damned spot" or "Off, damned Ray-Bans"?
"...or that your husband refuses to take off his colored sunglasses in the house? These are the questions that..."
Aug. 10, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Redline
Redline dives headfirst into onanistic autoeroticism, but this exotic-car movie feels ill-lubed and mechanical all the way.
"...vixen, who steals the show, barely, from all the candy-colored, metal-flake rimjobs that glide and slide across the screen..."
