The Grudge 2

Japanese director Shimizu may be the only director in history to have helmed a pair of Hollywood remakes of his two biggest hit films and managed to screw up both of them.

"...both of them, proving once and for all my theory that big-budget, studio-commissioned remakes of contemporary Japanese horror films..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Designated Mourner

"...Strapless, and Damage) directs. It sounds so good in theory, but watching The Designated Mourner turns out to be..."

July 25, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Painted Veil

Set in China and starring Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, and Liev Schreiber, this melodic adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel is the story of many things – but it is most of all the story of a marriage.

"...an aggressive silence. But as Walter tirelessly promotes germ theory and municipal hygiene, will Kitty warm to his sanitary..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Celebrity

"...is he to divorce himself so entirely from the cultural philistinism that he finds so subversive? There's no doubt..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Minor Premise

What maketh a man? The components of a personality unravel in this SF thriller

"...and Mr Hyde, he was working from the prevalent cultural theory that there was a dark and a light..."

Dec. 4, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Page Two

On love, culture, renewal, timelessness, and SXSW

"...killing for God or denying liberty for freedom. Certainly, cultural activity and achievement is not a constant – there..."

March 26, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Plain Speaking About Complex Things

Robert Jensen on his book Plain Radical and the friendship that inspired it

"...has a rare gift among academic writers for combining cultural theory with everyday human context, in a plain-speaking style..."

June 17, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Other Worlds Review: Minor Premise

Lo-fi sci-fi updates Jekyll and Hyde for modern psychology

"...and Mr Hyde, he was working from the prevalent cultural theory that there was a dark and a light..."

Dec. 6, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: Minor Premise

Who are we, anyway? It depends when you ask ...

"...and Mr Hyde, he was working from the prevalent cultural theory that there was a dark and a light..."

Sept. 6, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Delay of Game

Seaholm, Block 21 challenge the Downtown Domino theory

"...B21 (and Seaholm) proposals include space for a nonprofit cultural institution, supposedly nipping into developers' profitability. But none of..."

April 8, 2005 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

No Stone Untenured

ACTLab Director and Visionary Sandy Stone

"...had been missing the point - she is her theory. Every day she shows her students what it means..."

May 15, 1998 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

A Glitch in the Matrix

What do the people who believe we live in a simulation really believe?

"...collective subconscious, and travelling into the wound where this cultural and psychological parasites are nestled. He does not critique..."

Feb. 5, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

You Don't Nomi

Should you re-assess Showgirls? No, but that's not what's happening here?

"...Nomi exists. First-time director Jeffrey McHale posits a basic theory from the get-go: that there's an argument that Showgirls..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

History doesn't repeat itself but the rhymes are terrifying in this unmissable documentary

"...That's the theory embedded in this adaptation of French academic Thomas Piketty's..."

May 1, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears

"...Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tearsby Tom Lutz..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Books Review by Sidney Moody

Austin @ Large: No Picnic for PARD

Parks & Recreation downsizes, shedding functions that perhaps it never should have had.

"...PARD will likely give up control of the city cultural contracts program, which disburses millions in hotel bed tax..."

Sept. 20, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Page Two: Conspiracy Theories

Can you handle the truth?

"...them into the political, personal, economic, industrial, diplomatic, imperialistic, cultural, social, governmental, legal, religious, ideological, and tribal doesn't even..."

June 22, 2007 Column by Louis Black

An Immense World of Delight

It used to be a commonplace of moralists that man was the only creature in the animal kingdom to slaughter his own kind. But as Chronicle writer Roger Gathman points out, kind is slaughtered by kind routinely among ants, salamanders, and, as any child can tell you, guppies. The golden rule, in nature, is not "do unto others" -- it is "why waste the protein?"

"...behavior of ants is at the heart of game theory, which mathematically models the concept of winning and losing...."

June 30, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...he testified that the human genome project supports evolutionary theory. Although Dr. Hillis never mentioned the human genome project,..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...to allow I.D. to be taught as an "alternative theory" to evolutionary biology. Of course, one must point out..."

July 25, 2003 Column

To Expand the Convention Center or Not?

Despite unanimous support from City Council, voters will decide the answer

"...share the same goal of sustaining and enhancing Austin's cultural, natural, and economic fortunes – the energies that keep..."

July 19, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

Summer Camp Guide

"...own musical projects and offers instruction in basic music theory and appreciation, introducing campers to both singing and instrumentation...."

April 28, 2006 Features Feature by Nora Ankrum

Only Natural

The Texas Memorial Museum decides to focus on its natural history roots.

"...she quit her job as manager of the museum's cultural collections. "I was dumbfounded," said Sally Baulch, when Theriot..."

Feb. 21, 2003 News Feature

Are We All Ghosts in the Machine?

Rodney Ascher explores simulation theory in A Glitch in the Matrix

"...growth in fascination with what is known as simulation theory. That's the idea that we're all actually living in..."

Feb. 10, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Qmmunity: A Local Queer-Inclusive Dating App Is in the Works

Qinsey app founders are seeking input from LGBTQIA folks to inform development

"...Queer Film Theory 101: Spring Flings Austin's queer film fest aGLIFF teams..."

April 9, 2021 Column by Beth Sullivan

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...portray anyone who questions evolution as the only origin theory as a religious fundamentalist. Isn't one of the defining..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Column

The Spatial Engineer of the Invisible City

He is everywhere. He is unavoidable. He is Tha' Subliminal Kid.

"...Less a musician in the accepted sense than a cultural semiotician masquerading under the guise of the hippest of..."

March 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Lynch/Oz

Is David Lynch's whole career an homage to The Wizard of Oz?

"...Rodney Ascher, who was still working on his simulation theory doc A Glitch in the Matrix while making his..."

June 30, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Qmmunity: Scorpio Season

For the Qmmunity editor's birthday, have an extra helping of queer events with yer slice of b-day cake

"...film night at Barrel O' Fun, aka Queer Film Theory 101. Thus began a career of chatting with cool..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Column by James Scott

Revelations: A Gen Z Writer Witnesses the Eternal Battle of an Iron Maiden Concert

Waving flags and fighting monsters with the hallowed NWOBHM troopers

"...distract me from the band’s latest jaunt into period-based cultural appropriation – the night’s stage design riffed on a..."

Sept. 14, 2022 Music Post by Julian Towers

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