Dances With Bulls

Capital City Dance Team auditions

"...The Capital City Dance Team, a very genuine group of dancing experts, are..."

Aug. 24, 2011 Sports Post by Will Schmidt

Entrances and Exits

A distinguished curator and top scenic designer bid farewell to UT

"...of Texas. Over in the Department of Theatre & Dance, Robert Schmidt has retired after 28 years on the..."

Feb. 11, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Burlesque

Burlesque bumps and grinds. And then grinds and grinds and grinds.

"...girls at the Burlesque Lounge on the Sunset Strip dance onstage in exotic underwear while lip-synching risqué numbers, but..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

You Again

A high school loser who reinvents herself as a successful adult regresses when she returns home in this comedy starring Kristen Bell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sigourney Weaver, and Betty White.

"...that curveball is buried under a lot of gunk: dance-offs, sing-alongs, awkward exes, and a dirty-talking White blasting through,..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Glitterati Are Here... And They're Queer

Tuezgayz gets even gayer with Gaydie Hawkinz dance.

"...y'all ever go to your high school's Sadie Hawkins dance? You know, the one where things got all wacky..."

June 1, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Ricky Hill

Hausu (House)

This 1977 Japanese film is a surreal, indefinable piece of horror/comedy, a must-see film for lovers of the inscrutable, the grotesque, the funky, and the eccentric.

"...bordering, at times (okay, all the time), on Dada (dance numbers!) mixed with crimson gore, eerie animation that can..."

May 21, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pirate Radio

This British import exudes about as much outlaw swagger as Tom DeLay in a dance competition.

"...as much outlaw swagger as Tom DeLay in a dance competition. Forget about historical veracity in which this film’s..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

'Water Works'

The charming and fun aquatic ballets at Barton Springs Pool return on video

"...take a couple dozen swimsuit-clad performers and present a dance around and in its chilly waters. These aquatic ballets..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Fame

Fame: Some stories live forever. It's more or less the same story as before, just a different generation.

"...least not if you’ve a soft spot for teen dance films from Center Stage to all things Step and..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Departures

This Oscar-winner for Best Foreign Language Film is a gentle and comedically nuanced exercise in mourning from Japan.

"...the short end of the tombstone.) Motoki (Shall We Dance?) is perfectly cast as Daigo Kobayashi, a thirtysomething cellist..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Paris 36

This French film set in late-Thirties Paris is something of a backstage drama, but it's marred by glossy reminiscing and melodramatic politicizing.

"...a film that takes place almost entirely in a song-and-dance hall. While the tirelessly watchable Jugnot gives it his..."

April 24, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Black Balloon

This prize-winning Australian film is a moving, youth-oriented work, featuring lovely performances by Toni Collette and Gemma Ward.

"...Berlin International Film Festival): the occasional off-putting quirk, a song-and-dance bit. They mark small contrivances in a film that..."

April 10, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

High School Musical 3: Senior Year

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

"...And all the while, they burst into song and dance with a frenzy that's almost beyond human. The music..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mamma Mia!

This film adaptation of the Broadway adaptation of a catalog of Swedish disco hits retains all the fun but remains astonishingly silly.

"...plot in between a giggling spectacle of song and dance. Yup, the film adaptation of the Broadway adaptation of..."

July 18, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Wedding Banned

Local DJs pick the songs that don't suck at weddings

"...in Kansas this weekend. The couple shared their first dance to Van Morrison’s “Crazy Love” and the bride and..."

May 13, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Jodhaa Akbar

From the director of Lagaan comes this masterful Bollywood epic about a 16th century marriage of political alliance that gave birth to true love.

"...couple and start making gorgeous babies. The music and dance that are such hallmarks of Bollywood filmmaking are here..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Make It Work

Music to get down with

"...maybe now is the time to learn to appreciate dance pop...."

Feb. 1, 2008 Music Post by Darcie Stevens

Aaja Nachle

A dancer in New York returns home to India to see the teacher who taught her to dance and, ultimately, fight to save the school he built.

"...Dutta and Vinay Pathak. Not screened for press. A dancer in New York returns home to India to see..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Romance & Cigarettes

John Turturro directs this oddball musical in which the stars (the eclectic cast of James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Steve Buscemi, Mary-Louise Parker, Christopher Walken, Aida Turturro, and Mandy Moore) lip-sync and dance to popular songs.

"...guy to do? Why, break out in song and dance! Barring thought bubbles, it’s certainly the most transparent way..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

This Christmas

The film has the perfect formula for holiday cheer: redemption through sentimentality, salvation through schmaltz.

"...just a happy coincidence), a couple of extended all-family dance sequences in the living room, and a soundtrack composed..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Glastonbury

The sense of total immersion in England's Glastonbury Festival is breathlessly complete in Julien Temple's everywhere-at-once music documentary.

"...a restroom and the need for more room, to dance, to sing, to carry on like a stark loony..."

April 13, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Idlewild

OutKast has been operating as two separate and distinct musical personas for at least three years now, and Idlewild unwisely continues this trend into the cinematic realm.

"...emblem on a silver whisky flask) come alive, talk, dance, die, possibly to distract you from the fact that,..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Quinceañera

Don't confuse this Sundance charmer with My Big Fat Mexican Debut, for its farcical scenes of high hair and waltzes form a genial, light-comic prism for watching race, age, class, and sexuality collide in one of America's most economically and ethnically complex cities.

"...clan is thrown into a tizzy. Don't confuse this Sundance charmer with My Big Fat Mexican Debut, for its..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Lost City

Andy Garcia’s film is a Cuban exile’s lament – more a dirge for what has vanished than a celebration of the past.

"...City that contain life are the numerous music and dance sequences, in which a vibrant sense of the old..."

June 16, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Being Cyrus

This atypical Bollywood film is an English-language mystery drama that has no song-and-dance numbers and is a brief, 90-minutes long.

"...recorded in the English language. It has no song-and dance numbers, and at 90 minutes is the shortest Indian..."

April 21, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cheaper by the Dozen 2

This unasked-for sequel fuses the original concept with the well-worn formula of the family-vacation romp.

"...funny as mildew, unless you really like watching Martin dance like a dork and get socked in the scrotum,..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

9 Songs

Michael Winterbottom creates scenester porn in which he records the evolution of a man and a woman's relationship through sex and music – exclusively.

"...have to feel guilty about and that you can dance to. And there’s nothing wrong with that...."

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Sarkar

Bollywood gangster film honors The Godfather.

"...from the Bollywood narrative pageants that pause for frequent song-and-dance numbers that we are more accustomed to seeing in..."

Aug. 5, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rize

Celebrity photographer David LaChapelle casts his lens toward the newest L.A. dance craze.

"...opens up the world of the Los Angeles inner-city dance craze of clowning and its more aggressive offshoot, krumping...."

July 1, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Be Cool

The follow-up to Elmore Leanard's Get Shorty is rife with star talent but short on inspiration.

"...kick to see Travolta and Thurman tearing up the dance floor once more, but you could make a case..."

March 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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