Gay Place: Intention ... With Abandon

Good intentions pave the way to more pool parties and storming the bastille

"...it like you mean it. Shake your ass with intention. Yoga-fy with intention. Cannonball with intention. Drink with intention...."

July 13, 2012 Column by Kate X Messer

Red Joan

Based-on-true-life spy drama can keep its secrets to itself

"...Joan. She's a cardboard cutout of virtue and good intention: She's the only researcher in a room full of..."

May 3, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Street Corner Arts' We Are Proud to Present ...

Street Corner Arts' staging is more than exceptional theatre; it asks thought-provoking questions about authority, perspective, and intention

"...The show explores questions of authority, perspective, intention, and what it means to sympathize with a murderer..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Rules Don’t Apply

Beatty's Howard Hughes film is a frantic mess

"...Was that always the intention? There’s enough extratextual evidence to wonder if the movie..."

Nov. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Calvary

Brendan Gleeson stars in this darkly hilarious and deeply ruminative update on the passion play.

"...of the thieves was damned.”), Calvary makes clear its intention from its opening moments. Father James (Gleeson) sits in..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Sex Tape

Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel have escapades while trying to retrieve their sexcapade.

"...goes to great pains to establish its premise and intention, but the film fails in the two main tenets..."

July 25, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Frozen

This animated film mines Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales for material, discards the most brutish bits, and applies a heavy Disney top gloss.

"...of the song – pure of heart, noble in intention – carries throughout the film...."

Nov. 29, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Room 237

Pet theories about what really went down at the Overlook Hotel abound in this documentary about Stanley Kubrick's intentions in The Shining.

"...and all speculation is fair game – that Ascher’s intention was to dynamize an academic exercise, but these constant,..."

April 5, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Green Hornet

This Hornet's a cheesy and borderline-boring cream puff of a vigilante.

"...and latte-expert Kato (Taiwanese pop star Chou), with the intention of becoming a masked master of menace, seemingly out..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rachel Getting Married

Anne Hathaway tears up the screen in Jonathan Demme's new film about a self-absorbed woman who wreaks family havoc while out of rehab to attend her sister's wedding.

"...married to make amends, but even the seemingly good intention of that is a symptom of her self-absorption. She's..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Backseat

Two buddies take a road trip to Montreal in this shaggy dog tale that was an Austin Film Festival Audience Award winner.

"...the city for a weekend roadtrip to Montreal. The intention is to arrive at a restaurant frequented by the..."

April 11, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

An Unreasonable Man

This documentary is a far cry from the dry polemics one might expect from a survey of Ralph Nader's career as a consumer activist and political candidate.

"...see Ralph Nader, in the early Seventies, disavowing any intention to run for the presidency on The Mike Douglas..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Go for Zucker!

As two German families collide, the film explores its characters’ shared history to unravel the challenges of political and personal reunification.

"...this as a fault in the film, but Levy’s intention is probably to prove how marginalized Judaism is in..."

March 31, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Breakin' All the Rules

Despite the title of this sugar-coated fluffbomb of an urban romantic comedy, precious few rules are broken, cinematically speaking, during its quick, painless 90 minutes.

"...potentially emasculating gatherings altogether), Helen announces she has no intention of marrying Quincy and instead is flying off to..."

May 14, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Return to Never Land

"...strong note for girl power as Jane has no intention of becoming the Lost Boys' mother. She wants to..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Eye of the Beholder

"...screen. I almost have the feeling that was Elliott's intention, though he's doing no one any favors by mimicking..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Marie Baie Des Anges

"...making light of their accomplishments. Whether this was Pradal's intention is unclear. I suspect he didn't set out to..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love

"...women. From the outset, Incredibly True Adventure declares its intention to subvert traditional conventions and expectations. But in the..."

July 28, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shameless

"...even try, and I suspect that was hardly its intention. As a working record of a Gen-X, Austinite love..."

June 4, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Highway 61

"...woman announces the body's her brother and declares her intention of taking him home to New Orleans. We know..."

Aug. 14, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Mom and Dad Save the World

"...and Dick Nelson (Jones) to his planet with the intention of making the ditzy blonde mom his queen before..."

July 31, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Backdraft

"...it comes in close to the personal level. The intention here seems to be to question the roots of..."

May 24, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Laura Morrison Files for Mayor

Former council member intends to “reset Austin’s path”

"...Morrison filed documents with the city clerk declaring her intention to run for mayor. In a press release, Morrison..."

Jan. 8, 2018 News Post by Michael King

Yoga Drama

For a year, Austin will be practicing daily public acts of creative expression through the national festival 365 Days/365 Plays

"...or more yoga postures. In addition, we determined our intention for this practice, ranging from finding more kindness to..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

Speaking in Tongues

When Dan Dietz 'lets go,' he turns gibberish into art. And he proves it in the Salvage Vanguard Theater production of MacWellman's nonsense play Terminal Hip.

"...enough to speak it aloud with some kind of intention. And off the page, it started to make much..."

March 24, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

QueerBomb/Pride Roundtable: Extended Remix

QueerBomb and Austin Pride meet for a roundtable

"...My intention in gathering this group was not to find nirvana..."

June 3, 2011 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Water

Don't come to this movie expecting a doom-and-gloom forecast about ecological catastrophe. It's instead an encounter with "voodoo chemistry" that aims to show why we all should start imbibing "structurized water."

"...it. (The preferred water is probably H2Om Water With Intention – pronounced H-2-Ommm, like the mantra – which is..."

March 21, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Scavenging for Home

The NATObombing of Belgrade provoked playwright Lisa D'Amour to examine the intention behind her art and reasons for being an artist.

"...playwright, the NATO bombing forced me to examine the intention behind my art and my reasons for being an..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Arts Feature by Lisa D'Amour

Framing the Border

Photography of the Region Between Mexico and the U.S.

"...as documentary or not is pretty much in the intention of the photographer. The photographer's intent could be research..."

May 1, 1998 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Everything Evil: How Longlegs Is Osgood Perkins’ Popcorn Movie

Channeling Silence of the Lambs for his horror club sandwich

"...watch the movie, which seems like a completely wholesome intention.”..."

July 12, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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