Fireflies in the Garden

This long-delayed drama about family dysfunction stars Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, and Julia Roberts.

"...statement of his own: Having Willem Dafoe for a movie dad is a bad life plan. (See also: Spider-Man.)..."

Oct. 14, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

13 Assassins

The prolific Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike takes a turn toward the truly epic with this classically styled samurai picture.

"...Miike's umpteenth feature film (83 and counting on the Internet Movie Database!) is a remake of Eiichi Kudo's 1963..."

April 29, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

God Save the Screen

Zack Carlson and Bryan Connolly spent seven years hunting Mohawks for their mad, mammoth compendium, Destroy All Movies!!!: The Complete Guide to Punks on Film

"...we played Spot the Punk in any and every movie we saw. There weren't many...."

Nov. 5, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Witless Protection

Larry the Cable Guy embarks on a new comic misadventure.

"...mucks up an FBI operation. Of local note, the Internet Movie Database lists Austin musician Omar Dykes among the..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Man Without a Past

A man, beaten into amnesia, builds a new life in this Oscar-nominated Finnish film.

"...Pakarinen and Sakari Kuosmanen. An informal biography on the Internet Movie Database states that, combined, Aki Kaurismäki and his..."

June 6, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Guardian of Hell

"...after the abbot. Check out this director on the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com) and you'll discover that's he's worked..."

March 1, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

We've Come a Long Way, Baby

The year's best in technology, gaming, and Web sites

"...By 1999, long gone were the days when the Internet was a land ruled by porn sites, populated by..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Short Cuts

"...Rock. Chasing Amy's Kevin Smith is listed in the Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com) as one of the film's writers...."

June 18, 1999 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Zupan on Impact

'Murderball' and the making of a celebrity

"..."The movie's pretty good," Klenert offers...."

July 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Second Coming

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Definitive Director's Cut (1977)

"...Before Steven Spielberg became a "serious filmmaker," he made movies like Close Encounters -- artfully enchanting blockbusters which whisked..."

July 30, 1999 Screens Feature

Something Weird

How Tim League discovered 110 drive-in films in an East Prairie warehouse and other stories of disappearing celluloid.

"...Do It Until I Need Glasses? For years the movies languished, forgotten and decaying ... until recently...."

Feb. 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

The Sound and the Fury

Local theatre Alamo Drafthouse teams silent films with live musical scores by favorite Austin acts.

"...files into a feed store hastily converted into a movie theater. As people find their seats, the pianist takes..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

A Star Is Born

"...("Video Reviews" wishes to thank Blockbuster Video, Encore Movies & Music, I Luv Video, Vulcan Video, and Waterloo..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Screens Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Stuart Bloody Stuart

Filmmaker Stuart Gordon hits the Alamo with his latest H.P. Lovecraft adaptation.

"...Chronicle: You're from Chicago's northwest side. Was that a horror-movie mecca when you were a kid, in terms of..."

June 28, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Marie Antoinette

They don't make 'em like this anymore. And thank God they don't!

"...Antoinette is too long and dull as dishwater. One Internet Movie Database comment reads, "They don't make them like..."

May 25, 2001 Screens Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Goodbye Cruel World

"...fake commercials, and wacky one-liners à la Kentucky Fried Movie or The Groove Tube. To top that off, the..."

June 9, 2000 Screens Review by Ken Lieck

Film News

Suzanne Quinn, the first and only director of Austin Studios, steps down; plus, news from Slamdance and the Independent Spirit Awards, Avril Lavigne, the Jim Henson Co., and Jerm Pollett

"...Someone to Watch Award.HEARD & Seen Posters on the Internet Movie Database say pop star Avril Lavigne is in..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

The Cable Guise

Carrey, Quaid, and the IFC

"...Pet Detective. Yet it says right here in the Internet Movie Database (enter this into your Web browser and..."

June 14, 1996 Screens Feature by Patrick Taggart

Coming to America

Native Nigerian filmmaker Joy Dickson on getting the job done

"...it sounds as though Eddie Murphy already made this movie a while back, you may be on to something..."

April 30, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Back Room Bangers Vol. 69

"...say about a man who's made close to 2,000 movies, yet still is trying to get a decent break..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

TV Eye

Couldn't you use a good laugh?

"...on the paper, the way I've seen children watching movies on those muted TV screens in the video/DVD section..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Johnny Belinda, Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows

"...("Video Reviews" wishes to thank Blockbuster Video, Encore Movies & Music, I Video, Vulcan Video, and Waterloo Video..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Screens Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Screens Feature

"...we'd be willing to bet they will, as marquee movies cause nervous shifting for independent films either just opening..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Screens Feature

Top 10 National Web Sites

"...The Blair Witch Site (http://www.blair witch.com). If only the movie were as good as this intricately crafted site, so..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Letters at 3AM: The Script Needs a Rewrite

Cinema history as it's been commonly taught is just plain wrong

"...death dates aren't noted even in the usually thorough Internet Movie Database; but it is Georges Specht who brought..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

First Ladies: Early Women Filmmakers

Kino celebrates female filmmaking pioneers

"...Lois Weber's Hypocrites is one of 18 films the Internet Movie Database credits the director with having made in..."

May 16, 2008 Screens Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wolfen

Director Michael Wadleigh's only narrative effort is a terrific post-George Romero modernist horror film about ancient spirits, deadly animals, and the nightmare landscape of the modern urban city.

"...well. The film was Wadleigh's last credit. If the Internet Movie Database is to be believed, Wadleigh now "works..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Screens Review by Louis Black

Net Worth

"...an insider's look at the ongoing insanity of the Internet business. It is also a chance for Wolff to..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

In Your Facebook

Do social networking sites strengthen communities or the class divide?

"...that far from J.C.R. Licklider's 1968 vision for the Internet, of a "common medium that can be contributed to..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...have to make a fool of herself in a movie review like she did with the film dot the..."

July 1, 2005 Column

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