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Passion Project
Fantastic Fest and its home base the Alamo Drafthouse have only gotten bigger, but its heart – pure and pulpy – stays the same
"...le sang of genre films, stars, and directors (notably, lifetime achievement award winners Roger Corman and wife/co-producer/co-conspirator Julie Corman,..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Luv Doc Recommends: Benefit for Gulf Coast Disaster Relief
Jo's Coffee, Friday, July 23, 2010
"...really something to which you can devote an entire lifetime? Apparently so. Ditto for pigeon racing, chess, needlepoint, LARPing,..."

July 23, 2010 Column by The Luv Doc

Environmental Cage Match
After a history of pulling its punches, is EPA finally forcing TCEQ to clean up the Texas air?
"...pollutants at a level that, statistically speaking, increases Americans' lifetime risk of cancer by 1 in 1,000,000. Yet the..."

May 28, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

The Back-up Plan
Jennifer Lopez is back with a new romantic comedy about a woman whose biological clock is out of sync with her life.
"...Back-up Plan is the kind of cookie-cutter, strictly for Lifetime romantic comedy that gives the entire storied romcom genre..."

April 23, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lone Stars in Good Company
Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards 2010
"...The Warren Skaaren Lifetime Achievement Award will be given to Michael Nesmith, who..."

March 12, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Teen Pot Use on the Rise?
Partnership for a Drug-Free America says more teens are using party drugs
"...measure of 50% in 1998. The same goes for lifetime use of pot and past-month pot use: last year..."

March 3, 2010 News Post by Jordan Smith

Tooth Fairy
Due to a misdeed, a tough hockey player, played by Dwayne Johnson, must serve as a tooth fairy for a week, tutu and all.
"...bargain with Uncle Walt that doomed her to a lifetime of playing fairy godmothers. And surely no one would..."

Jan. 29, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Texas to Officially Adopt QT
2010 Texas Film Hall of Fame inductees to include one glorious bastard
"...presented his agent, Mike Simpson, with the Warren Skaaren Lifetime Achievement Award...."

Dec. 21, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Nic Cage delivers one of his best and most outrageous performances in Werner Herzog's cops-and-iguanas drama.
"...Terence McDonagh, a police lieutenant who is prescribed a lifetime supply of Vicodin at the start of the movie..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Austin Visual Arts Awards
A new set of honors for the city's hardworking painters, sculptors, and other artists
"...and at different stages of their careers (early career, lifetime achievement, and somewhere in between: The Collectors Circle Award..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

In a Dream
A fascinating portrait of an artist and adulterer
"...it threatens to overwhelm the exploration of the extraordinary lifetime achievement of Isaiah's art. That never quite happens –..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Screens Review by Michael King

Paris
Paris, from the French director of When the Cat's Away, follows a half-dozen-plus Parisians and their interconnectedness.
"...in love she's close to resigning herself to a lifetime of frumpy jeans. Another pair of siblings, opposites-in-every-way middle-aged..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

We Live in Public
The Internet-based social experiments of Josh Harris, the original dot-com visionary kid, are profiled in this cautionary documentary.
"...as Harris notes, Warhol's 15 minutes of fame per lifetime has been renormed to 15 minutes per day. Harris'..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sex, Thugs, and Thanatos
The mad, bad bounty of Fantastic Fest 2009
"...and ongoing festival coverage. The Man Who Loved Women: Lifetime Achievement Award honoree Jess Franco..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Getting Creative With Constraints
AFS Documentary Tour presents the 10 Under 10 shorts program
"...guitar-fixer par excellence of Austin's Musical Exchange in "A Lifetime in Repair." Finally, there's Ben Slamka and Tomasz Werner's..."

May 8, 2009 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

'Boy Returning Water to the Sea'
Poet Andrea Selch saw so much in Kelly Fearing's artwork, she had to write about it
"...the University of Texas' College of Fine Arts, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Center for the Advancement and..."

April 17, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

An Expanding Definition of Family
Karen Skloss' personal documentary explores mothers and daughters and the choices they make
"...that Skloss' life could be the premise of a Lifetime original movie – if Lifetime original movies were interesting...."

March 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Sarah Jean Billeiter

Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail
Just what's needed in the big house – Perry's pistol-packing granny.
"...on record). And God knows there wouldn’t be a Lifetime channel if melodramas with poor production values about abused..."

Feb. 27, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

From Burnt Orange to Gold
Eighteen current or former Longhorns will represent the United States in the Beijing Olympics
"...to preset scoring tables, and Hardee rolled to a lifetime best of 8,534 points that put him behind 2005..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Sports Feature by Lee Nichols

Shine a Light
The Rolling Stones gather no moss in this Martin Scorsese-directed concert film that's playing on both IMAX and conventional screens.
"...in his death, let the record show that a lifetime of musical innovation concluded with dying not at but..."

April 4, 2008 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland
Back in September 2005, Vaughn decided to try his hand at the impresario game and Gathered together four young stand-up comedians for a 30-day bus tour of the heartland.
"...four decent comics plucked from obscurity and given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to play big venues packed with eager fans..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Mist
There's "something in the mist," and it's not only the beasts that bite but also the dark things that reside within.
"...Some comfort, but the lesson she learned lasted a lifetime: Fear the monsters, but also beware the dark impulses..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

September Dawn
This movie about the Mountain Meadows Massacre of Sept. 11, 1857, during which local Mormons murdered 120 members of a wagon train heading West, reeks of ulterior motives.
"...to the extent that his love wipes out a lifetime of indoctrination. The film becomes as callow as the..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Molière
This ragtag biographical portrait plays something like Meet the Parents vs. Shakespeare in Love: A Farce in Three Acts.
"...only wonder what theatre gods Molière angered during his lifetime to deserve such ragtag biographical treatment, but let’s hope..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

La Vie en Rose
How do you tell the true story of the nearly mythical popular performer Edith Piaf? In epic proportions, of course.
"...hours is to feel the heavy weight of a lifetime of excess and heartbreak. And perhaps due to these..."

June 22, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Page Two: Red-State Specials
In the current political climate, reasoned debate turns too easily to ideological hate
"...to me, and, even in thinking back over my lifetime, I understand that the present carries the greatest weight..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Queens
Spanish comedy about same-sex marriages and mothers-in-law.
"...was Days of Our Lives mixed with a little Lifetime Original Movie. The meandering interwoven plot follows the events..."

Oct. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

The Last Kiss
You could say Paul Haggis' The Last Kiss is something of a Garden State redux, but Zach Braff's character here is less fanciful, less melodramatic, and far more prone to doing the thoughtless things men tend to do.
"...thoughtless things men tend to do when faced with lifetime milestones such as babies, marriages, mortgages, or rationalizing the..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Wicker Man
Notorious director Neil LaBute's well-intentioned but inadvertently silly film starring Nicolas Cage replaces the vague, sinister paganism of the original with a creepy infusion of earth-mother estrogen gone haywire.
"...in offsetting any future dearth of comedy in my lifetime. If the giggly shocked expression that blossomed on my..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Prairie Home Companion
It's been a very long time since any Robert Altman film has been as enjoyable as A Prairie Home Companion.
"...at this year's Academy Awards ceremony before receiving his Lifetime Achievement award. Their daffy routine in which they stepped..."

June 9, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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