Beauty Is Embarrassing

You may not know his name, but you know Wayne White's artwork from Pee-wee's Playhouse or his MTV award-winning design work.

"...Paul Reubens, White’s wife, graphic novelist and cartoonist Mimi Pond); fly-on-the-wall long watches of White at work and with..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

'Doctor Who' Watch

7.4: ‘The Power of Three’

"...food goes bad – the episode opens with the Ponds’ cleaning out moldy yogurt from the fridge – and..."

Sept. 23, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

‘Doctor Who’ Watch

7.2: 'Dinosaurs on a Spaceship'

"...(He also wrote the cute if unilluminating web series Pond Life, which you can watch here.) The Silurians, a..."

Sept. 9, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Ambassador

With daring, gonzo filmmaking, this documentary film penetrates the blood-diamond trade in the Central African Republic.

"...well-conceived. At least, the ideas percolating just beneath its pond-scum sheen are journalistically hubristic and well worth dissecting. But..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Luv Doc: Magic Pixie Dream Girl

It’s the classic dichotomy: Boat or anchor; gas or brakes, branches or roots …

"...wise, and I'm getting frustrated. Should I cross the pond? Or is he just fucking with me from a..."

July 20, 2012 Column

Fright Night

The new Fright Night isn't a prick on the neck of the 1985 original, but what it does it does well.

"...guarantees against the forces of hunky bloodsuckers. Discounting the across-the-pond charms of Hammer Films stalwart Christopher Lee, it was..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Attack the Block

Smart, quick, funny, and economical, Attack the Block is an alien-invasion movie that's a breed apart.

"...sure to be lost on this side of the pond. Overall, the movie’s low-rent British specificity is a plus..."

July 29, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Year With Frog and Toad

Arnold Lobel's amphibian friends are brought to life with verve and heart

"...by his woodland neighbors during a swim at the pond, Frog taking some alone time, each secretly raking the..."

July 29, 2011 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Everything Must Go

Will Ferrell stars in this offbeat drama that's based on a Raymond Carver short story.

"...cringe moments. (A grown man urinating in a koi pond should, by the immutable laws of the modern Hollywood..."

May 13, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Target Markets

Doctor Who: The Complete Fifth Series

"...side. (Here, the companion is Karen Gillan's spitfire Amy Pond, who's always angling for a snog; apparently Pond didn't..."

Nov. 26, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

This Week's Waste of Time

There's time to be wasted playing Independent Games Festival entries

"...unreachable goals. The controls take time to master, but respond relatively well with practice...."

Nov. 18, 2010 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Parks and Rec: If You Build It ...

Is Austin's appetite for fountains bigger than its wallet?

"...in Butler Park? A fountain needs fixing, and a pond, the Parks and Recreation board has decided, needs to..."

May 28, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM

Woodstock was something new upon this earth

"...I sat by the pond fully clothed while Duke – as working-class and intellectual..."

July 17, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Is Anybody There?

Michael Caine stars as a magician who's come to live in a retirement home when his mental faculties start to fail.

"...Zone: The Movie episode; the Cocoon movies; On Golden Pond; or even from Benjamin Button. Wherever you find it,..."

May 1, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Too Much Impervious Cover

"...The proposed 300-acre solar-panel farm includes neither a quality pond nor a detention pond. We need to ask why,..."

March 25, 2009 Postmarks

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

Despite being the third entry in the Underworld series, this is a prequel story about the age-old war between the vampires and the werewolves.

"...barely. Nighy's best known on this side of the pond as the tentacular Davy Jones of the past two..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bab'Aziz: The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul

In the Tunisian desert, a young girl and her grandfather spin stories of woe, lost love, and religious disenchantment in this trancelike movie.

"...contemplating his own soul; he just stares into a pond with a dreamy look in his eye … contemplating...."

July 11, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Hancock

Will Smith is the titular Hancock, a character as befuddling as the odd movie that surrounds him.

"...PR man, Ray, is Jerry Maguire minus the desperate, pond-scum algae bloom of bitter, endless self-recriminations. Instead, Ray seeks..."

July 4, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wanted

Based on Mark Millar’s ultraviolent comic-book miniseries, Wanted isn’t so much a movie as it is a parade of fast cars, big guns, heavy metal guitars, exposed cleavage, and tests of masculinity.

"...makes the screen pulse like concentric ripples on a pond, which is funny, because, until recently, Wesley could have..."

June 27, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Webberville Conundrum

Austin's plans for an eastern landfill hit a little obstacle – the people who live there

"...white on their rust-colored wings, glides down to a pond at the bottom of a picturesque valley. Next to..."

June 6, 2008 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Down the Rabbit Hole

The weird, ever-evolving world of ARGs

"...Hop across the pond, and there's another company making games that deal with..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Screens Feature by Carson Barker

Geek Out!

This is the BBC miniseries that set women worldwide swooning for some Mr. Darcy

"...dances, lush country estates, and, of course, Firth's celebrated pond dip (this is the adaptation that kicked off the..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Gypsy Caravan

Billed as the “Gypsy Caravan,” five bands travel across America making music from across the Romani diaspora.

"...by sneaking off to smoke and fish in the pond outside a coliseum in Ann Arbor, Mich. Backstage the..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

No Reservations

While No Reservations is no Big Night, it's surprisingly winsome in parts, by virtue of Catherine Zeta-Jones' performance, and a romantic fable that lingers on the palette of the mind's eye.

"...not educational, to view the subject from across the pond, at a safe remove. In Mostly Martha, it turned..."

July 27, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Amber Current Flowing From My Mind

Drowning Johnny Bush's spasmodic dysphonia in a "Whiskey River"

"...went from being a big fish in a little pond, to a little fish in a big pond. I..."

April 6, 2007 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

A Miracle of Catfish

In that it is forever incomplete, Brown's sixth and final novel should arguably be exempt from criticism

"...an estranged daughter in Atlanta, and a brand-new stock pond on his property. Just around the way lives Jimmy's..."

March 9, 2007 Books Review by Marrit Ingman

The Big Picture Map

A comprehensive map of Town Lake Corridor public and private development projects

"...to be completed by the end of 2007. The corresponding south shore of Town Lake is not included –..."

Jan. 19, 2007 News Feature

The Holiday

Nancy Meyers’ follow-up to Something’s Gotta Give mines the same go-girl terrain but is far less interesting, featuring stock characterizations and a blandly upbeat vibe.

"...“gumption” instead of allowing it to show. Across the pond, Diaz and Law have all the chemistry Winslet and..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Flushed Away

Flushed Away has a wicked, smart, and subtle sense of humor, and unlike so many kids movies these days, its characters are living, breathing parts of a small ecosystem.

"...I can’t get enough of our neighbors across the pond. If you want to keep me quiet and content..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Medicine Man

Up a Tree With Greg Ashley

"...There's a small pond to the east with a blue paddle boat sitting..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

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