Transformers: The Last Knight

Stick meet dead horse

"...receipts have always been impervious to critical broadsides, but apart from a jaunty performance from Sir “I’m Game for..."

June 23, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Nocturnal Animals

A dark meditation on regret and revenge

"...2009’s stunning A Single Man), I feel compelled to start hyphenating the man, in a good way. Nocturnal Animals..."

Nov. 18, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Woman in Gold

Helen Mirren plays an aging Jew who wants to win back a painting looted from her family by the Nazis

"...a complex legal issue like the provenance of an art object, then throw in Helen Mirren and the Nazis..."

April 10, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Get Your Arms Around CLAW

How one quirky hobby became an over-the-top phenomenon

"...variety, and burlesque scenes. A key figure in this performance renaissance was producer/performer Jennifer Tidwell, who told him about..."

Jan. 31, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Blue Is the Warmest Color

This three-hour-long French film has been much hyped for its graphic sexual content, but it's the less explicit stuff that makes it worth a watch.

"...in a glancing encounter with Emma (Seydoux), a blue-haired art student in her 20s. It takes some time for..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Paris, Je T'Aime

Eighteen short films by an international who’s-who of filmmakers make up this omnibus celebrating the joys and sorrows of love and Paris, organized by neighborhood.

"...bemused pizzicato of Bruno Podalydès’ sidewalk love story in Montmartre to the creepy Bernard Herrmann stylings underneath Vincenzo Natali’s..."

June 22, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Ladykillers

The Coen brothers remake a British comedy classic starring Tom Hanks in a flamboyantly love-him-or-hate-him performance.

"...chamber musicians eager to practice in Miss Marva Munson’s earthen-walled basement. The Coens have transposed the film’s locale to..."

March 26, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing SXSW 04 music – Wednesday only

"...what they want from boys. The alluringly aggressive Austin quartet released a punchy four-song vinyl EP last year. Another..."

March 12, 2004 Music Feature

Crossroads

Britney's screen debut.

"...the sound of Madonna crooning her hit “Open Your Heart.” The scene is a groan-worthy start to this pop..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Naked City

A performance artist is arrested for being "indecent" at the Capitol. Why can't we arrest legislators for that?

"...Katherine Chronis, a New York multimedia conceptual artist in town for a performance at the Vortex theatre,..."

Aug. 10, 2001 News Feature by Michael King

Short Cuts

A new film series begins at the Off Center, introducing avant-garde films and a new theatrical venue to Austin moviegoers.

"...E. Sixth) and the Cinemaker Co-op's nest at the ArtPlex (1705 Guadalupe) -- both of which regularly act as..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Quills

"...them. Despite this, Quills is a stunningly impassioned and articulate study of a writer's life and the censorial demons..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Forced From Home

Tim Miller Fights to Stay in the U.S. With the Man He Loves

"...life in exile hard in the face nowadays. His partner of six years, Alistair McCartney, is an Australian in..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Prophet for Our Times

For 10 years, Lisa Crystal Carver has been writing about sex and doing sex-drenched performance pieces under the name Suckdog. But her lifestyle is born of a profound quest for an uncompromised life, a search for truth and adventure that makes her a prophet for our time.

"...she has been writing about sex and doing sex-drenched performance pieces she calls "operas" under the troupe/band name Suckdog...."

Aug. 11, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

I'm the One That I Want

"...audience as well. The first 20 minutes of the performance is devoted to Cho's proud declaration of her fag-hag..."

July 14, 2000 Movie Review by Bryan Poyser

A Map of the World

"...truth may be the most problematical. Why? Well, for starters the unvarnished truth is often damned hard to reconcile..."

March 31, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Sharing the Dance

A new generation of Austin choreographers is expanding our concept of dance through the combination of movement styles and traditions from across the globe, and Barbejoy Ponzio talks to them about the part fusion plays in their work.

"...the dances she creates be the same? "I am part Italian, French, Spanish, and Mexican-Indian," says the choreographer who..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Arts Feature by Barbejoy A. Ponzio

Cruel Intentions

In its fourth film rendition, Les Liaisons Dangereuses is adapted for the high-school set.

"...Jag. On such familial firefights are great works of art founded -- there's no question that the source novel..."

March 5, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

No Stone Untenured

ACTLab Director and Visionary Sandy Stone

"..."Deep in the heart of technolopolis Austin, Sandy Stone is the vibrant theoretical..."

May 15, 1998 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Contempt

"...a restored version from a newly struck print). The art is fine, it's the business that's the hard part,..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Prodigal Son

"...is a truly great chopsocky picture, seamlessly combining blistering martial arts brawls with generous doses of silly comedy and..."

July 26, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

The Frighteners

"...any, does Bannister have to these deaths? And what part does that mysterious, introverted middle-aged woman (Dee Wallace Stone),..."

July 19, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

To Boldly Go Where No Opera Has Gone Before Opera: The Next Generation

"...technology, this age in which machines are an integral part of human existence, and even to project it into..."

Dec. 22, 1995 Arts Feature

Into the "Not Done"

The Dances of Jean Fogel Zee

"...wants to show you glimpses of God. The Austin artist wants each member of her audience to feel the..."

Oct. 27, 1995 Arts Feature

Trial by Jury

"...is one of those films that has some intriguing performances trapped within a mediocre story. Whalley-Kilmer stars in this..."

Sept. 16, 1994 Movie Review by Alison Macor

True Romance

"...you know, chivalrous Clarence is off to see his sweetheart's former pimp (Oldman, in a searing, disturbing performance), intent..."

Sept. 17, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In the Soup

This Sundance multiaward-winner provides a fantastic showcase for the outsized vitality of Seymour Cassell, who plays a gangster investing in dour screenwriter Steve Buscemi's work.

"...to finance Adolpho's film because he's decided to “make art an important part of his life.” Cassell's Joe is..."

Aug. 6, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Husbands and Wives

"...condition ultimately motivated by logic rather than impulse: the heart may flutter or bleed, but it's a resilient, flexible..."

Sept. 18, 1992 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Voyager

"...implications, a man who does not read fiction, appreciate art, or even dream because he cannot fathom that which..."

July 24, 1992 Movie Review by Steve Davis

All the Vermeers in New York

"...independent filmmaker, Jon Jost, almost breaks out of his arthouse ghetto and into markedly familiar movie strategies like narrative..."

June 19, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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