Annihilation

Alex Garland's SF mystery is weird for weirdness' sake.

"...because “You don’t get it” is a more strategic posture than “Nothing to see here.” But the latter is..."

March 2, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Princess Diaries

It's the movie that turned Anne Hathaway into a star, and the ordinary girl she plays into a princess.

"...you can say “Pygmalion,” Clarice is correcting Mia's schlumpy posture, unruly monobrow, and unseemly uptalk. But after she's been..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Nukes Are Back!

The Bush administration plans for the next (little) nuclear wars

"...Questions Later Their discussions are based on the "Nuclear Posture Review," the blueprint for the Bush administration's overhaul of..."

Jan. 16, 2004 News Feature by William M. Adler

Nuclear Posturing

A glimpse at federal plans to ramp up the nuclear weapons program

"...The Bush administration's "Nuclear Posture Review," a Defense Department analysis of the U.S. nuclear..."

Jan. 16, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

Braying for Plutonium

The U.S. Dept. of Energy visits Amarillo in search of friendly site for manufacturing nuclear warheads.

"...a Dec. 2001 Dept. of Defense document, the "Nuclear Posture Review." Written in the wake of 9/11, the Pentagon-authored..."

July 11, 2003 News Feature by William M. Adler

True Mothers

Japanese adoption drama gets tangled up in melodrama

"...watch her character go from naive to broken. Her posture changes as True Mothers progresses, and the girl who..."

Jan. 29, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Our Friend

Jason Segel is the friend you'd want in this true story of facing death

"...mother’s illness is terminal. Segel’s intentness and subsequent body posture in this telling (albeit brief) scene beautifully communicate the..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

To the Ends of the Earth

Japanese travel story captures the isolation of culture shock, with fear and levity

"...but as soon as the camera shuts off, her posture sinks, and her eyes look dazed, lost. On days..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

"Tia J. Boyd: Future Inhabitants" at the Carver

Tia J. Boyd's photographic portraits of warrior women reveal the subjects' power and beauty in a post-postapocalyptic world

"...isn't diminished by all this nature; rather, her erect posture and the scythe held casually at her side put..."

Dec. 27, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Judy

Renée Zellweger is a star reborn in this Judy Garland biopic

"...gestures, the reference to everyone as “darling," the slouching posture onstage – it all seems so natural, so far..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Farewell

Awkwafina is the heart of this loving story of families, belonging, and lies

"...her character’s unhappiness with her extended family in her posture. Billi carries the secret of Nai Nai’s illness as..."

July 19, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Gay Place

One year later, Queer Dance Party Freakout returns to remove Sen. Cruz from office

"...Posture and Mobility for the Resistance A workshop on posture..."

Feb. 23, 2018 Column by Sarah Marloff

Austin's Killer Queer Workout Classes

New year and a stronger, more balanced you

"...Feb. 23, Los Angeles-based trainer Elliot Musgrave teaches a Posture and Mobility for the Resistance class at Transform designed..."

Jan. 9, 2018 Chron Events Post by Sarah Marloff

Una

A woman confronts an older ex-lover with devastating results

"...hold of his middle-class, post-prison life, his face and posture are a variegated miscellany of shock, unease, self-doubt, and..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Barracuda

Austin vibes meet darker skies

"...chin in the simmering dramatic thriller Barracuda, an aggressive posture that aptly conveys the fearless but slightly unhinged Sinaloa,..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Band Aid

A couple works out their problems through song

"...down, and he carries the burden in his hunched posture and often cradles or grips his own face during..."

June 23, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

Morgan

An AI experiment goes wrong in this forgettable genre exercise

"...discomforting efficiency. With her implacable expression and impossibly erect posture, Mara is anything but subtle. Maybe her performance seems..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Captain Fantastic

Viggo Mortensen and family go off the grid

"...change in the understated shift of Mortensen’s expression and posture. Does father really know best?..."

July 22, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Me Before You

A paraplegic and his quirky caregiver form a bond in this British romance

"...trades out Daenerys’ Sunday finest of bleach-blond tresses, steely posture, and lightly porny desert wear for fuzzy sweaters and..."

June 10, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Mississippi Grind

Ben Mendelsohn and Ryan Reynolds co-star as gambling buddies

"...as if he just rolled out of bed, his posture in a perpetual slouch and a hangdog look of..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

After Words

Marcia Gay Harden stars as a lonely woman on vacation in an exotic locale

"...Even Jane’s blossoming transformation from mousy spinster with hunched posture to attractive, mature woman open to the possibility of..."

Aug. 21, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

If You Wear it, They Will Run

Wearable tech is shaping the way people run the Austin Marathon

"...event. "I've seen devices that help you with your posture. They say that sitting is the new smoking, that..."

Feb. 15, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Hysteria

Good vibrations flow from this fictional story about the invention of the vibrator in Victorian England; Maggie Gyllenhaal stars.

"...countryman Hugh Grant, only with more probity and better posture. He's a milksop standing next to the leonine Gyllenhaal,..."

June 15, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

W.E.

Madonna helms this movie about the scandalous marriage of King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson.

"...whenever she's onscreen, the film seems to straighten its posture and give us its best angle. But Madonna devotes..."

March 23, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar finds some help shaping up and a cache of Gaultier gold

"...the press release from Leonisa (www.leonisa.com) for its new Posture Perfector Firm Control Wireless Bra caught my eye. Not..."

Jan. 20, 2012 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Reading Between the 'I's

The Secret Life of Pronouns author James Pennebaker on what your tweets reveal about your state of mind

"...words," he says, "are a matter of style, like posture or moving your arms when you speak. And changing..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Shame

Exquisite control and spasmed anguish mark the performances of Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan in this dark, NC-17-rated story about a sex addict.

"...German/Irish actor, he comes packaged with a ramrod Teutonic posture and a Gaelic rogue's easy smile, and he bares..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Fighter

Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Melissa Leo, and Amy Adams combine forces with director David O. Russell to make one of 2010's most exciting movies.

"...appointment and sprinting forward with a loose-limbed but focused posture, or when he jumps from the back window of..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

You Want to Do What? Where?

Internal Pelvic Floor Therapy gives new meaning to inner journeys

"...which are caused by something as simple as bad posture...."

Nov. 18, 2010 Chronolog Post by R.U. Steinberg

Invictus

Morgan Freeman stars as Nelson Mandela in this true story of the leader helping to heal a nation through rugby.

"...the drama. Freeman, although brilliantly capturing Mandela’s speaking cadences, posture, and gait, never nails the accent (unlike Damon, to..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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