50/50

50/50 accomplishes the near-impossible: It's a feel-good cancer comedy.

"...Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Reiser's stand-in, a Seattle-based National Public Radio producer diagnosed with a rare kind of cancer that..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Another Earth

Shaky science fiction shacks up with a corny redemption tale in this Sundance Film Festival double award-winner.

"...after celebrating heartily, she hears the news on the radio that a new planet has been discovered hovering close..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Earth Days

Directed with a flawless eye and judicious craft, this documentary is an informative and nonpolemic look at the birth of the modern environmental movement.

"...flawless eye and judicious craft by Oscar-nominated documentarian Stone ("Radio Bikini"). Intercutting archival footage with the recollections and musings..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Terminator Salvation

Despite a couple of good action sequences, Terminator Salvation is loud, talky, and entirely lacking any sort of soul or sense of good old summer-matinee fun.

"...industriousness, commanding a truly ragtag global resistance (via shortwave radio) against the self-aware machines of Skynet and their killer..."

May 22, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Showdown

Thin Lizzy, part two: “UK Tour 75” reveals itself as infinitely more ‘live and dangerous’ than the new “Still Dangerous”

"...make a lot of noise. Hear yourselves on the radio.”..."

April 29, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

C3 vs. KOOP and Why Softball Is More American Than Baseball

C3 beats KOOP Radio plus interesting softball historical facts

"...still had room for the boisterous pair of KOOP Radio fans with a boom box and the tall-boy-toting Alternative..."

April 7, 2009 Sports Post by Mike Crissey

Country Music’s Digital Divide

Assessing the CMA Consumer Research Study

"...sense, as this group is largely rural and older. Radio is still the dominant medium for discovery of new..."

March 13, 2009 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Rachel Getting Married

Anne Hathaway tears up the screen in Jonathan Demme's new film about a self-absorbed woman who wreaks family havoc while out of rehab to attend her sister's wedding.

"...a musician named Sidney (Adebimpe, of TV on the Radio). The wedding party represents a rainbow array of multiculturalism,..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Signal

The Signal is an audacious horror film that nonetheless veers on occasion into surreal black comedy.

"...The theory among the survivors is that a bizarre radio/television/cell-phone transmission is the source of the sudden explosion of..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

1-2-3-4!

Marky Ramone defends the Ramones, Phil Spector.

"...the Century. What ended up happening was that the radio didn’t want to play punk rock. Then new wave..."

Nov. 21, 2007 Music Post by Austin Powell

Surf's Up

This animated avian surf epic is most alive when its radio-friendly pop hits accompany beautiful CGI waves.

"...which is most alive when its script calls for radio-friendly pop hits accompanying beauty footage of CGI waves. There’s..."

June 8, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Al Franken: God Spoke

The film follows around comedian and politico Franken without managing to either inflame or inspire the viewer or add much new information to Franken's already well-documented history.

"...subject of the birth and subsequent woes of Lefty radio semistaple Air America – as well as the 2004..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Night Listener

This taut, wiry exercise in eerie bad vibes, about a writer-cum-radio personality and a disturbing teenage literary sensation, is emotionally dense but never fully takes flight.

"...in eerie bad vibes saddles its protagonist, New York-based writer-cum-radio personality Gabriel Noone (Williams), with not only the unexpected..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Academy Award-Nominated Documentary Shorts 2005

A rare opportunity to see what's considered the best in the field of short docs; plus all four nominees have a socio-political bent.

"...other three films. Its focal point – a now-forgotten radio programmer and writer named Norman Corwin, who was a..."

April 7, 2006 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Three Days of Rain

A drama by debut filmmaker Michael Meredith is a Chekhov-inspired collection of semi-intertwined vignettes about a half-dozen or so depressed people living in Cleveland, and features an impressive cast.

"...Meredith even uses Altman regular Lyle Lovett as the radio deejay whose voice and jazz music unites the disparate..."

March 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Fog

This hazy remake pales in comparison to John Carpenter's original fogbanks from 1980.

"...Antonio Bay into Antonio Island, a hotbed of hip-hop radio overseen from her lighthouse perch by a woefully miscast..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Fearless Freaks

Documentary about the band the Flaming Lips – the crazy/bizarre Oklahoma outfit that, despite itself, rose to national prominence.

"...least, wholly and tunefully memorable – is a college radio staple and badge of indie-hipster street cred. It was..."

April 15, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Naked City

But Clear Channel, Fox News deal won't affect Austin stations

"...raises one of the ironic twists of the current radio market – Clear Channel has been one of the..."

Dec. 17, 2004 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Lightning in a Bottle

Ostensibly a record of one mighty blues show, this film goes beyond the tag of concert film and achieves something more: a living history lesson, tracing the evolving sound of the blues.

"...the blues bath via a February 2003 megaconcert at Radio City Music Hall and the director of Training Day,..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Satin Rouge

A dutiful Tunisian widow and mother of a teenage girl is awakened to self-actualization through the allure of belly-dancing.

"...a mirror and sways to the music on the radio. Her daughter, a typical teen, has become a bit..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Time Out (L'emploi Du Temps)

"...the fog, and singing along to Europop on the radio. Not only is Vincent not on the job, he..."

June 28, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Dish

"...Much of the film takes place deep within the radio telescope's basement nerve center (the dish itself sits in..."

April 27, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Welcome Back, Mr. Mcdonald

"...movie sets the stage for farce when a live radio drama goes haywire and begins a whole chain of..."

April 7, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Two Thousand Seen by - (Part One)

"...a telephone call, the parched land, and the primitive radio station. The barren legacy of colonialism will pursue these..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

2000 Seen by – (Part Two)

"...a telephone call, the parched land, and the primitive radio station. The barren legacy of colonialism will pursue these..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Office Space

White-collar prisoners of the corporate office will recognize themselves in this very funny, Austin-lensed movie.

"...about improper usage of such things as cover pages, radio earplugs, time sheets, and office equipment. It is a..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Love Serenade

"...lives comes the reptilian Ken Sherry (Shevtsov), a down-on-his-luck radio jock who takes up residence next door to the..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Arrival

"...sit through The Chase? I thought not. Sheen is radio astronomer Zane Zaminski (!), who intercepts a transmission from..."

June 7, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Truth About Cats and Dogs

"...competent, witty, and warm veterinarian who hosts a call-in radio program called “The Truth About Cats and Dogs.” She's..."

April 26, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Black Bomber

"...with his band of not-so-merry pranksters, operates a pirate radio station while fighting to topple the current dictator, a..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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