Knife + Heart

Perfect postmodernism among Paris' porn scene in this retro-giallo

"...more closely to genre, specifically the horror and exploitation films of the Seventies. In the summer of 1979, in..."

April 12, 2019 Movie Review by Danielle White

Taking Woodstock

The director of Brokeback Mountain looks for peace and love in another decade and finds it at the legendary festival through the story of one key participant.

"...famed music documentary and Barbara Kopple’s more recent Woodstock films further preserve and disseminate the sounds, images, and gestalt..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ponyo

In this animated adventure by the Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki, a 5-year-old boy forms a friendship with a goldfish princess who longs to be human.

"...weird (in a good way, to be sure) animated films to judge from but I wouldn't be surprised at..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mr. Bean's Holiday

The comic Mr. Bean provides a so-so late-summer diversion, unlikely to reignite Beanmania – or repeat the previous film’s boffo box office.

"...in the final analysis, this Holiday is a so-so late-summer diversion, unlikely to reignite Beanmania – or repeat the..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Academy Award-Nominated Shorts 2003

"...Martin Strange-Hansen, and "Mt. Head" by Koji Yamamura. The films comprise an admirably broad mix of styles, from the..."

May 23, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

SXSW and Amazon Announce Virtual Festival Lineup

Feature and shorts from 2020 fest going online for 10 days

"...but today the film festival released the lineup of films that will be part of its online streaming festival..."

April 21, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Awesome Overload: Alamo Does the Kobayashi Maru Class of '82

Alamo Drafthouse screens 1982 30 years later

"...not even that. Thanks to the Alamo Drafthouse's imminent "Summer of 1982" series, you can experience that insanely great..."

April 16, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Swimming Pool

Ozon’s film is like Eric Rohmer meets Brian DePalma – questions of identity and perception come to the fore, but slowly.

"...house in southern France to relax in over the summer, she accepts, and the film shifts from London to..."

July 18, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Daylight

"...spirit of Irwin Allen lives on in this displaced summer blockbuster that posits Stallone and his ever-thickening accent as..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Waterworld

"...anti-hype and ill-will surrounding this most expensive of all films, you'll find Reynolds and Costner's enfant terrible of a..."

Aug. 4, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ocean's 8

Sandra Bullock is the other Ocean sibling in this all-female revamp of the heist franchise

"...Ocean’s 8 is a safe bet for some glitzy summer fun. In the opening scene, Debbie Ocean (Bullock), Danny’s..."

June 8, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Wes Anderson Brings Isle of Dogs to SXSW

Plus Midnighters bring the gore, and Alita party

"...be the top to its tail as closing night films, and it's bringing a whole pack of shorts, VR..."

Feb. 7, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Transformers: The Last Knight

Stick meet dead horse

"...with this fifth installment in the painfully self-perpetuating Paramount/Hasbro summer franchise that, at nearly two-and-a-half hours, is nearly two-and-a-half..."

June 23, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sensory Overload

The Hyperreal Film Club summer series at the Museum of Human Achievement

"...free events where one might see psychotropic Lithuanian art films paired with live abstract experimental performance...."

June 23, 2017 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

Results

Indie filmmaker Andrew Bujalski enlists Guy Pearce and others for his new movie

"...Surely the most unconventional romantic comedy of the summer, Results isn't anti-plot; it just moves in weird ways...."

May 29, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Jimmy Stewart Is Crazy in Love

Passion’s pitfalls bedevil Jimmy Stewart in three classics

"...love. Three romances playing this month in the Paramount Summer Classic Film Series portray the ramifications of infatuation as..."

Aug. 1, 2014 Screens Post by Erica Todd

Paramountly Big

The Paramount Theatre's week of 70mm films begins tonight

"...One of the genuine joys of spending the summer in brutally hot Austin is the opportunity to indulge..."

Aug. 21, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Blue Starlite at the Studio

Austin's own mini-drive-in heads to Austin Studios for the summer

"...Starlite Urban Drive-In is revving its engine for a summer season of drive-in fun at the studio...."

May 14, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Industry of Light and Magic

Fx guru and key 'Star Wars' figure Tom Smith to HRC

"...who worked with the architects of a generation of films – George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Jim Henson...."

April 15, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Super 8

This throwback to the monster movies of the Seventies evokes the early work of Steven Spielberg.

"...8). While cast in the mold of late-Seventies/early Eighties films such as , E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Gremlins, and The..."

June 10, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Take Me Home Tonight

In this Eighties-set romance, a guy spends an unforgettable evening chasing the woman of his high school dreams.

"...Take Me Home Tonight only calls to mind better films such as American Graffiti and Dazed and Confused. This..."

March 11, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Toy Story 3

The gang is back, and Pixar has delivered another animated gem that has the toys finding their purpose in life now that their owner has outgrown them.

"...week of a scrambly panic in Tinseltown over the summer box office’s so far unremarkable receipts, the product, the..."

June 18, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Losers

In this action movie, a U.S. Special Forces unit on a mission in the jungles of Bolivia becomes the target for assassination and must figure out who is double-crossing them.

"...is guys with guns blowing things up is what summer fun is all about. Well, pretty much. Based on..."

April 30, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Aliens in the Attic

A group of kids save their vacation home from extraterrestrials while keeping their clueless elders out of the loop.

"...Meadows. It's a sorry state of affairs when even films that aren’t remakes of old television series or Eighties-era..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Surf's Up

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

"...a contest – in the end, nothing outside the summer-movie formula and nothing to suggest the artisanship of four..."

June 8, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Cellular

Feels like a B-picture, but a smart, finely tuned one that wouldn’t have been out of place in Roger Corman’s mid-Seventies stable.

"...now, with haunted cell phones at the fore in films such as Korea’s Byeong-hi Ahn’s Phone. It’s high time..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

"...Rodriguez made the movie for. Yet, the first two films were similarly targeted at children, and they were a..."

July 25, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

In the Bedroom

"...student Frank Fowler (Stahl) has come home for the summer to his adoring, Ivy League-educated parents, Matt (Wilkinson), a..."

Jan. 4, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Gone in Sixty Seconds

"...immensely talented actor somehow became enmeshed in disastrously bad films such as 8MM, Con Air, and Kiss of Death,..."

June 9, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Fifth Element

Besson's smart editing and sly sense of humor keep this science-fiction epic from bogging down. Despite a grim storyline, the film never takes itself too seriously.

"...Tommy “Tiny” Lister, Tricky and Luke Perry. Now, officially, summer is here. The first real blockbuster of Summer ’97..."

May 9, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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