Adventureland

Adventureland is a confident return to the kind of teen comedy that’s funny without being raunchy and youthful without being juvenile.

"...to the rad and raunchy Superbad, although all three films share an affinity for single compound-word titles. In Adventureland,..."

April 3, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Deep Impact

"...Maximilian Schell and Morgan Freeman. The first of this summer's dueling comet films, Leder's Deep Impact takes the high..."

May 8, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Infinite Fest

Paramount Summer Classics by the numbers

"...The Paramount Summer Classic Film Series is No. 1 in summer fun...."

May 17, 2013 Screens Feature by Monica Riese

Trouble With the Curve

Despite its love of baseball lore, this film, starring Clint Easstwood and Amy Adams, is really a melodrama about the reconciliation of a father and daughter.

"...baseball picture Moneyball. Trouble With the Curve, this autumn’s boys-of-summer movie, is a testament to the traditional methods of..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kingdom of Heaven

Ridley Scott's Crusades epic is a historical spectacle on the order of Gladiator and a dissection of war, as gritty and illuminating as Black Hawk Down, that takes flight when it becomes a canvas for ideas and ideologies in action.

"...a masterful creator of otherworldly and noncontemporaneous locales, as films such as Gladiator, Blade Runner, and The Duellists will..."

May 6, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Red Lights

Leave it to the French to fashion an anguished psychological thriller that, in its last moments, also turns out to be a tender love story.

"...on a long drive to retrieve their children from summer camp. On the surface, everything seems fine, but it..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Art of Dying

"...of I Know What You Did in Spain Last Summer that borrows heavily from both American and Italian genre..."

May 24, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Now and Then

Set predominantly in the summer of 1970, this film tells how four 12-year-old girls save their money to buy a room of their own in the form of a treehouse from Sears.

"...Moore, Melanie Griffith and Rita Wilson. We need more films about girls – big girls and little girls. But..."

Oct. 27, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Day Trips & Beyond: July Events Roundup

Get hip to these timely travel tips

"...Route 66, film festivals, and watermelon festivals are calling summer day trippers...."

July 3, 2018 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Righteous Cause / Cool Swag

Summer Indie Movie Challenge

"...season of superheroes and special effects extravaganzas, and every summer small but very worthy films slip through the cracks,..."

June 6, 2014 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

A Tall Drink of Water

Stars we love at the Paramount Summer Classic Film series

"...all other performances are measured. Brando appears in five films set to play at the Paramount this summer, and..."

May 16, 2014 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Peek Into One Boutique's Two Decades of Preservation

AFS Essential Cinema: Selections From Milestone Films

"...are in flux. One of those companies is Milestone Films, which was founded in 1990 and is now celebrating..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Tuxedo

"...a ridiculous story. Granted, many of the actor's previous films in Hong Kong were hardly sterling examples of filmmaking..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Outside Providence

"...period detail, and genuine humor make this movie an end-of-the-summer stand-out. Distribution company Miramax Films is doing itself no..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Apollo 13

Howard's take on the ill-fated 1970 moon shot is filled with the almost unassailable heroics of the U.S. space program and the genuine urgency of history.

"...is a big step forward from his previous two films -- Backdraft and The Paper -- which seemed to..."

June 30, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sunday's Children

"...his continued output. Though he is no longer directing films, Bergman is still turning out screenplays and books. His..."

Oct. 21, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

"...stolen cash on a home entertainment center. Obviously, the films kids are expected to go see this summer, are..."

June 7, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

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

Cobweb

There's something in the walls of this perfect summer nightmare

"...is an equally thrilled yes. It's reserved for those films that truly get under the skin: In recent memory,..."

July 21, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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

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