The Lifestyle: Group Sex in the Suburbs

"...Never has sexuality looked so unsexy. Schisgall's documentary explores the semi-hidden world of “the lifestyle" -- swingers in suburbia..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The New Age

"...Jackson. In a juxtaposition reminiscent of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, Michael Tolkin's latest film poses two philosophies...."

Dec. 9, 1994 Movie Review by Alison Macor

The Road to Degradation Is Painted Gold

"...tell – at 1:30 on a Tuesday morning - there is one fundamental problem with human beings: We are..."

Oct. 14, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

The Bling Ring

Sofia Coppola relates this true-life crime story about Hollywood teens who boosted things from celebrities' homes so they could walk a mile in their Louboutons.

"...has, with a steadily decreasing degree of success, examined the personal plight of the rich and famous. (I’d say..."

June 21, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Cult of Ray

Ray Benson steps out from behind the Wheel.

"...Everybody knows Ray Benson: the big guy with the big hat, booming baritone, and..."

July 18, 2003 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

Fantastic Fest 2014: The Duke of Burgundy

The year's most genteel sex comedy reveals relationship truths

"...If there's a lesson to be learned from The Duke of..."

Sept. 25, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Class Conscious Honky-Tonk of Croy & the Boys

Corey Baum’s crew nails the zeitgeist of 2019 Austin

"..."The original album title I was stuck on for a..."

Sept. 6, 2019 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Culinary Ladies of the Eighties: Jackie Davies

Austin entrepreneur was national restaurant delivery pioneer

"...Growing up in Detroit in the Fifties and Sixties, Jackie Davies spent a lot of..."

April 10, 2015 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Getting to the General Specific With Band of Horses

"...“No revelations in the water, no tears into the booze.” That line haunts..."

Jan. 31, 2008 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Trumpet Colossus Kenny Dorham Towers Alongside the Jazz Gods

The Austin musician stands alone in showing up Miles Davis in his autobiography

"...In Miles Davis' autobiography, one of the mightiest forces in music, let alone jazz, recounts a..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

The Yassine Sixth Street Noir

Legends, rumors, unpaid taxes ... and coke on the side

"...March 22 was a slow day on the News desk. This was Austin in campaign season, not..."

May 18, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Road Against Hate

The Hurtado murders measure the distance Austin and Texas must travel

"...The doorbell rang just before 7pm on April 18...."

May 6, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

As the Years Go Passing By

Inner Sanctum Records and the Armadillo – rock & roll, Austin-historical-style

"...long, passed in a cubbyhole in a bookstore on the Drag with a newly Xeroxed poster that read, "Smash..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Can the Bands Play On?

The Live Music Task Force tunes up to protect Austin's claim to fame

"...That's the alarm sounded for 2008 by Troy Dillinger. The longtime..."

July 18, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

The Towers of Power

Are high-rises the key to a middle-class Downtown?

"...a trend – or, perhaps, starting a new one. The Downtown real estate broker and his wife have been..."

Nov. 11, 2005 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Opposes Lifestyle Taxes

"...Dear Editor Sadly, my letter in the previous edition of The Austin Chronicle (Society Benefits From..."

Sept. 20, 2004 Postmarks

The High Road

"...Loren Guerra. A version of this review ran in The Austin Chronicle in March 1996 when this film premiered..."

Jan. 17, 1997 Movie Review by Alison Macor

The Luv Doc: Antisocial

Wherein the Luv Doc ponders the social lives of porn stars

"...is very stable, a good provider, and a good father, but he is a bit antisocial and doesn't really..."

July 26, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

The Internship

Once Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson joined forces to crash weddings; in their new comedy, the duo crashes Google as older-than-average interns.

"...map, a translator, a verb – but I wish there was a way to get more Google in my..."

June 7, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women

The origins of the iconic Amazon princess

"...If the comic book historian in you skews Marvel, you may..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Glass Castle

Jeanette Walls' beloved memoir hits the big screen

"...The studios have made a habit of calling promising indie..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Danish Girl

Biopic about the first person to undergo sexual reassignment surgery

"...his Oscar-winning turn as Stephen Hawking in last year’s The Theory of Everything, the actor Eddie Redmayne delivers another..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wrath of the Titans

The Greek gods of antiquity must be angry: this sequel is merely loud and uninspired.

"...Sure to lift the benighted spirits of Greeks currently flailing in an economic..."

March 30, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Back-up Plan

Jennifer Lopez is back with a new romantic comedy about a woman whose biological clock is out of sync with her life.

"...sitcom, part post-Gigli career resurrection strategy, and all bad, The Back-up Plan is the kind of cookie-cutter, strictly for..."

April 23, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Joneses

David Duchovny and Demi Moore star in this partially successful comedy about consumer culture that turns uncomfortably moralistic part way through.

"...Ben Hollingsworth, Gary Cole, Glenne Headly and Lauren Hutton. The Joneses are just a regular suburban American family –..."

April 16, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Valentino: The Last Emperor

The fashion designer Valentino is the subject of this intimate portrait.

"...by: Matt Tyrnauer. Fashion designer Valentino Garavani, one of the last of the great couturiers, is the object on..."

April 24, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The San Francisco Sound

Celebrating the San Francisco Sound, 1965-1970, if not Rhino Records anthology thereof

"...The first music piece I ever wrote was on the..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Music Feature by Louis Black

The Passing Show

This rock documentary about musician Ronnie Lane can be described in one word (or is it three?): Ooh la la.

"...for a summary statement seems a bit hermetic but nevertheless appropriate for this movie that bathes the audience in..."

March 31, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Cast is excellent; movie is OK; men and women are soooo different.

"...to depict "what happens after you walk off into the sunset," based on boffo "chick" novel of same name...."

Nov. 12, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Story of the Weeping Camel

A story about a Mongolian camel and her newborn calf becomes a transfixing lesson about the rhythms of life.

"...wrote, "Music has charms to sooth a savage breast," there’s no way he could have had this little Mongolian..."

July 16, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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