The Relatives

Zilker Park, Oct. 12

"...After toiling for several years in near obscurity during the Seventies, then splitting up by the end of that..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

The Righteous Reverend Gean West 1936-2015

The Relatives’ heart and soul – back in God’s hands

"...sin. Reverend Gean West of Dallas gospel soul survivors the Relatives died yesterday at Parkland Memorial Hospital at the..."

Feb. 5, 2015 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Into the Abyss

In his latest documentary, Werner Herzog tackles the subject of the death penalty in Texas.

"...Texas and its resulting repercussions, up to and including the execution of 28-year-old Michael Perry, one of two men..."

Nov. 18, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The God's Heaven Truth

Rev. Gean West & the Relatives add another chapter to Texas funk history

"...Saturday night, down at the Continental Club, a little-known 1970s Dallas gospel group takes..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

The Luv Doc: Sacrifice

It's always best to seize the moral high ground

"...For the last five years, my boyfriend and I have gone..."

Dec. 22, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

The City of Your Final Destination

Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney, and Charlotte Gainsbourg are among the co-stars of this James Ivory-directed film about a dead novelist's reclusive family.

"...Hiroyuki Sanada, Alexandra Maria Lara and Norma Aleandro. Although the initial screen credit heralds The City of Your Final..."

June 11, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Off the Record

Touring Austin's new clubs and digging into Heavy Light Records

"...only during SXSW did local venues crop up in the strangest of places – alleys, parking lots, abandoned buildings..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Retrieval

Chris Eska's ambitious indie film is set during the waning months of the Civil War and tells a distinctive coming-of-age story.

"...Ambitious as all get out, The Retrieval is an indie film production that belies its..."

May 2, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Ultimate Life

This inspirational film based is both a sequel and prequel to The Ultimate Gift, and is based on Jim Stovall's novel.

"...Elizabeth Ann Bennett, Bechir Sylvain, Myke Holmes and Lee Meriwether...."

Sept. 6, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Going the Distance

Drew Barrymore and Justin Long explore the difficulties of long-distance relationships in this rom-com.

"...Sudeikis, Christina Applegate, Jim Gaffigan and Ron Livingston. Going the Distance doesn’t. Go the distance, that is. The film..."

Sept. 3, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Beautiful Country

A grueling journey is undertaken by a Vietnamese teen to find his absent mother in Ho Chi Minh City, and then his father, a former G.I., in Texas.

"...country in which this movie is set look beautiful, the film's title is meant to be more than a..."

Aug. 5, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Inkwell

"...Jada Pinkett Smith. Seventeen-year-old director Matty Rich burst on the scene a few years ago with his debut film..."

May 13, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Drifter

Mike Flanigin's accidental (and all-star) organ-grinding

"...Mike Flanigin? Singer Kat Edmonson, executive producer of Flanigin's The Drifter, is happy to explain...."

Aug. 14, 2015 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Off the Record

A curated survival guide to the Austin City Limits Music Festival

"...The Shape of What's to Come..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Before the Rain

Manchevski's debut film impresses with its cagey temporal structure, incredible cinematography that exposes the precipitous Macedonian landscape, beautiful performances, and a thematic structure that adds to our understanding of specific and universal issues.

"...Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Serbedzija, Gregoire Colin and Labina Mitevska. The heaviness that hangs in the air before a big..."

April 14, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Blue Kite

"...Pu Quanxin. Chinese director Tian Zhuangzhuang's early films (On the Hunting Ground, Horse Thief) have been compared to the..."

Sept. 9, 1994 Movie Review by Alison Macor

The Lineup

Recommended music for the week of Feb.11-17

"...Gurf Morlix's Blaze of glory, the Relatives' weekend funkdown, and more...."

Feb. 11, 2011 Music Post

The Luv Doc: Being Yourself

You can be you when you're off the clock

"...CEO of a major computer company came out of the closet declaring his homosexuality. I have no comment on..."

May 29, 2015 Column by The Luv Doc

Relatives Oracle Hospitalized

Dallas gospel/soul staple Gean West idles while heart sick

"...The Relatives moved a little heaven and earth last week..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

The Addams Family

Your favorite creepy neighbors are back, and kid friendly

"...In 1938, he drew a clan of creeps, gave them his own name, and functionally created modern Goth with..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Spy Behind Home Plate

Fascinating documentary about spy/baseball player Moe Berg never cracks his code

"...The Spy Behind Home Plate is a documentary that should..."

July 19, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Meet the New Bloodsuckers in FX's What We Do in the Shadows

Prepare for the return of the vampire

"...Perhaps the only thing more joyful than FX's pilot episode for..."

March 8, 2019 Screens Feature by Jenny Nulf

Wendell Pierce's The Wind in the Reeds

In Wendell Pierce's memoir The Wind in the Reeds, Godot and Treme help transform post-Katrina New Orleans

"...Maybe you thought of Treme as just another HBO show – the thing David Simon did after..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Comedy

Tim Heidecker (of Tim & Eric renown) plays a rich, cynical hipster who uses New York City as his playground.

"...In Rick Alverson’s The Comedy, 35-year-old Swanson (Tim Heidecker) is the vilest imaginable..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Movie Review by Leah Churner

We Own the Night

Joaquin Phoenix is dynamic, Mark Wahlberg subdued, and Robert Duvall trusty in this otherwise redundant story about brothers on opposite sides of the law.

"...recently released Eastern Promises, it's likely you'll wonder what the deal is with all these Russian gangsters in the..."

Oct. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams

This first feature from Bosnian director/writer Jasmila Zbanic offers up a slice of life after hell in which a widowed mother and daughter still veer perilously between fear and hope.

"...Kenan Catic, Leon Lucev and Bogdan Diklic. As ever, the first casualty of war is truth, but it's easy..."

May 18, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Keeping Up With the Steins

This story about one-upmanship while staging a bar mitzvah in L.A., should, by all rights, be very funny, but, sadly, it is not.

"...sadly, but by this day and age, everyone from the Taliban to the RAHOWA skinheads to Deepak Chopra and..."

June 9, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Tigger Movie

"...Ken Sansom, Nikita Hopkins and Jim Cummings. Bats in the Hundred-Acre Wood?! For a moment there I thought I'd..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces

"...critic-turned-filmmaker Férid Boughedir goes home to Tunisia to tell the story of 13-year-old Noura (played by the director's nephew..."

Aug. 2, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem

Women's unequal status under Israeli law is vividly conveyed in this award-winning film

"...The unequal status of women in the face of Israeli..."

March 20, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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