Jobs

Ashton Kutcher plays Apple visionary Steve Jobs in this unrevealing biopic.

"...His humble beginnings hardly forecast the fact that I'm writing this review on a MacBook Pro with a Thunderbolt..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Spectacular Now

An outstanding cast and eloquent storytelling shape this delicate film that becomes a dark study of a budding, young alcoholic.

"...do with the darkness. Director James Ponsoldt (Smashed), his writing team (working from Tim Tharp’s young adult novel), and..."

Aug. 16, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Disconnect

This mawkish, preachy picture about technophobia has already dated itself.

"...bullied teen (Bobo), his talents are wasted on unimaginative writing (“Maybe I haven’t been the best father in the..."

April 26, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Ben Fountain's Coming to San Marcos

Mayor's Book Club author joins TSU English Department

"...to 2016 as the University Endowed Chair in Creative Writing...."

April 22, 2013 Books Post

Bringing Afghanistan Home

'Outside the Wire' collects 38 stories from the front lines

"...and stress-filled days when I was working as a writing tutor in my university program, I learned something valuable:..."

April 2, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

Misery Loves Company

'Mortified' turns teenage writing into performance

"...We pored through my high school diaries, looking for writing that was unintentionally funny. We also had to find..."

Feb. 15, 2013 Arts Feature by Robyn Ross

Zack Carlson Leaving Drafthouse

Booker behind Terror Tuesday headed for creative career

"...the team to work on his blossoming film and writing career...."

Jan. 29, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Elementary, My Dear Dramatist

Third graders' tales come alive on the Paramount stage

"...us the opportunity to see what William Shakespeare was writing in the third grade – the definitive drama about..."

Dec. 19, 2012 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Hitch Renewed

Remembering Christopher Hitchens and his call to contrarianism

"...I was apprehensive about writing a piece remembering author Christopher Hitchens, who passed away..."

Dec. 17, 2012 Books Post by Larysa Pachulski

AFF2012: Attacking the Nitty Gritty Panel

Should psychedelics fail...

"..."Attacking the Nitty Gritty: How to Best Prepare Before Writing Your Script," moderator Sarah Bird ran through the tools..."

Oct. 21, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Odd Life of Timothy Green

This family film with magical elements is from the writer/director of Dan in Real Life.

"...about the characteristics their biological child would have had, writing each attribute on a slip of paper and then..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ruby Sparks

Ruby Sparks tries hard, and though it's a likable film she never completely sparks.

"...help him work through his writer’s block. A therapeutic writing exercise assigned to him by his shrink births Ruby..."

Aug. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Attendance Records

Jenna Carrens' AISD outreach via the CD release

"...aspects of producing and releasing an album. From lyric writing exercises to screen printing lessons, these students' efforts culminate..."

May 11, 2012 Music Post by Zoe Cordes Selbin

Top Chef Texas, Week 16: Preparing to Say Goodbye

Some thoughts on Top Chef: Texas before the lights go out

"...episode of Top Chef: Texas. The fact that I’m writing this recap on the eve of the finale seems..."

Feb. 28, 2012 Food Post by Melanie Haupt

Mozart's Sister

Wolfgang had a sister who was also a musical prodigy. Guess which sibling the history books remember.

"...propriety of the times and forbade his daughter from writing the music that ran rampant in her imagination...."

Dec. 16, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

PAGE 2 SCREEN with RICK MOODY

Join us Tuesday 12/6 for Austin Bat Cave's literary series Page 2 Screen

"...film and what goes on between them. ABC, a writing and tutoring center for kids in the Austin area,..."

Dec. 5, 2011 Events Post by Rhiannon Jones

50/50

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

"...winning matter-of-factness in his delivery of Reiser's cuttingly funny writing ("Nobody wants to fuck me; I look like Voldemort.")...."

Sept. 30, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Soldiering On

Darden Smith helps give a voice to veterans

"...armed forces. In July, Smith helped host the Soldier Songwriting Project, a three-day co-writing workshop with 10 servicemen and..."

Sept. 7, 2011 Music Post by Austin Powell

Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D

The family-friendly spy franchise is revived once again, this time with a "fourth dimension" of scratch and sniff.

"...young leads and some of the series' wittiest, pun-filled writing. The Time Keeper's minion, Tick Tock, in particular, has..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Help

Based on a bestseller, this Southern civil-rights era story about white women and their black maids is saved by the film's deeply moving cast.

"...was that a white woman didn't have any business writing a civil rights-era novel from the perspective of black..."

Aug. 12, 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.

"...celestial hokum.) Perhaps there’s another me on Earth 2 writing a rave of Another Planet, but until my doppelgänger..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Happy NaNoWriMo!

What better time to get cracking on that novel?

"...Yup, writing a novel is hard. But what if you had..."

Oct. 31, 2010 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Notes of a Football Addict (Vol. VI)

Ags worse than Bears?, Tech misses Leach, etc.

"...may be addicted to heavy doses of football watching, writing about it is another matter entirely...."

Oct. 23, 2010 Sports Post by John Razook

The Men Who Stare at Goats

Army experiments in the paranormal become a warped platform on which George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, and Kevin Spacey run narrative circles.

"...dramatic purposes. This is Heslov’s first time directing, after co-writing and producing with Clooney Good Night, and Good Luck.,..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Dance Flick

The next generation of the Wayans clan delivers one more spoof – this time of dance movies.

"...Keenen Ivory, Shawn, and Marlon – pop up in writing, acting, and producing capacities, and Dance Flick doesn’t stray..."

May 29, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Knowing

It's up to Nicolas Cage to save the world in this movie about a man who deciphers a cryptic artifact that predicts major disasters, past and future.

"...a film in which little things like acting and writing and intelligibility take a back seat to special effects...."

March 27, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Fear(s) of the Dark

This French anthology of six short animated films, which are thematically linked by their dark tonalities and stirrings of dread, has greater appeal for animation buffs than horror hounds.

"...six of the world's finest graphic artists and their writing partners is on display here, and while Fear(s) of..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bolt

Bolt is a canine who plays a cybernetically enhanced dog on TV but has no knowledge of how to cope in the real world in this new animated film.

"...and his friends' ultimate success or failure, but the writing team of Dan Fogelman (Cars) and co-director Williams (Mulan)..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pieces of My Heart

Pamela Des Barres dishes in Austin

"...With the Band was dishy and readable – her writing style is always chatty, witty, and conversational – but..."

Oct. 13, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Lakeview Terrace

By-the-book domestic thriller about the consequences of moving into a neighborhood lorded over by a rules-happy sociopath with a gun and a badge.

"...in Lakeview Terrace, only LaBute the average director. The writing has been left to David Loughery – who subjected..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

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