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Cannibalism: Just Another Dysfunctionnew
This remake ratchets up the gore while subtly rewiring some of the characters, but it never manages the nagging subtexts Craven so handily injected into the original horror film.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
03-10-2006 |
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Tags: Alexandre Aja, The Hills Have Eyes
Walking the Walknew
16 Blocks may be a formulaic good-cops/bad-cops action flick, but it's rarely stereotypical.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
03-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Richard Donner, 16 Blocks
Madea, My Dearnew
In this sequel to last year's Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Perry ups the ante by including Cicely Tyson and Maya Angelou in his coffee klatch.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
03-02-2006 |
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Mob Vortexnew
Wayne Kramer's follow-up to The Cooler has no moral compass, and swings wildly out of control while blanketed in hyper-violent digital gore effects and a thick, black nausea of the soul.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
03-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Running Scared, Wayne Kramer
Scary Movie Writers Get Even Scariernew
Having Date Movie on your resume is right up there with, say, "Bergen-Belsen Entertainment Coordinator."
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Aaron Seltzer, Date Movie
Lessons in Babysittingnew
This remake of Fred Walton's 1979 film is a hollow, shallow and just plain boring exercise in snooziness.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Simon West, When a Stranger Calls
Thinning the Teenage Herdnew
It’s not going to nab any golden statuettes, mind you, but this shocker takes such exuberant, gleeful delight in the unspeakably gory dispatch of assorted teenagers that it may well be the most fun you’ll have at the movies all week.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Final Destination 3, James Wong
Rainbow Rocknew
This rambling, celebratory documentary covers performances from all six years of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival and manages to catch the laid-back, slow-fi charm of the actual event.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Coachella, Drew Thomas
Ride Lonesomenew
Anthony Hopkins' great performance as Burt Munro, the real-life New Zealand codger and Indian motorcycle enthusiast who in 1967 set a land speed record that still stands today, is not enough to crash through this unabashedly sentimental wall of schmaltz.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-03-2006 |
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The Remains of an Eranew
The final collaboration between director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant is a gorgeous slice of Merchant/Ivoryisms that nevertheless fails to equal the team’s greatest works.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: James Ivory, The White Countess
Populism Unbridlednew
This muckraking populist grab bag of a film isn't so much a documentary as it is a harried piece of grassroots agitprop.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-03-2006 |
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Shipping Outnew
Annapolis is a thick but hardly meaty slice of old-school Hollywood hokum.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Justin Lin, Annapolis
Coming Up Emptynew
Albert Brooks again sallies forth where others fear to tread, although his comic results are more mildly amusing than riotously funny.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-19-2006 |
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On the Hooknew
This delicately horrific yet artful documentary examines the destruction of Lake Victoria by the omnivorous Nile perch, and the dire consequences this causes the Tanzanian people.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Darwin's Nightmare, Hubert Sauper
A Different Kind of No-Tell Motelnew
In this horror film, three backpackers check in to the wrong hostel where, unbeknownst to them, very bad things happen from dusk till dawn.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-13-2006 |
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