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Life, Death, and Everything in Betweennew
With a script by David Benioff (25th Hour) and direction by Marc Forster of Monster's Ball fame, Stay is an ambitious experiment that never quite jells.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Marc Forster, Stay
Stuck Inside of Nowherenew
Cameron Crowe's romantic comedy doesn't make the attraction between the characters played by Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom believable and then goes off in dozens more unprofitable directions.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Cameron Crowe, Elizabethtown
Seek and Ye Shall Findnew
Kirk Davis’ slick film, adapted from the stories of Christopher Cook, plunges into Texas' small-town religious mores and comes up with some insightful revelations in this character-driven pastiche.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Kirk Davis, Screen Door Jesus
The New American Nightmarenew
This fiction film, in which the lead character is but one cog in a plot to detonate a series of bombs in New York City, portrays a terrorist’s point of view in a jarringly matter-of-fact manner.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Joseph Castelo, The War Within
Man and His Best Friend, Plus One Rabbitnew
This new animated comedy is a brilliantly conceived and executed bit of Brit wit, perfect for both kids and their parents and anyone even remotely interested in laughing themselves silly.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Kicking It Aroundnew
The psychotically testosterized world of British football hooliganism, with its crimson tide of fist-in-mouth male bonding and lager-lout bad manners, is captured in this post LOTR Elijah Wood movie.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Free Films in Fijinew
In this documentary, producer's rep John Pierson moves with his family to Fiji, hoping to leave behind the indie-film rat race, immerse himself in a foreign culture, and, best of all, screen movies for the natives.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-29-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Reel Paradise, Steve James
A Fractured Fairy Talenew
The work of fantasist Neil Gaiman finally makes it to the screen with its innate sense of wonder intact, despite this sporadically overstuffed package of magic, mystery, and masked madwomen.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-29-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dave McKean, MirrorMask
Southern Exposurenew
Johnny Knoxville stars in this slapdash tale of wacky Southerners and midlife crises that feels like a compilation reel of Blue Collar TV outtakes and Coen Brothers-lite quirkiness.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-23-2005 |
Reviews
Teen Techno Horrornew
A tech-centric but bloodless teen horror thriller works best as a stinging critique of post-adolescent whininess.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Jeff Wadlow, Cry_Wolf
Roller Boogienew
Hot-wiring a penchant for sports film truisms to some seriously spot-on Seventies nostalgia, Bow Wow headlines this easygoing portrayal of teenage camaraderie and its attendant difficulties.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Malcolm D. Lee, Roll Bounce
Meet the Newlywedsnew
Burton's best work in ages is eye candy of the highest order and as eminently watchable as a hilltop Halloween pyre or a Día de los Muertos parade run amok.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-23-2005 |
Reviews
Amour, Interruptednew
A languorous, bittersweet take on Scenes From a Marriage comes from French auteur Francois Ozon.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: 5x2, François Ozon
Satan's Little Helpernew
This yawner fails to amount to much more than an overlong exercise in Jesuit Theosophy 101, played against the backdrop of Law & Order.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-16-2005 |
Reviews
Ghost Worldnew
This romantic comedy about a winsome, charming ghost and the man who loves her sidesteps abundant potential clichés through sheer dint of the acting skills on display.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mark Waters, Just Like Heaven
