AltWeeklies Wire
Hell-Boundnew
Rob Zombie's Super-16 death trip is the year's most viciously entertaining psycho road-movie, a heartfelt homage to '70s-era cinematic sleaze.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
07-22-2005 |
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Tags: Rob Zombie, The Devil's Rejects
Base Hitnew
Kids and profanity will always be funny together, but this genial remake of the Walter Matthau hit has lost some of the edge.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
07-22-2005 |
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Tags: Richard Linklater, Bad News Bears
Waterloggednew
Despite a dream cast, this Hollywood remake of a Japanese horror classic is all wet.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
07-14-2005 |
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Tags: Dark Water, Walter Salles
Gold Ticket Confectionnew
Burton and Depp's screen version of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s book is truer to the source material and generally splendid, artful, and often sinister, yet it doesn't completely displace the earlier screen version.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
07-14-2005 |
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Radiation Powernew
All four aren't fantastic, but at least two are pretty good in this latest Hollywood take on a classic from Marvel Comics.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
07-07-2005 |
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Tags: Tim Story, Fantastic Four
D.O.A.new
This Australian horror film arrives at the tail end of a recent and very substantial cinematic zombie overdose. Unfortunately, there are only so many ways to slice the walking dead.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
07-07-2005 |
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The Last Gasp of Basketball Seasonnew
Although this Mighty Ducks/Bad News Bears clone is predictable and inoffensive, it's filled with sweet humor and well-drawn young characters.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
06-30-2005 |
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Tags: Steve Carr, Rebound
Space Invadersnew
Spielberg and the gang at Industrial Light & Magic have knocked the ball not only out of the park but out of Earth's orbit as well.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
06-30-2005 |
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Zombie Nationnew
Romero has again crafted a character-driven horror film that doubles as a metaphor for the economic disparity in America and, to a lesser degree, the war on terror.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
06-24-2005 |
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When Naughty Was Nicenew
In this comedy set in 70s Spain, a married couple makes porn movies for Scandinavian consumption.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
06-24-2005 |
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Tags: Pablo Berger, Torremolinos 73
Bale Bats It Out of the Park … Er, Cavenew
Batman Begins … and it's about time. The movie is great fun, and also a terrific relief.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
06-16-2005 |
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Tags: Christopher Nolan, Batman Begins
Lord of This Castlenew
The latest from animation master Hayao Miyazaki is ravishingly beautiful but narratively inferior to all his other flims.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
06-16-2005 |
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Euro-Horror Fizzles Where It Should Sizzlenew
This is a gripping piece of splatterpunk, despite the fact that there's not much to it and the plot crumbles in the third act.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
06-10-2005 |
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Tags: Alexandre Aja, High Tension
Frankie, Can You Hear Me?new
A superstar DJ goes deaf in Ibeza in this mockumentary that observes his process of coping.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
06-10-2005 |
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Skatetown, USAnew
This narrative re-creation of the skateboarding doc Dogtown and Z-Boys is a blast -- as accurate as it ought to be with more than enough mythology and gut thrills thrown in for good measure.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
06-10-2005 |
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