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Doomed Is More Like Itnew
The latest from the Scream team hardly merits a weak yelp.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
03-04-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Wes Craven, Cursed
Adultery, Bollywood Stylenew
Bollywood romance glosses over the cultural ramifications of marriage and adultery, but is heavy on the music and melodramatics.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
03-04-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Bewafaa, Dharmesh Darshan
Chili Leftoversnew
The follow-up to Elmore Leanard's Get Shorty is rife with star talent but short on inspiration.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
03-04-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Be Cool, F. Gary Gray
New Wave Enigmanew
A documentary ode to the legendary outsider's outsider, Klaus Nomi – a singer, performance artist, and genuine human anomaly.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-24-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Andrew Horn, The Nomi Song
The Ties That Bindnew
It’s an only-in-America tale about kids in the Tennessee hamlet of Whitwell and their "paper clip project” – a teaching tool meant to help them comprehend the dimensions of the Holocaust – but it grew into something much, much more.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-18-2005 |
Reviews
Between Heaven and Hellnew
Adapted from Alan Moore’s groundbreaking DC/Vertigo comic title, Constantine is sure to divide the series’ most rabid fans, but those who can set aside their preconceptions will discover one of the more artfully designed comic-based films in some time.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-18-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Francis Lawrence, Constantine
All the World Is Not a Stagenew
Despite some bright spots in this woefully earnest modern romance, Bigger Than the Sky is awash in the obvious and exhibits a cloying adulation of theatre folk.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-18-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Al Corley, Bigger Than the Sky
Animé Epic Tells Old Storynew
With its deeply humanistic take on the Pinocchio story filtered through the prism of cyberpunk animé, this film is a heady, dense metaphor for everything from the struggle for self-knowledge and personal growth to the aging process.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: A Tree of Palme, Takashi Nakamura
Move Over, Hong Kongnew
The mass release of this top-notch Thai action film should have American audiences grinning ear to ear and shore to shore.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-11-2005 |
Reviews
Don't Go Into the Closetnew
Although the film has the look and feel of an old dark house horrorthon, there’s simply not much else to it beyond a brief and unrealized subplot about all those missing kids emblazoned on the back of your morning milk being the victims of Boogey-napping.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Boogeyman, Stephen T. Kay
Wedding Bell Bluesnew
Inexplicable Fantasy Romances for the Harried Modern Gal 101 is a more fitting title for this shameless mediocrity.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-05-2005 |
Movies
Tags: Clare Kilner, The Wedding Date
Shadow Playnew
There's a certain majesty to German director Boll's style of filmmaking: a freedom from art, talent, skill of any formal kind, and the sheer pigheadedness to keep going at any cost.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-05-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Uwe Boll, Alone in the Dark
Hope Amid the Madnessnew
Don Cheadle, in the finest performance of his career, headlines this true-life story about the "Oskar Schindler of Kigali, Rwanda" during the massacres of 1994.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-13-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Terry George, Hotel Rwanda
Write What You Knownew
Every young writer goes through a Charles Bukowski phase, but only the skid row author himself was "born into it." So say the many peoople who knew him in this comprehensive documentary.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-13-2005 |
Reviews
Psychic Friends Networknew
That droning sound you hear is White Noise.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Geoffrey Sax, White Noise
