AltWeeklies Wire
Coming Cleannew
Provocative Austin-made feature pushs sexual buttons meant to arouse and provoke, but never satisfy.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-02-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Bryan Poyser, Dear Pillow
Blind Ambitionnew
Takeshi "Beat" Kitano reflects on his update of Zatôichi.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-26-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Have You Ever Been Slipped a Miike?new
Watching the latest from the insanely prolific Takashi Miike is akin to having some very bad acid slipped in your drink.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-26-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Takashi Miike, Gozu
Revisiting the Damnednew
Help us, Lucifer. This prequel is cursed.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-26-2004 |
Reviews
Up, Up, and Awaynew
Aussie import is sweet but as emotionally ethereal as a Splenda meringue.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-26-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Danny Deckchair, Jeff Balsmeyer
Game Overnew
Tall, dark, and icky meets shiny nappy people in this asinine grudge match between two of the most memorable '80s-era screen bugaboos.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-20-2004 |
Reviews
Love Me Tendernew
Zach Braff’s feature film debut is a zealously dreamy tale of love, loss and ecstasy among twentysomething misfits in the brackish wilds of modern New Jersey.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-20-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Garden State, Zach Braff
Chumming the Oceannew
Open Water amounts to 79 minutes of footage of a pair of petty, pretty people freaking out over having to go to the bathroom in their wetsuits, and in the end you find yourself rooting for the sharks.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-20-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Chris Kentis, Open Water
Insert God Herenew
By aping Hollywood's greying action genre tropes so faithfully, this evangelical film manages the rather remarkable feat of being neither alternative nor all that useful as a proselytizing tool.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-13-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Jerry Jameson, Last Flight Out
Stupidity Has Its Place in Naturenew
As director Nerenberg points out, repeatedly, in his amusing and horrifying documentary, the subject of human intelligence has been studied since time immemorial, but there are few treatises on the subject of human stupidity.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-07-2004 |
Reviews
Haiti's Jean Dominique Rememberednew
This hopeful documentary is a fitting capstone to the life of a man who made a difference in a time and place where it was (and is) so much easier not to.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-07-2004 |
Reviews
There's a Spot for this Village in The Twilight Zonenew
Shyamalan has played the same hand one time too many: he coasts into this village that is wracked by the wages of fear, manipulation, and forestry.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-06-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: M. Night Shyamalan, The Village
The Samurai as Family Mannew
A near masterpiece, this atypical samurai movie is more an epic of the heart than the battlefield.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-06-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Twilight Samurai, Yoji Yomada
Flying in on a Wing and a Prayernew
A desperate young woman from Colombia, who hopes to better her life, becomes a drug mule for the syndicate, transporting heroin to the States.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-06-2004 |
Reviews
All in the Familynew
A TV spy show from the Sixties that starred marionettes gets the live-action treatment … or does it?
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
07-29-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Thunderbirds, Jonathan Frakes
