AltWeeklies Wire
Restored Comedy Hits the Marknew
This genius Italian comedy from 1962 has been plucked from obscurity and given a sparkling new cleanup job.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
04-20-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Alberto Lattuada, Mafioso
Auto Fixationnew
Redline dives headfirst into onanistic autoeroticism, but this exotic-car movie feels ill-lubed and mechanical all the way.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
04-20-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Andy Cheng, Redline
Rock Scene and Heardnew
The sense of total immersion in England's Glastonbury Festival is breathlessly complete in Julien Temple's everywhere-at-once documentary.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
04-12-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Julien Temple, Glastonbury
Creature Featurenew
This manic monster party from South Korea cleverly updates the Japanese monster-movie genre while offering a witty and sweet look at what's left of the nuclear family.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
03-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Bong Joon-ho, The Host
One Psycho Pathnew
A wickedly entertaining postmodern take on the hallowed, 80s-era slasher flicks.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
03-15-2007 |
Reviews
Wilderness Wondernew
Creepy Eastern European atmospherics encase this horror film, which nevertheless suffers from an anemic script.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
03-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Nacho Cerdà , The Abandoned
Consuming Ralph Nadernew
This documentary is a far cry from the dry polemics one might expect from a survey of Nader's career as a consumer activist and political candidate.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-22-2007 |
Reviews
Hot Wheelsnew
The movie adds little to Marvel's source material, but to be fair, there wasn't a surfeit of originality in the comic book to begin with.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-22-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Ghost Rider, Mark Steven Johnson
Shooting Starnew
Sienna Miller nails Edie Sedgwick's gamine naivete in this biopic, but the film feels far too pat for its own good.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-22-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Factory Girl, George Hickenlooper
The Lion in WInternew
Peter O'Toole, in an Oscar-caliber and -nominated performance, pulls off this tricky May-December relationship with colossal panache and sublime craft.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Roger Michell, venus
Tasteless Toonsnew
The boys are back with their hyper-filthy animation show.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-18-2007 |
Reviews
Once Upon a Time in Spainnew
Guillermo del Toro discusses fairy tales, fascists, and everybody's new favorite movie.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-15-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
The New Worldnew
This small gem of a film is about a small man doing small things in a very, very, very large world.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Ramin Bahrani, Man Push Cart
Suburban Gloomnew
A modern Emma Bovary and her should-have-been Mr. Right discover that while their suburban American lives may yet have a second act, it could well end up as a tragedy.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Little Children, Todd Field
Sixth 'Rocky' Still Cockynew
This final chapter in the Rocky saga is terrific -- maybe not great, like that first kiss of fist in '76, but good, solid, exhilarating entertainment of the stand-up-and-cheer variety.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
12-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa
