AltWeeklies Wire
The Morning Afternew
This earnest, soulful, and jarringly melodramatic rave-culture love story is from Australia but out of time.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
06-08-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: One Perfect Day, Paul Currie
Demon Spawnnew
Julia Stiles is miscast, although Mia Farrow delights in this unnecessary remake of a perfectly good child-as-Antichrist movie.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
06-08-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: The Omen, John Moore
Oy Veynew
This story about one-upmanship while staging a bar mitzvah in L.A. should by all rights be very funny, but sadly it is not.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
06-08-2006 |
Reviews
Mutant Pile-Upnew
This third outing in the franchise lays on the subtext even more heavily than its predecessors -- racial, gender, and sexual politics are all over the place, as are the multiple strands of the story line.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
05-26-2006 |
Reviews
The Parallels Between Spurt and Splatnew
Former porn auteur Gregory Dark advances to making this rote exercise in slasher-film tedium.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
05-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Gregory Dark, See No Evil
Just Do Itnew
One man's ailing boot factory and a transvestite's need for extra-large thigh-highs become a perfect match in this British comedy about tolerance.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
05-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Julian Jarrold, Kinky Boots
Ghosts of Protests Pastnew
This Oscar nominee from Germany chronicles the last desperate hours of Sophie Scholl, a real-life German university student who, in 1943 Munich, ran afoul of the gestapo.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
05-19-2006 |
Reviews
Watership Downnew
A handful of talented actors checked their egos at the door in hopes of ... something, but this Poseidon is a wash.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
05-12-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Poseidon, Wolfgang Petersen
Bollywood Horrornew
This unusual Bollywood film is an anthology horror film with segments directed by seven different directors.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
05-12-2006 |
Reviews
Broomsticked to Deathnew
A satanic-possession thriller set in 1817 stars Donald Sutherland and Sissy Spacek -- to little avail.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
05-12-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Best of the Batchnew
It's all poppycock, of course, but the latest installment of the orgiastic action franchise is done with great vim, vigor, and flair.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
05-05-2006 |
Reviews
Town Without Pitynew
This eerie but ultimately unengaging film adaptation of Konami's smash series of video games has a pitch-perfect score and unnervingly nightmarish imagery.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Christophe Gans, Silent Hill
Suck on Thisnew
Metaphorically speaking, Little Red Riding Hood eats Humbert Humbert in this story of an online predator and his jailbait, gamine prey.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: David Slade, Hard Candy
Bettie Bluenew
Gretchen Mol dazzles as the titular pinup girl, but the film raises many more questions about the enigmatic icon than it answers.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
04-21-2006 |
Reviews
Gag Reflexnew
What's new in this fourth edition of the popular-culture spoof machine? Well, Shaquille O'Neal and Dr. Phil, for starters.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
04-21-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: David Zucker, Scary Movie 4
