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Deep Freeze Comedynew
A mockumentary about the members of a Frozen Food Enthusiasts Club is funny when it stays on topic but becomes scattered when it strays.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-10-2005 |
Reviews
Starting From Somethingnew
After an eight-year break, screenwriter Shane Black is back with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, which has taken him in a different direction.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-10-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Shane Black
Love for Salenew
Steve Martin's latest stands out as an elegant work, one that provides a welcome look at love, romance, and heartbreak without the encumbrances of the usual Hollywood folderol.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-03-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Shopgirl, Anand Tucker
The Sound of One Man Crackingnew
An unconventional psychological thriller without much plot, Keane is the gripping and uncompromising story of a man's attempt to hang on to his sanity.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-03-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Keane, Lodge Kerrigan
Forecast Calls for Clouds and Sunshinenew
In this heartfelt comic drama, a wonderfully controlled Nicolas Cage plays a man who, despite the appearance of success, is despondent over his superficiality.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Gore Verbinski, The Weather Man
The Indeliblesnew
Movies to see at the Austin Film Festival include a flick about a mission to Montreal and another about a girl's criminal upbringing.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten, Nora Ankrum, Wells Dunbar, Marc Savlov, James Renovitch, Spencer Parsons, Josh Rosenblatt, Joe O'Connell, Mark Fagan and Shawn Badgley |
10-20-2005 |
Movies
Tags: Various Directors, Various Films, & Beers Runaway Severance The Special: The Story of an American Anthem Stomp! Shout! Scream! Walking the Line Azadi Boy-Next-Door The Braggart Holiday That Night, Backseat Bruce & Me Clear Cut: The Story of Philomath, Oregon Dirt Favela Rising Frozen Her Name Is Carla Life on the Ledge Muskrat Lovely The Outdoorsmen: Blood, Sweat
To Cite Edward R. Murrow, 'See It Now'new
Director and co-screenwriter George Clooney strikes just the right tone of gripping entertainment and understated cautionary tale in this thoughtful portrait of newsman Edward R. Murrow's confrontation with Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Miner's Daughternew
Charlize Theron stars in this fictionalized, rousing, but nevertheless predictable account of the first class-action sexual discrimination suit.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Niki Caro, North Country
Captive Audiencenew
This Venezuelan film about the kidnappings that are endemic in Caracas bursts with stylish technique and gruesome tension.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Bad Girls Are Even Betternew
Attention-deficit filmmaking reaches a new pinnacle in Tony Scott's hyperstylized portrait of a bounty hunter as an iconic bad girl.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Tony Scott, Domino
Light and Darknew
An amusing road trip through Ukraine leads to epiphanies of history and memory in actor Liev Schreiber's only partially illuminating adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Falluja Fields Forevernew
In this amazingly candid documentary, soldiers from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division talk about their lives and their mission in Fallujah, Iraq, in early 2004, just weeks before the full strength of the Sunni insurgency is unleashed.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Bet Your Lifenew
Pacino again plays another Mephistophelean type who mentors McConaughey's ex-jock in the intricacies of his tout service, offering tips to betters on the Vegas line, but the film is about as fresh as a day-old betting slip.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: D.J. Caruso, Two for the Money
In a Family Waynew
Even if these Shoes are not perfectly stitched, the fit is nevertheless comfortable and the look is polished.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Curtis Hanson, In Her Shoes
Who Knows What Evils Lurk in the Heartnew
Cronenberg's new horror film implicitly tackles the old question of nature vs. nurture: What are we born with and what do we acquire from our environment?
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-29-2005 |
Reviews
