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Teacher Retentionnew
Made by teachers for teachers, this Austin-made indie offers no easy answers to its statistic that 50 percent of teachers quit within their first three years on the job.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
05-18-2007 |
Reviews
Pie-Eyed for 'Waitress'new
Despite a storyline that involves an unplanned pregnancy, various affairs, spousal abuse, maternal ambivalence, and food-service employment, Waitress is an optimistic comedy about getting past your mistakes and making the best of life.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
05-10-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Adrienne Shelly, waitress
Interminable Islandnew
Steve Austin stars in this WWE-produced movie about a death row convict who is brought to a remote island to fight nine other killers to the death for a televised bout.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
04-26-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Scott Wiper, The Condemned
Verhoeven Returns With Dutch Treatnew
Although in many ways a characteristically perverse Paul Verhoeven spectacle, this Dutch World War II resistance story is more morally shaded as well as handsomely mounted and suspenseful.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
04-26-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Black Book, Paul Verhoeven
Bud Is Forevernew
In this amusing film based on a screenplay by Douglas Coupland, a 29-year-old contemplates life's purpose and the meaning of "winning."
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
04-20-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Everything's Gone Green, Paul Fox
Viking Mucknew
A Viking movie with this many graphic decapitations shouldn't be such a bore.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
04-20-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Marcus Nispel, Pathfinder
Don't Go Into the Woodsnew
Pardon the pun, but audiences will reap little from this satanic backwoods juju thriller.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
04-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Stephen Hopkins, The Reaping
Collateral Damagenew
Documentary from the filmmakers who made Gunner Palace details the story of Yunis Abbas, an Iraqi journalist falsely detained for nine months at Abu Ghraib.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
03-29-2007 |
Reviews
Reality Shapes Fantasy Realmnew
Once again, don't fear the trailer. This excellent screen version of the Newbery-winning novel is not about fairies and enchanted forests, but about kids who feel as though they don't fit in.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
02-22-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Bridge to Terabithia, Gabor Csupo
An Endangered Speciesnew
This Thai film is part melodrama and part spaghetti western, as if Sirk and Peckinpah fell into a blender and out poured tear-soaked Polaroids, giant exploding squibs and blown-up heads, tearful Asian songbird ballads, and homoerotic outlaw bonding.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
02-15-2007 |
Reviews
Out of Africanew
This multiaward-winner from Sundance 2006 follows three "lost boys" of the Sudan, chronicling their journey in the United States, while revealing as much about American life as African life.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
02-01-2007 |
Reviews
Barking Up the Wrong Treenew
It's a soggy true-crime drama -- too serious to be trashy, too trashy to be serious.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
01-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Alpha Dog, Nick Cassavetes
Familiar Lesson Plannew
Although based on a true story, this is another movie in which the cute white lady goes into an irascible high school and makes everybody love learnin'.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
01-05-2007 |
Reviews
Unnecessary Roughnessnew
There are football movies, and then there’s this 800-pound gorilla of a gridiron weepie, which should be penalized for roughing the viewer.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
12-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: McG, We Are Marshall
House Swapnew
Nancy Meyers’ follow-up to Something’s Gotta Give mines the same go-girl terrain but is far less interesting, featuring stock characterizations and a blandly upbeat vibe.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
12-08-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Nancy Meyers, The Holiday
