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Kidding Aroundnew
Vin Diesel plays a Navy SEAL who draws diaper duty.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
03-04-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Adam Shankman, The Pacifier
Taking Bollywood Out of Indianew
Dancing transvestites? Check. Elephants? Gospel choir? Check and check. This movie has a little bit of everything for stateside viewers hesitant to dip a toe into the mighty waters of Bollywood cinema.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
02-24-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Bride & Prejudice, Gurinder Chadha
Perfectly Pleasant Poohnew
It’s not big and bright and busy and boffo, but it's a perfectly marvelous matinee option for young children. It’s a sweet little story, from a kid’s-eye view, about the anguish of being too little to do stuff.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
02-18-2005 |
Reviews
Hidden Wondersnew
The strange artwork and life of primitivist Harry Darger is given dimension by master documentarist Jessica Yu.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
02-11-2005 |
Reviews
No Pass, No Playnew
Come to this movie for the prominent hip-hop soundtrack and glossy sports action; leave with a message about teamwork, decency, and self-respect scorched into your brain.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
01-13-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Coach Carter, Thomas Carter
DiG This!new
DiG! transcends the typical "rock movie" format and aspires to something greater: an examination of why we create and what we receive from art.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
01-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dig!, Ondi Timoner
To Be Young, Gifted, Black … and Gaynew
A festival favorite jumps to the big screen with its story that compares and contrasts life as a gay black man in the present day and the Harlem Renaissance.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
12-16-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Brother to Brother, Rodney Evans
Box Office Clamsnew
Nautical nonsense from a highly absorbent animated hero.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
11-18-2004 |
Reviews
Keeping Up With the Jones Sequelnew
Cast is excellent; movie is OK; men and women are soooo different.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
11-12-2004 |
Reviews
A Dud on the Diamondnew
This baseball-comedy throws the occasional curve ball, but first you'll have to wade through endless montages, lowbrow gags, and lazy, shorthanded characterizations.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
09-21-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Charles Stone III, Mr. 3000
When Metal Meets Touchy-Feelynew
You don't have to be a Metallica fan to enjoy this candid documentary about rockers in therapy.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
09-10-2004 |
Reviews
Sink or Swimnew
A Hollywood vessel of doom hunts for the Big Squeeze.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
09-02-2004 |
Reviews
A Sight to Seenew
You may know a certain blind swordsman from the pulp novels of Kan Shimozawa and the films of Shintaro Katsu, but this ain’t your daddy’s Zatoichi.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
08-20-2004 |
Reviews
All in a Night's Worknew
Michael Mann returns to his stock-and-trade: the glossy, kinetic crime thriller. Cruise and Foxx may be billed above the title, but the movie’s real star is Los Angeles at night.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
08-06-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Mann, Collateral
Looking Through the Present to the Pastnew
Overburdened domestic drama from Italy still features some great performances.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
07-29-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Facing Windows, Ferzan Ozpetek
