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So Long, It's Been Good to Know Younew
A tepid romantic comedy with a side order of vitriol.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Just Friends, Roger Kumble
The Secret Lives of Screenwritersnew
Playwright and screenwriter Craig Lucas debuts as a director of his own material with this nasty little story about interpersonal deceptions and Hollywood ethics.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Craig Lucas, The Dying Gaul
Take Me to Your Ashramnew
This documentary follows a group of spiritual voyagers through a series of pilgrimages and trips to Indian ashrams and holy festivals in order to create a portrait of the yogi life.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
11-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Naked in Ashes, Paula Fouce
Honky-Tonk Love Storynew
Joaquin Phoenix is terrific as the musician Johnny Cash, whose rise, fall, and resurrection we watch as he does the Benzedrine 12-step in order to earn the love of country-and-gospel sasspot June Carter.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: James Mangold, Walk the Line
Bombs Awaynew
Inside the mind of a Palestinian suicide bomber: That's the guarded territory broached in Paradise Now, a film fashioned as a thriller rather than a psychological study.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Hany Abu-Assad, Paradise Now
Potter Tots Grow Up Lotsnew
This fourth Potter film is qualitatively different from the first three: It doesn't linger on gothic curlicues, and it emphasizes the emotional development of its characters with dramatic interplay rather than expressionistic, atmospheric gloom.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
11-17-2005 |
Reviews
Portrait of the Artist as a Gay Ladnew
Dorian Blues has wit, humor, good performances, and clever technique, which catapult the film into the front ranks of coming-out movies.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dorian Blues, Tennyson Bardwell
Off the Tracksnew
The first release from the new Weinstein Co. is a thriller starring Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen that never fully engages the viewer's sympathies.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mikael Hafstrom, Derailed
All Spelled Outnew
Myla Goldberg's novel about spelling-bee fever, a family in chaos and religious/mystic exploration arrives on the screen with all its faults intact but few of its charms.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
11-17-2005 |
Reviews
Coffee Tawk With Maureen Dowdnew
The star New York Times columnist chats about Judy "Miss Run Amok" Miller, blogs and Bush's nannies.
Austin Chronicle |
Wells Dunbar |
11-10-2005 |
Media
Anything Can Happennew
Jon Favreau and Dax Shepard discuss Zathura.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-10-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jon Favreau, Zathura
Game Onnew
With his follow-up to Elf, director Jon Favreau sticks with family-friendly filmmaking, this time delivering a bang-up version of Chris Van Allsburg's bestselling children's book Zathura.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-10-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Jon Favreau, Zathura
The Corpse Isn't the Only Thing That's Stiffnew
Master filmmaker Atom Egoyan goes for the mainstream with this new murder mystery, but sadly his aim is way, way off.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-10-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Atom Egoyan, Where the Truth Lies
Bollywood Baublenew
In a country famous for its exhaustively over-the-top filmmaking, India's Shaadi No. 1 is an extreme case: a maddeningly manic comedy-romance painted in vibrant shades of neon pink and Day-Glo violet.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-10-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: David Dhawan, Shaadi No. 1
Austen Reduxnew
This fresh adaptation of Jane Austen's masterpiece starring Keira Knightley presents a witty and lovesick skirmish of the sexes that exceeds all expectations.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
11-10-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Joe Wright, Pride & Prejudice
