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Kicking It Aroundnew
The psychotically testosterized world of British football hooliganism, with its crimson tide of fist-in-mouth male bonding and lager-lout bad manners, is captured in this post LOTR Elijah Wood movie.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Katrina Aftermath Radio: A Brief, Dysfunctional Lifenew
Attempts to set up a low-power FM station for Astrodome residents was killed by bureaucracy.
Austin Chronicle |
Wells Dunbar |
09-30-2005 |
Disasters
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
Firefly Morphs Into Serenitynew
Joss Whedon's Western/sci-fi hybrid (which was canceled from TV but greenlighted for the movies) evinces the kind of swashbuckling bonhomie that made so many of us fall in love with the original Star Wars films.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
09-29-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Joss Whedon, Serenity
Free Films in Fijinew
In this documentary, producer's rep John Pierson moves with his family to Fiji, hoping to leave behind the indie-film rat race, immerse himself in a foreign culture, and, best of all, screen movies for the natives.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-29-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Reel Paradise, Steve James
A Fractured Fairy Talenew
The work of fantasist Neil Gaiman finally makes it to the screen with its innate sense of wonder intact, despite this sporadically overstuffed package of magic, mystery, and masked madwomen.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-29-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dave McKean, MirrorMask
Pin Moneynew
This documentary about Americans' love of bowling traces our fascination through the sport's glory decades and eventual decline to its recent revival.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-29-2005 |
Reviews
Shallow Waters Run Deepnew
There's a crisp little thriller anchored in this movie about pretty people wearing skimpy swimwear in a beautiful locale.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
09-29-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: John Stockwell, Into the Blue
French Affairsnew
This French romantic comedy is little more than a heap of cliches whenever the director and star Yvan Attal's real-life wife, Charlotte Gainsbourg, disappears from the screen.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
09-29-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Happily Ever After, Yvan Attal
Golf Championsnew
The improbable but true triumph of 19-year-old amateur American golfer Francis Ouimet at the 1913 U.S. Open is given the David-and Goliath-treatment.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
09-29-2005 |
Reviews
When Families Collidenew
This new Bollywood film is a cross-cultural love story set in Mauritius.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-29-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dil Jo Bhi Kahey, Romesh Sharma
TIFF Notesnew
Here's what a critic took away from the Toronto International Film Festival.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-23-2005 |
Movies
Tags: Various Directors, Various Films
Southern Exposurenew
Johnny Knoxville stars in this slapdash tale of wacky Southerners and midlife crises that feels like a compilation reel of Blue Collar TV outtakes and Coen Brothers-lite quirkiness.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-23-2005 |
Reviews
Expect Turbulencenew
Aiming to be a Hitchcockian-type thriller set within the tight quarters of a jetliner, this Jodie Foster vehicle runs aground.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Flightplan, Robert Schwentke
Here and Nownew
Shot in jittery black-and-white 16mm, this French film’s on-the-fly aesthetic captures the shiftlessness of bourgeois youth and some of the spirit of the French New Wave.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
09-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: A Tout de Suite, Benoit Jacquot
