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'The Longshots': A Safe Betnew
Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst directs Ice Cube and others in this sports movie about the first girl to play Pop Warner youth football.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
08-22-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Fred Durst, The Longshots
'Hamlet 2': A Comic Sequelnew
The manic comedian Steve Coogan plays a high school drama teacher who pens a scandalous remake of the Bard's classic in an attempt to save his Tucson class from budget cuts.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-22-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Andrew Fleming, Hamlet 2
'Elegy': Taming the Philip Roth Beastnew
In this smart adaptation of Philip Roth's A Dying Animal, Ben Kingsley and Penélope Cruz turn the table on the standard May-December romance.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-22-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Elegy, Isabel Coixet
'Death Race': Kill and Kill Againnew
All the busted heads and blasted gaskets can't turn this makeover of a cult classic into anything but a real drag.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-22-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Paul W.S. Anderson, Death Race
'Bottle Shock': Stick a Cork in Itnew
French oenological hauteur is shattered in this true but dully told story about the international debut of Napa Valley's wines.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-14-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Randall Miller, Bottle Shock
Putting the Buzz in Buzz Aldrennew
The animated Fly Me to the Moon is a simple parable of spirited can-do-ism, in which a trio of young houseflies semiaccidentally tags along on the Apollo 11 moonshot.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-14-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Ben Stassen, Fly Me to the Moon
'Henry Poole': Finding God in the Cracksnew
Director Mark Pellington has turned soft with this corny, redemptive, and/or inspirational tale that stars Luke Wilson.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
08-14-2008 |
Reviews
'The Last Mistress': Controversy Becomes Hernew
The latest titillation from French provocatrice Catherine Breillat is a period piece starring the ever-alluring Asia Argento.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-14-2008 |
Reviews
'Clone Wars' Introduces Girl Powernew
The only important things in this new animated epic are that viewers be blown away by the endless and pointless laser battles and that girl power comes into its own.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
08-14-2008 |
Reviews
Take a Passnew
Take, with a very good performance by Minnie Driver, is a dreadfully misguided movie whose story of redemption is utterly irredeemable.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-14-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Charles Oliver, Take
'Tropic Thunder': Apocalypse, and How!new
Instead of entering the jungle to find the heart of darkness, Ben Stiller goes in to take aim at the Achilles heel of Hollywood: its utter pomposity and self-importance.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-14-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Ben Stiller, Tropic Thunder
'Vicky Cristina Barcelona': Girls in Every Portnew
Woody Allen's newest is by no means a bad film, but it’s irrefutable evidence that Allen has aged – or cloistered – himself into irrelevance.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
08-14-2008 |
Reviews
Reality Bites the Hand That Feeds It in 'American Teen'new
A princess, jock, rebel, heartthrob, and geek: It could be The Breakfast Club, but American Teen is instead a documentary that ducks the consequences of its own making.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-08-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: American Teen, Nanette Burstein
'Hell Ride' Covers Old Terrainnew
This grindhousey biker film, executive-produced by Quentin Tarantino, is a convoluted, overly snazzy-looking tale of bad blood between even worse people.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-08-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Hell Ride, Larry Bishop
'A Jihad for Love': Gay Muslims Speak Outnew
What it's like to identify as both gay and Muslim is the topic of this brave documentary, which looks at the seemingly irreconcilable conflict.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-08-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: A Jihad For Love, Parvez Sharma
