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Creature Featurenew
This manic monster party from South Korea cleverly updates the Japanese monster-movie genre while offering a witty and sweet look at what's left of the nuclear family.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
03-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Bong Joon-ho, The Host
Mock Turtlesnew
Back on the screen for the first time since the early 90s, the Ninja Turtles are now animated via CGI, though their plot and character details got lost in the shuffle.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
03-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Kevin Munroe, TMNT
Hola Afghanistannew
Jesus Feliciano is a Mexican national who joins the Marines to gain U.S. citizenship and returns home from Iraq with a nasty case of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
03-29-2007 |
Reviews
What the Opposite Sex Wantsnew
Writer/director Mars Callahan keeps his characters talking from the first frame to the last -- and like all great chatterers their preferred topic is love and all its variations.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
03-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Mars Callahan, What Love Is
Festival Frenzynew
The Austin Chronicle's guide to its coverage of this year's SXSW Film, Interactive, and Music Festivals -- including up-to-the-minute previews, reviews, interviews, blogs, picks, and dish.
Austin Chronicle |
Various Authors |
03-15-2007 |
Movies
Tags: SXSW Film Festival 2007
Spiritual Richesnew
In this inspirational film, a deceased tycoon's will decrees that his grandson perform a series of tasks to determine if the young man is worthy of inheriting the fortune.
Austin Chronicle |
Toddy Burton |
03-15-2007 |
Reviews
Plastic Demonsnew
A documentary about our credit-card mess and some of the casualties of debt.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
03-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: James D. Scurlock, Maxed Out
Ciao, Russianew
An Italian couple's decision to adopt a Russian boy creates a troubling situation for young Vanya, who doesn't want to leave the country without meeting his birth mother.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
03-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Andrei Kravchuk, The Italian
One Psycho Pathnew
A wickedly entertaining postmodern take on the hallowed, 80s-era slasher flicks.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
03-15-2007 |
Reviews
The Killer Isn't the Only One Sending Out Ciphersnew
At 2 1/2 hours, Fincher's film is too long in the telling and too short on suspense.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
03-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: David Fincher, Zodiac
Road to Nowherenew
Middle-aged men cut loose.
Austin Chronicle |
Toddy Burton |
03-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Walt Becker, Wild Hogs
Closely Watched Germansnew
This recent Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film is the story of the small redemption of one man, who happens to be a hated East German Stasi officer.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
03-01-2007 |
Reviews
A Blues Howlnew
Like a steady 12-bar blues progression, Black Snake Moan lays down a groove and works the chords over and over 'til they're all spent.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
03-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Black Snake Moan, Craig Brewer
Wilderness Wondernew
Creepy Eastern European atmospherics encase this horror film, which nevertheless suffers from an anemic script.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
03-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Nacho Cerdà , The Abandoned
College (Fish)Bowlnew
This British coming-of-age drama and romantic comedy is fairly predictable, although the charming actors manage to keep the story's characters just this side of stereotype and mediocrity.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-22-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Starter for 10, Tom Vaughan
