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'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
'Midnight Meat Train' Makes Few Local Stopsnew
This horror film, based on a Clive Barker short story, details the nightly exploits of a butcher who plies his trade nightly on human subway riders.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-08-2008 |
Reviews
'Pineapple Express' Is a Comic Rushnew
A winning "bromance" between stoners is at the heart of this shaggy pot story.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
08-08-2008 |
Reviews
The Pants Begin to Fray in This Sisterhood Sequelnew
Female camaraderie, nostalgic sentimentality, and emotional catharsis are back in this sequel: The film hits its marks but lacks real depth.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
08-08-2008 |
Reviews
Dead and Gone, But Not Forgottennew
The many pleasures of this riveting psychological thriller from France derive more from the perplexing questions it raises than the discovery of the answers.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
08-01-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Guillaume Canet, Tell No One
Ask for a Recountnew
Kevin Costner’s new comedy may be timely, but that doesn’t make it funny or worthwhile.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-01-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Joshua Michael Stern, Swing Vote
Oscar Winner Can't Redeem This Self-Help Melodramanew
Like a pilgrim seeking salvation, Ripple Effect is awash in self-important questions, becoming an exercise in pop mysticism which stars Forest Whitaker.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
08-01-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Philippe Caland, Ripple Effect
This 'Mummy' Jumps the Sharknew
This third outing makes it abundantly clear that this once-fresh mummy franchise is dead in everything but name.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-01-2008 |
Reviews
An Odd Couple Finds a Twilight Lovenew
A septuagenarian love story from Spain, Elsa & Fred will likely warm the cockles of your heart, even though it’s hardly the stuff of great romance.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
08-01-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Elsa & Fred, Marcos Carnevale
God Is in the Detailsnew
It's a film, not a miniseries, but this rendition's attention to the steep divides of class and religion in prewar England remains as sharply etched as ever.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
08-01-2008 |
Reviews
Summer in the Citynew
An odd-couple pairing between a teenage pot dealer and the shrink with whom he trades weed for sessions anchors this story about coming of age in New York City during the Nineties.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
07-24-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: The Wackness, Jonathan Levine
'Mamma Mia!': For the Dancing Queen Withinnew
This film adaptation of the Broadway adaptation of a catalog of Swedish disco hits retains all the fun but remains astonishingly silly.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
07-18-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Phyllida Lloyd, Mamma Mia!
Life Ain't Pretty in Gotham Citynew
Although the visuals soar and Heath Ledger's Joker is magnificent, this new Batman movie is grim and chilly, as if made for our new age of anxiety.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
07-18-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
The Long and Winding Road of 'Brick Lane'new
Brick Lane shows us the life of a Bangladeshi woman, who moves to London to marry a man she's never met, keep house, raise a family, and eventually act on her squelched yearnings.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
07-18-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Brick Lane, Sarah Gavron
