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Howard's Endnew

Howard Stern’s vastly popular morning show is making the move to satellite radio, and the future of commercial radio hangs in the balance.

Metroland | John Brodeur | 10-06-2005 | Media

Tags: Howard Stern, Sirius Satellite Radio

Man and His Best Friend, Plus One Rabbitnew

This new animated comedy is a brilliantly conceived and executed bit of Brit wit, perfect for both kids and their parents and anyone even remotely interested in laughing themselves silly.

Austin Chronicle | Marc Savlov | 10-06-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Steve Box and Nick Park

Kitchen Storiesnew

This frequently offensive and doggedly disgusting film about working in the restaurant industry is technically inept and wholly crude.

Austin Chronicle | Kimberley Jones | 10-06-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Rob McKittrick, Waiting ...

Pacino again plays another Mephistophelean type who mentors McConaughey's ex-jock in the intricacies of his tout service, offering tips to betters on the Vegas line, but the film is about as fresh as a day-old betting slip.

Austin Chronicle | Marjorie Baumgarten | 10-06-2005 | Reviews

Tags: D.J. Caruso, Two for the Money

The Substance of Lifenew

This adaptation of Haruki Murakami's eponymous short story is a delicate little curio, lighter than air and gravely philosophical at once.

Austin Chronicle | Marrit Ingman | 10-06-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Jun Ichikawa, Tony Takitani

Heavyweight Champnew

Jim Harrison, writing at the top of his game, inhabits his characters without hijacking them.

Missoula Independent | Brad Tyer | 10-06-2005 | Fiction

Tags: Jim Harrison, The Summer He Didn't Die

Knocking Opportunitynew

Bordered by wasteland and marked as a dump, a small Montana town near the Clark Fork River’s headwaters fears the Milltown Dam cleanup could shut the door on its future.

Missoula Independent | Jessie McQuillan | 10-06-2005 | Environment

Tags: environment

A Tough Habit to Breaknew

The plot realistically mimics a teenager's adriftness and tendency toward hairpin-turn mood shifts as it bounds from the wonderfully affecting to the decidedly idiosyncratic to the occasionally absurd.

Austin Chronicle | Kimberley Jones | 10-06-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Mike Mills, Thumbsucker

Faulty Mathnew

As with many film adaptations of stage successes, David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about mathematics and madness loses something in its translation to celluloid.

Austin Chronicle | Steve Davis | 10-06-2005 | Reviews

Tags: John Madden, Proof

Let's Twist Againnew

Some may doubt the need to once more bring Dickens's tale to the screen, but Polanski's deft adaptation proves that there's still life in that well-worn story of a boy who beats the odds.

Austin Chronicle | Steve Davis | 10-06-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Oliver Twist, Roman Polanski

In a Family Waynew

Even if these Shoes are not perfectly stitched, the fit is nevertheless comfortable and the look is polished.

Austin Chronicle | Marjorie Baumgarten | 10-06-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Curtis Hanson, In Her Shoes

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

Tags: Green Street Hooligans, Lexi Alexander