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"...In 19th-century Japan, the teenaged bride Cio-Cio-San (Ying), aka Butterfly, foolishly takes her arranged marriage with U.S. Navy officer..."
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Nov. 29, 1996 Movie Review by Russell Smith
The Blue Butterfly
The Hallmark homilies are all there in this family-friendly feature about a cancer-stricken 10-year-old searching for the elusive morpho butterfly, but when the principals arrive in rainforest country, the film shifts gears and begins to breathe.
"...about a cancer-stricken 10-year-old searching for the elusive morpho butterfly. You might as well say, "Only a real asshole..."
Feb. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
The Butterfly Effect
Ashton Kutcher lays to waste a promising script involving time travel and unforeseeable consequences.
"...Taking the meteorological/chaos-theory tenet that the flapping of a butterfly’s wings in one part of the globe will incite..."
Jan. 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Butterfly
Nicely performed and beautifully shot, this story of a young boy's political awakening flutters lightly across the screen.
"...Uriarte, Alexis De Los Santos and Jesús Castejón. Although Butterfly teeters on the brink of becoming one of those..."
Nov. 18, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Fantasia Review: Giving Birth to a Butterfly
Quirky surrealist road trip takes the station wagon to a sense of self
"...so purposefully lyrical and light, Giving Birth to a Butterfly opens with a poem: Mina Loy's "Love Songs (section..."
Aug. 13, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Butterfly and Sword
"...berserk action melodrama with all the stops pulled out, Butterfly and Sword is an adrenaline-charged swordplay fantasy that starts..."
Nov. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan
M. Butterfly
"...escalating obsession with the diva, whom he calls “my butterfly,” in reference to Puccini's opera. Eventually leaving his wife..."
Jan. 14, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp A Butterfly
Compton MC takes a quantum leap forward
"...theme to Kendrick Lamar’s second album, To Pimp A Butterfly, released yesterday on iTunes. Premise stated, the LP requires..."
March 17, 2015 Music Post by Kahron Spearman
The Bullet Hole in the Butterfly Bar
This East Austin joint's a good story you could be part of
"...of the bullet hole in the bar at the Butterfly Bar, the Eastside watering hole attached to the Vortex..."
Jan. 11, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Butterfly Kiss
"...drama, Plummer's habitation of the character of Eunice in Butterfly Kiss is a creation that sears itself permanently into..."
May 31, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Goodbye, Butterfly
Low-budget revenge thriller makes parents' hands bloody
"...left to hold you together? In dark thriller Goodbye, Butterfly, it's revenge, or justice, or just pure anger for..."
Feb. 5, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Austin Opera's Madame Butterfly
The company delivers a lovely staging of this Puccini opera that builds to a heartbreaking finale
"...During curtain call in contemporary productions of Madame Butterfly, I'd guess that any poor tenor playing Lt. B.F...."
May 5, 2017 Arts Review by Michelle Haché
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Julian Schnabel's unorthodox but true story about a protagonist who is stripped of all self-movement and expression is equal parts reverie, despair, and social experiment.
"...his brilliant new film, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, painter/sculptor/director Schnabel (Basquiat, Before Night Falls) defies dozens of..."
Jan. 11, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Butterfly Bar Hosts a Night of New Classical Music
Some of our city’s best all in one place
"...own adventure,” she explains, “We’re taking over the entire Butterfly Bar space at the Vortex – inside and outside..."
May 22, 2023 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
CO2's 'Butterfly' Takes Wing This Weekend
The postponed Creative Opportunity Orchestra
premiere of a new Tina Marsh composition lands at a
rain-free venue
"...Opportunity Orchestra was unable to premiere Courage of the Butterfly, a new jazz composition by Artistic Director Tina Marsh,..."
Nov. 19, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
SXSW Film Review: 'Butterfly Girl'
Cary Bell's 'human portrait of survival'
"...is fiercely alive, we learn in Cary Bell’s documentary Butterfly Girl...."
March 11, 2014 SXSW Post by Joe O'Connell
A Butterfly's Life, From the Inside
Beautiful 'Farfalle' allows kids to step into a bug's world
"...that combines dance and high-tech projections to follow a butterfly's life from egg to winged glory...."
Feb. 23, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires
SXSW Film Review: 'Butterfly Girl'
March 14, 2014 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell
Aimee Bobruk’s Butterfly Stroke
Local singer swims for SIMS – Saturday
Aug. 16, 2013 Music Post by Abby Johnston
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Billy Corgan on the Smashing Pumpkins, the Source Family, and Sky Saxon
Sept. 17, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell
From Bookworm to Social Butterfly in One Easy Step
July 11, 2008 Books Post by Kimberley Jones
Sim Butterfly, Real Fun
What was the cool toy at the Screenburn Arcade?
March 12, 2007 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker
The Last Butterfly
Aug. 13, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Happenstance
The horoscope of a young woman (Amélie's Tautou) predicts that love is just around the corner.
"...refers to the theory that the flutter of a butterfly's wings can effect a tsunami half a world over...."
May 3, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Papillon
New adaptation of Henri Charrière's autobiographical novel of life on Devil's Island
"...is better known by his nickname Papillon (French for butterfly, after the tattoo prominently displayed on his chest). A..."
Aug. 24, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
Dasavatharam
New Indian film is a biotechnology action mystery that takes place one week before the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004.
"...with director Ravikumar. Dasavatharam uses chaos theory and the butterfly effect to help explain its plot about a biotechnology..."
June 20, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Resurrecting the Champ
Several morality plays vie for attention in this story about a workmanlike sportswriter who latches on to a tale told by a homeless alcoholic as his ticket out of palookaville.
"...all the rounds, but it never “floats like a butterfly.”..."
Aug. 24, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Syriana
One of the most uncompromising movies of the year, Syriana is like a living tableaux composed from all the stories that lurk just behind the news, the stories that put human faces on the demand for oil.
"...Gerety and Robert Foxworth. Like the saying about the butterfly flapping its wings on one side of the world..."
Dec. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
Dopey comedy is good fun.
"...nearby Newark. The deceptively easy drive enacts a calamitous butterfly effect; riotously funny roadblocks to White Castle include a..."
July 30, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Fairytale: A True Story
"...Soon, a hoard of Fleet Street journalists, gawkers with butterfly nets, and celebrities -- including Harry Houdini (Keitel) and..."
