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Oct. 2, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Battle for Terra
An animated tale of a peace-loving race of creatures known as Terrians, who are invaded by alien humans.
"...series) and putting a nifty spin on such peaceable Fifties sci-fi classics as The Day the Earth Stood Still..."
May 1, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Cadillac Records
The story of the birth of Chicago blues is well-told through this ensemble portrait of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Chuck Berry, Etta James, Little Walter, and their label, Chess Records.
"...musicians listed above, plus many, many more, throughout the Fifties and Sixties. The actors cast as the bluesmen and..."
Dec. 12, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Film News
Wrapping up the Austin Film Festival
"...scout for Michael Winterbottom's next film set in a Fifties-era oil town that will likely result in the director..."
Oct. 24, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell
Johnny Got His Gun
Austin-bred actor Ben McKenzie stars in this one-man show of Dalton Trumbo's timeless anti-war novel.
"...famous writers to be blacklisted by Hollywood in the Fifties and subsequently penning such glorious screenplays as Spartacus and..."
Sept. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Savage Grace
You can almost smell the desperation in the twisted psychosexuality of Savage Grace, the film purportedly based on the true story of a mother-son relationship that went tragically wrong.
"...rigueur for someone from the privileged class in the Fifties and Sixties to hold a cigarette at a languid..."
July 18, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis
'LeWitt x 2'
Austin Museum of Art's exhibit is successful in revealing nuances of LeWitt's work, but less so in showing art by his peers
"...image to the left-hand side. They look like cookie-cutter Fifties homes in a rainbow of muted colors from navy..."
July 11, 2008 Arts Review by Rachel Cook
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
If you're looking for escape, then the fourth installment in the beloved cliff-hanging archaeological-adventure franchise should fit the bill.
"...queasily realistic giant Amazonian ants (a nod to the mid-Fifties Charlton Heston potboiler The Naked Jungle) and a vine-swinging..."
May 23, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
District Eternity
As Ronnie Earle steps down, he looks back on his life's work
"...real or imaginary insults were inevitable and frequent and Fifties Fort Worth as the seat of local mob violence...."
April 11, 2008 News Feature by Michael King
The Ten Commandments
This family-oriented adaptation of the Book of Exodus is the inaugural film in a planned franchise of crudely animated Bible stories.
"...guilty pleasure that mixed Old Testament ferocity with titillating Fifties-era hedonism. It was a good fit for the imperious..."
Oct. 26, 2007 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
More than an appreciation, this documentary portrait of the great American folksinger and activist is an inspiration.
"...pariah due to the HUAC witch hunts of the Fifties, Seeger kept an even keel and a steady beat...."
Oct. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Although it tries mightily to top 2005's origin story by introducing fanboy favorite the Silver Surfer, this film is nevertheless relentlessly dull and curiously bombastic.
"...throughout is a cringe-worthy mix of postmillennial hepcat and Fifties-era science-fiction gobbledygook, either. (You kind of expect that with..."
June 22, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Nancy Drew
Historically, Nancy Drew may be the best teen detective around, but in this new screen incarnation, she is definitely no spy kid.
"...remake of Clueless. Given her throwback fashion sense of Fifties-style plaids, pleats, knee socks, and penny loafers (designed by..."
June 15, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Vacancy
Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale play a couple who try to escape from the snuff-film motel at which they're stranded.
"...the lonelier the road, the more inviting those quaint, Fifties-era roadside travel courts and motor lodges appear. But –..."
April 27, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Amber Current Flowing From My Mind
Drowning Johnny Bush's spasmodic dysphonia in a "Whiskey River"
"...autobiography recounts the story of Texas honky-tonk in the Fifties and Sixties. Former Houston Chronicle music critic Rick Mitchell,..."
April 6, 2007 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri
Touched by Fire
For half a century, Ishmael Soto has used flame to transform copper, clay, and bronze into works of wonder
"...its own building. At the time – the early Fifties – art classes were held in some army barracks..."
Feb. 23, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Notes on Kitsch
... or W.W.S.S.T. (What Would Susan Sontag Think) about Austin's love of camp?
"...[which carries Lucky Lou shoes] about life in the Fifties. When he was growing up, wife beaters and leather..."
Dec. 8, 2006 Features Feature by Kate X Messer
Open Season
The animated Open Season is long on manic energy and bathroom humor but short on real storytelling, emotion, and characters.
"...in the classic Disney films of the Forties and Fifties or modern-day Japanese anime movies – just low-grade comic..."
Sept. 29, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Love in the Time of 'Green Darkness'
Don't judge Anya Seton's reissued biographical novels by their romance and bad covers
"...sultry brunettes. As pulp fiction grew popular in the Fifties and into the Sixties, many of Seton's books received..."
Sept. 29, 2006 Books Feature by Margaret Moser
Kars: The Movie
Ron Mann on 'Tales of the Rat Fink'
"...were nostalgic of those old hot rods of the Fifties, and so what he did was to encourage modern..."
Sept. 15, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Pulse
Pulse, the American remake of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2001 horror film Kairo, is the McDonald's Unhappy Meal to the original's elegantly obtuse sashimi o' sorrow.
"...bloated with unnecessary exposition in the manner of a Fifties sci-fi potboiler. With a script co-credited to a stumbling..."
Aug. 18, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
In Print
"...not-so-subtly underscoring Depression-era race issues and looming poverty. The Fifties brought a new kind of sci-fi monster, one thrust..."
June 16, 2006 Screens Feature by Audra Schroeder
The Notorious Bettie Page
Gretchen Mol dazzles as the titular pinup girl, but the film raises many more questions about the enigmatic icon than it answers.
"...influential hairstyles in history, of course. Both Page, the Fifties-era pinup model who soared to glorious infamy on the..."
April 21, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
A League of Ordinary Gentlemen
This documentary about Americans' love of bowling traces our fascination through the sport's glory decades and eventual decline to its recent revival.
"...bowling in modern America from its heyday in the Fifties and Sixties to its decline during the Seventies to..."
Sept. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Archivist in Austin
Dennis Nyback shows it all to you
"..."the Mormon Church has been making films since the fifties," notes Nyback, "and the genius of the Mormon film..."
July 15, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
The Raveonettes
"...and Sharin Foo – have taken their love of Fifties kitsch and Sixties pop off the Jesus & Mary..."
May 6, 2005 Music Review by Audra Schroeder
2004-05 Austin Music Awards
Austin Music Hall, Wednesday, March 16
"...Awards brought with it the sounds of Texas. The Fifties crossover from blues to rock. The Nineties renaissance of..."
March 18, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens
Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2005
Spike & Mike has always been a hit-or-miss program, and this year is no different, with a few genuinely brilliant pieces surrounded by examples of puerile fun and juvenile humor.
"..."The Boy Who Could Smell the Future," which parodies Fifties-era sci-fi and Red Scare films and clocks in at..."
Jan. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Roadside Playboys and Texana Dames
The Hancock Family's long, strange, supernatural
musical journey
"...In the early Fifties, Charlene Condray was "the sweetheart of Lubbock." A cheerleader..."
Dec. 31, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser
Controlling Their Own Destiny
So many questions for the gaming industry, so many
Austin game developers to answer them
"...the horizon looms Aspyr's most ambitious project yet: the Fifties-era zombie romantic apocalypse Stubbs the Zombie, which matches the..."
Nov. 19, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
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