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Design a Poster, Save A Life
Local ISDs and Cap Metro launch rail safety competition for kids near new tracks
"...a mile of the new rail tracks The three grand prize winning posters will be distributed to all public..."

Jan. 22, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Wrestler
In the latest film from Darren Aronofsky, Mickey Rourke rips his tattered name from the dustbin of history with his portrayal of an aging professional wrestler.
"...opponents in the ring. But those looking for a grand discourse on the suffering nobility of the aging pseudo-athlete..."

Jan. 9, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Trouble the Water
This film about the human toll of Hurricane Katrina is one of the best and most inspirational things to come out of the disaster.
"...Requiem in Four Acts and this, the 2008 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Documentary winner, Trouble the Water. So..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Elsa & Fred
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.
"...and Omar Muñoz. Old folks in love, ain’t it grand? That pretty much sums up Elsa & Fred, a..."

Aug. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Shine a Light
The Rolling Stones gather no moss in this Martin Scorsese-directed concert film that's playing on both IMAX and conventional screens.
"...in the minority. Shock comes courtesy of the frontline’s Grand Canyon character lines, disbelief from the soon-to-be 65-year-old frontman’s..."

April 4, 2008 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

Steep
The glories of extreme skiing are proclaimed from international mountaintops.
"...Bill Briggs, who skied Jackson Hole, Wyoming's insanely vertical Grand Tetons in the 1960s. From there on out, Obenhaus..."

March 7, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Teeth
Austin-shot horror pic about a girl who discovers that her naughty bits are bitey.
"...veering from surrealistic ABC After School Special-ness to crimson-drenched Grand Guignol atrocity exhibitionism, often in the same scene. In..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cloverfield
Cloverfield is a pure-blood, grade A, exultantly exhilarating monster movie in the grand tradition.
"...pure-blood, grade A, exultantly exhilarating monster movie in the grand tradition of The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, It Came..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Atonement
Joe Wright has fashioned an epic piece of moviemaking from Ian McEwan’s novel: Starring Keira Knightley, the film is consumed with the nature of storytelling and the moral responsibility of the storyteller.
"...Art buff – but it ravishes nonetheless in its grand exploration of the sins of the daughter and a..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Across the Universe
Julie Taymor takes the timelessness of the Beatles' music and yanks it earthward into a minefield of literalism.
"...know who the walrus is too. Taymor is a grand visualist of the stage (The Lion King) and screen..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ladrón Que Roba a Ladrón
This Spanish-language caper film, made in Los Angeles, offers grand entertainment and sociological import.
"...United States and shot entirely in Spanish, Ladrón is grand Hollywood entertainment for and about a long-ignored culture that's..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Triad Election
When the time comes for an aging gangster godfather in Hong Kong to step down, a bloody battle for control ensues in this vivid story about thug life.
"...honor, punctuated with bursts of violence. To is less grand a stylist, his action stagings more modest; a sort..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Dead Silence
A supernatural thriller about a ventriloquist who goes mad, from the team that brought us Saw.
"...better or worse, revitalizing the cinematic tradition of American Grand Guignol. All three directors are such patent horror geeks..."

March 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

God Grew Tired of Us: The Story of Lost Boys of Sudan
This multiaward-winner from Sundance 2006 follows three “lost boys” of the Sudan, chronicling three years of their journey in the United States, while revealing as much about American life as African life.
"...up their clock-radio.) Winner of the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize for documentary at Sundance 2006, the film..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Saw III
The director of Saw II is back for more of this vicious-minded series in which the psychopathic Jigsaw toys with his victims' last gasps.
"...Serial madman Jigsaw (Bell) is back for more Rube-Goldbergian Grand Guignol with protégé Amanda (Smith), a holdover from Saw..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Shortbus
John Cameron Mitchell's sophomore film effort asserts – with great gusto and even a brass band – our universal right to sexual happiness.
"...selves of its characters than it is with the grand drama of personae. If Hedwig Robinson put her wig..."

Oct. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Devil and Daniel Johnston
The literal and figurative institutionalization of Austin music and art legend Daniel Johnston is analyzed from many angles in this perceptive film profile.
"...“There you have it, I’m a manic depressive with grand illusions.”..."

May 5, 2006 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

Last Holiday
After being diagnosed with an incurable brain disease, a woman (who is played delightfully by Queen Latifah) discovers her moxie.
"...with its fantasy shopping sequences and sports slapstick and grand-hotel hijinks (although I was delighted by Petr Vanek, who..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Lord of War
Gattaca writer-director Andrew Niccol shines his usual cynicism on the subject of gunrunning in his new film, a strange amalgam of compelling visuals and fascinating vocational details forged with deep moral ambivalence and often hollow didacticism.
"...is messy and ill-defined, and as scattershot as its grand topic...."

Sept. 16, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Darkness and Confusion
Rocha grand jury file raises as many questions as it answers
"...that morning, the DA's office had announced that the grand jury considering the Rocha case had returned a no-bill..."

Aug. 26, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Broken Flowers
Jim Jarmusch and Bill Murray meditate on middle age and the world of possibilities.
"...physical and emotional journey. Broken Flowers, which won the Grand Jury prize at Cannes, will probably turn out to..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Chrystal
Billy Bob Thornton plays an Arkansas husband who attempts to redeem himself after critically injuring his wife and killing their son in a car accident four years earlier.
"...tone of the film teeters between gut-wrenching realism and grand, operatic fatalism. It’s a tricky balancing act, perhaps even..."

April 15, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Prince & Me
Who says you can't be a princess and go to medical school too?
"...leisurely courtship that includes Shakespearean wooing and a riding-mower grand prix. Hackneyed to its core, The Prince & Me..."

April 9, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Cheaper by the Dozen
Cheaper comedy dozen't add up.
"...enthusiasm despite the mediocrity of the movie’s script and grand design. This Cheaper by the Dozen takes only the..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Last Samurai
Tom Cruise turns Japanese.
"...surprisingly, The Last Samurai largely falls short of its grand aspiration, compromised by Western filmmaking conventions in which the..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Respiro
It's the story of a wife and mother living on a Sicilian island, who is prone to increasingly bizarre behavior, and the family who must cope with her.
"...matters into his own hands and goes to the grand lengths to hide his mother away from the villagers'..."

July 25, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ghosts of the Abyss
"...the Titanic, fixing on the crumbling remains of the grand staircase, Molly Brown’s wrought iron bed, and a bowler..."

April 18, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Empire
"...Skewing it all from a Hispanic perspective is a grand idea, but there's fewer bodega-candles and chicarrons here than..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wrong Numbers
"...pedigree (Holdridge shot it in Austin for about 10 grand in glove-box change) and featuring a spare plot that..."

June 7, 2002 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Majestic
"...to the Capra-esque quality of the film, recalling those grand old days when Frank Capra (It's a Wonderful Life,..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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