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Sept. 19, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta
College
New frat-house comedy is timed for the new semester.
"...comes up with all the comic gold of a barbed-wire condom. The film's only intriguing aspect ("asspect"?) can be..."
Sept. 5, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Austin's Most Wanted Bison Killer
Local businessman may pay high price for Colorado bison killings
"...bison will travel to find better food. A three-strand barbed-wire fence like the one Hawn erected was no barrier..."
May 23, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
Prom Night
A remake of the Eighties horror film in name only, Prom Night is a nearly bloodless slasher film with few surprises.
"...pair of none-too-quick cops (28 Weeks Later's Elba, The Wire's Ransone) do absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. Go..."
April 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Letters @ 3AM
Jo Carol Pierce's music says: Go the distance, baby, and find out – find you
"...she addedinflatable dolls, carnivals, cars, drunken rain, nudity, barbed wire, a baby smiling over hermother's shoulder as Mama's on..."
March 14, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Frances McDormand's Miss Pettigrew is an unemployed nanny who bluffs her way into a job as the "social secretary" for the brain-dead, proto-fashionista, Yank-on-holiday starlet Delysia Lafosse, played by Amy Adams.
"...the end outshine her bubble-headed charge, a real live wire from the get-go, is less a shocking discovery than..."
March 7, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
TV Eye
'Tis the season for TV marathons, plus, mark your calendar for the last season of The Wire, and no news is bad news on the strike front
"...The fifth and final season of The Wire premieres Sunday, Jan. 6, at 8pm on HBO. The..."
Dec. 28, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta
This Christmas
The film has the perfect formula for holiday cheer: redemption through sentimentality, salvation through schmaltz.
"...ago Elba was playing Stringer Bell on HBO’s The Wire – the greatest tragic figure in television history –..."
Nov. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Day Trips
Dr. Joe Smith's eye-catching sculptures have been attracting folks to Caldwell for decades
"...It was originally a parade float made of chicken wire stuffed with tissue to look like feathers. Smith's daughter..."
Oct. 19, 2007 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
Trade
This drama about international sex trafficking is tremendously sincere but also brutal.
"...to “help” the captives, by then detained in a barbed-wire camp by the oblivious Border Patrol, and can offer..."
Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Cardiovascular Blues II
"...at a video monitor and fluttering images of a wire making its way through my body to my beating..."
Aug. 31, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez
DOA: Dead or Alive
Female fighters start out as enemies but strip down to their bikini tops to fight a common foe.
"...to fall madly in love with the possibilities of wire fighting and CGI effects at the expense of a..."
June 22, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Hostel: Part II
Roth has accomplished the near impossible: He's crafted a vastly superior sequel to Hostel, one that supersedes the original's sadistic quotient, gore effects, and narrative subversiveness.
"...your mind, and then mount you with a rusty, barbed-wire strap-on, and to hell with the Astroglide. The first..."
June 8, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Peacock Politics in Western Travis County
Handful of holdout ranchers expected to sell their family spreads in name of what some see as suburban sprawl
"...five gates. The road could line up with Bob Wire Road, RO Drive, or complete a new alignment that..."
Jan. 26, 2007 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves
TV Eye
Tube tops
"...The Wire (HBO): In a word, brilliant...."
Jan. 5, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta
ACL Music Fest Interviews
"...Grande Ballroom. It's a time-irreverent cacophony the group calls "barbed-wire music."..."
Sept. 15, 2006 Music Feature by Austin Powell
Day Trips
Carlos Cortés continues the family tradition of making beautiful art out of concrete structures that appear to be made of wood
"...San Antonio, a workman twists and ties a chicken wire frame around an armature of rebar. Layers of cement..."
Sept. 8, 2006 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
Part concert film and part fascinating biography, this deft film is a moving tribute to Leonard Cohen’s musical legacy.
"...at least here and there by “Bird on a Wire” or “Suzanne,” to name what are probably his two..."
July 14, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
My Gang Don't Bow Down
Big Chief Kevin Goodman sew, sew, sews a new history here in Austin
"...different parts of the costume. The crown has a wire on the back of it before it's decorated. It'll..."
May 5, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser
Zu Warriors
Tsui Hark's wide-screen riot of color, movement, and sound
"...himself has updated his justly famed epic of exhilarating wire-work and serpentine eyebrow combat into a deliriously out-of-control CGI..."
April 28, 2006 Screens Review by Marc Savlov
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...day in recent history. Indeed, according to an AP wire report, a photographer caught Friedman, who was serving as..."
March 17, 2006 News Feature
14th Annual 'Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest
The winners, the judges, and the reasons why
"...February 10, 2006), and it would lead the pack wire to wire. This isn't unprecedented, but I wouldn't call..."
Feb. 17, 2006 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley
Letters at 3AM
Unless my transmission conks out in a place like Bossier City, a guy like me hasn't much chance to hear out a guy like Virgil
"...c'n fix a car like this sometimes with bale wire an' a screwdriver." I told him I knew he..."
Feb. 3, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura
To Marfa, on a Tuesday in December
When high art and hipness move in, what happens to a tiny Texas town?
"...and the wind piles tumbleweeds in bulbous drifts against barbed-wire fences. There'll be ice on the road once or..."
Dec. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Dan Keane
Dreaming of Buffalo
Prairie preservationists want to turn Austin's eyes – and energies – eastward
"...there, the big-beaked gray bird sitting on the telephone wire on the edge of the property. It's known as..."
Dec. 23, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May
Day Trips
Earlier this year the Regency Bridge north of San Saba became the last suspension bridge in Texas that cars can drive across
"...the late 1800s when technology improved the manufacturing of wire. Wire made the cables stronger, and the steel rope..."
Nov. 11, 2005 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Burton and Depp's screen version of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s book is truer to the source material and generally splendid, artful, and often sinister, yet it doesn't completely displace the earlier screen version.
"...revelations of a traumatic youth spent behind an orthodontic wire-frame muzzle that’d give Hannibal Lecter the screaming meemies –..."
July 15, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Manic Street Preachers
"...of Cardiff, surviving band members James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, and Sean Moore have re-released what now sounds like..."
May 27, 2005 Music Review by Marc Savlov
Letters at 3AM
The Oklahoma City Memorial and Ground Zero stir feelings of the dead calling on us to live
"...Beside the memorial was a wire-mesh fence protecting I-don't-remember-what – perhaps a construction site. Visitors..."
April 15, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura
Wednesday Sleepers
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
"...Darcie Stevens WE ARE SCIENTISTS9pm, Hard Rock Cafe Another Wire-y trio from Brooklyn, WAS' EP, The Wolf's Hour, leavens..."
