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Boat Trip
"..."I Will Survive"? Will Shaye fellate an aluminum baseball bat? (Unfortunately, yes to all three.) If you really want..."

March 28, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Wes Craven Presents: They
"...might be (they look a little bit like the spider-rat-bat-thing from Ib Melchior's sci-fi potboiler Angry Red Planet, but..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sweet Home Alabama
"...why Melanie would tear out of town like a bat out of hell, and it's just as easy to..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Adapted for film from the off-Broadway musical hit, this movie is a rousing screen spectacle about a surgically botched transsexual from East Germany (played charismatically by John Cameron Mitchell, the show's creator and film director).
"...by a friend) bear a spooky resemblance to the “bat out of hell” style of dramatic power ballads belted..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Day Trips
The subterranean magnificence of Carlsbad Caverns
"...in 1898. At first, he thought the swarm of bats filling the evening sky was smoke rising from a..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Summer Reading
"...New York attorney who took his eldest son's baseball bat and politely (so as to make sure there is..."

June 1, 2001 Books Feature by Suzy Spencer

BATMAN RETURNS
One of the best comic adaptations ever produced as well as one of Tim Burton's most understated fantasy efforts.
"...BATMAN RETURNS..."

May 4, 2001 Screens Review by Mike Emery

Shadow of the Vampire
"...his arm shoots out, lightning quick, snatches a wayward bat from mid-flight, and pops it into his frenzied maw...."

Jan. 26, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Day Trips
Baseball, bats, obits, no buts, and environmental action figure into this year-end wrap-up.
"...was a home run hitter's dream, especially for visiting batters. Fans flocked to the new brick-and-limestone stadium to see..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Professors of Pleasure
Their name may suggest a lack of intelligence, but make no mistake, the Flaming Idiots are wise men when it comes to comedy.
"...taken their particular fringe performance skills -- juggling, floor acrobatics, sideshow stunts -- and worked them again and again..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Lucky Numbers
"...O'Neill, Tim Roth, Bill Pullman and Michael Moore. Suddenly Battlefield Earth doesn't look so bad. Compared to Lucky Numbers,..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Little Vampire
"...tease him all the more. One night, a large bat flies through Tony's open bedroom window, Peter Pan-style, and..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bittersweet Motel
"...a good show involves big balloons the audience can bat around while Anastasio chicken-necks his way around the stage...."

Sept. 22, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Portrait of the Artist as a Grad Student
Chronicle reviewer David Garza uses Tom Grimes' new history of the Iowa Writers' Workshop to question whether creative writing can be taught.
"...had learned to wrap her hands around a wooden bat and take a few clumsy swings on the baseball..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Books Feature by David Garza

For Love of the Game
"...For Love of the Game (Costner's third time at bat in a baseball movie) is certainly a move into..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Coach's Corner
"...(hat, eye-black, pants, high socks and cleats, ball and bat in hand), ready to play the game. Less common..."

March 12, 1999 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Momoko Bubble Tea Room and Japanese Gift Store
"...them. Badtz-Maru defies all description other than perhaps "owl bat," but he's got his own tiny soap and soap..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Food Feature

Coffee Table Books That Depict and Provide Escape From
"...knowledge of all the world's creatures. A chapter on bats is titled "Funnel-eared, Smoky, Disc-Winged, Sucker-footed and Short-tailed Bats."..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Books Feature by Clay Smith

General Chaos: Uncensored Animation
"...featuring as it does a pair of straining, gassy combatants battling for the World Cup of, well, flatulence. Don't..."

Sept. 25, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Opposite of Sex
"...Dedee for the predator she is right off the bat. Torn between his love for Matt and his impotent..."

July 3, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Coach's Corner
Odds and Ends
"...were pretty half-hearted. Baseball players understand that you can't bat with a broken hand. The intensity and frequency of..."

June 12, 1998 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Spice World
"...Hard Day's Night, Spice World follows the antics and battles of the band's five members -- Sporty, Scary, Baby,..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
"...and James Remar. More “sensory bombardment” than “movie,” Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is the franchise's follow-up film to its phenomenally,..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dancing About Architecture
It's in the Can
"...The Vallejo Halloween controversy continues unabated. This week: Stone from the Voodoo Lounge called to..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Carpool
"...infantile husband (Paymer) who refuses to step up to bat. Actually Mom may have the right idea about Carpool...."

Aug. 30, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Family Thing
"...the brothers' old Aunt T. -- blind as a bat but wiser than all of Chicago. “You were born..."

March 29, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Day Trips
"...South of town, the Eckert James River Bat Cave erupts with the nightly emergence of one of..."

Sept. 29, 1995 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips
"...The Bat Cave at Moody Gardens in Galveston is the newest..."

June 16, 1995 Column

Pulp Fiction
Tarantino's second feature film lights up the screen with the same blazing torch that it carries for the idea of the movies.
"...I want to be free. There's Travolta doing his Bat Dance, the retro drug zone of Jack Rabbit Slims,..."

Oct. 14, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Angels in the Outfield
"...old Rod Serling castoff never even gets up to bat. Gordon-Levitt is young Roger, a lonely foster child (his..."

July 15, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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