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March 14, 2008 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger
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.
"...what a talented comedienne she can be. Watching Adams bat her eyes, grind her hips, and befuddle herself betwixt..."
March 7, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Penelope
Christina Ricci and James McAvoy star in this modern-day fairy tale about a girl who's cursed with a pig's snout for a nose but must find true love before the curse can be removed.
"...mirror. They talk, and they play chess, and they bat their eyelashes; he even goes so far as to..."
Feb. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Drug War Blowback
Drug-raid tactics come under increasing scrutiny
"...awake but were already at work, clad in their "battle dress" blacks, Kevlar vests and helmets, preparing to execute..."
Dec. 21, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Totally Giftee Things
"...So right off the bat (the Christmas bat, shall we say, as if nodding..."
Dec. 11, 2007 Design Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Beside the Point
The process that netted us Police Chief Art Acevedo – held up as exemplary for all future "critical hires" for the city – is starting to look like a happy accident
"...carved in granite tablets, conventional wisdom from the Statesman's Bat Cave to the Chron's executive washroom, that the hiring..."
Nov. 23, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar
Naked City
"...Humane Society's outside play yard stumbled upon a rabid bat in May, the pooches were placed in quarantined isolation..."
Aug. 24, 2007 News Feature
'MLB 07: The Show' for the PlayStation2
"...pitch taking into account all situational aspects of that at-bat. This is a nice and well-done new feature that..."
July 1, 2007 Sports Post by Mark Fagan
Naked City
"...a fractured conclusion, less about lawmaking than the extraordinary battle over Speaker Tom Craddick, who last week declared his..."
June 1, 2007 News Feature
UK Calling
Damon Albarn leads SXSW 07's UK act armada. Again.
"...and went straight to the kids, uploading her first batch of catchiness directly to her MySpace page and scoring..."
Feb. 23, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov
Sports Gaming Guide
Holiday Edition '06
"...the minutiae of the game. When using the Classic batting mode, hitting the ball for power is next to..."
Dec. 8, 2006 Screens Feature by Mark Fagan
Cardinals Down the Drain: To Night the Impossible Mare?
"...Famer Barry Bonds on the fifth pitch of an at-bat in May after missing him with the first four..."
Sept. 29, 2006 Sports Post by Shawn Badgley
Little Man
If you can accept the very idea of Shawn Wayans’ face on the body of an infantilized baby-man in diapers, who’s to care about the quality of anything else in the movie?
"...to being hit in the crotch, beaten with a bat, or peed on by a dog. I would tell..."
July 21, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Grudge Match: 'MVP 06: NCAA Baseball' vs. 'MLB 06: The Show' for the PS2
"...The debate over whether professional or collegiate sports is more exciting..."
April 26, 2006 Sports Post by Mark Fagan
Game 6
Novelist Don DeLillo's first foray as a screenwriter uses the legendary sixth game of the 1986 World Series as the central metaphor in this film starring Michael Keaton and Robert Downey Jr.
"...it makes us anxiously await DeLillo’s next time at bat...."
April 7, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Roost
Basically a story about four young people whose car breaks down in the boondocks and the wretched things that befall them while first seeking help and then escape, this bare-bones horror film takes the hoary formula and runs wild.
"...wild with it. As soon as the first flying bat hits their windshield, it follows that the shit will..."
Oct. 21, 2005 Movie Review
Batman Begins
Batman Begins … and it's about time. The movie is great fun, and also a terrific relief.
"...Joel Schumacher. This is as close to the Depression-era Bat Man as films have yet ventured, and although Nolan’s..."
June 17, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Day Trips
Quanah Parker walked the stony road from nomadic Plains Indian to successful cattle rancher
"...fort. A month after Texas won independence at the Battle of San Jacinto, 9-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker and four..."
May 13, 2005 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Thankfully, the dark tone of the beloved childrens books is carried over to the screen, and the terrific performances and production design provide extra lift.
"...things in the middle." These words are transposed near verbatim from page to screen in director Brad Silberling’s spirited..."
Dec. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Food-o-File
Everything is still happening in October!
"...quite a while is fresh pressed apple cider from Bat Creek Farm near Bertram. Farmers Kim and Jacque McBride..."
Oct. 15, 2004 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Record review
"...Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus (Mute) It's a long and..."
Oct. 15, 2004 Music Review by Marc Savlov
Shaun of the Dead
This "romantic comedy … with zombies" has a note-perfect mix of humor, horror, love, and death.
"...while (and a few well-aimed swipes with a cricket bat) before Shaun realizes what has happened, but once he..."
Sept. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Fingers of Fame
Rollie Fingers on the DH, Pete Rose, Eric Gagne, and More
"...Fingers was in town as part of the Rolaids Bat and Win $10,000 Game where lucky Round Rock resident..."
Aug. 13, 2004 Sports Feature by Mark Fagan
Mickey
Mega-author John Grisham wrote and financed the making of this Little League baseball film starring Harry Connick Jr.
"...more so than this reviewer, whose last time at bat was when one flew in my downtown window after..."
May 14, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Van Helsing
Hugh Jackman's mysterious monster hunter is pittefd against nearly the entire pantheon of Universal’s classic monsters, including Dracula and and the Wolf-Man.
"...gnaws off the knob: He’s Count Dracula as The Bat From Oz. You keep waiting for him to break..."
May 7, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
50 First Dates
Drew and the Sandman team up once more to make Valentine's weekend box-office dollars.
"...serious ass-kicking. Barrymore gets to beat him with a bat in one scene, perhaps in exchange for all her..."
Feb. 13, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Luv Doc Recommends: Austin Ice Bats vs. Laredo Bucks
Travis County Expo Center, Friday, December 5, 2003
"...to find a delicate veneer of ice in the birdbath every once in a while, but by and large..."
Dec. 5, 2003 Column by The Luv Doc
Animation Revelation
Charging toward a movie, TV, or computer screen near you: HorseBack Salad Entertainment
"...fact, we were immediately getting jobs right off the bat. We worked from home for a year to build..."
Nov. 21, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Play Ball!
Microsoft Game Studios steps up to the plate with its first Xbox baseball title while EA and 3D0 improve upon last year's Playstation2 models
"...Prepare for a bat infestation. You know what I'm talking about, Mr. Sammy..."
June 20, 2003 Screens Feature by Michael Chamy
The Man Without a Past
A man, beaten into amnesia, builds a new life in this Oscar-nominated Finnish film.
"...and beaten savagely (the cartoonish "thwack!" of the baseball bat diminishes some of the menace). The beating isn’t portrayed..."
