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Feb. 5, 2016 News Column by Jim Hightower
At Any Price
This family drama puts a human face on corporate agribusiness.
"...At Any Price, puts human faces to the phrase “corporate agribusiness” with a family drama set amid the present-day..."
May 17, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner
Point Austin: Questions for Visa
A few things we might ask before we provide corporate welfare
"...leaders would take the blame for not feeding the corporate gift-horse additional oats...."
Nov. 30, 2012 News Column by Michael King
Josie and the Pussycats
It's far more subversive than the Seventies Hanna-Barbera cartoon on which it's based.
"...from the current deluge of craptacular boy bands to corporate branding and teen-demographic marketing trends. Who'd have thought that..."
April 13, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Naked Gym Ape
Stuart Prestidge wades into the exotic jungle of the Corporate Gym and surveys its creatures.
"...have fallen for the tantalizing neon promises of the Corporate Gym. I was assured that health, happiness, and muscles..."
Jan. 28, 2000 Features Feature by Stuart Prestidge
Ready Player One
Video gaming and Eighties culture get the Spielberg treatment
"...which is using an army of gold farmers in corporate indentured servitude to solve Halliday's puzzle, take over the..."
March 30, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Point Austin: How Much for a Hanger?
Austin ponders the latest corporate incentive proposal
"...there's the fact that Gov. Rick Perry announced Hanger's corporate relocation to Austin Jan. 12 and that the state..."
Jan. 22, 2010 News Column by Michael King
The Informant!
Soderbergh's corporate whistleblower comedy is tuned in the key of Richard Lester.
"...same first syllable and both are movies about real-life corporate whistle-blowers, Soderbergh’s The Informant! could not be more different..."
Sept. 18, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Burning Down the Ags: Is It Ever Enough?
Thanksgiving = turkey, then football, then shopping
"...yourself of an early and reliable parking spot—has gone corporate. State employee lots that once were seen as prime..."
Nov. 28, 2008 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell
Flash of Genius
Based on the true story of Robert Kearns, who invented the intermittent windshield wiper only to have his idea stolen by the Ford Motor Co., is a real David and Goliath story.
"...and Goliath stuff, a battle between the forces of corporate greed and chicanery on one side and an extremely..."
Oct. 3, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
The Promotion
Forgettably bland, this comic film features Seann William Scott and John C. Reilly vying for the same job promotion.
"...and convinced their redemptions lie in moving up the corporate ladder but just self-aware enough to realize they’re too..."
June 13, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Michael Clayton
This smart and thoroughly entertaining film asks the question of where a lawyer’s ethical responsibility to zealously represent a client ends and the societal interest in achieving justice begins.
"...stake in a class-action lawsuit in which an agrochemical corporate giant is accused of manufacturing a toxic product resulting..."
Oct. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Steve Davis
King of California
Michael Douglas plays a wild-eyed dreamer who sways his daughter and friend into digging clandestinely for treasure underneath a California superstore.
"...century treasure lays buried somewhere in the Southern Californian corporate sprawl, he recruits his daughter into a quest of..."
Oct. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton
Who Killed the Electric Car?
This multifaceted documentary about the history of GM's electric car seeks the culprit responsible for its demise and finds plenty of blame to go around.
"...broadening its scope into areas such as grassroots organizing, corporate conspiracies, and governmental interference. The history of the electric..."
July 28, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
She Hate Me
Spike Lee strikes out with his new "joint" about an unemployed whistle-blower who makes a living impregnating sperm-deprived lesbians.
"...about a staggeringly confused amalgam of sex comedy and corporate drama that would be insulting if it weren’t so..."
Oct. 1, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
In My Skin
Disturbing French drama about a woman who cuts her own skin as a prelude to gnawing on her flesh.
"...Esther, a distracted thirtysomething woman slowly edging up the corporate ladder, de Van enters the story with an air..."
Dec. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space
This new anime import marks a break with the Japanese traditions and invents a wholly original and kittenish appeal.
"...having sex. There’s also a subplot about a giant corporate entity known only as Catty & Co., which rules..."
Sept. 26, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Hamlet
You have to admire Michael Almereyda's contemporary rendition of Shakespeare's Hamlet if for no other reason than its audacity in staging one of the passive prince's timeless soliloquies in the Action aisle of his local Blockbuster. “Go Home Happy,” chirps the store banner in the background.
"...their royal instructions). Almereyda positions this Hamlet within the corporate world and opens the movie with a press conference..."
June 23, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Office Space
White-collar prisoners of the corporate office will recognize themselves in this very funny, Austin-lensed movie.
"...recognize themselves in this movie: white-collar prisoners of the corporate office place -- knowledge workers and computer programmers and..."
Feb. 19, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
American Job
"...seeking his life's work, not out to climb the corporate ladder. He just wants a bearable, entry-level, minimum-wage job...."
March 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Designs That Defined the LGBTQ Movement
50 years of Queer X Design from former Chron contributor Andy Campbell
"...feels like such a slap in the face when corporate slogs siphon LGBTQ symbols to sell products that don’t..."
July 26, 2019 Qmmunity Post by James Scott
Street Corner Arts' Bull
Street Corner Arts turns a corporate office into a ring where fighting for your job is a bloodsport
"...one whose utter lack of suitability to the high-gloss corporate world in which he's laboring makes him appear about..."
April 22, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires
The Hightower Report
Corporate bamboozlers intend to widen inequality in America
"...The basic problem facing the corporate and political powers who want you and me to..."
April 8, 2016 News Column by Jim Hightower
The Hightower Report
Texas workers discover a corporate giant's shriveled ethical heart
"...Caught in this frenzy of corporate feasting are 450 steelworkers in Gregory, Texas. Employed by..."
March 4, 2016 News Column
A Big Texas Unwelcome in Dallas
‘Don’t Mess with Texas, ALEC!’
"...The American Legislative Exchange Council, the corporate-funded bill mill generating and underwriting much reactionary state legislation,..."
July 29, 2014 News Post by Michael King
I'm Lovin' the All-American Tennis Clown
There were a lot of clowns at the All-American Tennis Shootout.
"...to go with that shake. The world’s No. 1-ranked corporate fast-food buffoon...."
Dec. 18, 2006 Sports Post by Taylor Holland
Point Austin: Conflict of Interest
Facing corporate tyranny, we're all "interested parties"
"...is that several thousand citizens directly affected by one corporate property owner's greed and indifference have no recourse but..."
Dec. 15, 2006 News Column by Michael King
TV Eye
Jack Kerouac is turning over in his grave while middle-class kids "following their bliss" in The Open Road mangle his vision.
"...Kerouac's "real people," but from successful CEOs, and other corporate types who found their success through unconventional methods (i.e.,..."
Nov. 7, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta
Rad
Hal Needham's BMX action flick restored
"...“Can a small-town teen with exceptional bicycling skill outwit corporate greed while dazzling the girl and avoiding taking the..."
Sept. 25, 2020 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
Dark Waters
Todd Haynes' courtroom drama is a true-life environmental horror
"...film that not only makes you feel sorry for corporate lawyers, but even has you rooting for them, yet..."
