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Jurassic World
Bigger isn’t necessarily better
"...does it charmingly) as one of the film’s requisite love interests. The other half is Howard’s Park Manager Claire,..."

June 12, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Good Vibrations
Bill Pohlad offers Love & Mercy
"...touchstones that need mentioning, that it's a wonder that Love & Mercy, which opens nationwide on Friday, June 5,..."

June 5, 2015 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fool for Love
The relationship of the doomed duo in Fool for Love gets explosive in Capital T's production
"...Love can be a many splendored thing, sure, but it..."

Nov. 14, 2014 Arts Review by Elissa Russell

Self Service
Merritt Tierce drew on her own time waiting tables for the provocative restaurant world in her novel Love Me Back
"...romanticism surrounding food culture, Merritt Tierce's fearless debut novel Love Me Back is an unsentimental meditation on the transactional..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Arts Feature by Amy Gentry

The National: Fury & Squalor
One night at the Moody down, two to come
"...“People love to sing about being alone together,” posited Matt Berninger..."

April 22, 2014 Music Post by Doug Freeman

UT Gov't to Vote on Downplaying Pot Possession
Vote would ask UTPD to enforce citation law on campus
"...UPDATE: Love's resolution went down in flames last night, with just..."

March 26, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

OUTlander's Weird National Attention
And not 'weird' in a 'Keep Austin Weird' good way
"...sweet, LGBTQ music/multimedia fest has gotten some national blog love this week; too bad Autostraddle and HuffPo totally screwed..."

March 6, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Beginners
Christopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor play father and son in this lovely drama about what happens to both after the older man discovers near the end of his life that he's gay.
"...Oliver may still become, especially as he falls in love anew. (Oh, but does Mills nail that light-in-the-head first..."

June 24, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Mother
Bong Joon-ho, the South Korean director of The Host, is back with an exquisitely rendered murder mystery fraught with psychological suspense.
"...The Host: Here it is a woman whose unconditional love for her son has no bounds. This emotion is..."

March 26, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Single Man
Tom Ford ditched fashion designing for filmmaking with this smart adaptation of the Christopher Isherwood story about a grieving gay man in 1962 California.
"...fashion designer/icon Tom Ford. It's a melancholy meditation on love and death and hidden lives, and Ford brings everything..."

Jan. 15, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Inkheart
This fantasy adventure, in which characters come to life when the books they're in are read aloud, boasts a strong cast and an ingrained love for reading and the well-told tale.
"...frankly, wonderful aspect of the film is its unabashed love for books and the wonders to be found within...."

Jan. 23, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Reader
Stephen Daldry, working from a superior script by David Hare, has crafted a film about guilt, love, and history which stars Ralph Fiennes, Kate Winslet, and newcomer David Kross.
"...her from, among other classic postcoital classics, Lady Chatterley's Lover. ("That's disgusting!" objects Hanna, nude in a tub with..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Girl Cut in Two
French master Claude Chabrol's latest film is the tale of the downfall of a cheery, open-faced weathergirl in Lyons who falls in love with two different men.
"...his stepdaughter, Cécile Maistre) was inspired by a notorious love triangle involving Gilded Age architect Stanford White; while Chabrol..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Let the Right One In
This multi-award-winning Swedish film might be summarized as a vampire tween romance, but that cheap and tawdry sum-up does zero justice to the magnificent emotional resonance of this gem. A discussion of the adaptation follows the film.
"...desire; corpses in copses and snowbound ire: Ah, young love. Whatever would we do without it? The multi-award-winning Swedish..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

My Clone Sleeps Alone
"...Reagan’s first presidential innauguration on Jan. 20, 1980. Your love is like a tidal wave Spinning over my head..."

July 25, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

WALL-E
By turns sad, hilarious, exciting, and ultimately, hopeful, this is a film of Great Truths masquerading as child's play.
"...ensconced, he dreams not of electric sheep but of love. And then, without warning and in a blast of..."

June 27, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Duchess of Langeais
Jacques Rivette adapts a Balzac novel and creates a period piece that's also a timeless tale about obsessive love and hate.
"...Balzac, the story reveals the flip sides of passionate love and hate and how the tale's would-be couple can..."

June 20, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

His Dark Materials
David Gordon Green shines a light on love and loss in Snow Angels
"...... parallel stories [static] ... the young, hopeful, optimistic love story [high-pitched whining noise] ... cautionary tale [tape wheels..."

April 4, 2008 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Persepolis
This remarkable animated film tells a contemporary story about an Iranian girl’s coming-of-age while navigating the usual pitfalls of adolescence and the Islamic revolution of the Eighties.
"...thing who resembles children the world over in her love for Bruce Lee, Nikes, and rock & roll. Then,..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Casino Royale
This is the James Bond origin story wherein we get to discover, along with incoming blond Bond Daniel Craig, where 007 got his suave daredeviltry and love of fast cars, vodka martinis, and highest-stakes cardsharpery.
"...Daniel Craig, where 007 got his Walther PPK, his love of fast cars and suave daredeviltry, vodka martinis (at..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Just My Luck
Lindsay Lohan takes on a grown-up role, but we can't tell the difference.
"...Lindsay Lohan, Chris Pine, Samaire Armstrong, Bree Turner, Faizon Love and Missi Pyle. Just My Luck is the first..."

May 12, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

La Mujer de Mi Hermano
Soap melodramatics masquerade as high art in this south-of-the-border drama about a love triangle and marital infidelity.
"...release. Essentially a gussied-up telenovela, this film about a love triangle is predictable and thin, even though the actors..."

April 14, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cowboy del Amor
Ivan Thompson, the "Cowboy Cupid" who brokers marriages between American men and Mexican women, is a truly fascinating documentary character that is expertly revealed through rock-solid storytelling.
"...a truck driver who for $3,000 wants "almost a love-at-first-sight kind of feeling," to Torreón, where they place want..."

March 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Casanova
Hallström’s latest is fine but unambitious, content with what it is – an arthouse trifle with tricorner hats, corsets, and powdered wigs.
"...1750s Venice, musings on horseback about true and false love, a semihistorical basis, and ever so many ostensibly delightful..."

Jan. 6, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Serenity
Joss Whedon’s Western/sci-fi hybrid (which was canceled from TV but greenlighted for the movies) evinces the kind of swashbuckling bonhomie that made so many of us fall in love with the original Star Wars films.
"...ensemble cast of characters bound by loyalty and tough love. But if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it: Those..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Constant Gardener
City of God director Fernando Meirelles makes his English-language debut with this bracing, heartbreaking conspiracy thriller set in AIDS-ravaged Kenya.
"...do in two hours – make people fall in love, attack multinational corporations, stage a tribal raid against the..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Yes
While the unconventional Yes doesn’t realize all of its artistic ambitions, its depiction of romantic passion still resonates.
"...Henderson, Sheila Hancock and Samantha Bond. A post-9/11 cross-cultural love story spoken entirely in iambic pentameter? For the less..."

July 29, 2005 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Perfect Man
Less a feature film than 90 minutes of tweenage feminine wish fulfillment, The Perfect Man is like Teen People come to life.
"...Vanessa Lengies, Ben Feldman and Aria Wallace. If you love Hilary Duff – her smoky eye make-up, her heavily..."

June 17, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Wimbledon
A terribly tender, good-hearted romantic comedy from across the pond.
"...Dunst are awfully likeable, easy to root for in love and in sport. Indeed, the tennis action (shot on..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

A Home at the End of the World
Michael Cunningham's novel is the basis for this story of a love triangle in which everyone's in love with Bobby (played by Colin Farrell).
"...all beautiful, lonely people," he coos. Jonathan, who’s in love with Bobby, looks on in horror, but there’s such..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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