Film Review – Piranha 3D
by Ben MacNair
Bodies and Blood. Girls and Gore. Readers of the Daily Mail really should look away now. With a look back at the B Movies from the 1970’s, this 3D …

How to Bear a Cross: A review of Emilio Estevez’s “The Way”
by Anannya Dasgupta
For those of us that are lost, Emilio Estevez’s new film “The Way” (2011) is a comforting reminder that most likely so …

Film Review – Whiteout
by Ben MacNair
‘Whiteout’ is one of those films that borrows so heavily from other films you remember what it borrows, and forget any originality.
It borrows a lumbering, quite predictable murder story line …

The Mack
The Mack is a 1973 blaxploitation film starring Max Julien and Richard Pryor.  Although the movie was produced during the era of such blaxploitation movies as Dolemite, its producers do not label it a …

White students are bussed into an all black school in this powerful drama. The white minorities are constantly harassed by the mob lead by the militant J.T. Watson (James A. Watson Jr.). Lerone (Dewayne Jesse) is helped with his reading by Lloyd, and improves his skills by reading Lady Chatterly’s Lover. The after-school reading program soon becomes popular to the students, who find new appreciation for literary pursuits. Watch for an early appearance from Rob Reiner, later to achieve sitcom stardom as Meathead on All in the Family and become one of Hollywood’s best directors.

Review of the movie, White Lightenin’
2009, written by Shane Smith of Vice Magazine
White Lightnin’ tells the story of Jesco White, ‘The Dancing Outlaw’. Jesco (Edward Hogg) is the last of the Appalachian Mountain dancers. Ever …

All American Orgy
(Cummings Farm)
2009 R 98 minutes
HEYYY, wait a flippin’ minute. even though i have an entire world of pornography at my fingertips and have seen American Pie 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, …

Based on the television show by Rod Serling, Twilight Zone: The Movie is shot in the style used in Creepshow and Cat’s Eye, four separate shorts collected for one movie. Each segment is also helmed …

The bad dudes from “Deliverance” once ran away squealing from Robert Duvall. Robert Duvall went down to Georgia and stole Charlie Daniel’s fiddle.
Truth be told, Robert Duvall, is the backwoods equivalent of Chuck Norris. Rather, …

Review of It’s Kind of a Funny Story
by T. Basham
The story isn’t as compelling, the patients and staff aren’t as deranged, and the performances certainly aren’t as powerful. Even so, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s …

Picture this: A movie about two 19th century French poets. How does that sound? It sounds like a bad idea because it is a bad idea.
It’s a worse idea than the …

Review of the movie, Lucas

This quirky coming-of-age story centers on Lucas (Corey Haim), an “accelerated” (by two grades) 14-year-old boy with a passion for insects. Lucas lucks out when he befriends newcomer Maggie …

Review of Howard the Duck
August 1, 1986
By CARYN JAMES
THE amazing news about Howard the Duck has nothing to do with what he looks like on screen, or whether the film shares the goofy irreverence …

Review of “Kick That Habit” by Peter Liechti (Originally released in 1989)
by Pat A Physics
I saw this movie at Cinematexas while I was a sophmore at UT in 1999. I was turned on to …

By Vincent Canby
Published: August 20, 1982
”THE BEASTMASTER,” which opens at the National and other theaters today, is the kind of dopey, occasionally vicious adventure-fantasy in which an unborn crown prince …

ONLY charm and sentimentality could have brought the requisite magic to Clint Eastwood’s ”Honkytonk Man”; unfortunately, this well-intentioned but weak film hasn’t nearly enough of either. Set in the Depression, opening in …

The Lake House
“A Story of two people in love who haven’t even met.”
*Spoiler Alert. Reading this will ruin the movie for you.
The Lake House is a romantic drama film premiered on the 16th of June …

William S. Borroughs in “A Man Within.”
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
“I mean it has a special smell, over and above the smell of cyanide, carrion, blood, cordite or burnt flesh,” he continues, reading this excerpt …

When you think of perfume, you very rarely think about movies. One reason for this is that the two give you such different sensations. Perfume is an olfactory sensation – a smell. …

Review of Little Man
1½ stars (out of four)
By Michael Wilmington
In “Little Man,” the Wayans brothers try to take dumb comedy to new heights, but they wind up shrinking the laughs along with one of …

TENDER MERCIES
By J. MASLIN
WHAT better proof can there be of the distinctiveness of Australian film-making than ”Tender Mercies,” a film by Bruce Beresford that manages to be thoroughly Australian though it features Texas …

Ben Affleck and Rebecca Hall, the hedgehog and the fox, combine forces to excellent effect in “The Town,” a fast-paced, character-driven heist movie that combines robberies with romance and solidifies Affleck’s reputation …

Running Away From the Circus
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Has Joaquin Phoenix lost it? That question began raging through the chattersphere in late 2008 and early 2009, especially after the actor showed up on the “Late Show With …

“Don’t You Want Me?”: Isotopes and the Attainment of Happiness in Cyrus
by Clarissa Olivarez
As I was walking out of the theater after watching Cyrus, I heard people around me saying things like, “Oedipus Complex” and …

The Station Agent
By ELVIS MITCHELL
In ”The Station Agent” a man named Fin settles into a remote outpost — a rundown train depot in the wilds of New Jersey — that is so restful …

STONE
Director: Sandy Harbutt, Released 1974
Cast: Ken Shorter, Sandy Harbutt, Deryck Barnes, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Roger Ward
I don’t know much about biker flicks. Nor have I sought out any “bikersploitation” like Hell Ride, The Wild Angels, Hell’s …

But We Haven’t Done Anything: The Modern Dilemma in A Serious Man
by clarissa olivarez
I recently sat down to watch A Serious Man with my husband and I was surprised at how successfully it addresses the …

Into the Wild – The Movie
Links about the Motion Picture, Into the Wild

Into the Wild Movie – Official Website
Into The Wild Movie from Paramount Vantage. Sean Penns Film tells the story of …

Austin Goes Electric: Scott Conn’s documentary Dirt Road to Psychedelia
Elevator to the 13th Floor: The Birth of Austin Psychedelia on Film
Dirt Road to Psychedelia: Austin, Texas During the 1960s
Vulcan Gas and Liquid Light: Austin, Texas …