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  • Film Review: ‘Rio’

    I don’t have much experience reviewing children’s movies, so, before writing this, I did some research to glean a few of the points prescient to their reviews. Fortunately the standard kid-flick…

  • Film Review: ‘Your Highness’

    Your Highness is the movie equivalent of Mongolian BBQ: You get your plate and come to the first station, the meat. There are some things you feel comfortable with, like the…

  • SXSW Film Review: ‘Kumaré’

    Kumaré is a good documentary. It (somewhat) does what it sets out to do, does it well, takes some daring chances, scores some laughs, and is a nice-enough movie-going experience. It’s…

  • TV RECAP: ‘The Office: Garage Sale’

    The Office has finally stopped lollygagging around the Michael-Holly will-they/won’t-they (of course they will) question? and given us what we all expected: The Proposal, albeit coyly buried under the episode’s evasive…

  • TV RECAP: ‘Parks and Recreation: Camping’

    The Harvest Festival has come and gone (about 16 episodes earlier than I thought), and Leslie’s getting the kudos she deserves…until the city manager Paul suffers a heart attack during her…

  • SXSW Film Review: ‘The Beaver’

    On the surface, The Beaver is the story of Walter Black’s struggle with depression and the unorthodox means with which he copes, and, finally, his desperate attempt to return to a…

  • SXSW Film Review: ‘The Divide’

    I caught (that verb seems appropriate) director Xavier Gens’ new film The Divide as a midnight screener at the Ritz theatre. By far the best thing I can say about the…

  • SXSW Film Review: ‘Becoming Santa’

    In the interest of full disclosure, I had the good fortune to meet Becoming Santa’s star, Jack, on the shuttle ferrying us from the horrendous labyrinthine beast of the Austin Convention…