The Pick-up Artist

I really enjoyed this movie, at first it was Molly Ringwald that turned me on to this movie, but Robert Downey Jr. really made this movie roll. Anyways, good movie.... Full review

This connoisseur's view of the New York is central to the film's charm. But there's great skill in the way Toback keeps the current of compulsiveness present under the action without allowing it to overwhelm the material. ... Full Review

But luckily, there's a little more than that to James Toback's "The Pickup Artist. She's also in trouble with gangsters (led by a brilliantly scurrilous Harvey Keitel). ... Full Review

None of the qualities of those movies can be found in "The Pickup Artist," which is ungainly and pointless. This is an appallingly silly movie, from its juvenile comic overture to its dreadfully sincere conclusion. ... Full Review

I genuinely can't remember the last time I felt as torn about a documentary's subject matter as I did after watch director James (FINGERS; THE PICK-UP ARTIST; BLACK AND WHITE) Toback's penetrating and sometimes scarily intimate profile of former boxing... ... Full Article

The last time I interviewed somebody at the Liberty Hotel it was known as the Charles Street Jail. That was about 25 years ago and the subject of the interview was a white-bearded, sleight, elderly fellow known to some as... ... Full Article

It is, both surprisingly and most enjoyably, Robert Downey jnr's year. He gave Iron Man a jazzy insouciance to offset the blockbuster dictates and within weeks he'll be turning heads as an Australian method actor gone too far in the... ... Full Article

As much as one would like to think that people are socializing for the pure pleasure of socializing, some Austinites are actually on the make. ... Full Article

Out: For some reason, I thought J. Black's , the month-old lounge in burgeoning West Sixth Street district, was a sports bar. Not so. Several gleaming screens peek out from corners of the narrow, deep room down the way from... ... Full Article

Out: We heard all kinds of dirt when "The Pick-Up Artist," VH1's reality series, was taping in Austin last spring. The concept is a natural: Self-promoting date artist Mystery, who came up with the "Mystery Method," trains a gaggle of... ... Full Article