Bronson

Tom Hardy delivers a searing performance as Britain's so-called "most violent prisoner."

"...Amanda Burton and Hugh Ross. Forget career criminals: Charlie Bronson is a career prisoner. Born Michael Peterson in a..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Live Shot: Action Bronson’s Scoot Inn BBQ

The rap on Texas-style brisket poutine

"...Always the charmer, Action Bronson won over a capacity crowd at Scoot Inn hours..."

March 19, 2015 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Action Bronson: Mr. Wonderful

Queens MC goes major label with third LP

"...The bearded Queens rapper/chef/force of nature Action Bronson claims all breaks he’s received, paving unusual new roads..."

April 7, 2015 Music Post by Kahron Spearman

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Theo Lawrence, the Dead Coats, Doug Kershaw, Immolation, Action Bronson, Earl Sweatshirt, and Conan Gray

"...File Red are ... from Austin.– Julian Towers Action Bronson, Earl SweatshirtStubb's, Monday 28..."

Feb. 25, 2022 Music Column by Abby Johnston

Eddie the Eagle

The inspirational story of Great Britain's Olympics underdog

"...into fantasy: Edwards finds himself a coach: the fictitious Bronson Peary (Jackman), a former champion skier who’s now a..."

March 4, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Legend

Tom Hardy pulls double duty playing both the criminal Kray twins

"...drawn to both of those types again and again (Bronson, Inception, The Dark Knight Rises, Mad Max: Fury Road)..."

Nov. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Hit & Run

Dax Shepard's sophomore directorial feature is a mixture of earnest and romantic road movie, high-octane chase picture, and slapstick comedy.

"...Shepard is Charlie Bronson, a sweetheart of a guy living what appears to..."

Aug. 24, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Harry Brown

Michael Caine gets his Charles Bronson on in this British vigilante drama.

"...O'Connell and Joseph Gilgun. Michael Caine gets his Charles Bronson on in this British vigilante drama. Exploitative and crass,..."

May 14, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Alien Trespass

Taking its cues from several classic 1950s sci-fi films, Alien Trespass is a deeply affectionate homage to the era when every kid on the block knew what "Klaatu borada nikto" meant.

"...a near-perfect re-creation of Fifties sci-filmmaking tropes, from its Bronson Canyon locations to the crisp cinematography (in color, it..."

April 3, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Taboo

"...Cop) make him something like a cross between Charles Bronson and Harvey Keitel. Or that major events like the..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

187

"...his increasingly ruinous classroom. Taking a cue from Charles Bronson in Death Wish, Garfield fights back against the gangsters,..."

Aug. 8, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tenth and Final SXSW Artist List

Action Bronson, Talib Kweli, a Blaze Foley tribute, and 196 more

"...final weekly list, which includes hip-hop iron chef Action Bronson, Black Star rapper Talib Kweli, and Crescent City institution..."

March 1, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Technically Speaking

The Digital World Turns the Page

"...Shift and Other True Tales of Silicon Valleyby Po Bronson..."

June 2, 2000 Screens Feature by David Garza

Daltry Calhoun

Johnny Knoxville stars in this slapdash tale of wacky Southerners and midlife crises that feels like a compilation reel of Blue Collar TV outtakes and Coen Brothers-lite quirkiness.

"...Directed by: Katrina Holden Bronson. Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Elizabeth Banks, Juliette Lewis, David Koechner,..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mr. Majestyk

"You make sounds like you're a mean little asskicker. Only I ain't convinced. You keep talkin', I'm gonna take your head off."

"...sounds like you're a mean little asskicker," says Charles Bronson's Vince Majestyk to Owen Wilson-look-alike Paul Koslo's Bobby Copas..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Screens Review by Shawn Badgley

Summoning The Neon Demon

Nicolas Winding Refn, Cliff Martinez on horror and fashion

"...roots of The Neon Demon really lie in 2008’s Bronson. In it, Tom Hardy plays British career criminal Michael..."

June 24, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Action Bronson

"...Action BronsonBlue Chips 2 (Atlantic)..."

March 14, 2014 Music Review by Luke Winkie

To Forgive, Divine

Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling reunite in 'Only God Forgives'

"...seared eyeballs in Refn's critical breakthrough, 2008's prison biopic Bronson. But to the ear, they are polar opposites. Bronson..."

July 19, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Machete

Robert Rodriguez fulfills his early promise with this Mexploitation action film that also catapults Danny Trejo into full-fledged superhero status.

"...Mexican-American with the fearsome face into the new Charles Bronson, and as Machete, Trejo has struck the mother lode..."

Sept. 3, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postscripts

My Kind of Memoir

"...Random House is sending three authors -- Po Bronson, Gary Rivlin, and Kara Swisher -- to Book People..."

July 23, 1999 Books Column

Under Siege

"...Seagal. Years and years after I first saw Charles Bronson in Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen and Sergio Leone's..."

Oct. 16, 1992 Movie Review by Louis Black

Pets Issue Party 2020 at Still Austin Whiskey Co.

"...Jeff Lanfear and Bronson..."

Feb. 14, 2020 Photo Gallery

Mixtape

"...quaint/Questions on my Anne Frank." Riff's thematic cohort Action Bronson isn't quite as bizarre, a burly, New York chef..."

March 15, 2013 Music Review by Luke Winkie

Screens Top 10s

"...Where the Wild Things Are, Burma VJ, Bronson, Sin Nombre, District 9 MOST OVERRATED..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest Announces Lineup

Here's looking at you, Uwe Boll

"...13 – Ultimatum; Uwe Boll's latest missive; and portrait-of-a-psychopath Bronson. On the subject of the latter, if you missed..."

July 17, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Fantastic Fest First Wave Films Announced (Finally)

Fantastic Fest 2009, Round One

"...Bronson (dir. Nicholas Winding Refn, 2009, UK) The criminal career..."

July 13, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

The Boston Strangler, Mr. Majestyk

"...Kennedy, Sally Kellerman.Mr. MajestykD: Richard Fleischer (1974); with Charles Bronson, Linda Cristal, Al Lettieri, Paul Koslo...."

March 10, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Beverly Hills Cop III

"...Starring: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Hector Elizondo, Theresa Randle, Bronson Pinchot, Timothy Carhart and John Saxon. I was wondering..."

May 27, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Silent Night

The action's too familiar in John Woo's gimmicky revenge flick

"...never really a choice. You go the full Charles Bronson...."

Dec. 1, 2023 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Marksman

Liam Neeson is the action man again in this border thriller

"...as the actor’s unhinged turn in last year’s Charles Bronson-in-a-snowplow actioner Cold Pursuit, but then again Logan was no..."

Jan. 15, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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