Criminal Capitol Cronies

"...for months; how is it Governor Assbutt and his cronies have been able to openly smuggle immigrants across state..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Postmarks

Paparazzi

A vicious revenge fantasy produced by Mel Gibson, the Passionate filmmaker who last partnered with that turn-the-other-cheek fellow.

"...death), Bo plots the demise of Harper and his cronies. If Bo is meant to be a sympathetic character,..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dirty Work

"...The plot, hastily cobbled together by Macdonald and SNL cronies Frank Sebastiano and Fred Wolf, has Macdonald's Mitch Weaver..."

June 19, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ulee's Gold

"...fine tupelo honey. But when the son's old bank-robbing cronies menace his family, Ulee is forced to not only..."

June 27, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Judgment Night

"...hardly enough to carry an entire film. As his cronies are vanquished one by one (John Woo's recent Hard..."

Oct. 22, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Shakes the Clown

"...the next, seeking assistance and understanding from his clown cronies and his girlfriend (Julie Brown), a woman of epic..."

April 24, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Inner Circle

"...didn't help my understanding of anything to hear Stalin's cronies regularly delivering lines like “Who za fock iz going..."

April 10, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Military-Petroleum Complex

The Second Iraq War and the cronies of state capitalism

"...and the oil business became one. From the book Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America's..."

June 18, 2004 News Feature by Robert Bryce

'It All Leads Back to Texas'

Robert Bryce on the Texas-Washington-international crony network

"...Former Chronicle reporter Robert Bryce's new book, Cronies, recounts "the long history of cronyism that has bound..."

June 18, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

Enforcing the 'Double Standard'

Major college sports insanity is entrenched at UT-Austin

"...made in a sports silo by a set of cronies with virtually no check on their opinions, values, decisions,..."

Sept. 27, 2013 News Feature by Tom Palaima

The Joseph Stack Manifesto

Reprint of pilot's suicide note

"...as bailing out a few of their vile, rich cronies. Yet, the political “representatives” (thieves, liars, and self-serving scumbags..."

Feb. 18, 2010 News Post by Lee Nichols

2023 Oscar-Nominated Short Films – Documentary

Environmental warnings come with mordant humor and sweetness

"...then-Attorney General John Mitchell, know that Nixon and his cronies (her husband included) conspired to burglarize the Democratic National..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**cker

Inside the creativity and fury of the artist provocateur

"...ignored the growing, global AIDS pandemic and George Bush cronies like Jesse Helms savaged queer artists like Robert Mapplethorpe,..."

March 26, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dark Waters

Todd Haynes' courtroom drama is a true-life environmental horror

"...defanged, and the courts are increasingly packed with business cronies. The system seems more rigged than ever. As Ruffalo..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House

Account of the informant who brought down Nixon's administration

"...In 1972, however, President Richard Milhous Nixon and his cronies paid the ultimate price for the break-in and wiretapping..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Act of Killing

In this disturbing documentary, former Indonesian death-squad leaders boastfully reenact their real-life mass killings with touches inspired by their favorite movies.

"...what the future holds for Anwar Congo and his cronies, but I guarantee that you’ve never encountered any screen..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Last Stand

Arnold Schwarzenegger plunges back into acting in this full-bore action vehicle helmed by the South Korean director Kim Jee-Woon.

"...Owens’ border town, where a significant number of his cronies are armed and waiting. Owens and crew slowly begin..."

Jan. 18, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

The Rum Diary

Johnny Depp stars in this adaptation of one of Hunter S. Thompson's earliest novels, which is set in Puerto Rico in 1960 and soaked in booze

"...Juan as one gigantic capitalist playground. Sanderson and his cronies are a vivid lot: precursors to the raving serpents..."

Oct. 28, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Insurance Industry Owns Our State Government

"...by those companies – then got one of his cronies in the Legislature to introduce a bill exempting them..."

March 11, 2008 Postmarks

Shadowboxer

Not reviewed at press time. Stars Çuba Gooding Jr. and Helen Mirren as passionate yet unlikely lovers, as well as assassins and stepmother and stepson. And if that's not enough drama, one of them also has a fatal disease.

"...fires his father’s gun, and a handful of bad-guy cronies get shot up in slow motion. It sounds like..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Movie Review by Brian Clark

The Hubris at Enron

Rarely have convictions been more deserved than those of former executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling

"...years from now, some of the same smug Bush cronies who have misled the American public – on issues..."

June 2, 2006 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Horses Stolen! Barn Door Confirmed Unlocked!

Long suppressed, Department of Justice memorandum recommended that the re-redistricting map forced upon the Legislature by Tom DeLay and his cronies should be rejected, because it did not sufficiently protect the rights of minority Texans

"...map forced upon the Legislature by DeLay and his cronies should be rejected, because it did not sufficiently protect..."

Dec. 9, 2005 News Feature by Michael King

Meet the New Neighbors

A fugitive sect of Mormon polygamists is building a home – and an end-time temple – in the West Texas town of Eldorado

"...tell him he had to leave. "One of his cronies came to tell me that I'd sinned," he recalled..."

July 29, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Bad Guy

Early film from South Korea's enfant terrible Kim Ki-duk is a coarse and distubing drama about obsessive love.

"...is set up to commit a crime by Han-ki’s cronies and finds herself sold into prostitution to pay off..."

March 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Barbarian Invasions

Winner of the Best Foreign Film Oscar, this French-Canadian film reunites a group of old friends.

"...he can from his parents and their university professor/intellectual cronies. Though there seems to be no love lost between..."

March 5, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights

The story is similar to the popular original – but its Borscht Belt setting has been relocated to pre-revolutionary Cuba in 1958.

"...– at least when compared with their country club cronies – which also pleasantly mimics the depiction of the..."

Feb. 27, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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Our readers talk back.

"...the nomination. He has voted with Craddick and his cronies across the board. Watching this bunch "in charge" in..."

April 25, 2003 Column

I Spy

"...the third person and sports an entourage of witless cronies who cater to his every random whim. When an..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

New Best Friend

"...this university,” Bonner digs on nonetheless, interviewing Hadley and cronies Julianne (True of The Craft, who, frankly, is getting..."

April 12, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I Don't Know Jack

"...Jack Nance. Dennis Hopper, Lynch, and other colleagues and cronies reminisce...."

Jan. 31, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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