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Tread
Madness, paranoia, and a goddam homemade tank in this terrifying documentary
"...was mad about his tax bill), this is a trip down every twisted nerve and malevolent neuron...."

Feb. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas Lives Up to Its Title
Stephen Harrigan chronicles the Lone Star State’s last 500 years
"...Tenayuca, labor organizer for Mexican American workers. Here's Old Rip, celebrated "horny toad" of Eastland County, who allegedly survived..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Jumanji: The Next Level
Back in the game for a fun if flimsier sequel
"...beloved 1995 adventure-comedy and turned out to be a rip-roaring romp on its own terms...."

Dec. 13, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Ultimate Queer Guide to SXSW 2019
Often imitated, never duplicated, we’re here to keep it real kweer
"...Anita Dolce Vita’s Saturday panel Blurred Lines and Sunday’s RIP Lesbian Bars panel. Then dance your face off –..."

March 1, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Farewell and “Gracias” to Gus Garcia, Austin Trailblazer
Hispanic activist, former trustee, council member, mayor died Monday, at 84
"...Earlier this week ("RIP Gus Garcia, Austin's First Elected Hispanic Mayor," Dec. 17),..."

Dec. 21, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

Anna and the Apocalypse
Scottish zombie musical is your new Christmas playlist
"...burning to be free – right until the undead rip those hearts out of their chests and eat them...."

Nov. 30, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Hell Fest
Murder at the amusement park, but this time it's horror themed
"...it’s fine fare for a quick buck, a Halloween rip-off, as the latest incarnation hits theatres, something for the..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Have a Nice Day
Mid-Nineties-style crime stories refreshed by Chinese cartoons.
"...a glowing light, as the desperate Xiao Zhang (Zhu) rips off gang lord Uncle Liu (Yang) for a stack..."

Feb. 23, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Black Panther
High drama and high action as Marvel gives Wakanda life.
"...Coogler's script, co-written with American Crime Story producer Joe Robert Cole,..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Father Figures
On a road to nowhere with Ed Helms and Owen Wilson
"...warp has opened, and out of it dropped the script for Father Figures. Clearly, this was written sometime around..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: In Favor of Waxing
There is far too much hair in the world already
"...and realize your scrotum has scratchier razor stubble than Rip Torn's mug shot photo...."

Nov. 25, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

Genius
Editor Maxwell Perkins and author Thomas Wolfe collaborate in biopic
"...The band takes a straightforward spiritual and lets it rip. Wordlessly, Firth conveys a knot in his chest unfurling,..."

June 24, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Fantastic Fest 2015: Baskin
Drag me to Turkish hell
"...of Fantastic Fest this year is documentary Remake, Remix, Rip-Off, which chronicles Turkish cinema's long history of cannibalizing any..."

Sept. 27, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Gazing Back at Other Worlds Austin
Time Lapse dominates Cthulhie awards, plus festival highlights
"...film, and went on to take best feature, best script, best actress for Danielle Panabaker, and best score. Here's..."

Dec. 13, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

ABCs of Death 2
Let us count the ways this compilation of 26 short films gets its spook on.
"...with V/H/S/2, the brains behind ABCs of Death 2 (RIP the “The”) seem to have heeded criticisms lobbed against..."

Oct. 31, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

Mr. Peabody & Sherman
The genius dog and his adopted human son return for these animated adventures in time travel.
"...a movie about (in part) time travel, the story (scripted by Craig Wright) doesn’t unfold in a linear fashion...."

March 7, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

DVDanger: 'Crimewave'
Sam Raimi's weirdest, plus nunsploitation and swinging sleazy London
"...the studio, and depended on friends to double or triple up as producers and cast members. The end result..."

May 18, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Guitartown/Conqueroo
"...candy. Emphasizing Bill Davis' firebreathing guitar, New Orleans' Dash Rip Rock dispensed with niceties for a nuclear assault on..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature by Michael Toland

It Begins! SXSW Announces First Bands
Plus application date extended, and Hurricane Sandy relief fund
"...wouldn't be SX without some old regulars like Dash Rip Rock taking the stage...."

Nov. 9, 2012 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

Horns Lose At Home Against John Denver Fans
West Virginia beats Texas 48-45 as Geno's Passeria delivers on foot
"...RIP Brenda. RIP Nick...."

Oct. 7, 2012 Sports Post by Michael Corcoran

Battleship
Crass and hugely dumb aliens vs. multiple earthling navies: Must mean the start of summer movies has arrived.
"...as this CGI-laden, excrutiatingly overlong quasi-epic and total Transformers rip-off proves time and time again. Whether it's sweeping helicopter..."

May 18, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

My Extraordinary Ordinary Life
Sissy Spacek's memoir is as easy to read as it is a pleasure to digest
"...tutelage of her cousin and his wife – actors Rip Torn and Geraldine Page – turned her interest from..."

May 4, 2012 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

One, Two, Tres, Cuatro: Killing Floor
Another blues singer's called back home: honorary Austinite Hubert Sumlin
"...veteran he was – of decades and decades of trips to Austin from Chicago – he played to the..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Music Column by Margaret Moser

Fond Memories of Joe Gracey
"...him over the years in fond terms ["Joe Gracey RIP," Earache! Music blog, Nov. 17]. Because Joe was so..."

Nov. 21, 2011 Postmarks

Poster Perfect
How Mondo is revolutionizing film art-vertising
"...was cream and black and orange. Total Olly Moss rip-off. I can only imagine that they saw it because..."

July 8, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

DI-Wyatt
Wyatt Cenac on emceeing the Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards
"...Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards, which will induct Rip Torn, Renée Zellweger, John Hawkes, the cast of Friday..."

March 11, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Film Flam
Texas Film Hall of Fame high-fives John Hawkes and Spoon, Bob Byington narrowly avoids probing Down Under, and more
"...Awards lineup: Joining previously announced inductees Renée Zellweger and Rip Torn and emcee Wyatt Cenac (The Daily Show With..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Screens Column by Kimberley Jones

After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar confides in Secret Circus and tattles on Texas Film Hall of Fame
"...watching John Hawkes movies, while my sister Margaret watches Rip Torn movies. Why? It's Texas Film Hall of Fame..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Try To Remember
How two kids from UT changed the course of the American musical
"...Connally, Allen Ludden, Pat Hingle, Barbara Barrie, Jayne Mansfield, Rip Torn, and Harry Blackstone Jr. That meant that students..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

In Memory of Dennis Hopper
'A walkin' contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction'
"...known), the cult classic Kid Blue (D: James Frawley, script by Bud Shrake; 1973), Neil Young: Human Highway (1982),..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature by Louis Black

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