Fat Bastard Too 'Cheeky' for Austin Radio

Wine ads warp the moral fiber of some – but not all – local listeners

"...can play a commercial for a wine called Fat Bastard without bringing down the pious wrath of the Federal..."

Oct. 29, 2004 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Former Heartless Bastard Jesse Ebaugh Finds His Own Texas Touch

The Tender Things face hard truths on new LP

"...the majority of his career playing bass with Heartless Bastards...."

Feb. 24, 2023 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The Darkness

Supernatural horror film from the Blumhouse scare factory

"...painfully prolonged finale, you’ll think you’ve stumbled upon the bastard progeny of The Exorcist and Poltergeist (Parts I and..."

May 20, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Run All Night

Liam Neeson reunites with his Unknown and Non-Stop director for another action ride

"...predilection for casting Neeson as more of a sad bastard than a superhero. In this case, he plays Jimmy..."

March 20, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Flying Swords of Dragon Gate

There's just too much everything in this chop-socky actioner by Tsui Hark.

"...and enough old-school wuxia fisticuffs to raise Ol' Dirty Bastard from the dead...."

Sept. 14, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wrath of the Titans

The Greek gods of antiquity must be angry: this sequel is merely loud and uninspired.

"...What's a young(-ish) demigod to do? Align with Poseidon's bastard offspring Agenor (Kebbell) and leggy tactician Queen Andromeda (Pike)..."

March 30, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Immortals

There's lots of numbingly choreographed chaos and lascivious bloodletting in this megabudget picture about the Greek gods by the visual stylist Tarsem Singh.

"...Future Superman Henry Cavill plays Theseus, a blank-eyed, bastard-born villager who, unbeknownst to him, has been hand-picked by..."

Nov. 18, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Red Riding: 1983

This final film in the three-part series affords a great deal of satisfaction in resolving the plot’s many mysteries.

"...another lead emerges in the form of “right fat bastard” John Piggott (Addy), a sad-sack solicitor and Yorkshire native..."

March 26, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Duchess

Keira Knightley stars as the titular Duchess, a legendary wit and arbiter of taste, but the film is a curiously inert: a whole lot of pomp and incircumstance.

"...picture hits all the requisite plot points – a bastard child, a beehive on fire, gambling debts galore –..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Catch a Fire

Phillip Noyce explores the havoc and repercussions caused by white interlopers toward indigenous peoples in this straightforward account of real-life black South African activist Patrick Chamusso and the white Boer police agent, who hunts him.

"...who easily could have come off as a sadistic bastard (the torture of both innocent and not-so-innocent South Africans..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

November

November, starring Courteney Cox, is a dense, dark head-trip of a movie that seems like the bastard offspring of Memento and Mullholland Dr.

"...its own storyline like a Buddhist python: It’s the bastard offspring of Memento and Mullholland Dr., and initially it’s..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Five Obstructions

This sublime documentary, which recounts a bizarre battle of creative wits between Danish film director Jørgen Leth and the notorious Lars von Trier, also features a segment animated by Waking Life's technical wizard Bob Sabiston.

"...mouse between the imperturbable elder statesman Leth and his bastard offspring: the capricious, smug von Trier. You’d expect nothing..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mr. 3000

This Bernie Mac baseball flick is standard genre fare.

"...Nine years later and just as much a magnificent bastard, Stan expects admission to the Hall of Fame when..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

What the #$*! Do We Know!?

Quantum physics, intent and possibility, science and fantasy … goofy cult or educational primer?

"...feeling something like an ABC Afterschool Special for the bastard offspring of mad scientists and California desert shamans. Matlin,..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Triplets of Belleville

Move over Disney and Pixar: Sylvain Chomet’s Oscar-nominated animated feature is the kind of work that could only be authored by a singular individual.

"...thoroughly unpredictable, while its images resemble some kind of bastard offspring of the linear realism of George Grosz and..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Confidence

"...Luis Guzmán and Brian Van Holt. Confidence is the bastard child of so many con capers, from The Sting..."

April 25, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Death to Smoochy

"...great -- to see Williams as a mean rat bastard, finally, in light of the treacle fans have had..."

March 29, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tuvalu

"...is nearly wordless. Imagine, if you will, a beloved bastard child of Charlie Chaplin and Sergei Eisenstein, or of..."

March 1, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Alice et Martin

"...the traumas and triumphs of our youth. For the bastard-born Martin, that means recovering from his mother sending him..."

Sept. 15, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Grandfather

"...offspring of the union, while the other is a bastard taken under the son's wing and into his heart...."

Dec. 3, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

This Is My Father

"...then and there that Kieran O'Day (Quinn), a “poorhouse bastard” with a shambling gait and a tree-stump neck that..."

June 18, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Character

"...son, remaining coldly silent and inscrutable. Taunted as a bastard by the other children and suffering from impoverishment, Jacob..."

May 15, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cemetery Man

Zombie movie based on an Italian comic book.

"...Tiziano Sclavi's Dylan Dog series, Cemetery Man is the bastard progeny of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead..."

June 28, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dumb and Dumber

"...into new levels of idiocy, we see merely the bastard child of Jerry Lewis. Forgive me for getting a..."

Dec. 23, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

China Moon

"...character, he's only fleshed out to two-dimensionality as a bastard-of-a-husband with a hammy southern accent. Thus, it's difficult to..."

March 11, 1994 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Tropic of Cancer

"...writing, and turns him into a reprehensible, vulgar, sleazy bastard by exploiting the hardcore sexual passages from the novel...."

Aug. 13, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

DVDanger: 'Crimewave'

Sam Raimi's weirdest, plus nunsploitation and swinging sleazy London

"...considered, heartfelt adult dramas, and then there's the crazy bastard who throws everything at the screen and sees what..."

May 18, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Vera Farmiga is a knockout in this otherwise predictable and emotionally manipulative story about the horror of the German concentration camps.

"...there and gradually come to realize what a monstrous bastard you are, your wife will begin to go insane..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

New in Nonfiction

Two new nonfiction books work their mouths around the English language

"...Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 384 pp., $25 Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of Englishby John McWhorter Gotham,..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Books Review by Tim Warden

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

"...Dr. Evil (Myers again) and his new henchmen Fat Bastard (still Myers!) and Mini-Me, a 1/8th-scale clone version of..."

June 11, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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