Austin Biotech Startup Colossal Wants to Bring Back Lost Species

A moonshot for the mammoth (and that's just the start)

"...However, that’s exactly what Austin startup Colossal plans to do, by inserting mammoth genetic information into..."

March 11, 2022 Features Feature by Tom Cheredar

Colossal

Toxic masculinity melds with a monster movie

"...Windows was a porn film. A very Vigalondo movie, Colossal mashes up dual narratives from multiple genres and then..."

April 14, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Nacho Vigalondo on Colossal

Combining the mediocre and cosmic with the creature feature director

"...That's also the unlikely subtext of his latest film, Colossal. In it, Anne Hathaway (The Devil Wears Prada, The..."

April 14, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Colossal Wreck

The Intel Building and its discontents

"...Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare..."

Nov. 16, 2001 News Feature by Michael Erard

Water Treatment Plant No. 4 Is a Colossal Waste of Money

"...condos. Anyway you slice it, WTP 4 is a colossal waste of money (aka boondoggle) that cannot be squared..."

Feb. 24, 2009 Postmarks

Colossal Moral Idiocy

"...defined as decent. Your comment is a monument of colossal moral idiocy. Your remarks are prime examples of how..."

Sept. 18, 2006 Postmarks

Invasion of the Amazing Colossal Artists

In the final days of October, Central Texas plays host to the winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature, Derek Walcott; winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Music, John Corigliano; and two-time finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN / Faulkner award, Russell Banks.

Oct. 26, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Can Reviving Extinct Species Slow Climate Change?

SXSW panel explores the science of de-extinction

"...Southwest 2024, Ben Lamm – CEO and founder of Colossal Biosciences, aka the company that wants to bring the..."

March 9, 2024 SXSW Post by Madeline Duncan

Tackling Football’s Dark Side

Cohen New Works Festival: ‘Colossal’ reviewed

"...muscle through concussions, and it encourages them to hate. Colossal, the spectacular play premiering at the Cohen New Works..."

March 27, 2013 Arts Post by Jillian Owens

Seen / Soon: March 16

Getting virtually swept away by A Colossal Wave! and hearing America singing via Bill Murray and Jan Vogler

"...A Colossal Wave! takes you under the sea in ways Sebastian..."

March 16, 2018 Arts Column

The Tillman Story

Documentary about the high-level cover-up of the circumstances surrounding the death of NFL star turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman.

"...covered up all traces of that information is a colossal betrayal of trust, if not a criminal act. The..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle

"...This time out, it all seems to be a colossal chore, albeit one with a terrific soundtrack. Rule of..."

June 27, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Twenty-Fourth International Tournee of Animation

"...around to animating some of his genuinely outre work. (Colossal) Pictures weighs in with the multi-styled animated video for..."

April 15, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Young Marble Giants

Gift Guide

"...Young Marble GiantsColossal Youth (Domino)..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Music Review by Darcie Stevens

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

At once a fanboy's wet dream and an engaging, emotionally supercharged epic adventure

"...meet up for the Battle of Helm's Deep, a colossal stone fortress cut into the side of a mountain,..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Q&A: Aharon Keshales Enters Texas Darkness in South of Heaven

Noir, cowboys ... and Ted Lasso?

"...appreciate. Nacho Vigalondo really tapped into that first with Colossal, and you find a new way to look at..."

Oct. 19, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Joe Satriani

"...in the sky, and his last decade has: Super Colossal (2006), Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock (2008),..."

July 4, 2014 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Austin Critics Table Awards 2013

Arts writers raise their glasses to outstanding art in list of nominees

"...Colossal, UT/David Mark Cohen New Works Festival..."

May 24, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Cinema du Fromage

Directors Dumber Than Ed Wood, Jr.!

"...again saving the day. Follow-ups included l957's The Amazing Colossal Man, with a nuclear-blast witness (Glenn Langan) growing to..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...It's a Wonderful Genetically Engineered Life: Genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences – based in Dallas but with teams in..."

Dec. 23, 2022 News Feature

Firestarter

Annoying adaptation of Stephen King’s novel of pyrokinetic terror

"...the '84 version) can't save Firestarter from being a colossal misfire...."

May 20, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Summertime

L.A. poetry slam never quite makes a full movie

"...Angeles’ diverse youth. Estrada’s melodramatic ode is a sweet, colossal vision where the earnest risk doesn’t always land successfully..."

July 16, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Spiral

Chris Rock reinvents the horror morality tale for the BLM era

"...Final Chapter firmly ended his legacy, Jigsaw was a colossal misfire for the series...."

May 14, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Desert One

Inside Carter’s catastrophic mission to rescue the Iranian hostages

"...Iranian revolutionaries since November 1979. The mission was a colossal failure that was forced to abort before even reaching..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Vitalina Varela

Portuguese master of social observation visits migrant workers in old age

"...slums: 1997’s Ossos, 2000’s In Vanda’s Room, and 2006’s Colossal Youth (collected by Criterion as the Letters From Fontainhas..."

April 3, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Hustle

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels remake can't con its way to success

"...is sexist nonsense, of course, but between The Hustle, Colossal, and Ocean's 8, it can't be a coincidence that..."

May 17, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Luv Doc: A Johnny Appleseed of Negativity

You will become an even better version of the person you believe yourself to be

"...you stop thinking of your ex-boyfriend's infidelity as a colossal fuck-over, but rather as a precious learning experience. Most..."

Nov. 23, 2018 Column by The Luv Doc

All About Nina

Mary Elizabeth Winstead excels as a comic in freefall

"...could be considered standoffish, but that would be a colossal understatement. She is a person whose onstage, raunchy persona..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Luv Doc: A Barney Fife God's Universe

People are just no damn good

"...a lot of solid evidence that he/she/it/they/ze is a colossal fuck-up who has no business running an entire universe...."

July 27, 2018 Column by The Luv Doc

Top 10 Festival Films of 2017 You Haven't Seen Yet

From zombie musicals to political scandals, a bumper year

"...Colossal – Nacho Vigalondo's most mature film gave Anne Hathaway..."

Jan. 1, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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