Mafia!

"...and Jason Fuchs. The cinematic equivalent of Cracked magazine, Mafia! never quite lives up to its MAD potential, instead..."

July 24, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mafia Mamma

Even Toni Collette can't earn this mafia spoof rispetto

"...feminist action-comedy punctuated by the occasional severed human appendage, Mafia Mamma gets commendable marks for its high concept: Mild-mannered..."

April 14, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Reverse Crossover of La Mafia

The Empire Builders

"...had been saying the same thing about Houston's La Mafia for years. What's more, people living on the English-only..."

Oct. 27, 1995 Music Feature

Totally in Sync, Tribe Mafia Joins DAWA's Black Music Month Residency

Austin hip-hop duo talks TV placements ahead of Antone's show

"...Austin hip-hop duo Tribe Mafia, composed of Chinasa Broxton and Carlos Dashawn Daniels, got..."

June 2, 2023 Music Feature by Kriss Conklin

CIA Hand-in-Glove With Mafia

"...point is that the CIA is hand-in-glove with the Mafia! The CIA used Mafia guys to try and make..."

June 27, 2007 Postmarks

Any Party Partisan Is a Mafia Toady

"...stories is simply that our federal government is a mafia. The Bushes and their minions are a crime family...."

Jan. 12, 2006 Postmarks

Thanksgiving Dining, Intero Opens Poeta, Boggy Creek Farm Goes Theatrical, Eastciders Gets Pumped, Taco Mafia’s on the Air, and More

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...hosting watch parties for the local PBS series Taco Mafia, which follows the exploits of the gustatory wizards behind..."

Nov. 15, 2023 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Uchibā Opens, Mission Burger’s Second Location Opens, Fresa’s Third Location Opens, Austin Confectioners Fight Breast Cancer, the Taco Mafia’s on PBS, Marfa Comes to Kalimotxo, and More

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...PBS is running a series about our local “Taco Mafia”… and our journalistic knight errant Kevin Curtin reveals how..."

Oct. 4, 2023 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Texas Mexican Mafia Gets Its 'Just Deserts'

Sixteen members and associates face 300-plus years in jail

"...associates of the notorious prison-initiated gang the Texas Mexican Mafia were sentenced to serious time in the federal pen..."

Dec. 23, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Thanksgiving Dining, Intero Opens Poeta, Boggy Creek Farm Goes Theatrical, Eastciders Gets Pumped, Taco Mafia’s on the Air, and More

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

Nov. 17, 2023 Food Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Uchibā Opens, Mission Burger’s Second Location Opens, Fresa’s Third Location Opens, Austin Confectioners Fight Breast Cancer, the Taco Mafia’s on PBS, Marfa Comes to Kalimotxo, and More

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

Oct. 6, 2023 Food Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Blues Mafia, Yellow Bikes

Teens on the scene

March 5, 2009 SXSW Post by Margaret Moser

BBC Uncovers British Columbia's Pot Mafia

The Cannuck Pot Mafia Exposed!

July 22, 2008 News Post by Jordan Smith

Joining Forces

The women of the online Austin Craft Mafia got it made

"...If Austin Craft Mafia members were to wear pinstripes, shoulder holsters, or gang..."

Jan. 9, 2004 Screens Feature by Margaret Chapman

Our Kind of Traitor

Stellan Skarsgård and Damien Lewis rock this John le Carré adaptation

"...of an effusive Russian named Dima (Skarsgård). The Russian mafia’s No. 1 money launderer who’s run afoul of his..."

July 1, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Bullhead

This Oscar nominee and Fantastic Fest winner from Belgium is a startling crime drama about the bovine hormone mafia.

"...the oppressiveness of the past, and the bovine hormone mafia, Bullhead suddenly hurtled into the international spotlight when it..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

In the Mix

Consider this brick No. 1 in the fall of the house of Usher.

"...something of a squeaky-clean image about him, and this DJ-meets-Mafia-princess story is predictably mired in a mix of gangster/gangsta..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Crosstalk: Austin Parks and Rec Board Discusses Fair Pay at SXSW, and More Music News

The latest moves from Austin's Tribe Mafia and Jackie Venson

"...Tribe Mafia, Austin hip-hop duo of Chinasa Broxton and Carlos Moore,..."

March 31, 2023 Music Column by Lina Fisher

The Equalizer 2

Denzel Washington action sequel is a total misfire

"...Since single-handedly taking out the Russian mafia, ex-CIA agent Robert McCall (Washington) has relocated from New..."

July 20, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Just Getting Started

Grumpy old men on the golf course

"...the home office to fire an unaware Duke. The mafia’s involved in all this machismo hullabaloo, too, but so..."

Dec. 15, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Triple 9

Grimy policier is an electrifying muddle with killer cast

"...and ex-cops moonlighting as henchmen for a cutthroat Russian Mafia princess (a nearly unrecognizable Winslet), who bankrolled the heist..."

Feb. 26, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Drop

Based on a Dennis Lehane story, this disappointing crime drama costars James Gandolfini in his last role.

"...beaten-down dive bar owner who owes his neighborhood Chechen mafia a lot more than a fistful of dollars, is..."

Sept. 12, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'Justified' Recap: 'Where's Waldo?'

Episode 2 asks where's Waldo Truth, and who is Drew Thompson?

"...Arlo Givens. Arlo's recent jail-house murder of a Dixie Mafia con establishes even more troublesome connections...."

Jan. 16, 2013 Screens Post by Virginia B. Wood

The International

This conspiracy thriller starring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts never gets past second gear.

"...governments, multinational corporations, military juntas, Hezbollah, drug cartels, the Mafia, the Illuminati, possibly the Masons and the Elks, and..."

Feb. 13, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

War

Jet Li and Jason Statham spar and provoke all-out war among the Asian mobs.

"...and Jack leads an FBI unit tracking the Asian Mafia in San Francisco. His only goal is to find..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Bulletproof Monk

"...and the plot is so convoluted that the Russian Mafia and an Anglophonic crime lord named Mr. Funktastic are..."

April 18, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

City of Lost Souls

"...factions of the Japanese yakuza, Chinese triads, and Russian mafia all mix it up. At the heart of the..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dinner Rush

"...day; the conflicts are familiar, as is the nostalgic Mafia milieu. Screenwriters Brian Kalata and Rick Shaughnessy are first-timers..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Crew

"...itself, The Crew tells the story of four old-school Mafia musclemen running out their geriatric string as bickering roommates..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Suicide Kings

"...that it sure looked good. Walken plays aging an mafia boss, Charlie Barrett, who finds himself kidnapped by a..."

April 24, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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