Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

Tom Cruise isn't having any fun in this boilerplate actioner

"...replaced by the gritted teeth of someone battling a migraine. I haven’t read Child’s Reacher thrillers; perhaps Cruise’s interpretation..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Digimon: The Movie

"...indeed. All have the ability to change shape with migraine-inducing speed. They're seriously into scatological humor and, cutesy appearance..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Monsters vs. Aliens

In this animated film, a misfit band of monsters unleashed from quarantine defend Earth from an alien invader.

"...ringing than “Monsters vs. Aliens: Doesn’t give you a migraine!” We meet the pert, if unremarkable, Susan (voiced by..."

March 27, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

To Your Health

Are the tannins in my tea bad for me?

"...The question of whether tannins are connected to migraine headaches is still unresolved. Tannins are said to constrict..."

April 30, 2004 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

To Your Health

What is the best alternative to an elimination and challenge diet in determining dietary factors with migraines?

"...Q. I have two children, a demanding job, and migraine headaches. My doctor thinks something I eat is triggering..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

Spies in Disguise

This kid-friendly animated spy romp is for the birds

"...nothing to fault animation-wise – Blue Sky’s penchant for migraine and/or dopamine-inducing color palettes and headlong pacing are consistently..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Luv Doc: A Graceful Exit

Leaving someone pretty much implies you have something more important to do

"...in a vaginal vise-grip until it has a splitting migraine then expel it in a giant avalanche of blood,..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Column by The Luv Doc

The Dance of Reality

Cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s first feature in 23 years is a labor of mad, passionate love

"...first feature, Fando and Lis, and you’ll get a migraine...."

June 6, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Branded

In a dystopian society, corporations can see inside people's minds and keep them deluded, but one man fights back.

"...to describe the plot have been giving me a migraine for almost an hour, and now I have black..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Middle Men

Middle Men journeys backward in Internet history to 1995 when two coked-up ne'er-do-wells created the first dial-up, porn-on-demand website.

"...Forster), you'd think Middle Men would result in a migraine, but that never occurs. Director Gallo, who previously penned..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Choke

Choke, a forgettable adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s 2001 novel, features Sam Rockwell as a man of many hats, all of them off-putting.

"...and I suppose the amount of manpower, money, and migraine attendant to any production amounts to something major. But..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Hard Candy

Metaphorically speaking, Little Red Riding Hood eats Humbert Humbert in this story of an online predator and his jailbait, gamine prey.

"...both Freud and the gang over at CSI a migraine of epic proportions. At its core, though, Hard Candy..."

April 28, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wonderland

Dull take on real-life murder mystery has one titillating factor: the involvement of former porn star John Holmes.

"...immensely entertaining and at worst might give you a migraine. And if you’re up for some blunt-force trauma and..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Hightower Lowdown

Motorola's Chinese Chips; Bush League Public Ed; Devil in the Details

"...in micro-type so teeny that you could get a migraine just looking at it. Attempting to read it definitely..."

Sept. 29, 2000 News Column by Jim Hightower

Scary Movie

Keenen Ivory Wayans' broad spoof of the horror/comedy Scream series.

"...have a testicular nail-gun mishap than sit through this migraine-inducing train wreck of a film one more time. Of..."

July 7, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Frequency

"...of natural law, predictably enough, generates all sorts of migraine-making conundrums, including a murder that apparently wasn't “supposed” to..."

April 28, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Gonin

"...point: It's not unlike classic Peckinpah in its dizzying, migraine-inducing depiction of operatic, slow-motion violence, but at the same..."

April 24, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Albert Hofmann first synthesized LSD-25 while looking for a migraine headache cure...."

Oct. 14, 2022 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Shrewd Productions' Jump

In Charly Evon Simpson's drama, characters caught in the dark currents of grief and depression seek a way through

"...the bridge that Fay visits – and the mysterious migraine-like attacks Fay suffers (signaled by designer Nick Hart here..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

SXSW Music Review: Cifika

SZA B-sides with a dash of Sugarcubes

"...in tight enough to give the Fire Marshal a migraine...."

March 17, 2018 Music Post by Dan Gentile

S.O.S.

Twentysomethings adrift in Search Party

"...has leapfrogged Duplassian self-awareness right into a numb Swanbergian migraine: "What we each think of as 'success' is different,"..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature by Jacob Clifton

Shortchanged

A lot of belt tightening and creative thinking make getting by with low dollars possible for AISD

"...get subsidized. All of which makes budgeting a splitting migraine of a headache. AISD Board President Gina Hinojosa said,..."

Sept. 4, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Mat Johnson: Black & White & Read All Over

Our interview with the Houston-based author

"...T-shirt and no wallet, and I’ve got this massive migraine. And I borrowed a coat, but I didn’t have..."

June 18, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Summer's Easy Readin'

Writers on their go-to books for when their gray cells need a vacay, too

"...with enough time-travel paradoxes to give Stephen Hawking a migraine, the sheer inventiveness of Fforde's lit-obsessed society (where fictional..."

June 12, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Smiling Faces: Ian McLagan

"...Rock & Roll Hall of Fame statuette and his “migraine” paintings, September 2012..."

Dec. 11, 2014 Photo Gallery

Kickstart Your Weekend: The Austin Toy Museum

Celebrate your collecting obsession with Austin's newest museum

"...Odyssey, through the seminal Colecovision (and yes, even the migraine-inducing but still awesome Virtual Boy.)..."

May 23, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: 'The Dance of Reality'

The fantastical director's first foray in 23 years is a family affair

"...first feature, Fando and Lis, and you'll get a migraine...."

March 12, 2014 SXSW Post by Marc Savlov

The Egg & I

How an experimental treatment for major depression introduced me to the medical magnet and the return of 'energetic' medicine

"...gone through days of high agitation, suffered a multiday migraine, and started having trouble sleeping – all things the..."

Aug. 23, 2013 News Feature by Greg Harman

SXSW Friday Picks and Sleepers

"...the most relentless in its attack, pounding like a migraine with the angular attack of the Jesus Lizard and..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

Full Hearts Can't Lose

The 21st annual 'Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest

"...ironic twist, our fifth judge was sidelined with a migraine the night of our dinner...."

Feb. 8, 2013 Books Feature by Monica Riese

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