Home Again

a lifestyle comedy with a soupçon of pain

"...Directed by: Hallie Meyers-Shyer. Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Lake Bell, Nat Wolff, Pico..."

Sept. 15, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...go outside. Fortunately, here comes the Paramount to save all you indoor-loving film fans, with the announcement of the..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Other People

A writer returns home to care for his sick mother

"...For the lucky ones, untouched by tragedy, bad things are what happen to other people. That’s how comedy..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Keanu

A refreshingly silly, unabashed mix of humor, violence, and cuteness

"...Attention all ailurophiles! For years, the canine-centric movie industry has unjustly..."

April 29, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

R100

Drafthouse Films is distributing this Japanese S&M mindwarp. You could do far worse for midnight-date movie fare.

"...Pleasure is pain is surreal comedy and a meditation on modern-day Japanese mores in Matsumoto’s..."

Jan. 23, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rich Talarico

Key & Peele writer reveals how the comedy sausage is made

"...As television comedy writers' rooms go, few are as gregarious as Key..."

Aug. 29, 2014 Arts Feature by Amy Martin

Double the Funny

With new venues and showcases, SXSW Comedy keeps giving Austin more to laugh about

"...SXSW Comedy has been an adjunct to the Music, Film, and..."

March 8, 2013 Arts Feature by Russ Espinoza

Recommended at Texas Book Festival

Capsule reviews and panel info

"...Texas; by narrative tradition from what used to be called the Orient; by Danielewski's device of color-coded "autumnal quotation..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Books Feature

Seven Psychopaths

A knockout cast of oddball actors seize the reins in Martin McDonagh's smart comedy about dumb people doing really awful things.

"...Do I really have to write anything other than the cast list..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Dilemma

Ron Howard's latest is a decidedly honest comedy-melodrama about love and friendship.

"...Clint Howard. Being lifelong friends can be difficult. Relationships, especially those that have been committed (as the singles say),..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Switch

Jennifer Aniston does the turkey-baster thing with a donor's sperm, but seven years later the joke is on her.

"...something fierce. The Switch is the third artificial-insemination romantic comedy of the summer thus far, and there's a fourth..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Extract

Mike Judge, the writer/director of Office Space, mines the workplace for more satiric comedy.

"...David Koechner, Dustin Milligan, Beth Grant and Gene Simmons. Finally, one of Judge’s live-action movies is the recipient of..."

Sept. 4, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2005

Spike & Mike has always been a hit-or-miss program, and this year is no different, with a few genuinely brilliant pieces surrounded by examples of puerile fun and juvenile humor.

"...Directed by: Various. Has it really been 15 years since Craig "Spike" Decker and the..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Eurotrip

A kinder, gentler teen sex comedy?

"...teen sex romp? And wouldn’t a tune by Oasis’ Gallagher brothers have been more appropriate? ("Fuckin’ in the Bushes"..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Birthday Girl

"...of a problem throughout her career. It's hard, after all, to pay full attention to her performances when a..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Tailor of Panama

"...for Her Majesty's secret service? Now there's a stretch. Actually, once you get past The Tailor of Panama's sly..."

April 20, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Tao of Steve

Easygoing romantic comedy about an unlikely ladies' man.

"...seed of a great film in Goodman's easygoing romantic comedy, but it's still just a seed, and not the..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Play It Again, Sam

All About Eve (1950)

"...All About Eve D: Joseph L. Mankiewicz; with Bette Davis,..."

June 4, 1999 Screens Feature

Idle Hands

"...negative (and entirely unfounded) pre-release buzz on this ghoulish horror-comedy from Roger Corman alum Flender, Idle Hands turns out..."

April 30, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fall Film Previews

September

"...the last day of the 19th century in a small town in northern Italy. (Sept. 11)..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

Yellow

"...than to their obvious differences -- like graduating kids all over the country, they're champing at the bit, eager..."

July 24, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mouse Hunt

"...interesting that this dark and energetic autobahn of a comedy from DreamWorks SKG (the K is for Jeffrey “I..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Nothing to Lose

"...Giancarlo Esposito, Kelly Preston, Michael McKean and Irma P. Hall. There's something about the pairing of psychotic Fox comedian..."

July 18, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box

"...Kit Ying Lam and Karen Mok. Wildly ambitious and structurally frustrating, yet quite funny and entertaining, Jeff Lau's first..."

May 19, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Booksmart

The kids are better than alright in Olivia Wilde's raucous, resonant comedy

"...Girls go topless in teen comedies all the time, but none that I can recall stripped..."

May 24, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

How Negin Farsad Sees the World … and How You Should See It Too

Social justice comedian on her new book How To Make White People Laugh

"...chortling at well-spun anecdotes about homemade bed-sheet hijabs, college comedy troupes, and wine slushies, but also more serious topics..."

June 20, 2016 Arts Post by Mary Cantrell

Get Me to the Funny: Chortle Portal

Weekly comedy showcase at UT keeps the students coming back for more

"...way to get to a hip and cool stand­up comedy night? Taxi? Bicycle? How about a Chortle Portal? That’s..."

March 9, 2016 Arts Post by Spencer Beghtol

Brently Heilbron's Stand Up Empire Signs With PBS

New show to bring ACL-like coverage of Austin's comedy scene

"...Last time we told you about local comedy mover-and-shaker Brently Heilbron, it was because of his emo..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Ships and Giggles Show Tips Waitstaff Overboard

Comedian Rob Gagnon and friends take it to the river

"...“I’m usually against daytime comedy,” says Rob Gagnon, local hardworkin’ performer..."

July 9, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Housebound

This New Zealand horror/comedy nimbly jumps through the tropes, and inventively subverts them along the way.

"...A good horror/comedy film is a delicate thing to pull off. It’s..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

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