Noises Off!

In this screwball comedy, the behind-the-scenes activity of a traveling acting troupe threaten to bring down the play.

"...Michael Caine, Denholm Elliott, Julie Hagerty, Marilu Henner, Mark Linn-Baker, Christopher Reeve, John Ritter and Nicollette Sheridan. Ironic that..."

March 27, 1992 Movie Review by Louis Black

Delirious

"...Mariel Hemingway, Raymond Bur, Emma Samms, David Rasche, Dylan Baker and Charles Rocket. After TV soap opera scripter Candy..."

Aug. 16, 1991 Movie Review by Louis Black

First Look: Terrible Love

Former coffee trailer debuts new brick and mortar in Hyde Park

"...is located in the boiler room of the historic Baker Center (3908 Avenue B), a former school built in..."

Sept. 24, 2024 Food Post by Meher Qazilbash

Pavarotti

Ron Howard's documentary shows the great tenor in all his humanity

"...glorious life. Mindful of his humble beginnings as a baker’s son born in Modena, Italy, in 1935, the celebrated..."

June 21, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Eight Austin Restaurants Named James Beard Foundation 2019 Semifinalists

Nods for best new restaurant, pastry chef, beer producer, chef

"...ten different regions: best new restaurants, outstanding bar, outstanding baker, and rising star chefs 30 years of age or..."

Feb. 27, 2019 Food Post by Jessi Cape

CHIPS

The California Highway Patrol rides again

"...Parenthood). As a washed-up former Motocross champ, Shepard’s Jon Baker is starting a new career as a rookie officer..."

March 31, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Music Live: Conqueroo Day Party

ATX hootenanny sends beloved PR maven out with a bang

"...For nearly a decade, veteran music publicist Cary Baker has hosted a SXSW day party boasting the best..."

March 19, 2017 SXSW Post by Doug Freeman

One Piece Film: Gold

Japanese anime insanity

"...To date, there’s been a baker’s dozen of feature films based on Eiichiro Oda’s hugely..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dough

A Jewish baker and his Muslim trainee douse their bread with marijuana

"...Kirby. Not reviewed at press time. An aging Jewish baker in London hires a young black Muslim immigrant to..."

May 6, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Darling

A woman appears to go ’round the bend in this well-done horror film

"...that would taste horrible. Thankfully, Keating is a wonderful baker, and I can’t wait to see what’s next out..."

April 15, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos

First animated Mexican movie to receive wide release in the States

"...to his beloved Di (Perroni), his parents, and a baker’s dozen of chatty organic and ambulatory eggs. The movie’s..."

Sept. 4, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sherlock Holmes

This movie reinvents the chilly, brainiac sleuth as a tortured genius and occasional backroom brawler, and Robert Downey Jr. almost makes the character work.

"...film all the way, and while literary traditionalists and Baker Street Irregulars (of which I am one) may find..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cheaper by the Dozen 2

This unasked-for sequel fuses the original concept with the well-worn formula of the family-vacation romp.

"...can be thankful, but they’re otherwise shameless. When Tom Baker (Martin) corrals his brood of 12 for old-fashioned bonding..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Walking Tall

Contemporary remake of the 1973 grassroots classic retains and updates the basic plot while losing much of the original’s heart and soul.

"...the new hero of Walking Tall, replacing Joe Don Baker in the original. The substitution retains the muscularity of..."

April 2, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cheaper by the Dozen

Cheaper comedy dozen't add up.

"...Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt as Tom and Kate Baker, parents of a brood of 12, injects a sense..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Salton Sea

"...-- his pre-speed life, where he was a Chet Baker-esque trumpeter minus the tattoos and drugs. Things begin to..."

June 28, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Queen of the Damned

"...little hearts the film's excess of style (cinematographer Ian Baker has never met a blue gel he didn't like)..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

An American Werewolf in London

For its time, this movie was a radical melange of genuine horror and self-aware comic touches, not to mention the fabulous Rick Baker special effects.

"...self-aware comic touches, not to mention the fabulous Rick Baker special effects...."

Nov. 1, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Planet of the Apes

"...excellent, the real star of Burton's film is Rick Baker's Oscar-caliber make-up effects, which improve drastically on Ben Nye's..."

July 27, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Nutty Professor Ii: The Klumps

"...to celebrate in The Klumps, however, and that's Rick Baker's spot-on makeup effects work, which manages to spin Murphy's..."

July 28, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Life

"...his character has to age nearly 60 years. Rick Baker's effects work is truly sensational; his spooky reconstruction of..."

April 16, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Chamber

"...(Glenngary Glen Ross, At Close Range) is assured, Ian Baker's wide-screen photography is handsome, Carter Burwell's score is appropriately..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Roommates

"...care of family,” snarls 75-year-old Rocky Holeczek, Polish immigrant, baker, and crusty patriarch of a Pittsburgh family which has..."

March 10, 1995 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Wolf

"...for just isn't there. Nicholson's wolfen makeup (by Rick Baker, no less, who won an Oscar for his work..."

June 24, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Review: Into the Woods is a Breath of Fresh Air

Zach Theatre's al fresco production is best at its most timeless

"...but Into the Woods will always circle around the baker and his wife. With Paul Sanchez and Olivia Clari..."

Oct. 22, 2021 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Jazz Great John Scofield Endures

Guitarist and Miles Davis alum puts on a clinic Friday at Mohawk

"...without blurring the jazz core of his oeuvre. Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Medeski Martin & Wood all figure prominently...."

Oct. 3, 2018 Music Post by Michael Toland

Holmes for the Holidays

Spend the yuletide at 221-B Baker Street, where the library is stocked with new books about Sherlock

"...more Sherlock led the writer to return to 221-B Baker Street in 1901 and add another 32 stories and..."

Dec. 25, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

10 Minutes with Slaid Cleaves

Woody Guthrie worship via life on the road

"...Friday, he joins Jimmy LaFave, Eliza Gilkyson, and Sam Baker at the One World Theatre for two shows of..."

Jan. 23, 2014 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Don't Everybody Panic, but Online Sketch Troupe Backpack Picnic Has Definitely Gone What They Call 'Viral' and Is Also About to Contaminate the Alamo Drafthouse

Online sketch troupe Backpack Picnic has definitely gone viral

"...that was big enough, zippered or otherwise," suggests Mitch Baker, the scriptwriting brain behind Backpack Picnic, the quartet of..."

May 2, 2008 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

A DIY Approach to Helping the Unhoused Pays Off at Camp Esperanza

No funding? No resources? No problem.

"...The description was not a lament – just an explanation of how things are. And in..."

July 23, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

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