Backseat

Two buddies take a road trip to Montreal in this shaggy dog tale that was an Austin Film Festival Audience Award winner.

"...secondary, secret goal is to unload a bag of cocaine on the other side of the border. The film,..."

April 11, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2008

Another compilation of old and new animated spectacles guaranteed to rot your eyeballs.

"...with his clever "Lapsus," while Apocalypse Cartoons' "Rats on Cocaine: Pregnant" is exactly as morally instructive as it sounds...."

Feb. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Crank

Jason Statham's Crank – despite the fact that its ever-revving mayhem is ultraviolent, sexist, and frequently offensive enough to warrant a look-see by both the ACLU and the DOJ – is pure action-film bliss.

"...his failing system, Chelios works his way up from cocaine to waffle iron (don't ask) to mighty doses of..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Into the Blue

There's a crisp little thriller anchored in this movie about pretty people wearing skimpy swimwear in a beautiful locale.

"...the turquoise waters is, of course, a fortune in cocaine submerged by a plane crash – and quite possibly..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Horns and Halos

"...the 2000 presidential campaign because of allegations of Bush cocaine use in Houston during the Seventies? Remember how the..."

March 21, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

City of Lost Souls

"...underworld sights -- a dwarf brushing his teeth with cocaine, death by ping-pong ball, bizarre computer-generated cockfights (which must..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Piñero

This film is a sympathetic biopic about the troubled life of Nuyorican writer Miguel Piñero (author of Short Eyes).

"...white, Piñero is a portrait of the artist on cocaine jags and showboat monologues. The narrative jumps haphazardly from..."

May 17, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Blow

"...Denis Leary. In the Seventies, George Jung (Depp) brought cocaine back from the dead, making it the de rigueur..."

April 6, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rock Opera

Locally filmed micro-budget feature tells a picaresque story about a punk guitarist who is trying to sell enough pot to finance a low-rent tour for his band. His journey instead takes him on a tour through the college-town underground.

"...of the Kung Fu Zombie Bastards From Hell! and Cocaine Ninja. Rock Opera bubbles up from the same primordial..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Keys to Tulsa

"...a spoiled, rich white kid with a penchant for cocaine and other people's wives, who becomes embroiled in a..."

July 11, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Basketball Diaries

"...goes straight from glue-sniffing to a few whiffs of cocaine, to a handful of pharmaceuticals, and then directly to..."

April 28, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

True Romance

"...chase film, complete with a misappropriated suitcase full of cocaine and several groups of killers on the trail of..."

Sept. 17, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Johnny Stecchino

Benigni performs dual roles in this comedy of mistaken identities.

"...the point of overripeness) and with a bag of cocaine -- which seems too dated to be a topic..."

Jan. 15, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

"...strange-looking, backward-talking, gyrating weirdos; and uncensored whiffs of sex, cocaine, and families undone. - M.B. [9/4/92] (R, 135 min.)..."

Sept. 4, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Crack Busters

The pieces are finally in place to end the crack cocaine sentencing disparity

"...to finally eradicate the notorious 100-to-one crack to powder cocaine federal sentencing guidelines...."

Oct. 19, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

Austin Coke Traffickers in Federal Pokey

Chief Art Acevedo takes sideways shot at Travis Co. attitudes towards drugs

"...Office of Inspector General to crack down on a cocaine trafficking organization run through the Cinco-Tres gang (or, 5-3,..."

June 5, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

Color of Justice

A drug bust in tiny Tulia, Texas opens up old racial wounds and raises questions about the veracity of the undercover cop-for-hire who orchestrated it all.

"...drug bust didn't take place in the high-volume inner-city cocaine rings of Houston or Dallas, or in a major..."

July 28, 2000 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

Shooting Star

"...reaper, track-marked arms open for the embrace. He's smoking cocaine and shooting heroin in death-wish quantities. Overweight from binging..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Music Feature by David Holthouse

Reefer Madness: A Victory for Proportional Sentencing

The House Judiciary Committee has voted to end the disparity between sentences for crack and powder cocaine

"...the 100-to-1 federal sentencing disparity for crack and powder cocaine...."

Aug. 14, 2009 News Column by Jordan Smith

Steven Fromholz

"...wasn't my kind of shot. I was heavily into cocaine and I was getting real sick. ... My skin..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

Bad Blood

Did the Austin Police Department Shut Down an Investigation of Its Own Cops?

"...charges range in scope from officers buying and using cocaine on duty, to accusations that officers appeared to be..."

Feb. 16, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Drug War Blowback

Drug-raid tactics come under increasing scrutiny

"...to be there to search for a "quantity of cocaine" and for other items associated with the drug trade:..."

Dec. 21, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Feds Raid Sixth Street Bars

Indictment against club boss includes money laundering, drugs

"...Two counts, distribution of more than 500 grams of cocaine; Two counts, conspiracy to distribute; Transferring a gun (22..."

March 22, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

What Killed Michael Clark?

The official Travis Co. autopsy doesn't tell the whole story

"...associated with extreme physical activity due to PCP and cocaine induced excited delirium." (As a consequence of "sickling," or..."

Dec. 2, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Countdown to Ecstasy

A New Drug for a New Millennium

"...I drug, which places it right alongside heroin and cocaine in terms of illegality, Ecstasy attracts the intellectual, creative..."

June 9, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

The beefs this week: Chronicle reporter Robert Bryce on CNN, genetically engineered foods, Steamboat, John Aielli, Paul Minor, and more.

"...Frankly, I couldn't give a damn whether Bush did cocaine in his wild youth. But I do care very..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Column

Reefer Madness

U.S. ranks tops in drug use

"...the gold for the use of tobacco, pot, and cocaine, far outpacing other countries, even the Netherlands, where drug..."

July 18, 2008 News Column by Jordan Smith

Reefer Madness

Feds ease harsh penalties on crack defendants

"...The first step toward eliminating the much-reviled 100-to-1 crack-to-powder-cocaine sentencing scheme took effect Nov. 1, with federal sentencing..."

Nov. 9, 2007 News Column by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...drug abuse study aimed at improving treatment strategies for cocaine addiction. Treatments for cocaine addiction have not been "particularly..."

Feb. 13, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Puzzled by Oppel

"...of talk about George W. Bush's past "lifestyle" and cocaine use. Cocaine use alone is a felony. There is..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Column

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