DVDanger: Buster's Mal Heart

Rami Malek's newest and strangest, plus more home releases

"...take on kaiju monster films with Ann Hathaway in Colossal. Read our review here and our interview with Vigalondo..."

Sept. 12, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

"...like the upcoming kaiju comedy and Fantastic Fest smash Colossal and super-dark Croatian comedy Goran, it's going to be..."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Festival Films You Haven't Seen Yet

Last year's unseen genre gems to add to your must-see list

"...3) Colossal..."

Jan. 1, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Wave Three

Multiple monsters, sequels, and regulars (and RZA)

"...Windows), steps into kaiju country with his newest beast, Colossal...."

Sept. 7, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Leviathan

This Oscar nominee for best Foreign Language film exudes existential Russian angst in cinematic form.

"...tidal pools, and perches on a boulder beside the colossal, weathered skeleton of a whale. (Metaphors abound.)..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wrong Cops

French musician-filmmaker-writer-editor Quentin Dupieux (Rubber) returns with more lo-fi absurdism.

"...Officer Rough also sports an eye patch and a colossal growth sprouting from his forehead.) There’s $20K in mystery..."

Jan. 17, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Armstrong Lie

What's a filmmaker to do with all the footage shot during Lance Armstrong's inspirational bicycling comeback in 2009 but reshape it into a documentary about a sports hero who couldn't stop lying?

"...fashions Armstrong into a flawed hero, undone by his colossal hubris. Or, perhaps a modernist hero who functions in..."

Nov. 8, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

No

Gael García Bernal stars in this lo-fi drama about the role advertising played in the ouster of the Chilean despot, General Pinochet.

"...when his 15-year strong-arm rule – noted for its colossal human-rights abuses and its vast numbers of imprisoned, murdered,..."

March 29, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sleepless Night

Purloined cocaine, his kidnapped son, and a den of thieves who wish him ill cause one man to have a very desperate night in this taut French thriller.

"...it here: Finding himself in the eye of a colossal shit storm of his own making, his Vincent is..."

May 11, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt are delightfully matched in this offbeat romantic comedy from the director of Chocolat.

"...from the United Kingdom – a grand vision and/or colossal folly the British Press Office throws its weight (and..."

March 30, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Point Austin: Villamusing

Council says no to film studio, concert venue, and film set residential development proposed for eastern Travis County

"...last Thursday, as representatives of Villa Muse – the colossal film studio, concert venue, and film set as residential..."

March 14, 2008 News Column by Michael King

What Would Jesus Buy?

The good Reverend Billy is on an agitprop mission to convince his fellow Americans that our heedless consumerism will be their spiritual undoing.

"...companies and multinational corporations in the middle of Minnesota’s colossal Mall of America, his 30 disciples by his side,..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Venus

Peter O'Toole, in an Oscar-caliber and -nominated performance, pulls off the tricky May-December relationship at the heart of Venus with colossal panache and sublime craft.

"...perverse or Bill Murray and do it with such colossal panache, aplomb, and sublime craft (not to mention craftiness)...."

Jan. 26, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Friday

"...Heartbreakers. Thank God for power riffs. – Darcie Stevens COLOSSAL YES9:30pm, Blender Balcony @ the Ritz Heavy-rock bongloaders might..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Letters at 3AM

Changes in Earth's atmosphere – solar flares, the shape of the planet, disruptions in the ozone layer and magnetic fields – are bigger than any of our more quotidian concerns

"...something ... I don't have the words ... something colossal, monstrous, magnificent: the sun, with great flares flashing from..."

July 23, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Alex & Emma

"...two time-honored methods of improving upon this kind of colossal mistake: rewrites and reshoots. Wait, no – I thought..."

June 20, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Los Lobos

'ACL' sides

"...any lingering memories of questionable Nineties output like 1996's colossal blunder Colossal Head or 1999's frigid This Time melt..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Reign of Fire

"...puffing and blowing down pretty much everything with their colossal wingspans, armor-plated hide, and ravenous appetite for all things..."

July 12, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Joe Dirt

"...to Silence of the Lambs, and you have one colossal extrusion – much like the “big old frozen piece..."

April 13, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Media Clips

The world’s major corporations have realized that the media can be big money, and they have invested heavily.

"...out of date, as CBS and Viacom announced a colossal merger...."

Dec. 24, 1999 News Column by Lee Nichols

Short Cuts

"...being "titanic" in scope the implication was that of colossal disaster. Now the seemingly limitless box-office potential created by..."

April 17, 1998 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Fifth Element

Besson's smart editing and sly sense of humor keep this science-fiction epic from bogging down. Despite a grim storyline, the film never takes itself too seriously.

"...City scenes where thousands of flying cars jam the colossal skyline and a thick patina of grime hangs over..."

May 9, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Waterworld

"...a backlog of cast and crew horror stories so colossal they make Cimino's Heaven's Gate-woes pale in comparison (the..."

Aug. 4, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tank Girl

A movie that combines Busby Berkeley chorus lines with killer mutant kangaroos and the wildest female action hero this side of La Femme Nikita.

"...Jet (Watts), Rebecca manages to escape and steal a colossal tank, and suddenly it's Tank Girl and Jet Girl..."

March 31, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Meet the Feebles

"...Overseen by manager Bletch the Walrus (who's busy masterminding colossal heroin deals when he's not out on the links..."

April 8, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Article Ninety-Nine

"...good-looking prettyboy with a heart as big as the colossal, dreary hospital he works for. Sutherland, as the new..."

March 20, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, November 17-23

"...million tons of yourself every second to generate the colossal energy you send in our direction. Thank you, beloved..."

Nov. 17, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

SXSW Adds Iron Man, Captain Kirk, New Order to Speaker List

Robert Downey Jr., William Shatner, Deepak Chopra headed to Austin

"...Press Secretary Jen Psaki ● Co-founder and CEO of Colossal Ben Lamm ● Activist, technologist, network security expert, author,..."

Feb. 14, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Feeding the Ukrainian Resistance With Varenyky and Mutual Aid

To Austin's Ukrainian community, the meaning of food has co-evolved with the war itself

"...despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands..."

Nov. 25, 2022 Food Feature by John Besche

Memorable Moments From ACL Fest Weekend One

Some of our favorite performances that you can revisit this weekend

"...since blowing the country and hip-hop scenes apart with colossal 2019 hit “Old Town Road,” the artist didn’t surprise..."

Oct. 14, 2022 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

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