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"...Film Club’s long-running film series at Hotel Vegas, wherein crackerjack film programmers have brought weird and wild cinematic treasures..."

May 10, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

She Is Love

Dry love-triangle comedy sacrifices honesty for hollow style

"...That is a crackerjack setup, but crackerjacks do not a meal make. She..."

Feb. 3, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Raul's in Overdrive: "AUSTIN IS UN-MELLOWING OUT!"

In 1978, visits from Patti Smith and Elvis Costello plus the Austin Punk Scene’s first record could mean “AUSTIN IS UN-MELLOWING OUT!”

"...The headliners' producer Nick Lowe opened fronting Rockpile, a crackerjack team of pub rock veterans he co-led with guitarist..."

Dec. 30, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

We Have an Issue: Toasts All Around

Celebrating the Best of Austin: Restaurants awards, and sending off Music Editor Kevin Curtin

"...her from her music column, "Faster Than Sound"; her crackerjack reporting; her insightful features. She's got terrific instincts, style..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Column by Kimberley Jones

Werewolves Within

Howlingly hilarious lycanthrope comedy is a shaggy whodunnit

"...his feature debut, meta-horror Scare Me, nails the required crackerjack comedy pacing, and balances that with some genuine big..."

June 25, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Two red Persian cats named Crackerjack and Pumpkin played the role of Crookshanks in the..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

ACL Fest Interview: The Revolution

Backing band honors the legacy of the Purple One

"...Z (né Rivkin) anchored the late Minneapolis funk polymath's crackerjack live and studio band. Accompanying the diminutive R&B dynamo..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Tomb Raider

Lara Croft is back again!

"...character Lara Croft gets a much-needed reboot in this crackerjack, Saturday afternoon matinee adventure. It’s not a terribly witty..."

March 23, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film Review: American Animals

A docudrama as audacious as the heist it re-creates

"...First, he assembled a crackerjack team of actors: Evan Peters as the wild-minded Warren..."

March 19, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music

Support the home team!

"...Keely, TOD proved remarkably consistent in generating concert chaos, crackerjack songwriting, and an explosive fusion of prog ambition and..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Molly's Game

Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut plays a high stakes game with Jessica Chastain

"...the director’s chair. But overall, Molly’s Game is a crackerjack, quintessential holiday movie. Smart, engaging, and full of great..."

Dec. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House

Account of the informant who brought down Nixon's administration

"...Despite some seriously crackerjack casting – Sizemore, Lucas, Hall – and a terrific..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lukas Nelson

"...as a guitarist. Similarly, the music he made with crackerjack unit Promise of the Real proved sturdy and workmanlike,..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Music Feature

ACL Review: Lukas Nelson

Willie’s kid proves his own Americana rockist

"...as a guitarist. Similarly, the music he made with crackerjack unit Promise of the Real proved sturdy and workmanlike,..."

Oct. 7, 2017 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Sunday SOS Picks

A final three picks for the SOS Sabbath

"...Nineties alterna-rock culture, punk icon Bob Mould and his crackerjack band steam into Sherwood Forest straight off a European..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Weekend Two Sunday ACL Fest Picks

ACL sendoffs

"...in introspective folk. Today, he's on Stax Records with crackerjack rhythm & horn sections, fitting ably into the legendary..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Music Feature

Sunday ACL Fest Picks

The first weekend of ACL Fest closes with highlights galore

"...in introspective folk. Today, he's on Stax Records with crackerjack rhythm & horn sections, fitting ably into the legendary..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Music Feature

Krisha

This exceptionally well-done drama ushers in a striking new talent

"...approach that pays off wonderfully. The one deviation, a crackerjack montage involving a Nina Simone song and a dropped..."

March 25, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Finest Hours

Perfect effects and performances made this sea-rescue movie a dandy

"...– working in pitch-and-yaw-perfect 3-D – have made a crackerjack actioner. Dramamine is recommended prior to viewing. Based on..."

Jan. 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Eve Monsees & the Exiles

"...the heart of a Telecaster with the Exiles, the crackerjack raunch & roll outfit Monsees has helmed since she..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Music Review by Tim Stegall

ACL Review: Sturgill Simpson

So outlaw even an Eighties techno-pop hit becomes hardcore country

"...it is, the third-generation outlaw country singer and his crackerjack fivepiece could’ve just as easily shifted into a gear..."

Oct. 4, 2015 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Taken 3

Liam Neeson's back in action.

"...but this substituted plot invites easy comparison to the still-crackerjack thrills of 1993’s The Fugitive, with Forest Whitaker’s dogged..."

Jan. 16, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Open Windows

Elijah Wood is the star of Nacho Vigalondo's nervy thriller about digital voyeurism.

"...cultural buttons, and Open Windows works as both a crackerjack suspenser and an intellectually chewy meta-commentary on our current..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

ACL Live Shot: Imelda May

Dublin rockabilly turns in a Kustom Kar set and owns the place

"...With May’s crackerjack band setting a gravedigger groove, the Dublin-born rockabilly sensation..."

Oct. 13, 2014 Music Post by Tim Stegall

ACL Live Shot: Jimmy Cliff

Reggae’s first superstar remains “The Harder They Come”

"...moving to guitar, he made full use of a crackerjack band adept at reproducing scratchy Trojan/Island 45s like “Vietnam”..."

Oct. 4, 2014 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Akashic's 'USA Noir' Takes You Hostage in a Good Bad Way

This new crime anthology's got more swank items than an uptown fence

"...Books head honcho Johnny Temple for doing such a crackerjack job of overloading my schedule with these dark and..."

Nov. 6, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

ACL Live Shot: Pacha Massive, Blind Boys of Alabama, JD McPherson, and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

An afternoon in the Gospel Tent no one could follow

"...but he more than held his own, leading a crackerjack fivepiece – piano, drums, guitar, saxophone, upright bass –..."

Oct. 5, 2013 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

After the Frost

Superhero Max Frost takes on the Death Star!

"...rapper Reggie Coby, one dynamic backup singer, and a crackerjack rhythm section out to the W Hotel Downtown for..."

Sept. 27, 2013 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

SXSW Wednesday Picks and Sleepers

"...by his own experiences – and that of his crackerjack bandmates. – Dan Oko WILD CUB..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

The Game's Afoot

This whodunit is all in fun, but Austin Playhouse isn't having as much fun with it as it could

"...Over Buffalo – has assembled the elements of a crackerjack whodunit farce in this 2011 effort. Drawing on the..."

Jan. 11, 2013 Arts Review by Robert Faires

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