Bad Teacher

Cameron Diaz productively sidesteps her good-times-gal image to play this human cancer who lays waste to everyone who gets in her way.

"...bitchy stoner and supposed educator, shouldn't sell herself short: "Bad teacher" barely scratches the surface of her accomplishments. She's..."

July 1, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Good, the Bad, the Weird

This rollicking South Korean film mines the traditional Western genre and infuses it with fresh, frequently hilarious life.

"...to mention a jam-packed, action-centric storyline that throws in everything and a fistful of dynamite, is nowhere more evident..."

April 30, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bad Boys

"...from the notorious Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer production team behind everything from Beverly Hills Cop to the Tom Cruise vehicle..."

April 7, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bad Words

Jason Bateman plays a grown man who finds a loophole to compete in a kids national spelling bee, but the reasons are only known to him.

"...In Bad Words, Jason Bateman demonstrates that he is in full..."

March 21, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Making 'Bad Kids' Even Badder

Local-shot horror makes jump from comic to indie screens

"...me with straight faces they were filming graphic novel Bad Kids Go To Hell. Against all odds, now it's..."

Dec. 8, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Daniels, Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan live up to the title

"...to come back with a suitable bang. Cosmic comedy Everything Everywhere all at Once was the hilarious, mind bending,..."

March 12, 2022 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Everything You Need to Know About TableTop Day

Gamers unite in Wil Wheaton-created holiday

"...Good news and bad news, gaming fans...."

April 3, 2014 Screens Post by Ashley Moreno

Playing the Bad Guy

With actor David Stahl currently appearing as the wicked Richard III and actor Katherine Catmull having recently played the evil Goneril in King Lear, the challenge of playing villains seemed a ripe topic to launch a series of artist-to-artist conversations on craft.

"...encompasses high classic drama, low modern comedy, and apparently everything in between...."

Aug. 17, 2001 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Michelle Yeoh gets multiversal in this incredible comedy

"...Pandimensional surrealist comedy Everything Everywhere All at Once opens, suitably enough, with the..."

March 25, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Amy Gentry Is All the Rage in Her Third Novel, Bad Habits

The Austin author talks anger, solidarity, and grad school villainy

"...it coalesced in the publication of her third thriller, Bad Habits. The novel kicks off, yes, with the reunion..."

April 30, 2021 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Bad Blood

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

"...of a major undercover drug investigation, code-named Mala Sangre ("Bad Blood"). The accusations were originally made during this federally..."

Feb. 16, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

When Good Food Goes Bad

"...know this, but good food can turn very, very bad when it sits at the wrong temperature for too..."

June 4, 1999 Food Feature by Mick Vann

This Changes Everything: Austin Witnesses to Sex Pistols' Chaotic Randy's Rodeo Show Go Home and Start Bands

UK instigators blow the roof off San Antonio dance hall in Chapter 4, Part 2, of the “Austin Punk Chronicles”

"...or coprophagic porn. What they got was bone-crunching rock & roll designed to destroy the social order, and Rotten's..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Everything Is Exemplary

The 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...a blond wig, blue polo shirt, and corporate ID badge, he shyly introduced himself as junior sales trainee Oörk..."

June 3, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Ana Lily Amirpour on Her New Film The Bad Batch

Cannibals, cult leaders, and friendship

"...films that form her canon. Her new film, The Bad Batch, which plays like a perverse comedy, side-mirror reflection..."

June 23, 2017 Screens Feature by Lars Nilsen

Sad, Bad Santa

Wild Bill's 'Honky Tonk Holidaze' – 'Bad Santa' gone Cheech & Chong

"...these papers are arranged in stacks. I know where everything is. I don't need to put it anywhere. I..."

Dec. 13, 2013 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

25 Questions You May or May Not Be Wondering Before the 'Breaking Bad' Finale

And if you weren't before, you are now

"...The series finale of Breaking Bad airs Sunday night, and I'll be sitting there at..."

Sept. 26, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

When Bad Movies Attack

James Nguyen's underground oddity Birdemic cries fowl

"...Moviehead.com [sic]. In 2001, he produced and directed Julie & Jack – a romantic thriller about love and spirituality...."

July 2, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Everything Changed

Abra Moore returns, younger and wiser, unafraid

"..."I Do," the opening track to her new album, Everything Changed (KOCH). Her voice is shy, all traces of..."

July 30, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Austin at Large: Everything’s Different Now

The new normal requires a lot of willpower, but also the chance to do things better

"...Super Tuesday, which was only a month ago? Now everything's different...."

April 3, 2020 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Everything Old is New Again

The Year in Albums

"...Stewing together "space rock" and "electronica" in the boiling..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

I Learned to Cook at Bad Restaurants

Cooking mediocre food results in a priceless skill set

"...restaurant, and by all modern accounts, it was a bad restaurant...."

April 4, 2018 Food Post by Danny Palumbo

Letters at 3AM: The Bad and the Beautiful

Film noir cuts through the cant of America's idealism

"...its architecture embodied much that America aspired to be: beautifully made, orderly, and free. The town's buildings are a..."

May 20, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Bad Medicine?

No Child Left Behind prescribed for Austin schools – although the cure may be worse than the illness

"...twofold. First, no student should be stuck in a bad school. But it's also way to pay homage to..."

Sept. 30, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

DVDanger: A Bad Case of the Sequels

Retreads, remakes, and do-overs rule the home releases

"...basically shrugs and accepts his fate. The author left everything else an enigma, a tabula rasa onto which the..."

July 28, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bad Law, Bad Lawyer: Davis Wings Abbott

Dem sinks in barb over Republican's defense of slashing school finance

"...committee to examine its catastrophic impact. It was so bad that one of the first bipartisan agreements of the..."

Dec. 5, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Everything Old Is New Again

A Texan's in the White House, we're in a quagmire war – and 'The Rag' returns to Austin

"...do something on that. ... Oh my god! There's bad drugs somewhere. Let's tell everyone."..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Pickling Peaches with the Big Bad Chef

Award-winning Southern chef John Currence shares pickling expertise

"...Alliance symposiums. Currence, who refers to himself as "Big Bad Chef," has won some James Beard awards since then..."

Aug. 14, 2014 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Everything Went Black: Five Hits From Hell

What to watch this Halloween

"...in the basement and it ain't pretty" charm, Hill's beautiful black-and-white frightmare is only compounded by the mind-erasing weirdness..."

Oct. 24, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

FF2012: The Good, The Bad, And the Weird of Fantastic Fest

Surviving the liver-crunching, spine tingling, head-expanding fest

"...but the Fantastic Debate fight between Devin Faraci of BadAssDigest and film maker Joe Swanberg. Put simply, Swanberg wailed..."

Oct. 2, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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