Fist Fight

A comedy that revels in low-hanging fruit

"...premise can be boiled down to its hashtag – #teacherfight – Fist Fight aims for nothing more than fleeting..."

Feb. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen

Bone-pulverizing kickassery trumps plot in this Donnie Yen martial-arts film directed by Andrew Lau.

"...Yen action smashathon? Probably not, but Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen comes close to overdosing..."

April 29, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kat Fight

Comic Kat Ramzinski mugged, jokes about it at Moontower

"...to find it. "Right then," she says, "a huge fist just popped me in the face and knocked my..."

April 24, 2014 Arts Post by Chase Hoffberger

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

Martin Lawrence is remarkably subdued in this story about a successful professional who returns home to rural Georgia and discovers that his family still makes him feel like a petulant teenager.

"...made for the occasional overblown sex scene or desperate fist fight). He plays Jenkins, a hugely successful daytime-TV “doctor”..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

True Legend

The great martial-arts choreographer Yuen Woo-ping directs this saga about the inventor of Drunken Fist fighting.

"...years, and although his incredible ingenuity in crafting wirework fight sequences is on full display, the filmmaker also supplements..."

May 13, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rocky Balboa

This final chapter in the Rocky saga is terrific – maybe not great, like that first kiss of fist in ’76, but good, solid, exhilarating entertainment of the stand-up-and-cheer variety.

"...movies, truly great ones, are as rare as memorable prize-fighters these days, but the genre – and it is..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil

A taste of Eighties-style buddy-cop action-comedy hits all the right faces

"...Tony Scott, and they cast Nick Nolte as the granite-fisted crime king, Tom Cruise as the charming but smug..."

June 21, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Hunger Games

Katniss Everdeen wins the Hunger Wars and our hearts.

"...occupy the likes of Rick Santorum's face with a fist than yield to the archaic notions of dutiful womanhood..."

March 23, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Next Three Days

Russell Crowe plays a man who improbably springs his wife from prison where she's been incarcerated for life.

"...looks like she'd bring a palmed knife to a fist fight without a flutter of conscience, but the film..."

Nov. 26, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Happy Gilmore

"...golf-course antics are amusing, for example, his surreal mid-film fist fight with Bob Barker ("The Price is Wrong, Bitch!!!"),..."

Feb. 16, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Out of the Shadows

photograph by Todd V. Wolfson

"...could do better. Actually, it ended up in a fist fight between me and Jesse [Sublett] at the Continental..."

July 25, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Texas Book Festival 2019:
Modern Royalty in Romance

Casey McQuiston and Jasmine Guillory reign over rom-coms

"...coverage Markle has received. McQuiston agreed vehemently, offering “to fist-fight the Daily Mail” on the Duchess’ behalf. That sympathy..."

Oct. 28, 2019 Arts Post by Rosalind Faires

Stratus Properties Acquires Transmission Events

Graham Williams starts new booking business: Margin Walker Presents

"...it’s not a harsh thing. We didn’t have a fist fight on the way out. We shook hands...."

May 16, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Music Keynote: Tony Visconti

“That’s what I’m going to be: The know-it-all about music.”

"...the Starman’s different colored eyes due to a teenage fist fight...."

March 18, 2016 SXSW Post by Alejandra Ramirez

Fill a Bowl for Stickland

State rep's stoner past comes out in primary

"...his own open carry legislation, and finished with a near-fist fight with House Calendars Committee chair Byron Cook. Republicans..."

Dec. 30, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker

News Roundup: Can't Stop the Rain

Or the Lege, for that matter

"...Most notoriously, the House almost devolved into a fist fight after Rep. Jonathan Stickland, R-Bedford, harangued House Calendars..."

May 26, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Raiders!

What if you remade a Hollywood blockbuster in your mom's basement?

"...was not finished. One scene was missing: the elaborate fist fight on an airplane tarmac that ends in a..."

March 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Don Henley Must Die

"...do you want to debate? Do you want to fist fight?' He was shit-faced and he goes, 'I want..."

June 20, 2014 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Luv Doc: How Close is Too Close?

In Texas we like wide open spaces

"...suplex body slam that usually evolved into an all-out fist fight (not in the face)...."

Feb. 28, 2014 Column

Turkey Day Game for the Texans

Sneak by Jags in OT

"...Last week it was a fist fight, this week it was a shootout...."

Nov. 21, 2012 Sports Post by Barrett Walton

Sheriff Over ICE

Dem candidates spar over the TCSO role in immigration

"...drunk, don't abuse your spouse, don't get into a fist fight at the bar," he says. "It's really that..."

March 23, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Structuralist, Collagist, and Surrealist Film: The Poetics of Avant-Garde Cinema

"...Fist Fight (1964) D: Robert Breer. (9 min.)..."

July 13, 2001 Screens Feature

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Marvel's master of kung fu makes a convoluted cosmic splash

"...a hit squad led by the aptly named Razor Fist (former boxer Munteanu). Then she's really caught off-guard by..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

This Is Not a Movie

Veteran foreign correspondent Robert Fisk embodies the importance of honest journalism

"..."the wrong side" has been caught with a bloody fist (Fisk was one of the first reporters to dare..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The AggreGAYtor: July 14

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...The fist bump heard round the world continues to reverberate, as..."

July 14, 2014 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

Scanlines

Cane Toads

"...Fist of Legend..."

June 20, 1997 Screens Feature

Cinema of the Americas

A Festival of Latino Films Showcases New Visions of an Old and Resurging Culture

"...shows: Where the map displays a column of nations fighting collapse, the films depict complex and sturdy cultures engaged..."

April 13, 2001 Screens Feature by David Garza

Energy Forward

Sofia Resnick gets her kee-op! on at Master Yi Martial Arts Academy

"...North Burnet Road, I could see the prospective stunt fighters warming up, and my compulsive habit to twirl my..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Screens Feature by Sofia Resnick

Inside Agitator

Fulani Follower Stokes Fires of Resentment and Reform

"...she says she earned by befriending Jewish kids and fighting with her older brother about segregation. Her reputation as..."

Dec. 12, 1997 News Feature by Audrey Duff

Postmarks

Our own little Gaza Strip, and the Halloween (Gas) Mask is taken to task.

"...to hit anyone from his jeep window with his fists, and approached two separate cyclists, and engaged in fist..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Column

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