Short and Sweet: Chris McInroy Has "GUTS"

Austin filmmaker discusses his gross-out office comedy short

"...Chris McInroy, director of the award-nominated gooey gross-out laff-fest "GUTS."..."

Feb. 22, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

One in a Crowd: “Guts”

Help crowdfund Austin-produced horror-comedy short "Guts"

"...filmmaker Chris McInroy for his new horror-comedy short film "Guts." What's the project?..."

April 23, 2021 Screens Column by Trace Sauveur

Accuser Loudmouths Lacking in Guts

"...reasonable reader will conclude such accuser loudmouths lacking in guts, a condition common to both sexes...."

Feb. 27, 2006 Postmarks

Blood and Guts and Dirt and Joy

Michael Miller may appear at first meeting to be withdrawn, but he is absolutely present onstage and off, and his willingness to "get dirty" with his characters and continuous challenge to himself to be better make this seemingly reserved actor one of Austin's best.

"...sexual politics, very much. But it was an incredibly gutsy script. So [I like] scripts in particular that take..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Do You Have the Guts to Try These Tripas Tacos?

Local spots that offer offal

March 11, 2022 Food Feature by Evan Rodriguez

Spillers' Guts

March 14, 2014 Screens Feature by Ashley Moreno

Spillers' Guts

Ashley Spillers stepped out of her comfort zone to write these 'love letters to Austin'

March 7, 2014 Screens Feature by Ashley Moreno

SCOTUS Guts Voting Rights Act

Roberts court rules that VRA so successful, no longer necessary

June 25, 2013 News Post by Michael King

It Takes Guts to Throw a Kidney Party

Jim and Carole Wal­lace celebrate another year of life

Jan. 8, 2010 Food Feature by MM Pack

Computer to Mack: Got the Guts to Attack?

The computer says …

Nov. 24, 2008 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

My Bloody Valentine 3D

This horror film is a full-on, old-school, gore-hound heaven – a supersaturated arterial goregasm with zero socially redeeming values for anyone other than first-year med students.

"...precious little irony or Scream-esque, self-effacing commentary. It's just guts, guts, guts (and attendant blunt trauma) from the get-goo..."

Jan. 23, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

Strange things are afoot in the morgue

"...the coroners to get Jane Doe to spill her guts is, um, to spill her guts postmortem...."

Jan. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Looper

Crackerjack thrills, time travel, violence, humor, and action: Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis are characters who share the same morally conflicted core.

"...miserables of Looper’s fucked-up futurescape. If you’re looking for guts-splaying, Looper certainly satisfies – but it’s the emotional guts..."

Sept. 28, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Rambo: Last Blood

Last blood? We can only hope, as Rambo goes full MAGA

"...it’s both too much and not enough, an unsatisfying blood-and-guts B-movie with all the goonish, grindhouse fun eviscerated out..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Big Sick

The rom-com is dead! Long live the rom-com!

"...preciousness. I laughed plenty at their film, cried my guts out, too, and went home elated. The romantic comedy..."

June 30, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Antibirth

A party girl discovers she's pregnant

"...initially comes across as a post-millennial splatterpunk barrage of guts, guns, and girls gone wild – sorry, no God..."

Oct. 28, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Miss You Already

Drew Barrymore and Toni Collette co-star as best friends facing crises

"...a willing cast and story to get to the guts-splaying...."

Nov. 6, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Hobo With a Shotgun

Though it's a great title, this Rutger Hauer movie is an unfocused throwback to Seventies exploitation films.

"...urine-soaked balconies. Eisener has front-loaded his movie with guns, guts (or viscera), and, yes, Hauer the hobo painting the..."

May 6, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rammbock: Berlin Undead

This wackily despairing horror film from Germany is chock-full o' blood and guts.

"...zombie-genre tropes, its brief running time is chock-full o' guts. I haven't seen a German horror film this wackily..."

April 29, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Blue Valentine

Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling play a pair of lovers from first meet to last fight.

"...is so keen on convincing us of its grubby, emotional-guts-splaying realism that the effect is quite the opposite: to..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2010

The boys are back with another self-explanatory edition.

"...the other filmmakers, though, to show the blood and guts...."

Feb. 26, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

I'm Not There

This meditation on Bob Dylan is infused with love – not the slavish kind but a true-eyed tribute to the artist who belongs to nobody and everybody at once.

"...course – she’s always great – but the emotional guts of I’m Not There belong to Ledger, as a..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Marine

WWE wrestling champion John Cena makes his film debut in this action film.

"...out entire platoons of enemy soldiers using just their guts, their honor, and a big gun. Like those who..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Pulse

The ghost is literally in the machine in this prototypical Japanese horror film that works primarily with dread and inexplicable phenomena rather than blood and guts.

"...with dread and inexplicable phenomena rather than blood and guts. Made in 2001 and purchased by Miramax for the..."

Jan. 6, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Constant Gardener

City of God director Fernando Meirelles makes his English-language debut with this bracing, heartbreaking conspiracy thriller set in AIDS-ravaged Kenya.

"...this international production, which has style, heart, smarts, and guts to spare. Its puzzle-box intrigue plot does almost everything..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Oldboy

This 2003 revenger from Korean upstart Chan-wook Park is a multilayered, intensely performed, shockingly violent, and viscerally visual tour de force.

"...the build-up, it’s a hopelessly, helplessly original film, all guts, no glory...."

April 29, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Mother

From the director of Notting Hill comes this story about a middle-aged woman who reignites her sex life with a much younger man.

"...paradox – the actors eagerly plumbing the blood & guts of the thing, and Michell trailing behind them with..."

July 2, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Frida

"...as Kahlo's, Taymor's film seems downright chaste. It has guts, but the viscera's gone missing...."

Nov. 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Devil's Backbone

Set in a crumbling boys' school/orphanage/fallout shelter during the Spanish Civil War, the lost boys of this haunting film contend with a vengeful ghost as well as the more worldly traumas of war, greed, and abandonment.

"...elegant, spooky story. Best known for the blood & guts spunk of Mimic, Blade, and Blade 2 (which has..."

March 15, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Pop & Me

"...the Aspen FilmFest. Everybody likes to watch the messy guts-stuff of other peoples' lives, if only because we know..."

June 16, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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