The Guilt Trip

Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen are a mother and son on a road trip but the humor's mostly on autopilot.

"...(Rogen) is about to start on a cross-country road trip to pitch his new product – a cleaner –..."

Dec. 21, 2012 Movie Review by Louis Black

Round-Trip

Filmmakers and filmgoers make the journey from Austin to Marfa, with an ever-expanding footprint

"...was hard not to be needled with the shared guilt of an invading force descending on the locals this..."

May 14, 2010 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

As Above/So Below

There are things in the catacombs beneath Paris that should remain underground.

"...the subterranean torment of The Descent with the supernatural guilt-trip of Event Horizon, with characters meeting their own inner..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

Black or White

Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer play guardians who fight over the custody of their granddaughter.

"...already willing to meet the zeitgeist halfway, their liberal guilt trip about how racism makes white people uncomfortable too..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Last Vegas

Did the Social Security set finally get their The Hangover?

"...Niro), who has to be coaxed into the Vegas trip because he is still mad at Billy for not..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Miss March

Two-fifths of the Whitest Kids U'Know comedy troupe wrote, star in, and co-directed this nubile sex romp about a road trip to the Playboy mansion.

"...who convinces him to go on a cross-country road trip to Hugh Hefner’s mansion to reclaim his true love..."

March 20, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

November

November, starring Courteney Cox, is a dense, dark head-trip of a movie that seems like the bastard offspring of Memento and Mullholland Dr.

"...Far from being groovy, November is a dense, dark head-trip of a movie that snakes in and around its..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Beau Is Afraid

Joaquin Phoenix is the understated fool in this bloated Oedipal epic

"...middle-aged Jewish man with a beyond-fractious relationship with his guilt-trip-inducing mother, Mona (LuPone). She's initially only heard on the..."

April 21, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Salton Sea

"...Spun), The Salton Sea is a grimy, hallucinatory bad trip of a film, relentlessly downbeat and cloying, and very..."

June 28, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

"...Ray (Prinze) is getting the cold-shoulder treatment, and unrelenting guilt over last season's accidental murder is playing hell with..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The War

"...the journey takes us past some interesting sights, the trip never really arrives anywhere. It's a movie with lots..."

Nov. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Danny Collins

Al Pacino is an aging rock & roller who makes an entertaining play for redemption

"...such things as the witless Fred Claus and The Guilt Trip. Yet at least with Danny Collins and his..."

April 3, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVD Watch: ‘Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene’

The first American-produced portrait of the titan of British letters

"...contemporary Babs? Her 2012 comedy with Seth Rogen, The Guilt Trip (Paramount, Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy, $39.99),..."

April 30, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Decoder

Lawrence Wright reflects on a decade spent exploring and explaining the Middle East in My Trip to Al-Qaeda

"...fact, director Alex Gibney, whose documentary about Wright, My Trip to Al-Qaeda, premieres on HBO Sept. 7, says that..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

Recent and Anticipated Texas

From 'Panic' to 'Andrew Jackson'

"...is the main subject. As always, Riordan – the "triple-crown winner of mystery's most prestigious awards," the Edgar, the..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Books Review by Shawn Badgley

One True Thing

"...criticize her writing as being too emotional can also guilt-trip her into coming home by implying that she has..."

Sept. 25, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Five Loaves & Two Fish

Here's a picture gallery of the relief effort along the gulf coast.

"...This weekend's trip began Saturday morning at 6am at the Mobile Loaves..."

Sept. 24, 2008 Emergency Post by Kate X Messer

5 Unique Austin Hotels for Your Next Staycation

Move aside, Marriott

"...you with questions about your marital status or to guilt you in general? We’ve put together a list of..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Events Post by Saskia Henn

Playback: Mineral Reunites

Emo pioneers Mineral return

"...the harm reduction community, says the meeting isn't to guilt-trip drug users, but rather to educate them...."

Aug. 29, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

It's the Totally Ultrasonic, Totally Awesome AusChron Newscast

Making abortions more onerous, the city more civil

"...health, this time the invasive ultrasound bill written to guilt-trip women out of abortions. If that's not enough to..."

March 4, 2011 News Post by Jordan Smith

Too Many Breaks on KUT

"...or giving it directly to NPR if the KUT guilt trip is bothering them. I donate to other public..."

Jan. 26, 2006 Postmarks

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...You can do even less pushing up daisies, your spread-the-guilt trip notwithstanding...."

Feb. 7, 2003 Column

Married to the Mob

"...beats living with your boss/editor. Who else can you guilt-trip into reading and re-reading your stuff after every little..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Book Reviews

"...that proves the rule or on some kind of guilt trip. He also notes that "[Although] The death rate..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Books Review

Where's the Fire?

Communications Bond Proposal Is No Emergency

"...all city departments, and city officials are hoping to guilt trip the public into supporting the changeover by framing..."

April 25, 1997 News Feature

Who Killed Father Ryan?

A 1981 Odessa murder haunts crime researchers, the Catholic Church, and an ex-con determined to prove his innocence

"...But in 1983, an Ector Co. jury found Reyos guilty of murder and sentenced him to 38 years in..."

June 17, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Luv Doc: Lucky You

How can someone who has experienced such wealth and plenitude ever hope to live a life free of tortured conscience?

"...whack. He's in N.Y. right now for a work trip, sending me photos of the exciting stuff he's doing,..."

Feb. 15, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

The United States of Insanity

Inside the family of Juggalos, and the deranged government crusade against them

"...the subculture that surrounds it, as it is a trip into a deeply disturbing and Kafkaesque assault on civil..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

À Tout de Suite

Shot in jittery black-and-white 16mm, this French film's on-the-fly aesthetic captures the shiftlessness of bourgeois youth and some of the spirit of the French New Wave.

"...scene, Lili lures Bada from their hideout for a trip to the movies. Giddily, she snuggles her dangerous and..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Eel

"...one night, goes off on his regular weekend fishing trip, but returns home early, and discovers that the inflammatory..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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