The Jackal

"...About the best that can be said for The Jackal is that it does full justice to the concept..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Jackal of Nahueltoro

March 29, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Golden Glove

Serial killer biopic is too gruelingly accurate for its own good

"...brain-scarring performance, Dassler shows him as a rabid, mangy jackal, snapping at others. His victims aren't romanticized either: They're..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Debra Broz and Adde Russell: 6.07 Works

At Salvage Vanguard Theater Gallery, artists Debra Broz and Adde Russell both try to say something important, but it's difficult to make out what

"...gallery, Adde Russell's oil painting they ran like a Jackal welcomes you. A diptych, as most of Russell's paintings..."

July 27, 2007 Arts Review by Salvador Castillo

U.S. Marshals

"...company must carry is Pogue's script which, like The Jackal and Mission Impossible, seems to drastically overestimate the mass..."

March 6, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

From The Peacemaker to The Rainmaker... and Everything In Between

"...as The Game, The Peacemaker, Mad City, and The Jackal. For legal thrillers, there's a new John Grisham adaptation,..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Whole Lotta Lava Going On

Winter/Spring Movie Sneaks

"...trap to catch the notorious international terrorist Carlos "The Jackal" -- a plot dependent on the grudging involvement of..."

Feb. 14, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Dogs are descended from either the wolf or the jackal. Jackal descendants, or "turf dogs," have a domed head..."

Sept. 13, 1996 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Comic Creator Spotlight on Sean McKeever: "I Went Off and Found My Voice"

For Free Comic Book Day we chat with Austin's sequential standouts

"...where Spider-Man was fighting his cloned twin that the Jackal had created. I’m 3 years old at the time..."

May 5, 2023 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

George Clinton, Caramelo Haze, Hulder, RippleFest, and more local shows worth seeing

"...blasphemers Skeleton support and San Antonio's blackened thrashers Black Jackal open. Marz massacres Venus. – Raoul Hernandez..."

July 22, 2022 Music Column by Julian Towers

Fantastic Fest Review: The Golden Glove

True-life serial killer drama is too real and grimy for its own good

"...brain-scarring performance, Dassler shows him as a rabid, mangy jackal, snapping at others. His victims aren't romanticized either: They're..."

Sept. 25, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Music List No. 3

Dead Meadow, Sad13, Cindy Wilson, Lizzo, Boogarins, and 494 others

"...Jackal Onasis (Brooklyn, NY.)..."

Jan. 10, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Chronicle Recommends: Films About Revolution

Watch the status quo crumble to pieces in these cinematic gems

"...on Ilich Ramírez Sánchez aka international terrorist Carlos the Jackal may clock in at 5 ½ hours, but thanks..."

July 1, 2016 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

The Black Minutes

Everywhere you turn in this ambitious debut novel, there's the wretched stench of deceit and corruption

"...brutal child murders by a fiend known as the Jackal from two decades before, Cabrera soon finds the young..."

May 21, 2010 Books Review by Jay Trachtenberg

International Bands

Around the world in one-liners

"..."Yellow Dog is brother of jackal." Hometown: Tehran. Detail: English lyrics/sex machines...."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Longford

"...the role of Brady in the same way a jackal newly released into the wild might attack a table..."

June 15, 2007 Screens Review by Josh Rosenblatt

TV Eye

Testosterone on tap

"...the novel by Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal). Elliott stars as Calvin Dexter, a former Special Forces..."

March 31, 2006 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Robert Earl Keen's "This Old Porch" or "The Armadillo Jackal," and Steve Fromholz's "Texas Trilogy" would have been admirable..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Column

Which Texas City Is Named in 'This Old Porch'?

"...Robert Earl Keen's "This Old Porch" or "The Armadillo Jackal," and Steve Fromholz's "Texas Trilogy" would have been admirable..."

Dec. 3, 2003 Postmarks

All-Access

VSA Arts of Texas raises funds to outfit AMC Barton Creek 14 with new technology for its deaf and blind patrons.

"...in Sherman Oaks, Calif., during a showing of The Jackal...."

Aug. 1, 2003 Screens Feature by Erin Steele

Stan Rice's Final Message

"...kind of Mardi Gras Dis where "a blue black jackal/Guards the oval ... resembling the trunk/Of a car. Which..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Books Feature by Dave Oliphant

Coach's Corner

Maybe the old coach has been out in the desert too long, but if there's anything to these rumors about Bobby Knight and Texas Tech, it sounds too good to be true.

"...illustrate, at least, the abject desperation of the big jackal in the red sweater: a frightful glimpse of his..."

March 16, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Zeitgeist

"...of the author's shorts stories ("Hollywood Kremlin," "The Littlest Jackal"), and fleshes out an entire novel around him. Leggy's..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Books Review by Marc Savlov

Future Near, Future Dear

"...little card hung around the neck. In "The Littlest Jackal," a mocking but hyper-masculine spy story, Sterling writes that..."

July 23, 1999 Books Feature by Clay Smith

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Movie Titles for 1997

"...2.0 (M.B.) 4/4/97 IRMA VEP 3.5 (M.S.) 8/1/97 J JACKAL, THE 1.5 (R.S.) 11/14/97 JACKIE BROWN 3.5 (M.S.) 12/26/97..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Screens Feature

All Wrapped Up

Holiday Film Previews

"...14, a similar slate of hopefuls was released: The Jackal, The Man Who Knew Too Little, and One Night..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Picking Apples

The Art and Commerce of Product Placement

"...Scientologist -- and Nicolas Cage, and the Thanksgiving thriller Jackal, starring Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, and Sidney Poitier), their..."

May 16, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov