Riding With Joe Carnahan and Latinx Superhero El Chicano

The action innovator on film, politics, the Coens, Blumhouse and more

"...Joe Carnahan is the action filmmaker's action filmmaker. Not CGI..."

May 4, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Where's My Roy Cohn?

The man who taught Trump to be a monster

"...amply define the man who conspiratorially whispered in Sen. Joe McCarthy’s ear, unjustly sent Ethel Rosenberg to the electric..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Summer Reading

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

"...Redhunter: A Novel Based on the Life of Senator Joe McCarthy..."

June 4, 1999 Books Review

Amateurs and Old Friends

Tom McCarthy works both angles in his winning third film. Make that Win Winning.

"...into Win Win, a comic drama co-conceived by Tom McCarthy and Joe Tiboni. Yes, it's about high school wrestling,..."

April 8, 2011 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

The Road

Cormac McCarthy's bleak, end-of-days novel survives the transition to the screen with remarkable veracity.

"...of a downer: my first reading of Texan Cormac McCarthy's bleak, end-of-days novel; Oprah Winfrey's championing of the book..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Riotous comedy mixes live-action and animation for a great result.

"...Directed by: Joe Dante. Starring: Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Steve Martin, Timothy..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Flags of Our Fathers

The first half of the film continues Clint Eastwood's ongoing deconstruction of America's hero myths but then detours into some uncharacteristically sentimental mulch.

"...Patrick, Neal McDonough, Melanie Lynskey, Judith Ivey and Tom McCarthy. When Eastwood’s new film about the heroes of Iwo..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hightower Report

McCarthyism rears its ugly head; and taxpayers pay for a Bush campaign commercial.

"...McCarthyism Redux..."

May 23, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower

Eve About All

The Stunning Images of Photographer Eve Arnold

"...Elizabeth Taylor? And the expression of the man behind Joe McCarthy?)..."

Aug. 16, 1996 Arts Feature

Page Two

Libby indictment evokes more scapegoating and hypocrisy from the right

"...Joe McCarthy is back! As with Joe, you can frequently..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Public Notice: Georgia on My Mind

It was the best of days, it was the worst of days

"...counsel Joseph Welch's immortal rebuke to the red-baiting Sen. Joe McCarthy – "Have you no sense of decency, sir?..."

Jan. 8, 2021 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Page Two: Shock Therapy

Shock Therapy: Texans need to hear the truth about taxes and toll roads

"...In a manner Sen. Joe McCarthy would have loved, they attack the "toll-road lobby."..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Page Two – Alex Jones: Demon Hunter

“Clinton and Obama stink of sulfur, so they must be demons”

"...Championing Joe McCarthy, it often seems like Jones is determined to..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Column by Louis Black

What We’re Listening to This Week

A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver, Jenny Parrott, Startographers, and more local sounds worth hearing

"...Live Forever: A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver (New West)..."

Nov. 25, 2022 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

Jack Goes Boating

Philip Seymour Hoffman directs and stars in this drama about a nebbishy middle-aged man with minimal social skills.

"...Hoffman, Amy Ryan, John Ortiz, Daphne Rubin-Vega and Thomas McCarthy. Oscar-winning actor Hoffman's directorial debut is adapted from a..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Election Night Returns: We've Only Just Begun

Now that the primaries are over, get ready for the run-offs!

"...here. On the GOP ballot, the reanimated corpse of Joe McCarthy, beloved Senator Ted Cruz, just beat Floridian Marco..."

March 4, 2016 News Feature by Amy Kamp

The Hightower Report: The GOP's 'Ballot Integrity' Ruse

How Republican politicos are discouraging voting by minorities

"...GOP secretary of state in Colorado excitedly asserted – Joe McCar­thy-style – that he had a list of 11,805..."

Oct. 5, 2012 News Column by Jim Hightower

At Close Range

The Men Behind the Texas Militia Myth

"...that do more to circumvent the Constitution than anything Joe McCarthy ever dreamed of...."

Oct. 27, 1995 News Feature

State of the Union

A Fourth of July film roundup that goes beyond Independence Day

"...Gregory dusted a keen portrait of Fifties Wisconsin Sen. Joe McCarthy, who destroyed countless lives blacklisting Americans during his..."

July 3, 2015 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Top 10 State Stories

The 10 stories that defined politics in Texas in 2014

"...Sen. Ted Cruz, everyone's favorite Canadian-Cuban import, perfected his Joe McCarthy impression, pushing his fellow GOPers aside to grab..."

Jan. 2, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The State of Texas: "Pro-life, Pro-guns, Anti-Obama"

"...not on the ballot. Looking and sounding increasingly like Joe McCarthy, he even predicted the collapse of the formal..."

Nov. 7, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Romeo Rose for Mayor

Local 'celebrity' outlines 2014 platform

"...to be clearing Austin of subversive voters. Busby is Joe McCarthy in a violet crown...."

Nov. 8, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

The Hightower Report: Cruzing to the White House?

Cruzing to the White House?

"...narcissistic, ridiculous, delusional, destructive, corrupt, psychopathic, and criminal. Take Joe McCarthy, Al Capone, Richard Nixon, Bernie Madoff, the Koch..."

Nov. 8, 2013 News Column by Jim Hightower

Page Two: Fact-Free Follies

More fun from the wacky world of right-wing zealots

"...insists on the resurrection and redemption of former Sen. Joe McCarthy. They both find that a great way to..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Column by Louis Black

Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music

The British folk revival, again

"...States for eight years after being blacklisted in Sen. Joe McCarthy's infamous Red Channels in 1950, is credited with..."

July 15, 2011 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Wreck Collection

Tim Kerr's cassette for Monofonus' Your Name Here

"..."Joe McCarthy's Ghost," Jack O'Fire, Jack O'Fire Forever..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Music Feature

And Then There Were Three

White, Glass and Shafto debate, while Perry goes AWOL

"...saw him. Such stunts will always evoke images of Joe McCarthy's "I have here in my hand a list"..."

Oct. 20, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: Drowning in Triviality

Instead of addressing our real problems, partisans fight over manufactured nonsense

"...those good old times of the past, when Sen. Joe McCarthy engaged in an ongoing effort to label liberals..."

Sept. 18, 2009 Column by Louis Black

The 'Statesman' Shares Their Ignorance of Soccer

Nick Barbaro lays into the 'Statesman's Ken Herman

"...dumb anti-soccer rant on Tuesday’s Statesman editorial page: “Paging Joe McCarthy” to counter Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s support..."

July 9, 2009 Sports Post by Nick Barbaro

Remembering RFK

Three new tomes examine the legacy of RFK in pictures and words.

"...renounced his work in the Fifties for commie chaser Joe McCarthy, a man who as attorney general authorized assassination..."

June 13, 2008 Books Review by Kevin Phinney

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