‘Hot Rod’ Rolling Roadshow Beer Party with the Lonely Island

"...Tim League introduces The Lonely Island..."

April 25, 2014 Photo Gallery

Last Week in Live Music: Mac DeMarco, The Lonely Island, Local Natives, Cruserweight, and More

"...photos from last week's local shows. Pictured here: The Lonely Island at ACL Live on June 13, 2019..."

June 17, 2019 Photo Gallery

Frank Matter: The Beauty of My Island

"...adventures of a little man in a strange and lonely world.” The film is created totally within the camera,..."

June 22, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Desert Island Films

"...scrapped numerous lists.) Given the unlikeliness of a desert island equipped with a screening room, it's more probable that..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Screens Feature

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

Comedy collective The Lonely Island writes, directs, and stars in music biz comedy

"...of misdirection on the part of comedy trio the Lonely Island, which wrote, directed, and star in the film...."

June 10, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Hot Rod

Cross Napoleon Dynamite's endearing optimism with Ben Stiller's total commitment to his goofy characters, and you'll wind up with a character something like Andy Samberg's hapless stuntman.

"...Park vet Pam Brady, is mostly the invention of Lonely Island – the trio of actors Samberg and Taccone..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

About a Boy

"...“They say no man is an island, but they're wrong,” says perpetual bachelor Will Freeman (Grant)...."

May 17, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Angry Birds Movie 2

The birds are back, with an added subversive twist

"...peace, then at least a certain detente between Bird Island and Pig Island, defined by occasional outbursts of escalating..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Red Turtle

Poetic beauty abounds in this animated gem

"...swallow him whole. Washed ashore on a deserted tropical island, the bedraggled castaway forages for food; his only companions..."

Feb. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Nights in Rodanthe

This movie which reunites Richard Gere and Diane Lane is hardly the best chick flick around, but it’s the flick with the best chick by far.

"...brief encounter between a troubled surgeon (Gere) and a lonely woman (Lane) at a secluded inn on Hatteras Island,..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Requiem for a Dream

Portrait of a young junkie – and those he loves.

"...iron. The film follows four junkies living in Coney Island – two small-time hustlers, a child of privilege slumming..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud

A hard-working woman with a slacker spouse accepts a no-strings-attached job from an older man, which grows into a deep friendship.

"...friend introduces her to the elderly Arnaud (Serrault), a lonely, wealthy man who, upon hearing of Nelly's financial woes,..."

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

SXSW Film Gets Latest Apatow, Snowpiercer Premiere

Huge lineup includes new docs on St. Vincent, Ozzy, Zappa

"...the festival has just announced The King of Staten Island as one of its Headliner titles...."

Jan. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Wonder Wheel

Woody Allen's ode to Coney Island

"...film since Manhattan, is an idealized dream-memory of Coney Island’s amusement park just after World War II. The movie..."

Dec. 8, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Meet Dave

Eddie Murphy reteams with his Norbit director for this new extraterrestrial comedy in which miniature aliens operate a spaceship that has a human form.

"...learned about Earth life from a tape of Fantasy Island) encounters a host of fish-out-of-water situations. Not understanding social..."

July 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Permanent Vacation in Palm Springs With Max Barbakow

A time loop movie influenced by everything but Groundhog Day

"...As long-time fans of the Lonely Island troupe (both their prodigious work ethic and expansive..."

July 10, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Film Flam

Festival fever, plus a big renewal and a bigger loss

"...Alamo Drafthouse announced today that Andy Samberg and his Lonely Island would make a guest appearance at this year's..."

March 27, 2014 Screens Post by Monica Riese

On Bomb Defusions and Boner Ghosts

MacGruber's cast and crew tell all, or at least a lot

"...Directed by Jorma Taccone of The Lonely Island and inspired by the SNL skit of the..."

March 16, 2010 Screens Post by Ashley Moreno

Land of the Lost

Will Ferrell's remake of the beloved Sid and Marty Krofft TV show lacks virtually everything that made the original series so memorable.

"...make hairy monkey-boy Chaka (Taccone, of sketch troupe the Lonely Island) a randy opportunist. Land of the Lost is,..."

June 5, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Weezer Blisses Out the Austin Music Hall

Sold-out Tuesday night concert takes bros ballistic

"...The Green Album then traded “Tired of Sex” for “Island in the Sun.” Twenty years after its debut, on..."

Dec. 3, 2014 Music Post by Nina Hernandez

SXSW Film Review: Self Reliance

The Most Dangerous Game spoof lacks bite

"...Andy Samberg (who also produced the film under the Lonely Island’s film banner and plays himself) dubiously courts Tommy..."

March 12, 2023 Screens Post by Trace Sauveur

Rad

Hal Needham's BMX action flick restored

Sept. 25, 2020 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Faster Than Sound: Cheer Up Charlies Principal Maggie Lea Takes on Breast Cancer

Cheer Up Charlies co-owner reflects on business and mental health evolution following diagnosis. Meanwhile, the Convention Center expansion gets approval by Music Commission, and Project ATX6 announces a new lineup.

"...I didn't realize I had become this totally self-sufficient, lonely island of functioning everyday robotically," shares the business owner...."

Sept. 13, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

ACL Saturday: Ladies Day?

Under-represented music fest sex triumphs!

"...trio exudes post-breakup independence, dragging along the audience and Lonely Island’s Jorma Taccone in their Nineties-tinted wake...."

Oct. 3, 2013 Music Post by Abby Johnston

I Could’ve Been Your Girl

She & Him’s Father’s Day set might’ve made some future fathers

"...vein of the Everly Brothers (even covering the Brothers’ “Lonely Island”) but executing pitch-perfect sonics like Scandinavian contemporaries and..."

June 17, 2013 Music Post by Abby Johnston

Beef & Sage at 420

Comedy duo behind '4:20 Austin High' talk pedicabs and shorts

"...rarely pay all the bills ("We haven't mastered the Lonely Island level of virality," said Elliott), so Austin High..."

April 20, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Three Drummers Walk Into a Bar ...

SXSW panels

"...with increasing frequency, not only in popular acts like Lonely Island or Reggie Watts, but also on bills pairing..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

You Can Fly

Freedy Johnston's rainy day album

"...If I ever did a list of desert island discs, it would most likely include Freedy Johnston’s 1992..."

Jan. 13, 2010 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Cut the Crap Kid

Jerry Wexler

"...in one of the five bathrooms at his Long Island home following Sir Doug’s paradise getaway still strikes me..."

Aug. 19, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Sam Cooke The Man Who Invented Soul (RCA)

"..."For Sentimental Reasons," or perhaps either "Desire Me" and/or "Lonely Island." Disc two is lush with orchestration, from the..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

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