Mad Money

Diane Keaton, Katie Holmes, and Queen Latifah as janitors at the Federal Reserve who plot the "recycling" of currency that is pegged for destruction.

"...in the movies isn’t a silver-tongued corporate hustler with pomaded hair and a closet full of $10,000 suits. In..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Mad Dog and Glory

"...next project would be a Martin Scorsese-produced project entitled Mad Dog and Glory scripted by Richard Price, the esteemed..."

March 5, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mama Duke Releases First-Ever Music Video “Mad”

“My ancestors gave me a sharp tongue and a power to take up space”

"...first-ever music video: The visual rendering of Duke’s single, “Mad,” the vid entwines Duke recording in the studio with..."

June 23, 2020 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

From Mad Dogs to Mister Golf

Bud Shrake, continued

"...booze-fueled cadre of writers and associates known as the Mad Dogs, and the golf habit that led to his..."

April 25, 2008 Books Feature by Spencer Parsons

Mad Scientist on Wheels

Brian Beattie

"...Brian Beattie appears quite the mad scientist as he scrambles around, behind, and under the..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Greil Marcus and the Mad Parade

In his book Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century, Greil Marcus explained punk to the world and created a bible for that music's true believers. As Austin theatre company Rude Mechanicals opens its stage adaptation of Marcus' book, the author talks about the Stones, the Sex Pistols, and the "mad parade" of history.

"...many college courses, and its discourses on music theory made not just rock & roll but rock criticism a..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Arts Feature by Margaret Moser

Page Two: Mad Dreaming

Loud, barely intelligible SXSW incantations

"...limited. But our dreams are and always have been mad!..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Mad English

Under review: some advice from Nigeria and the ultimate fashion victim

"...Man Up and Down: High Life, Useful Advice, and Mad English (Pantheon, $26.95) is a charming anthology and affectionate..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Cornyn Keeping Tainted Money

Texas Senator "presumes innocence" of accused fraudster Stanford

"...parties. Many politicians are now saying they'll donate that money to charity, but according to WFAA-TV in Dallas (tip..."

Feb. 19, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

Comics Worth Spending Money on

Three Chronicle writers recommend 14 current comics, from standard superhero fare to funny-animal satire to slice-of-life drama.

"...you'll be inspired to get something else that costs money. But there's so much being published in comics today..."

May 3, 2002 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Rumblings of a Mad Mom Movement

Texas Parent PAC wants to purge Lege of lawmakers who won't go to bat for public ed, regardless of party

"...a wealth of products kids could sell to raise money for their schools. There was candy and cookie dough..."

Aug. 5, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Ocean's Eleven

"...kind of across-the-board ensemble cast that rivals It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World for sheer star power, this..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Blues Brothers 2000

"...Paul Shaffer and Frank Oz. Along with It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, John Landis' The Blues Brothers..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

That Wild Man

Gary Cartwright: The mad, mad, mad life of a Texas wordsmith

"...her $3,000 mink, Candy Barr thought about biscuits. Biscuits made her think of fried chicken, which in turn suggested..."

June 26, 2015 Arts Feature by Joe O'Connell

Heroic Trio II: The Executioners

"...the agua supply. Chat has taken up as a money-mad mercenary, driving trucks full of uncontaminated water into the..."

Aug. 26, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Life Stinks

"...Tambor, Stuart Pankin and Howard Morris. Remember that “I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it..."

Aug. 2, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Run Lola Run

"...bursting energy, Lola offers a great run for the money. It's the movie thrill ride of the year, and..."

July 23, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Until the End of the World

Chopped to ribbons by the American distributor upon its initial release, Wenders’ sprawling Odyssean epic is only now seen in its true form, in a positively Homeric 295 minute version.

"...and lovely visions. For us, it's neither love nor money, but only curiosity and perhaps a love of foreign..."

Feb. 28, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Once in a Lifetime

The unexpected rise and meteoric fall of the North American Soccer League in the heady, silly mid-Seventies is chronicled for the first time in this charmingly chatty documentary, which ably tracks both the birth of the sport on these shores and its ignominious downfall, which arrived almost overnight with the leave-taking of Pelé.

"...shores (a direct result of the sheer willpower of sports-mad Warner Communications honcho Steve Ross) and its ignominious downfall,..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Johnny English

"...comic Atkinson is up to these days (Bean was made into a movie a few years back, but for..."

July 18, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

U-Turn

"...Yet for all its unmistakable visual trademarks (hypersaturated colors; mad-scientist tinkering with film stocks and editing technique; sudden presentation..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Cheap Thrills

This grisly, dark comedy is last year's winner of Fantastic Fest's Midnighters Audience Award.

"...broadside against capitalism itself. Erich von Stroheim might have made the definitive film about human swinishness way back in..."

March 21, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Green Movement

KRS-One and Hakim Green bring the Stop the Violence Movement to Austin

"...the new movement, the truth about Obama, and sparkin’ "Mad Izm."..."

Jan. 21, 2009 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Hearts of Darkness

"...the jungle like the American army with too much money, too much equipment, and, as a proposed 16-day shoot..."

Feb. 21, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Sex, Thugs, and Thanatos

The mad, bad bounty of Fantastic Fest 2009

"...my uncritical, preteen psyche. Such wholesome Nazi-inflected adventures and maddeningly irretractable and mellifluous songsmithery are the stuff of childhood..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Richie Rich

"...to play, an obnoxious youngster with way too much money, left home alone (again) to tangle with scheming adults...."

Dec. 23, 1994 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

The Expendables 3

As action stars of yesteryear and tomorrow pop in and out, they demonstrate what expendable really means.

"...an annoying impression. Some of the massive outlay of money that must have been spent on actors’ salaries and..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Howl's Moving Castle

The latest from animation master Hayao Miyazaki is ravishingly beautiful but narratively inferior to all his other films.

"...and multiplies the films’ pleasantly intoxicating surrealism. (For my money, 1988’s My Neighbor Totoro remains his most profound work,..."

June 17, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Waterworld

"...you, that's because Reynolds' film is essentially George Miller's Mad Max remade by Greenpeace; it's almost uncanny how much..."

Aug. 4, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

T2 Trainspotting

The sequel to the 1996 classic

"...help to recall that Renton absconded with the drug money he and his pals Sick Boy (Miller), Spud (Bremner),..."

March 24, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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