Cuban Fury

Nick Frost is a schlubby guy who's gotta dance.

"...Directed by: James Griffiths. Starring: Nick Frost, Rashida Jones, Chris O’Dowd, Ian McShane, Olivia Colman,..."

April 18, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Captain Marvel

Brie Larson confidently lays the next cornerstone of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

"...as Vers crosses paths quickly with a pre-Avengers Initiative Nick Fury (Jackson) and Agent Coulson (Gregg) and starts unraveling..."

March 8, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Spider-Man: Far From Home

Everyone's favorite web-slinger returns for a new era of Marvel

"...someone to look up to. Moreover, with an out-of-sorts Nick Fury (Jackson, playing the spy chief closer to the..."

July 5, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

One of the better offerings from Marvel’s growing multimedia omniverse, this film gives fans plenty to chew on.

"...heart returns, alongside Marvel stalwarts Black Widow (Johansson), Jackson’s Nick Fury, and newcomer Falcon (Mackie) to thwart not only..."

April 4, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Undercover Blues

"...is meant, I suspect, to have more of a Nick and Nora Charles/Thin Man magic to it, but instead..."

Sept. 17, 1993 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

The Dancing Bear

Nick Frost realizes his secret rhinestone dream in 'Cuban Fury'

"...Nick Frost has a secret. He said, "I'd always wanted..."

April 18, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Le Week-End

A long-married couple amusingly dance toward the kind of despair borne from overfamiliarity.

"...We hear Nick (Broadbent) before we see him as he makes the..."

April 4, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Home Movie

Joss Whedon follows 'Avengers' with a Shakespearean labor of love filmed at his house

"...the same time, did you ever see yourself as Nick Fury, pulling together all these star players into a..."

March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

The Marvels

Lower, lesser, slower, baby

"...mysterious bracelet; and Secret Invasion, which explained exactly what Nick Fury (Jackson) and the shape-shifting Skrulls have been up..."

Nov. 10, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Incredible Hulk

Finally, the Hulk is truly incredible. As of right now, it's Marvel's universe; we just live in it.

"...expository storyline and unnecessarily Jungian subtext (not to mention Nick Nolte's crazy-brilliant performance and the presence of a giant,..."

June 13, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

Steve Carell and Keira Knightley find love and companionship in the face of the apocalypse.

"...for an apocalypse full of surround sound and digital fury, a certain doom that’s always brought to a screeching..."

June 22, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Chronicle Guide to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

As the Guardians of the Galaxy gather once more, every MCU film reviewed

"...time to the '90s as we find out who Nick Fury was summoning at the end of Infinity War..."

May 5, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Marvel's The Avengers

Excelsior! This Marvel adventure knocks it out of the universe.

"...Renner, Black Widow and Hawkeye, and Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury comes fully into his cunning, duplicitous own this..."

May 4, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Iron Man 2

Despite a high tech sheen and an excellent but overstuffed cast, this sequel feels more like a setup for the upcoming Avengers movie than its own picture.

"...of SHIELD, the covert government agency run by Jackson's Nick Fury. In a comic-book universe crammed to bursting with..."

May 7, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Iron Man

Robert Downey Jr.'s sly take on Marvel Comics' cold warrior elevates everything about this film.

"...quite as cool as, say, Jim Steranko's vivid, hallucinatory Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. But the iron Avenger-to-be quickly..."

May 2, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ghost Rider

The movie adds little to Marvel's source material, but to be fair, there wasn't a surfeit of originality in the comic book to begin with.

"...preposterously radical six-inch wheelies. We also dug Marvel's second-tier Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. because he wore an eyepatch,..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Raul's in Overdrive: "AUSTIN IS UN-MELLOWING OUT!"

In 1978, visits from Patti Smith and Elvis Costello plus the Austin Punk Scene’s first record could mean “AUSTIN IS UN-MELLOWING OUT!”

"...also received major 1978 local press features, including Joe Nick Patoski's 1,000-word piece for the Austin American-Statesman's Aug. 25..."

Dec. 30, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Marvel Makes the Ultimate Television

The House of Ideas launches new Spider-Man this weekend

"...most important figure in comics today: The master string-puller, Nick Fury. And that's the modern Samuel L. Jackson-style Fury,..."

March 31, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Escapism and Connection: The Illustrated Life of Billy Perkins

Hustling Austin posters for 30 years, Perkins perseveres

"...John Buscema (Silver Surfer), Gene Colan (Daredevil), Jim Steranko (Nick Fury), Barry Windsor-Smith (Conan the Barbarian), Jack Kirby (Captain..."

June 17, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

What Are You Looking At?

Our latest pop-culture fixations

"...Adult Swim's psycho-spoof on Johnny Quest-style animated adventure. As Nick Fury-alike and former pole dancer Col. Hunter Gathers put..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Screens Feature

Daniel Lanois and the Improbabilities of Sound

"...of Town Lake. Lanois left the hotel in a fury, the construction going on below his room interfering with..."

March 20, 2008 Music Post by Doug Freeman

John Q.

"...Directed by: Nick Cassavetes. Starring: Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall, Kimberly Elise, Ray..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Austin Film Festival Showcases Linklater, Cumberbatch

First round of films announced mixes world and Texas premieres

"...as he adapts William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury...."

Aug. 20, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

First night SXSW Music recommendations and hints

"...Björklund and Sebastian Furrer have made it, loops of fury et al. Entrancing single "Beam Me Up" groks an..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Dumb Money

The GameStop short squeeze is a meme-splattered discount The Big Short

"...Starring: Paul Dano, America Ferrera, Pete Davidson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Nick Offerman and Shailene Woodley...."

Sept. 22, 2023 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

The Texas Show: Dallas Video Festival

"...Jose Mata; “Gina’s Music” by Austinite Jim Chase; “Fetal Fury” by Nick Gibbons; “Hair Mania!” by Linda Smith Broiles;..."

Oct. 21, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Record Reviews

"...deep, eerie delivery that draws on the wickedness of Nick Cave and Christian Death. He skips the political minutiae..."

March 14, 1997 Music Review

Steve Davis' Top 10 Films of 2015

"...3) Mad Max: Fury Road This thrilling post-apocalyptic Western was the real thing..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Screens Feature by Steve Davis

Last Shotgun Blast of SXSW Film Programming

'Hobo,' Spike's 'Scenes From the Suburbs,' and more

"...Leeon Jones, Simon Howard, Luke Treadaway, Jumayn Hunter and Nick Frost (World Premiere) The Divide (US-Canada) Director: Xavier Gens,..."

Feb. 10, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

alexalone’s Insistent Soundscape and Five More Songs From Austin Artists

Next music picks from Large Brush Collection, Will Johnson, and more

"...an unsettled homecoming for the album's tension of guitar fury and meditation on the road: "So I found my..."

Oct. 13, 2023 Music Column by Carys Anderson

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