Barrel Chested Again

Chewing the fat with Brent Best of Denton tub-thumpers Slobberbone

"...It's Saturday night at the Hole in the Wall, and the pool-room..."

July 28, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Public Notice

West by Westwest

"...Share Our Strength anti-hunger campaign. Don't forget that every night, after the rodeo events, the Expo Center plays hosts..."

March 12, 1999 Column by Kate X Messer

Fantastic Fest Raises a Smile With First Announcement

The Banshees of Inisherin, V/H/S/99, sharks, and more

"...special screenings. But everything kicks off with the opening night debut of Smile, the feature debut from Parker Finn...."

Aug. 16, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: Discovering Enough

End-of-year thoughts at the start of another day

"...of odd emphasis and sideshow/hall-of-mirrors distortion. When thinking about one's life during these heady and hoary times, it is..."

Dec. 31, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing Thursday night SXSW 09 talent

"...brew of acid grooves and glitchy hip-hop that channels everyone from Badu and Bambaataa to the B-52s. – Thomas..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

Postmarks

Losing Our Lunch

"...Liberty Lunch is a landmark. It sickens me that money means that much to you all; money means more..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Column

The Li'l Green Aggravation Society

Rock & Roll's Cain & Abel: The Kinks' Davies Brothers

"...Davies -- especially considering that original bassist Pete Quaife abandoned post long ago and drummer Mick Avory finally followed..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World

Romanian film is a sardonic critique of the contemporary working environment

"...life on a worthless project. Dressed ready for the night club, she rolls around Bucharest, disinterestedly recording anecdotes from..."

April 5, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Knights of the Zodiac

Overstuffed adaptation of smash manga Saint Seiya

"...a lot of attempted panache that ultimately falls flat. Knights of the Zodiac, a live-action film adaptation of the..."

May 19, 2023 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie

The kinetic life of the Back to the Future star

"...of the actor and activist, amplified by reenactments and endless stock footage and archival material...."

May 12, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Menu

Restaurant satire cuts into class and the culinary arts

"...do we even know about such idiocies? From the endless TV shows that deify chefs as (pun intended) the..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Minions: The Rise of Gru

Kevin, Stuart, yee Bob nama bok, yee ba veela doegab tadtee de Otto!

"...his skills, he snatches their prized possession, the Zodiac Stone, and lands himself in a world of trouble...."

July 1, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

El Planeta

Spanish tale of mother-daughter grifters is an intriguing debut

"...various merchants in the coastal city of Gijón while one of the worst economic crises in Spain crippled the..."

Oct. 29, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Resort

Idiotic haunted hotel horror can't be heard, isn't worth seeing

"...to Hawaii for a birthday vacation, they explore an abandoned hotel resort that the birthday girl believes to be..."

April 30, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

My Darling Supermarket

Brazilian documentary is marginally less fun than grocery shopping

"...clerks performing their repetitive rituals of labor in an endless loop. Through interviews with a handful of the staff..."

March 12, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Mile 22

Wahlberg and company get bloody as a CIA black ops team

"...with Marky – er – Mark Wahlberg, beginning with Lone Survivor in 2013, moving on to oil-spillsploitation Deepwater Horizon,..."

Aug. 24, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Ghostbusters

Controversy aside, this reboot fails to hit the mark

"...by: Paul Feig. Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon, Chris Hemsworth, Neil Casey, Cecily Strong, Karan..."

July 15, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

McFarland, USA

Despite heavy sports-underdog cliches, this film with Kevin Costner as the coach of an all-Latino high school track team taps into a lot of modern realities.

"...Disney sports film (that’s a niche, but a growing one) hits all the schmaltzy, sappy notes you’d expect, but..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Point Austin: Sounds Like a Plan

CAMPO's 2035 Plan reads like a dream of a different Central Texas

"...– is nothing short of spectacular. The executive summary alone features dazzling graphics of endless high-concept data maps: the..."

April 16, 2010 News Column by Michael King

The New Rage

Voxtrot finally conquers the LP

"...The now-global fivesome played one-offs and spontaneous soirees but didn't solidify into a dance-pop..."

May 18, 2007 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Dr. Dolittle 2

"...Steve Carr. Starring: Eddie Murphy, Kristen Wilson, Raven-Symoné, Jeffrey Jones, Lil' Zane and Andy Richter. I missed out on..."

June 22, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hands on a Hard Body

Unpretentious insight into the nature of human aspiration can be found in Bindler's documentary about the yearly contest in which Jack Long Nissan of Longview, Texas, gives a new hard body pickup to whomever can keep his or her hands on it the longest.

"...be, I've always found even more delight in the ones about picayune-seeming phenomena and pursuits that gain an improbable..."

July 10, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Exhibitionism

Annie: Light and More Light

"...It's the signature piece of this 1977 musical, the one number everyone knows, that does its bit to bring..."

April 10, 1998 Arts Review

Rock This Way

The Semi-Annual, Whenever-We-Feel-Like-It Rock & Roll Books Section

"...should be in the Louvre; if she had been one of Matisse's paintings or a white marble sculpture by..."

March 20, 1998 Books Feature

Wayne’s World 2

"...of year when moviegoers are plagued with a seemingly endless spate of less-than-original Hollywood offerings (read: Sister Act 2,..."

Dec. 10, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gigi & Nate

Saccharine story of a man and his assistance monkey

"...hilarity fit the somehow treacly feel-good vibe of the endless opening, but are wildly at odds with the rest..."

Sept. 2, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Stressed Out? Let Your Freak-Out Flag Fly!

Making stress into a friend instead of a foe

"...of our mental demise, has so far produced volumes one, two, and three of its "Stress in America 2020"..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Features Feature by Nora Ankrum

River City Drumbeat

Music and culture connected in West Louisville

"...Upbeat stories are hard for news outlets to handle. One, they can feel disturbingly rare. Two, disaster always seems..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Unlocking the Michael Schenker Festival

Sound pilgrim reveals the combination to his “whole story”

"...a huge swath of your musical history all in one go...."

May 16, 2019 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Jigsaw

The Saw character returns

"...so well, but I don’t go to the Saturday night horror show seeking sneaky connections and endless backstories. I..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

« 1    ‹ BACK    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10     NEXT ›    23 »