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We're not talking about Frodo on a meth bender
"...within the main show feature an old favorite: Mr. Punch, as depicted to great effect in Hoban's complex tale...."
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Sept. 28, 2011 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Those Lazy, Crazy Days of Winter
Holiday rituals are nice, but sanity is nicer
"...eighth.) What can you do about teenage children who punch holes in the dining room walls? (Send kids to..."
Nov. 26, 2010 Features Feature by Marion Winik
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Woody Allen sets his latest farce into action with a cast of one-dimensional, annoying characters played by a group of terrific actors.
"...Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Gemma Jones, Freida Pinto, Lucy Punch, Naomi Watts and Pauline Collins. Allen gives the best..."
Oct. 15, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
A Decade Under the Influence
The 'Chronicle' movie critics take a look back at what the Aughts wrought
"...Adam Sandler in P.T. Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love, with sincere desire to be a better man:..."
Dec. 25, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones
Nathan Green: Happy Birthday Moon
In his second Art Palace solo show, Green throws a powerful punch of relentless joy
"...moon, an exhibition appears that delivers such a powerful punch, you are left wondering why it goes so unnoticed...."
June 5, 2009 Arts Review by Andrew Long
Microbrew Renaissance
It's a good time to drink beer in Texas
"...have a rich, powerful flavor that really packs a punch, and are brewed to have a high alcohol content...."
July 4, 2008 Food Feature by Lee Nichols
Justice or Vengeance?
A tale of tragedy and punishment in Williamson County
"...strength. He could break four one-inch boards with one punch, but karate taught him to focus on "self control,"..."
Nov. 4, 2005 News Feature by Kevin Brass
Ella Enchanted
All-singing, all-dancing fairy tale is all-but-unbearable.
"...Hugh Dancy, Cary Elwes, Aidan McArdle, Joanna Lumley, Lucy Punch, Jennifer Higham, Minnie Driver, Eric Idle, Steve Coogan and..."
April 9, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Good Show
It was a good year -- not a great one -- for the Toronto International Film Festival.
"...Another eagerly anticipated movie was Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love. Anderson switches gears here slightly; instead of his..."
Sept. 20, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Inspiration of Jesus Chavez
Why a top-ranked boxer, jailed once and deported twice, became the subject of a documentary and a Fighter for the American Dream
"...well-heeled, Victorian-era white men with rolled-up sleeves, exchanging bare-fisted punches in a field, corralled by spectators barking approval at..."
Feb. 9, 2001 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta
Postmarks
It's a salmagundi of responses this issue, with bits regarding dolphin bacteria, word use, national politics, and Marc Savlov's cinematic taste (or lack thereof).
"...shallow indentation votes, the accumulation of chads beneath the punch hole area, a space only 1é4 inch deep which..."
Dec. 1, 2000 Column
What Is This?
"...Out My Way EP packs a decidedly Seventies, AOR-style punch, while 1987's "psychedelic epic" Mirage sparkles mirror-ball-like just as..."
April 9, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez
Texas Platters
"...which he does in grand style. Lead-off cut "Hawaiian Punch," every bit the blast its title implies, the burning..."
Sept. 11, 1998 Music Review
Coach's Corner
"...stayed. The problem was, no one ever saw the punch that so pulverized the terrible Liston. Thousands and thousands..."
July 4, 1997 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton
Hell Yeah, I'm Spiritual
The Natural Way to Salvation
"...would be banned, I thought, "All right. Cake and punch. Childish bedlam. A little singing and maybe some games...."
Dec. 27, 1996 News Feature by Suzy Banks
Tamaladas y Posadas
Mexican Christmas Traditions Alive and Well in Austin
"...tamales, pan dulces (sweet breads), ponche de posada (holiday punch), and hot chocolate...."
Dec. 20, 1996 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood
Music Reviews
"...With a back-to-back Lone Star sucker-punch of the Texas Tornados' "A Little Bit is Better..."
Sept. 20, 1996 Music Feature
Film Reviews
Recommended
"...that you keep waiting for it to be the punch line to some larger joke, a la Spaceballs). For..."
Jan. 5, 1996 News Feature
The Off Beat: Porcelain Infuses Noise Rock with “Realistic Ambition”
Intense quartet launches self-titled debut on Feb. 16
"...the pandemic, the song trudges along to mirror the “punch in, punch out” mentality of working-class life. It also..."
Feb. 9, 2024 Column by Carys Anderson
Manodrome
Jesse Eisenberg is haunting as a fractured victim of MRA nonsense
"...and he's constantly on edge, ready to throw a punch or at least call someone out for a perceived..."
Nov. 10, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
The Exorcist: Believer
David Gordon Green moves from Halloween to another massive horror franchise
"...jump scares undercut by gags that feel like postproduction punch-up dialogue: Worse, no character seems to have a real..."
Oct. 6, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Bottoms
The Shiva Baby team reunite for a ridonkulously horny queer comedy
"...us a high school sex romp with some actual punch...."
Aug. 25, 2023 Movie Review by Lina Fisher
The Highest of Stakes
Cryptoscam doc feels like part of an outrage machine
"...token he founded. “You gotta scream real loud to punch through the noise,” he explains...."
Aug. 4, 2023 Movie Review by Amelia Nonemacher
Joy Ride
Raunchy road trip goes all the way to China for filthy fun
"...preschoolers on the playground and ends with a sucker punch to the little boy who racially insults them. It..."
July 7, 2023 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Indy's final adventure remembers the whip, forgets the charm
"...that reveled in on-location action sequences, Mangold's chases and punch-ups feel stage-bound, unreal, almost like rehearsals. They're also overly..."
June 30, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
The Best Man
Lundgren and Wilson wasted in shoddy action flick
"...to the inevitable conclusion, the fights become weakly choreographed punch-ups, predicated on someone dropping their gun for the weakest..."
April 28, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Somewhere in Queens
Sitcom royalty underdelivers with a stack of Italian American stereotypes
"...entertainment offered up for consumption, there’s the solid one-two punch of Louis Prima and Jim Croce for the opening..."
April 21, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
To Catch a Killer
Formulaic killer-with-a-gun drama has the guts to defetishise firearms
"...an aggressively stale procedural that doesn’t pack the gut punch it wants to deliver...."
April 21, 2023 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf
DQ’s Free Cones Day, Central Market’s Grillapalooza, Dripping Springs’ Brewers Festival, Hotel Viata’s First Long Dinner of 2023, El Naranjo’s Guest Chef From Mexico City, and More
All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering
"...away from the wearin’ o’ the green, not when Punch Bowl Social (11310 Domain Dr.) has their own celebration..."
March 15, 2023 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Devotion
Airborne biopic finds warm friendship across the military's racial divide
"...in the face of destructive violence, and the gut punch of the real events ensures that the film packs..."
