Fantastic Fest Adds 'Pusher', 'Antiviral' to Lineup
Final additions include docs, sequels, remakes and world firsts
"...with his remake of Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn's Pusher? And can Come Out and Play catch the 70's..."
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Sept. 12, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Petals Pusher
Two San Antone sisters tiptoe through the decades
Aug. 25, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt are delightfully matched in this offbeat romantic comedy from the director of Chocolat.
"...that end, she enlists resistant Alfred (McGregor), a sweater-vested pencil-pusher in the Department of Fisheries and Agriculture who considers..."
March 30, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Japón
"...affair, more like a Zen koan than a popcorn pusher. Or maybe it’s an homage to Terry Gilliam’s Brazil...."
May 16, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
If You're a Viper
From 'La Cucaracha' to Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson: P-O-T
"...potent plea for marijuana decriminalization in 1968, but "The Pusher" and "Snowblind Friend" subsequently targeted heroin and cocaine abuse...."
May 25, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser
For 12 Years, There's Been a Gap in One of Austin's Most Famous Murals
Will an image from an iconic Austin movie complete the picture?
"...drummer Teresa Nervosa, in her role as Pap Smear Pusher. Her scene, in which she interrupts a conversation between..."
Aug. 4, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
Living
Bill Nighy explores the inner desperation of a very proper Englishman
"...That's been the fate of Mr. Williams, a paper pusher in post-World War II London's council offices whose job..."
Jan. 27, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Shattered
Unerotic and unthrilling home invasion flick is seriously unsubtle
"...gained underground indie acclaim for his London crime flick Pusher but since then has turned his eye to mediocre..."
Jan. 14, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
The Last Full Measure
A true story of a hero denied recognition
"...the higher honor getting downgraded. Department of Defense pencil pusher Scott Huffman (Stan) gets pushed from his budget-writing job..."
Jan. 24, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Sleight
A street magician must save his kidnapped sister
"...drug running – ecstasy, no less – for neighborhood pusher man Angelo (Dulé Hill of The West Wing). When..."
May 5, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Neon Demon
Cinema's bad boy, Nicolas Winding Refn, strikes again
"...when you look at his earlier work, specifically his Pusher trilogy, a brilliant and visceral examination of low-level drug..."
June 24, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
A Royal Affair
Palace intrigue, bodice-ripping, and revolutionary thought: If only this costume drama about Danish monarchs behaving badly delivered on its promise.
"...three leads give rounded performances. Mikkelsen (Quantum of Solace, Pusher) is already an international star, and one suspects the..."
Dec. 7, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Drive
Ryan Gosling plays a getaway driver in this seductive mix of brooding arthouse and heist-gone-to-hell genre picture.
"...first of the Danish director's many films, including the Pusher trilogy, that he didn't write or co-write. If anything,..."
Sept. 16, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Bronson
Tom Hardy delivers a searing performance as Britain's so-called "most violent prisoner."
"...than your typical biopic, and Danish filmmaker Refn (the Pusher trilogy) smartly cuts together something just as raging and..."
Nov. 13, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Ghost Town
A sweet, old-fashioned kind of picture content to burrow into the quiet spaces, where boring, ordinary adults live and fitfully try to love again. Oh, and occasionally talk to dead people.
"...minutes (in fact, just under seven minutes, a litigation-wary paper-pusher at the hospital enthuses). Upon resuscitation, Pincus discovers he..."
Sept. 19, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Reefer Madness
Big time drug policy pusher swoops in on Austin
"...good intentions, but she is, nonetheless, a federal propaganda pusher – no more, no less. Indeed, after a brief..."
Nov. 3, 2006 News Column by Jordan Smith
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
"...Atlantis: The Lost Empire isn't your average all-ages popcorn pusher. The in-betweeners and cleanup artists alone could populate an..."
June 15, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
The Crew
"...to no good end in this overplotted, emotionally hollow button-pusher of a comedy. As you've probably gleaned from the..."
Sept. 1, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith
Chungking Express
Lovelorn street cops in Hong Kong find romance amid explosions of color and rushes of impressionistic motion
"...falling in love with a charismatic but deadly drug pusher (Swordsman II's Bridget Lin Chin-hsia, sporting a fluffy blonde..."
April 26, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan
Friday
"...has landed in big trouble with the local drug pusher (a curly-haired ice cream vendor named “Big Worm”) for..."
May 5, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan
The Off Beat: Carrie Rodriguez’s Next Laboratorio Taps Gina Chavez and Felix Contreras
Long-running Latin music showcase returns Sept. 15
"...Larry & Joe as a key Latin music boundary pusher. Venezuelan llanera musician Larry Bellorín and American banjo player..."
Sept. 13, 2024 Column by Carys Anderson
The Austin Chronic: Notorious Lawyer Adam Reposa Gets Raided For Running an Illegal Dispensary
“I want to go to prison,” he claims, but no charges have been filed
"...a fair trial in this court.” He’s a chronic envelope-pusher, a 20-year alpha gremlin of the local legal system,..."
March 15, 2024 Column by Kevin Curtin
Varsity Mural Finally Complete With New Image From Slacker
Empty 13th frame now filled by the iconic Teresa Taylor
"...Teresa Taylor in her iconic role as Pap Smear Pusher in Richard Linklater's seminal 1990 independent film, Slacker...."
Dec. 7, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Far-Right Pro-Natal Conference Will Proceed in Austin as Planned
Line Hotel hosting anti-democracy, pseudoscientific speakers
"...of Claremont's senior fellows; Raw Egg Nationalist, a pseudonymous pusher of raw egg consumption; and Charles Haywood, an anti-democracy..."
Dec. 1, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon
Saint Teresa: Richard Linklater and John Pierson on the Icon of Slacker
The director of Slacker and the film's sales agent discuss the creative importance of actor and musician Teresa Taylor
"...Teresa would be so great for the Pap Smear Pusher is because I had read this interview she had..."
Aug. 4, 2023 Screens Feature
Five Things to Enjoy on the East Austin Studio Tour
From trees to tour buses, the highlights of weekend two of the celebration of tactile creativity
"...This prodigious paint pusher named Balkan (one of the founders of the Atelier..."
Nov. 12, 2021 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner
A Speed Dating Sampler of All 69 Virtual SXSW Music Showcases
The sun always shines on TV
"...New label from NYC decibel pusher Oliver Ackermann showcases his A Place to Bury Strangers..."
March 12, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin
New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week
What we’re listening to
"...Waylon Payne: Blue Eyes, the Harlot, the Queer, the Pusher & Me..."
Sept. 11, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin
Singing a Musical Fairytale in Teen Spirit
Filmmakers Max Minghella and Jamie Bell show fame's light & shadow
"...thinking about this film. He was in Nick Refn's Pusher movies, he was in this Roland Emmerich movie, 2012,..."
April 18, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Indoor Creature: Hot AF
New video links local pop outfit with rapper/producer Malik
"...wrote “Hot AF.” For starters, Indoor Creature’s singer and key-pusher found himself in a period of existential reflection at..."
