You Want It, You Got It: Rancid, Stubb's, July 17, Stubb's

Rancid gig review

"...three chords and the truth as the backbone of Rancid, the closest thing to The Clash going these days,..."

July 18, 2009 Music Post by Marc Savlov

Shot Caller

The metamorphosis of the prison system

"...Antonio Pinto, and Shot Caller is a curdled and rancid look at the American dream gone haywire...."

Aug. 18, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fences

Denzel Washington scores big in August Wilson's great American play

"...also trapped in a marriage that has incrementally gone rancid. Caught between the two is their teenage son Cory..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Gambler

Mark Wahlberg has one of his juiciest roles ever as a creative-writing professor by day and a compulsive gambler by night.

"...able to infuse this mesmerizing character study with enough rancid brio to make this self-flagellating hustler believably doomstruck. To..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Forget it, Jake; it's Sin City.

"...in which the future is always impossible, the present rancid, and the past a jangled mass of foreboding. Any..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Three Musketeers

Did we miss the memo asking for the umpteenth retelling of the Alexandre Dumas classic?

"...eyebrow; I mention it here only to highlight the rancid taste of these early scenes, which are, additionally, indiscriminately..."

Oct. 28, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Terribly Happy

This Danish import is a wonderfully unhinged and a painstakingly constructed meditation on a place where good and evil meet, mate, and make sour times sublime.

"...moans in the cold Denmark dark. Set in the rancid, boggy flatlands outside of Copenhagen, Terribly Happy – both..."

March 12, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Live Shots

Beastie Boys, Rancid, Asiandubfoundation

"...that the band was cutting its losses. At least Rancid had paced their 45-minute set, building steadily to the..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Music Feature

Meet Wally Sparks

"...such as Ladybugs and Meet Wally Sparks have the rancid smell of self-destructive wish fulfillment. At issue is not..."

Feb. 7, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Milk Money

"...it. The milk obtained from this money is positively rancid. Foul in concept, Milk Money curdles upon viewing. The..."

Sept. 2, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Chasers

"...sporting a puss like he got a whiff of rancid cat and growling lines like he's gargling ball bearings...."

April 29, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Romeo is Bleeding

"...a Forties noir pickled for decades in its own rancid juices and uncapped for a new age audience who..."

Feb. 25, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Don't Tell a Soul

Rainn Wilson proves his darker skills in this drama of inherited sin and trauma

"...male an/protagonist gets that tag, almost glib. There's something rancid between the boys. Matt is vile, a monstrous bully..."

Jan. 15, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

VFW

Ultraviolent Fantastic Fest throwback makes its vengeance-filled return

"...genius McPoyle, looking like he stinks of meth and rancid sweat– tells his ice cold killer lieutenant Gutter (Bliss..."

Feb. 14, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

All the Money in the World

Christopher Plummer mesmerizes as the greediest man alive

"...all but oozes wolfish avarice that embodied J.P. Getty’s rancid and rapacious philosophy: Greed is great; and everything, everyone..."

Dec. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jimmy Cliff

"...is noteworthy. He's teamed with producer Tim Armstrong of Rancid, a band that has long felt right at home..."

March 16, 2012 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Unleashed

Jet Li, in his first Western role of any depth, convincingly plays both man and beast, although a sentimental script by producer Luc Besson hampers the story.

"...series of Dylan Dog horror comics. It retains a rancid, off-kilter charm that is uniquely its own (any film..."

May 20, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

To Your Health

Clearing coconut oil's bad rep

"...polyunsaturated oils is that they tend to easily become rancid unless well protected by antioxidants. Rancid oils are free..."

July 30, 2004 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

Dogville

Lars von Trier's new film is both masterful and misanthropic.

"...will also leave many viewers feeling spattered with the rancid remains. Von Trier’s vision is amazingly thorough and exquisitely..."

April 16, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Peter Pan

There's a definite sexual tension between Peter and Wendy in this live-action Pan that's heavy on the special effects.

"...when the adolescent Wendy begins to fall under Hook’s rancid spell. Both Sumpter and Hurd-Wood are adequate in their..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Grandfather

"...obtained by the destruction of his stepdaughter. With a rancid gleam in his eye and a slow, implacable pace..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Roadkill

Auntie Christ

"...Cervenkova, along with former X drummer D.J. Bonebrake and Rancid/Operation Ivy bassist Matt Freeman, deliver a piss-and-vinegar indictment of..."

Aug. 15, 1997 Music Feature

Sxsw

"...backs to British punk (à la Green Day and Rancid). The Tender Idols, being from Atlanta, decide then to..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Tales From the Crypt Presents Demon Knight

Good performances and lots of blood and gore can't save this illogical TV-to-screen story from itself.

"...new films are released. By the way, the absolutely rancid opening and closing bookends, which star the terribly unfunny..."

Jan. 20, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Amid Chaos and Crisis, the 87th Texas Legislature Gets to Work

Can we rebuild a democracy?

"...– that tastes like MAGA and will become more rancid as we go through months of healing and reckoning...."

Jan. 15, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Nosferatu Festival Celebrates the Original Cinematic Vampire

Get in on the nights of the living dead

"...Frank Langella's effete, inherently carnal night stalkers as a rancid claret is to the finest Chateau Mouton Rothschild Bordeaux...."

May 31, 2019 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Five Austin Films to Stream Right Now

A local list of flicks to keep you from thinking about cedar fever

"...within the cage. Shot Caller is a curdled and rancid look at the American dream gone haywire.”..."

Jan. 12, 2018 Chron Events Post by Josh Kupecki

Casualties Call up David Rodriguez

Austin frontman tours with street punk mainstays

"...first American show is Not Dead Yet Fest with Rancid and the Dropkick Murphys. We’re one of the headliners,..."

July 17, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Barbecue's Global Love Letter to Meat

Matthew Salleh chronicles the world’s obsession with barbecue

"...from here. Their meat has what we'd call a rancid taste, but they love it. They basically gut the..."

March 10, 2017 Screens Feature by Dan Gentile

Sound on Sound Review: Damian Abraham

Fucked Up frontman podcasts from Sherwood

"...to contend that the Beastie Boys’ debut EP and Rancid’s self-titled 2000 LP are the best hardcore releases ever..."

Nov. 6, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

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