Risky Business

Part caper comedy, part suburban satire, and all Eighties, this film was Cruise’s breakthrough performance, albeit for dancing in his underwear.

April 20, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Risky Undertaking for Loretta Singletary by Terry Shames

Police chief Samuel Craddock searches for a missing friend while on a visit to Jarrett Creek, Texas

"...of gossip that comes from everybody knowing everybody else's business; its friendliness and feuds longstanding; and its disputes that..."

July 19, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Lobster Rolls and Business Rules at Garbo’s

Heidi Garbo is strong as hell

"...The modern restaurant industry is hard work with risky reward. With rising rents and increasing overhead, sometimes even..."

Nov. 30, 2018 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Scanlines

Risky Business

"...Rebecca De Mornay and Tom Cruise in Risky Business. Besides the unforgettable image of a young Tom..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Screens Feature

Adventureland

Adventureland is a confident return to the kind of teen comedy that’s funny without being raunchy and youthful without being juvenile.

"...a kindred spirit to such Eighties teen-on-the-verge-of-adulthood comedies as Risky Business and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Plus, placing..."

April 3, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Luv Doc: Not Cool

It’s risky business for a man to comment on a woman’s physicality in any way

"...years of male objectification of the female form, it’s risky business for a man to comment on a woman’s..."

April 25, 2014 Column by The Luv Doc

Not Another Teen Movie

"...allusions to the likes of Porky's, Pretty in Pink, Risky Business, 10 Things I Hate About You, and Never..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

That Old Revival Spirit

Testifying About Movies

"...1960. In Buchanan Rides Alone, Boetticher's perennial hero and business partner Scott rides into a border town, controlled by..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Our favorite albums, videos, and performances

"...– lonesome, on'ry, mean. – Raoul Hernandez Abhi the Nomad's "Risky Business"..."

July 3, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Bridget Jones's Diary

romantic fantasy as it is social satire.

"...feature debut from BBC director/producer Sharon Maguire, isn't so risky; this Bridget Jones's Diary is as much romantic fantasy..."

April 13, 2001 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

Point Austin: Climate Control

Will corporate interests finally see the light on climate change?

"...ago, to little fanfare and less reverberation, the corporate-based Risky Business Project (www.riskybusiness.org, a bipartisan affair, for what that's..."

Dec. 4, 2015 News Column by Michael King

Dope

Peppy caper film features unusual characters: black high school geeks

"...(Iman) pay off handsomely. Other sequences, such as the Risky Business-like throwback to an interview with a Harvard interviewer,..."

June 19, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Becoming Jane

Jane Austen could spot a phony, and, as a result, she would not have been happy with this romanticized account of her early years.

"...the first hour. Taking liberties with someone’s life is risky business. In fictionalizing the story of Austen, the filmmakers..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Following

"...again in what can only be called a very risky business. Nolan's London (if, indeed, it is London --..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Paramount Theatre's Summer Film Classics

"...Funny Face: 7:20 Breakfast at Tiffany's: 9:30 Jun 21 Risky Business: 7:25 Top Gun: 9:30 Jun 22 Risky Business:..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

As Charlie Jones Exits C3, He Traces His Journey From College Station to Founding ACL Fest

Leaving the music promotions empire he helped build, Jones begins his new events company, Four Leaf

"...where everybody knew everything and was always in your business. I wasn't a bad kid, but I was in..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Perry the Executioner

Texas leads the country in executions, and Rick Perry holds the record tally

"...that tinkering with life and death might be a risky business. (He reiterated that conviction last week in a..."

Sept. 16, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Postmarks

Balcones Responds

"...dirty paper, or garbage-contaminated paper, we'd be out of business...."

Dec. 6, 1996 Column

MoreThan It Can Chew?

City Plans to Create Energy Services Business

"...now being considered by the city council -- is risky. And it is facing opposition from the city's heating..."

Aug. 29, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce

The Art of Film Producing

Lynda Obst's Hollywood Survival Manual

"...the art of pitching, styles of combat, types of business friendships, chains of command, and working with actors and..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Cable Guise

Carrey, Quaid, and the IFC

"...the long list of 20-year overnight successes in show business the name of Jim Carrey. Or James Carrey, as..."

June 14, 1996 Screens Feature by Patrick Taggart

21 Austin Rappers to Know in ’21

A hard-cut list of MCs proving the local hip-hop scene’s legitimacy

"...June 1, 2020. Abhi the NomadRecommendations: Modern Trash and "Risky Business"..."

June 25, 2021 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

Pushing for Expansion

Casar, Houston not warming up to expansion proposal

"...Sports franchises are a risky business, but conventions are an established part of Austin's..."

Oct. 23, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Fire in the Night, Music in Bone-Deep Bassnote Throbs

Reveling among the multiform delights of Art Outside

"...that very Swagger himself, looking kind of like the Risky Business-aged Tom Cruise had been cast as Shaggy in..."

Oct. 29, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Tangerine Dream, Eastside Kings Fest, Magic Rockers of Texas, and more recommended shows

"...and led to further work on cinematic classics Thief, Risky Business, Near Dark, etc...."

Sept. 8, 2023 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

DVDanger: Wild Boys

The Boy and other examinations of the pre-teen male mind

"...American West. It's 1989, when the last of such businesses were being wiped off the map, but his father..."

Aug. 26, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: 'All American High Revisited'

An Eighties high school doc gets another chance at life

"...squeamish (OMG for the fashion alone), and was too real-life-risky business for parents or post-college Reaganites clinging to beliefs..."

March 16, 2014 SXSW Post by Kate X Messer

Sturgeon's Revelation

Beating the music business odds at SXSW

"...University and taking classes at the Albers School of Business. Now McKagan, also of Velvet Revolver and Jane's Addiction,..."

March 4, 2011 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

In Print

'Fabulous!: A Loving, Luscious, Lighthearted Look at Film From the Gay Perspective' and more

"...interest" without weighty explanations and stretches of the imagination. Risky Business, for example – apparently, aside from Tom Cruise..."

May 28, 2004 Screens Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Bigger, Bitter

Ever-Evolving Bitter End Offers Something for Everyone

"...all of the people all of the time is risky business, but The Bitter End does a pretty good..."

March 6, 1998 Food Feature by Patrick Earvolino

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