Moontower 2014, Day 4: She Bang

Women comics take society put-downs, turn them into laughs

"...Last night Dana Gould hosted the final installment of She Bang, an (otherwise) all-lady showcase at Moontower. Fun fact:..."

April 27, 2014 Arts Post by Ashley Moreno

Moontower, Day 2: She-Bang

For these women comics, the operative word was "comics"

"...I'm at She-Bang, the all-women comedy line-up at the Parish, and I'm..."

April 26, 2013 Arts Post by Amy Gentry

Moontower, Day 3: She-Bang

Maria Bamford shone in this love-fest of female comedy

"...York was upbeat, kicked off by delightful hosting comedian Moshe Kasher and reinforced by comics who kept complimenting us,..."

April 28, 2013 Arts Post by Amy Gentry

Moontower Adds She Bang!

Christina Pazsitzky, Morgan Murphy, six more women join fest

Feb. 5, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

Shane Black's directorial debut is a suckerpunch-and-a-half, a trippy tribute to L.A. noir and a genre-busting blitzkrieg attack on Hollywood pretensions that’s just as full of them as the pulp it lampoons.

"...while doing it, over and over, making Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang the sort of in-jokey affair film geeks lust..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sausage Bang

Chris Cubas and Kath Barbadoro call the shots on Moontower's all-guy and all-gal shows

"...ATX from San Antonio less than two years ago, she hit the local comedy stages like a Kath-shaped chunk..."

April 27, 2012 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Comedy Review: Comedy Bang! Bang!

Aukerman’s high-wire absurdism makes for an electric live show

"...to tape two live episodes of his beloved Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast. With his usual whip-smart timing and managerial..."

March 13, 2017 Arts Post by Sean L. Malin

Kitty Kitty Bang Bang Gets Back Together for the Texas Burlesque Festival

The kitties of Austin's legendary burlesque troupe still have claws

"...A shimmy, a shake, a tease. The sound of seashells heavily hitting the stage floor...."

May 27, 2022 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

He Said/She Said: Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

Sell-out lacked only Amy Winehouse

"...“You’re looking good tonight, Austin,” she flirted...."

April 24, 2015 Music Post by Nina Hernandez

The Good Eye: From Bauhaus to Bang-Bang

UT design students kick off Austin Fashion Week with a 'Spectrum' of influences

"...the University Fashion Group. Poché's minimalist collection was inspired, she said, by the Bauhaus, with digital prints she had..."

April 25, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

The Big Bang

The Fragmentation of Austin's Underground

"...to the scene resulted in a sort of "big bang" effect. As musicians from the old standard-bearers settled into..."

July 11, 1997 Music Feature by Greg Beets

She's My Heroine

Happy birthday to three of cinema's femmest fatales

"...Without Brooks' Bernice-bobbed bangs and slinky smolder, there would be a whole lot..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Unclothed for Business

Kitty Kitty Bang Bang keeps burlesque alive in Austin

"...the lovely ladies of local burlesque troupe Kitty Kitty Bang Bang manage to enjoy themselves so much while fully..."

July 9, 2004 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Exit to Eden

"...And Delany's go-for-it performance almost makes it work. When she isn't having to indulge the script's taste for bathos,..."

Oct. 21, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

The Predator

The Predator needs an editor

"...ne plus ultra of Eighties buddy-cop films. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang resurrected his career in 2005, and 2016’s The..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Nice Guys

Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe pair for laughs in this detective caper

"...have a code nonetheless: Save the girl, even as she’s playing you for a fool; act like you’re only..."

May 20, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Square

A scathing and uncomfortable satire of the art world

"...Directed by: Ruben Östlund. Starring: Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West, Christopher Læssø and Terry Notary...."

Nov. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Last Circus

Two generations of circus clowns, set against the bloody backdrop of Franco's Spain.

"...Jorge Clemente, Carlos Areces, Antonio de la Torre, Carolina Bang, Manuel Tallafé, Alejandro Tejerías, Santiago Segura and Enrique Villén...."

Sept. 16, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: XX versus XY

Female-centric horrors Witching & Bitching, Life After Beth

"...about her work, like a vaudeville comic who think's she's above the pratfalls she's delivering and isn't afraid to..."

Oct. 21, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Goodbye Lover

"...Sandra (Arquette), is having an affair behind his back. She is, of course, and it's with Jake's older brother..."

April 16, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Amateur

"...self-proclaimed nymphomaniac who has yet to experience the big bang. When she befriends the battered Thomas (Donovan), an amnesia..."

June 23, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Blue Is the Warmest Color

This three-hour-long French film has been much hyped for its graphic sexual content, but it's the less explicit stuff that makes it worth a watch.

"...fatedness, the coup de foudre of the great literature she adores. She stumbles into just that, in a glancing..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Learning the Game

Learning Buddy Holly's game, 203 tracks at a time

"...out disc one from the Rolling Stones' The Biggest Bang 4-DVD set, on which is printed below the concert..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Lower City

The toastiest summer on record is but an intermittently flickering 40-watt bulb compared to this positively incendiary sexual firestorm.

"...it to you on a bed. (Just a bed. Sheets are extra.) Lower City's story borders on cliché: Best..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lady in the Water

The performances are bang-on, and there are moments of great beauty throughout, but Lady in the Water ultimately capsizes under the weight of its own goofy story.

"...the value of one of Russ Meyer's ultravixens if she straddled his twig-thin torso and launched fireballs from her..."

July 21, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Definitely, Maybe

Before giving in to romantic frippery, Definitely, Maybe functions as a believable, era-zagging retelling of one man’s overlapping love affairs with three women.

"...Ryan Reynolds, Abigail Breslin, Rachel Weisz, Elizabeth Banks, Isla Fisher, Kevin Kline and Derek Luke. There’s a wishy-washiness to..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

End of Days

"...some 20 years before. Tunney, all feathered, back-blown hair (she looks like she's been out riding Harleys all day)..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Triple 9

Grimy policier is an electrifying muddle with killer cast

"...The grimy policier Triple 9 starts off with a bang. A daring daylight bank robbery goes without a hitch..."

Feb. 26, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Excess Baggage

"...thief Vincent (Del Toro) steals her BMW moments after she locks herself in the trunk. This happens in the..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Spike & Mike's Festival of Animation '94

"...half, after Nick Park's “The Wrong Trousers” -- a slam-bang, goofy, gorgeous half-hour saga of Wallace and his dog..."

Feb. 18, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

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