Kong: Skull Island

The big ape is back

"...his throne atop the Empire State Building. In Kong: Skull Island, the shaggy hero – and he’s definitely played,..."

March 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Live Shot: The Skull

Troublemakers – the mighty and mystical made metal

"...Trouble, the pair keep the fire burning in the Skull, a group formed specifically to stoke those ancient embers...."

March 21, 2015 Music Post by Michael Toland

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

If you're looking for escape, then the fourth installment in the beloved cliff-hanging archaeological-adventure franchise should fit the bill.

"...need a bigger box-office boat.") That said, … Crystal Skull is a fine, rollicking, lightning-paced return to form for..."

May 23, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Skull & Cakebones Is Back, Lee’s Kitchen Opens Grandly, Austin Proper Takes It Streetside, Juliet Brings the Wild Boar, and Here Comes a French Bistro with a Moody Tongue

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...Skull & Cakebones returns! Well, sort of? Yauss Berenji and..."

Aug. 9, 2023 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Skull & Cakebones Is Back, Lee’s Kitchen Opens Grandly, Austin Proper Takes It Streetside, Juliet Brings the Wild Boar, and Here Comes a French Bistro with a Moody Tongue

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

Aug. 11, 2023 Food Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Inside Kate Heyhoe's Skull

"...180-degree turnaround. Inspired by Day of the Dead sugar skulls, she is currently making what she calls Dreams of..."

Oct. 29, 2010 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

The Urge to Break Your Skull

The Coathangers' hook and crook

July 10, 2009 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

Gonin

"...wild abandon, and aluminum Louisville Sluggers flailing away upon skull after skull after skull. Testosterone to the nth degree,..."

April 24, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Two Local Vegan Powerhouses to Close This Month

But don’t despair, not all hope is lost

"...in Austin. On the same day, Counter Culture and Skull & Cakebones announced their closure ahead of 2023...."

Dec. 4, 2022 Food Post by A. Richmond

McQueen

The triumphs and tragedies of the late bad boy of British fashion

"...film opens with a camera slowly swirling around a skull. Red droplets splash on the cranium. In Michael Nyman’s..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Skulls

"...Junior to those prestigious Ivy-cloaked schools back East, The Skulls is a teen movie with a message: Avoid members..."

March 31, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Rider

Powerful docudrama of life on the range.

"...has a steel plate in his head where his skull was crushed after being thrown from his horse during..."

April 27, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Deliciously DIY

The accidentally punk rock story behind Skull & Cakebones cupcakes

"...out to start a punk rock cupcake business with Skull & Cakebones (www.skullandcakebones.com), but that's exactly what they've grown,..."

March 21, 2014 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Charlie St. Cloud

Zac Efron breaks free of his High School Musical routine with this unusual drama about a young man overcoming grief.

"...you almost expect to find him pulling a Yorick’s skull from his catcher’s mitt, so eager is Efron to..."

July 30, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

One in a Crowd: Jungle Trap

VHS madness needs a little help to get on tape

"...whence the came. But the brave fools of Bleeding Skull! Video are hoping to resurrect the era, one tape..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Lowlife

Sleaze, violence, and a weirdly nuanced take on race relations.

"...splattertastic effects in any non-horror film since the bone-shattering, skull-squishing glories of Brawl on Cell Block 99. But underneath..."

April 20, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Jigsaw

The Saw character returns

"...trippy Undead, Daybreakers) tone down the arterial spurts and skull cracking until the final reel, resulting in a marginally..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

The next installment of this franchise that no one asked for

"...gonzo interpretation of the ocean’s most disreputable (and inebriated) skull-and-boner. The joke has worn thin in the intervening 14..."

May 26, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Don Verdean

Fourth comedy feature from the pair who made Napoleon Dynamite

"...Tony Lazarus (McBride), who wants Verdean to find Goliath’s skull in order to prop up his parishioners’ faith. As..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Miss You Already

Drew Barrymore and Toni Collette co-star as best friends facing crises

"...strokes her thinning hair and palms her freshly shorn skull. There’s very little dialogue, because the hands have said..."

Nov. 6, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Why Don't You Play in Hell?

This Japanese mind-twister from Shion Sono screams with madness and mayhem.

"...blowing out your mind through the back of your skull, sifting what remains through his personal and kaleidoscopic genre..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Exists

This found-footage horror film shot in Austin finds a Bigfoot chased from its home by the Bastrop fires.

"...in the Big Thicket and lets nature have its skull-thumping way. Extreme sports enthusiasts all, the quintet, led by..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Field in England

The most enticingly original film to come out of the UK this year is told in crisp, trippy, black and white.

"...Wheatley will blow your mind out of your unsuspecting skull. A back-flashing musket ball couldn’t scramble your gray matter..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

Nicolas Cage rides again.

"...you can make your head burst into a flaming skull at will. I've been trying that for years and..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Drive

Ryan Gosling plays a getaway driver in this seductive mix of brooding arthouse and heist-gone-to-hell genre picture.

"...hold his best gal's hand and bash in the skull of any goon who looks at her wrong. Christ,..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Punisher

Strictly from the so-bad-it's-good school of entertainment.

"...the slaughter of Castle’s entire extended family. Donning the skull-emblazoned logo T-shirt his young son gave him moments before..."

April 16, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Irréversible

"...film’s leading man savagely and repeatedly crushes a victim’s skull to literal pulp using a fire extinguisher as his..."

March 28, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Horns and Halos

"...the whole affair, and appreciate its focus on Soft Skull Press publisher Sander Hicks, who republished the book amid..."

March 21, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Ghost and the Darkness

"...would be like to spend two hours inside the skull of Papa Hemingway? Here's your chance to find out...."

Oct. 18, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tales From the Hood

"...the Darkside films (there's even a tip of the skull to several Twilight Zone episodes, not to mention Christopher..."

June 2, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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