Fun With Dick and Jane

The original version of this comedy was a little countercultural, a lot class-conscious, and a touch subversive; this remake is all farce when what is needed is satire.

"...Jane is co-writer Judd Apatow's follow-up to this summer’s smash comedy, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, although it’s not likely his..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mail Order Wife

The premise of this gleefully jaundiced mockumentary is simple: A filmmaker pays the expenses of a Queens doorman buying a bride from Burma in exchange for the opportunity to film the proceedings.

"...If you’re familiar with Frat House, the 1998 festival smash documenting fraternity culture and its rituals, you’ll understand why..."

April 8, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

I Live My Broken Dreams

This year's rock docs examine the 'outsider myth' and more among the likes of Daniel Johnston, Townes Van Zandt, and Wild Man Fischer

"...Van Zandt's "Pancho and Lefty." The song became a smash hit, resulting in something like financial security for the..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

Shrek 2

Shrek reloaded: DreamWorks discovers that it's easy being green.

"...from the previous outing’s use of Top 40 popsters Smash Mouth and this time includes – I kid you..."

May 21, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Hulk

"...Elliott, Josh Lucas, Paul Kersey and Cara Buono. Hulk smash good, Puny Human, but Nick Nolte just look smashed...."

June 20, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Punch-Drunk Love

Sandler plays a socially inept, outwardly calm warehouse worker who harbors a maelstrom of rage.

"...utter the line, “I feel like I want to smash your face with a hammer” as a midcoital sweet..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jason X

Although the serial killer Jason has been cryogenically frozen at the start of this 10th outing, the hockey-masked one ends up defrosting on a spaceship in the year 2455.

"...made me want to disembowel, decapitate, skewer, stab, spear, smash, slice, and mutilate people. (pausing) Which is essentially what..."

May 3, 2002 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Y Tu Mamá También

Boys, filled with testoterone and joints, will be boys.

"...and, finally, inevitably, both boys at once. A box-office smash back home in Mexico, Y Tu Mamá También created..."

April 5, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Adapted for film from the off-Broadway musical hit, this movie is a rousing screen spectacle about a surgically botched transsexual from East Germany (played charismatically by John Cameron Mitchell, the show's creator and film director).

"...whole and looking for her personal dividing wall to smash into ruin. Unfortunately, the character's dramatic odyssey is rarely..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Chopper

Story of legendary Australian renegade and dreamer.

"...apparently close enough to have made the film a smash in not only its native country but elsewhere as..."

June 15, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species

"...store grabbed an Aibo robot dog and proceeded to smash it to smithereens. No explanation was given for this..."

May 25, 2001 Books Review by Sidney Moody

"...of the waist and north of the knees… DJ Smash's Phonography (Blue Note) is never more hard-core than Guru's..."

April 27, 2001 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Public Notice

Free speech, free thought, free kittens … Ah it's good to be free. It's good to be Public Notice.

"...2pm, the coffee haus will host its third-annual TV Smash with the notion of taking that "Turn Off Your..."

April 20, 2001 Column by Kate X Messer

Freddy Got Fingered

"...was picked up by MTV and quickly became a smash hit for the music network. The improvisational and frequently..."

April 20, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Snatch

Ritchie's second feature is part broad comic farce and part grisly charnel house humor.

"...certain is that Snatch, Ritchie's follow-up to last year's smash hit Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is likely..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Little Station That Could

Austin's AAA station KGSR and its market ascendance.

"...crossover Top 40 acts -- Hootie & the Blowfish, Smash Mouth, Everlast, Matchbox Twenty, etc. -- which not surprisingly..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

For the Good Times

The Life and Times of Texas country crooner, Ray Price.

"...Survive," and glorious, string-backed versions of his two biggest smashes, "Make the World Go Away" and "For the Good..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Music Feature by David Cantwell

Head On

"...might be able to break him of his self-destructive smash-up. Or maybe not. Then there's Johnny, Ari's transvestite friend..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Blame Star Search

"...they do the job, as proved by her dance smash single "... Baby One More Time" -- a song..."

June 11, 1999 Music Feature

Dirty's: The Real Story

"...since the health department forced the cooks to quit smashing the patties down on the grill with their spatulas..."

June 4, 1999 Food Feature

The Faculty

Co-written by Scream scribe Kevin Williamson and George Huang (Swimming With Sharks), The Faculty is pure Robert Rodriguez: jam-packed with action, suspense, humor, horror, and plenty of cinematic homages.

"...such sublime accuracy as Rodriguez. A master of the smash-cut, The Faculty is overflowing with the director's “I'll try..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin Musical Theatre Hits the Heights

That's Show Biz!

"...it from succeeding, and nothing stops it. It's a smash, such a smash that it's held over. If you..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Arts Feature

Quest for Camelot

"...its first fully animated feature, following up 1996's half-jock/half-cartoon smash Space Jam. Wisely, Warner's has released Quest a full..."

May 15, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Live Shots

"...punk classic Damned, Damned, Damned, and potent follow-ups like "Smash It Up." And like many other older English bands,..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Music Feature

Starship Troopers

In this spectacle, lethal insects from outer space do battle with student soldiers. When in Austin recently, Oliver Stone called Starship Troopers "One of the best war films in recent years."

"...spades, making it my pick for the belated summer smash of the year...."

Nov. 7, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Whither Rock?

ii.

"...from the windfall included Hole, Rocket From the Crypt, Smashing Pumpkins, Helmet, and Kansas City's little-known Paw, who somehow..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Books Feature by Gina Arnold

The Backstage Crew

Council Candidates' Consultants Direct the Show

"...steamrolling over little Max Nofziger, and they might just smash old Max, I don't know. They have the organization..."

April 11, 1997 News Feature

The Chamber

"...on the heels of another Grisham adaptation, this year's smash hit A Time To Kill, and the similarities between..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Public Notice

"...is the object of Elton John's love in the smash "Philadelphia Freedom," according to one local Reginald Kenneth Dwight..."

Aug. 23, 1996 Column by Kate X Messer

Supercop

"...tough Chinese police captain in order to infiltrate and smash an especially nasty drug cartel working the whole of..."

July 26, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

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