Activists out to Derail Police Contract

Agreement hits City Council in early December

"...feelings of Austinites, and fretting over their efforts to derail contract negotiations at this point. "We kept hearing about..."

Nov. 10, 2017 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Attempt to Derail TCEQ Appointment Fails

Senate confirms Shaw

May 5, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

How to Derail Web Extremists

Counter-terrorism experts say the way forward is more Muslim voices

March 8, 2008 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Maybe I Do

Intergenerational sex comedy where secrets derail a family meeting

"...Star-studded and awkward intergenerational sex comedy where silly secrets derail a family meeting...."

Jan. 27, 2023 Movie Review

Graduation

A man goes to great lengths to secure a better life for his daughter

"...near-rape experience will negatively affect Eliza’s test performance and derail her chance to receive a scholarship to an English..."

April 28, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Enough Said

James Gandolfini and Julia Louis-Dreyfus co-star in this delicate, uncommon picture of middle-aged new love.

"...the movie poster.) That twist, and its implications, almost derail the movie's true achievement: It’s a funny, tender, impactful..."

Sept. 27, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

What Happens in Vegas

Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher – two Hollywood actors known for their prankishness and pluck – never manage to convince us that this Sin City comedy is fun.

"...turns into a quickie marriage; plans for an annulment derail when husband and wife win a $3 million jackpot,..."

May 9, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

Once-fresh aquatic superhero series smells like day-old fish

"...necessary brotherly bonding with Aquaman as they try to derail the plans of the villainous Black Manta (Abdul-Mateen II),..."

Dec. 29, 2023 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

The Delinquents

Argentine crime fable is tricksy and charming

"...anxiety over his complicity in the crime threatens to derail his life. This causes a schism in his relationship..."

Nov. 10, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Keep an Eye Out

Quentin Dupieux serves a delicious slice of nothing in this police anti-procedural

"...the body, Dupieux introduces a number of complications that derail the investigation. There’s Phillipe, the chief inspector’s one-eyed co-worker,..."

March 19, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

MLK/FBI

The Feds' surveillance campaign of the civil rights icon placed in new context

"...weaponizing the specter of a black man's sexuality to derail the civil rights movement, while also contending with audio..."

Jan. 15, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Skyman

Alien abduction faux documentary puts tragedy ahead of effects

"...quite gel, and there are momentary longueurs that could derail the story. But Myrick's decision to keep the narrative..."

July 3, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Vast of Night

Jaw-dropping reinvention of the UFO scare genre is audacious and brilliant

"...grainy, over your antenna. It shouldn't work. It should derail everything, cut through the narrative fibers suspending disbelief. Instead,..."

May 29, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

A Simple Wedding

A slightly contemporary update to a very traditional rom-com

"...cold feet and kissing cousins, but none sufficient to derail an inevitable “I do.” The wedding day rom-com is..."

Feb. 14, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Summer Night

Barhopping slice of life about facing up to adulthood is Linklater-lite

"...a minor tour. Mel's life-changing text seems set to derail one more low-key-fun night in nowheresville for Seth, hanging..."

July 12, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Beautiful Boy

Steve Carell soars above this overly-earnest addiction biography

"...teen, with David trying to work out how to derail Nic's fast track to an overdose...."

Oct. 26, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Have a Nice Day

Mid-Nineties-style crime stories refreshed by Chinese cartoons.

"...Liu's world-weary fury, and the cavalcade of lowlifes that derail Zhu's getaway...."

Feb. 23, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Headlines

"...city and Austin Police Association. See "Activists out to Derail Police Contract," Nov. 10...."

Nov. 10, 2017 News Feature

Partisan Races

Looking at the statewide, legislative, and county ballot

"...filibusters (education in 2011, reproductive rights in 2013) to derail the increasingly extreme agenda of the state GOP, and..."

Oct. 17, 2014 News Feature by The Chronicle Editorial Board

The Guest

With their follow-up to You're Next, filmmakers Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett prove the new kings of indie horror movies.

"...new character, into the already riveting thriller, fails to derail the whole. With The Guest, Wingard and Barrett have..."

Sept. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

American Hustle

It's all about the hair, the performances, and the grift and graft in this unpredictable new offering from David O. Russell.

"...David O. Russell’s twisty screenplay in which things can derail at any minute. Players get played; scammers get scammed...."

Dec. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Round Three: Will Dems Break Quorum to Stall Abortion Regs Measures?

Dems say all legal options on table to halt bad bills

"...doubts Dewhurst would provide Democrats any ready means to derail them – again. "The reason you have a special..."

July 1, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

A Victory by the People

Filibuster, parliamentary gamesmanship kill abortion bill … for now

"...for a Party that did everything they could to derail the efforts of thousands of Texans from around the..."

June 26, 2013 News Post by Dan Solomon

Point Austin: Seeing Double

Curious political parallels on the Potomac and the Colorado

"...in Washington, a manufactured crisis that yet threatens to derail the fragile economic recovery already undermined by a bipartisan..."

July 29, 2011 News Column by Michael King

Hereafter

Clint Eastwood looks into the great beyond and sees dead people – lots of them, and chatty souls they are, too.

"...(a bravura piece of CGI filmmaking that threatens to derail the movie once we realize that nothing that follows..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Dewhurst I Knew

A lesson in election endorsements

"...unnecessary and divisive voter identification bill that threatened to derail business in both chambers was ill-advised – he avoids..."

Oct. 11, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: Variation on a Theme

Following the logical threads of a revolution

"...minorities. Often these smaller groups are adroit enough to derail legislation that the majority of the population supports. This..."

July 24, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Mean Creek

A kinder, gentler Bully.

"...a Saturday of boating, but their plans for revenge derail when, whaddya know, turns out the mean fat kid..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Yet More King Wrangling

"...that the union's grievance is merely a way to derail the investigation. "It's clear that they really aren't looking..."

Nov. 29, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Standing in the Shadows of Motown

"...narrative re-enactments of key biographical moments. These interludes unnecessarily derail the story while lending very little to our overall..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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