The Instigators

Shaggy dog crime flick starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck plays like knockoff Tarantino

"...and ex-Marine sad sack, and Affleck as Cobby, a drunk with low-rent mob ties – who get hooked into..."

Aug. 9, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Reality Bites: Looking Back at The Real World: Austin

Austin's film community shaped the reality show and vice versa

"...supposedly making the film with them, were passed out drunk on the living room floor. David took one look..."

July 22, 2024 Screens Post by Paul Stekler

Transit Troubles

"...several experiences with homeless bus riders. They are sometimes drunk and start fights on the bus. One day, as..."

May 17, 2024 Postmarks

Back to Black

Amy Winehouse biopic gives you all the details you’ll recognize from the singer’s tragically short life – but not much beyond that

"...mention of the catastrophic gigs where she was too drunk to sing, and or the extremely generous portrayal of..."

May 17, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

How to Have Sex

Un Certain Regard winner explores first sex and consent from the perspective of a British teenager on a holiday in Crete

"...British teens head to pass as twentysomethings to get drunk and laid. That’s what’s happening with virgin Tara (McKenna-Bruce)..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Saoirse Ronan Battles Addiction in Unflinching Drama The Outrun

Nora Fingscheidt’s nonlinear film goes to hell and back

"...a low point in her life – belligerent and drunk in a bar, kicked out only to be picked..."

Jan. 26, 2024 Screens Post by Alejandra Martinez

I.S.S.

Spacebound political thriller lacks any sense of gravity

"...get along like they did when they were getting drunk and singing Glasnost anthem "Winds of Change" (which, I..."

Jan. 19, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: Eileen

Novelist Ottessa Moshfegh gets her first adaptation

"...her spare time, she takes care of her brutal drunk father (Shea Whigham, doing a superbly wincing job doling..."

Sept. 27, 2023 Screens Post by Alejandra Martinez

Aporia

Judy Greer contemplates killing her own Hitler in this intriguing time-travel drama

"...their husband/father, Mal (Gathegi), who was struck down by drunk driver Darby (O’Byrne). Mal was the glue that held..."

Aug. 11, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Haunted Mansion

Second movie based on the Disney ride isn't worth wasting a Lightning Lane booking

"...Alyssa (Jordan), who then dies offscreen, leaving him depressed, drunk, and discredited. His unlikely chance at redemption comes when..."

July 28, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, July 14-20

"...Piscean novelist Peter De Vries wrote, "Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and..."

July 14, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

Review: Zach Theatre's Noises Off

Even after 40 years, Michael Frayn's backstage farce is fun, not funny

"...incompetent acting troupe defined by their respective foibles – drunk (Michael Stuart), dim-witted (Maggie Anderson), jealous (Andre Martin), delicate..."

June 23, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

The Luv Doc: Deadeye Dick and Harry

The Luv Doc's hot and sweaty take on team rec sports

"...let yourself get pressured into inviting someone with two drunk driving convictions to a quail hunt. Bowling? Sure. If..."

May 5, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc

Inside

High-concept art heist flick is an arthouse dud

"...the smart hub that runs everything. In between getting drunk and rummaging through the penthouse’s rooms and cupboards, Nemo..."

March 17, 2023 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

Former Heartless Bastard Jesse Ebaugh Finds His Own Texas Touch

The Tender Things face hard truths on new LP

"...most importantly, the voice in your head when you're drunk that tells you you are not good enough got..."

Feb. 24, 2023 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Ur Sweet? Actually, Ur Drunk: State Sen. Charles Schwertner, R-Georgetown, was arrested Tuesday on..."

Feb. 10, 2023 News Feature

She Is Love

Dry love-triangle comedy sacrifices honesty for hollow style

"...various character combinations that vibe awkward then vicious then drunk and horny...."

Feb. 3, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Christmas Bloody Christmas

Joe Begos delivers more than coal in this Santasploitation gorefest

"...and record store owner Tori just wants to get drunk and laid, in that order. She hates all things..."

Dec. 9, 2022 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

Violent Night

David Harbour cracks down hard on the "naughty" list in the Christmas slugfest

"...’Twas the night before Christmas, and a drunk and disheveled Santa Claus (Harbour) is stumbling through his..."

Dec. 2, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

Birdman director seems painfully aware of his own pretensions

"...so often ambitious yet strangely dull, beautiful yet vain, drunk on ideas yet never penetrating enough to cohere them..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

The Luv Doc: A Raging Alcoholic

The kind of memory that burns brightly for all eternity

"...of complaining about my husband getting a bit too drunk at my sister's wedding, which led to our advice-giving..."

Oct. 21, 2022 Column by The Luv Doc

Triangle of Sadness

Ruben Östlund's newest Cannes' award-winning social satire falls flat

"...and excrement flood the cabins and decks, while the drunk captain (an ill-used Harrelson) and the Russian oligarch commandeer..."

Oct. 14, 2022 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Don't Worry Darling

Even Florence Pugh can't save this heavy-handed thriller

"...Palm Springs chic. At a dinner party, everybody is drunk and horny and grooving to the record player. Housewife..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

House of Darkness

Neil LaBute takes a smart bite out of the vampire drama

"...studied seduction techniques and furious backpedaling, always horny and drunk enough to be unsure whether the women are up..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Phantom of the Open

Mark Rylance raises this fantastical golfing biopic above par

"...Waller-Bridge’s score in a manner best described as Punch Drunk Love-esque...."

June 24, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Luv Doc: A Disgusting Pig

Is there ever a point when swamp crotch is not swampy enough?

"...That's a self-inflicted hate crime. That's like paying a drunk person to come to your house and vomit into..."

June 17, 2022 Column by The Luv Doc

Out of the Blue

Dennis Hopper’s lost film murders the Seventies

"...to beat Out of the Blue’s opening scene: A drunk Dennis Hopper, Linda Manz in clown makeup riding shotgun,..."

March 25, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Luv Doc: Bonne Chance

The statistical probability of the Luv Doc taking another statistics class is 0.0

"...my social debut! What are my chances of a drunken encounter with Jared Leto in a poorly lit bar?..."

March 18, 2022 Column by The Luv Doc

The Personal Life of Marlon Sexton, Who Doesn’t Want You to Know About His Personal Life

Shooks singer and guitarist rolls the dice on a Q&A

"...a bar a few months ago. He was so drunk, and he taught me this dice game called Cee-lo..."

Jan. 26, 2022 Music Post by Mars Salazar

National Champions

Ric Roman Waugh places the NCAA on trial in this chilling sports drama

"...fall into the sea than give up Saturday afternoon, drunk and roaring for their alma mater.” He’s not wrong...."

Dec. 10, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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