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Freejack
"...him. Visual style you also get, in this post-Blade Runner homage to the imagined city (in this case only..."

Jan. 24, 1992 Movie Review by Louis Black

Playing With Fire
There's no spark in this joke-free firefighters-versus-kids flop
"...some snoopy specter, the two younger spawns of Satan run amok in the place, aiming nail guns and fireball..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Weeknight Drag Roundup
The party shouldn’t stop when you clock in.
"...and fluidity is the word so why should the fun stop on Sundays? And lez be honest, Austin has..."

Aug. 26, 2019 Qmmunity Post by A. Micah Mills

The Spy Who Dumped Me
Kunis and McKinnon run to Europe, but forget to pack jokes
"...– it’s still a hot dog, and besides, you’re drunk – the flimsiest of film entertainments is met with..."

Aug. 3, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Bad Batch
Ana Lily Amirpour's psychedelic Western
"...Batch, there is an inscrutability and willful listlessness that runs throughout the film, harkening back to the latter’s entire..."

June 23, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Silent Hill: Revelation
Watch out for the demons that inhabit Silent Hill.
"...Without the atmospherically batrachian fun of 2006’s Silent Hill, this turgid and wholly unrevelatory..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

This Is PiL
Sex Pistol and PiL frontman John Lydon, by God.
"...Islands leave you nowhere to run, so you've got to fight or submit. Islands are..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Music Feature by Richard Whittaker

Better Than the Rest
Checking in with Transmission marketing guru Bianca Flores
"...these last couple years, you’ve no doubt seen or run into Bianca “Fiesta” Flores. Much of the time, she’s..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Music Post by Zoe Cordes Selbin

John Carter
Old-school "Gosh, wow!" sense-of-wonder filmmaking is in short supply these days, but now John Carter has arrived to fill the void.
"...challenging, and a veritable bestiary of alien creatures that run the gamut from cute (a hippopotamus-sized, puglike critter) to..."

March 9, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Best of the Rest II: Live Shows
Six last 2011 lists – from the live arena
"...10s issue proved plenty, but as with Margaret Moser's run-off, I needed more index. Here's six show lists:..."

Jan. 10, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Arthur Christmas
The folks at Aardman Animation, who gave us Wallace & Gromit, seve up an instant – and funny – holiday classic.
"...titles come up, you're in good, competent, and refreshingly funny hands. Arthur Christmas is an inspired take on the..."

Nov. 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The third coming of C.S. Lewis' Narnia fantasy/allegory series has arrived.
"...Arnold, it still feels as if this franchise has run aground and is sinking under the weight of its..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Good Will Hunting
Transmission Entertainment presents a Fun Fun Fun Fest scavenger hunt
"...package that includes weekend passes to the fourth annual Fun Fun Fun Fest, Nov. 7-8, in Waterloo Park...."

Oct. 23, 2009 Music Post by Austin Powell

Idiosyncrasies of America’s Pastime
"...on the edge of your seat. A game-winning home run can bring the stands to their feet and players..."

May 16, 2008 Sports Post by Christopher Bond

Once a Cardinal, Always a Cardinal
Josh Hancock, St. Louis Cardinals pitcher, dead at 29
"...last game, going three innings and allowing an earned run while striking out two and walking one in an..."

April 29, 2007 Sports Post by Shawn Badgley

Lady Vengeance
The South Korean master of revenge dramas, Park Chan-wook, offers another entertaining puzzle of emotional nuance, riotous color, and bloody hell.
"...in the world's most baroque ossuary. It's big, lush fun (Park's previous films in this so-called revenge trilogy, Sympathy..."

June 30, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Derailed
The first release from the new Weinstein Co. is this thriller starring Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen that never fully engages our sympathies.
"...(George), and enough personal problems to give Job a run for his shekels. His daughter’s juvenile diabetes has just..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Reel Paradise
This documentary shows what happens when famed producer’s rep/author/gadabout John Pierson convinces his family to move with him to Fiji, where, if all goes according to plan, he can leave behind the indie-film rat race, immerse himself in a completely foreign culture, and, best of all, screen all sorts of movies for the natives.
"...no less – scads of current-release Hollywood films that run the gamut from Apocalypse Now Redux to the MTV..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Punisher
Strictly from the so-bad-it's-good school of entertainment.
"...T-shirt his young son gave him moments before being run down by Saint’s thugs, arming himself to the teeth..."

April 16, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Quentin Tarantino goes into overdrive with this story about the bride who was left for dead on her wedding day and seeks revenge against them that done her wrong.
"...Quentin Tarantino set on "11." Or maybe "Destroy." Definitely "Fun." In the six years since Jackie Brown, Austin’s favorite..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Chateau
"...staff is eccentric and demanding, and (don't forget) things run a wee different in the south of France, you..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

Burnt Money
"...and a whole mess of energetic sexual couplings that run the gamut from straight to queer to somewhere in..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Small Time Crooks
"...readily calls to mind Allen's Take the Money and Run (1969). Pinch a few grains from that movie's bungling..."

May 19, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Arrival
"...The Arrival's never less than silly script lets him run wild; it's sci-fi, so he's not bound by the..."

June 7, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Beloved Local Pastry Chef Joins the Stiles Switch Team
Callie Speer: ambassador of fun
"...for them as people, and just generally how they run their businesses. Catherine is one of the hardest workers..."

Aug. 13, 2021 Food Feature by Rod Machen

Sound on Sound Fest’s Renaissance
Beach House, Explosions in the Sky, Death Grips get medieval
"...for its debut. The new music festival, booked by Fun Fun Fun Fest founder Graham Williams and produced by..."

June 28, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

TDH: 5/18/11
Shade soldiering on to run-off
"...Sure, Randi Shade said she was up for a run-off after her poor election night performance Saturday. But most..."

May 18, 2011 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Public Notice: A Numbers Game
Low turnout means the results of the run-offs can be hard to predict
"...this issue, beginning on p.32, describes each of the run-off races, identifying frontrunners in each City Council race, whose..."

Dec. 5, 2014 News Column by Nick Barbaro

We Have an Issue: This Is Fine?
In this week's issue, fun ways to grapple with the ongoing heat... and more sobering thoughts on the state we're in
"...Riffing on the Summer Fun issues we used to run every May – bumped..."

July 21, 2023 Column by Kimberley Jones

The Digital Alchemy of Pixar's Elemental
How two Austin creatives found ways to mix fire and water
"...to see the little playful details added just for fun, you may see a job title and wonder, exactly..."

June 22, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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