A Bloody Good Read This Book Sucks

"...vampire and passes out. When she awakes, she notices that one of her hands is burned black, she's been..."

Oct. 13, 1995 Arts Feature

The Ties That Bind in Things Will Be Different

Michael Felker’s temporal noir is all about friends and family

"...in a seemingly secure safe house. It’s not just that this farm is geographically remote. It’s also seemingly adrift..."

March 8, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Qmmunity: The Queer Stories That Made 2019

Looking back, enjoying gelato, and the return of Middle School Dance Party

"...Back in January, it didn't occur to me that 2019 was closing out a decade. At midnight, I..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

Is That a Wrap for Incentives?

Amid economic woes and a race-baiting controversy, the future of TV, video game, and film funding in Texas looks shaky

"...You've probably noticed that the economy sucks. The state needs to find an..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

LBJ Science Academy Sucks Rocks

Gee Whiz, Mr. Science

"...strong rhetorical skills, and a commitment to educational equity that began when he was a Nacogdoches high schooler in..."

Dec. 15, 1995 News Feature by Roseana Auten

The 'Chronicle' Sucks or the Editor Sucks or Something Like That

Dec. 23, 2003 Postmarks

17 Again

Tween idol Zac Efron graduates into a nonsinging and nondancing world in this body-switch movie, and the result should keep ’em coming back for more.

"...Knight, Melora Hardin, Hunter Parrish and Brian Doyle-Murray. “If that boy were an apple, he’d be a Delicious,” croons..."

April 17, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Skyline

In this effects-heavy film, extraterrestrials invade Los Angeles.

"...hovering mother ship and produce an eerie blue light that sucks humans into oblivion should they stare at it..."

Nov. 19, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Punch-Drunk Love

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

"...Hoffman, Luis Guzmán and Mary Lynn Rajskub. Any film that has its male lead utter the line, “I feel..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Message in a Bottle

"...doozy: a love-hammered, claw-your-beating-heart-out, roar of wild romantic eloquence that sucks the breath right out of the lone jogger's..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Cloud Atlas

This spellbinding adaptation of a supposedly “unfilmable” novel achieves near-perfection on virtually all levels.

"...action or inaction incites a kind of butterfly effect that ripples through human history long after any one character..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2002

"...the “sick and twisted” antics here probably appeal to that under-18 part of all of us: some crudely drawn..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Because the Night Playlist

Daylight savings end-times tunes

"...The light changed this week. The sun that sucks streams bone dry breaks for November rain. School..."

Nov. 10, 2017 Music Post by William Harries Graham

The Verde Report: It’s Finally Time to Take #WolffOut Seriously

Winless streak hits new club milestone

"...the weekend, Austin FC collected a hideous club milestone that it had thus far managed to avoid, even during..."

Sept. 20, 2023 Sports Post by Eric Goodman

Fantasia Review: Lapsis

The gig economy savaged in this SF warning about modern capital

"...It's easy to forget that it's only been 20 years since under half of..."

Sept. 3, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Tori Amos at 50

Milestone opened her eyes, ears, and ambition

"...loud at least thrice during this interview, and hearing that from my feminist fairy godmother made me want to..."

July 24, 2014 Music Post by Abby Johnston

SXSW Interview: Margaret Brown

We're all connected through the Great Invisible

"...April of 2010, causing the world's largest oil spill that gushed into the Gulf of Mexico for over five..."

March 10, 2014 SXSW Post by Kate X Messer

Page Two: Praying for an Early Death

Louis Black sucks, and he makes SXSW suck

"...the ever expert Explosives. Washed in the water of that untainted rock, I was ready to leave, but Moser..."

March 26, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Inertia, Inverted

It isn't the outside world but oneself that most often determines the nature of experience

"...this new year; let us all hope and pray that it is not the same as the last year...."

Jan. 9, 2009 Column by Louis Black

The Paper

The chaos, confusion, and ongoing struggle that is involved in putting out a newspaper is well-captured in Howard's movie. Despite a melodramatic storyline, the texture rings true and the rapid-fire dialogue recalls screwball comedies from the Thirties.

"...to take it. If you avoid the ridiculous proposition that an editor would rather work for one of those..."

April 1, 1994 Movie Review by Louis Black

Postmarks

No Schism

"...factual errors in the article which gave the impression that the Center and Austin Community Gardens (ACG) are seriously..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Column

Dracula Untold

Prince Vlad fights off the Turks with with a little old-school vampirism.

"...to just hang up my cape and say, “This sucks,” but where’s the fun in that? Every generation gets..."

Oct. 10, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

For Love Or Money

"...off, let me get it out of the way that I like Michael J. Fox, as an actor and..."

Oct. 8, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

Frantz

A bitter-sweet romance in the aftermath of WWI

"...The film sucks you in with its exquisite cinematography (shot in lush..."

April 7, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Cyclo

"...of livelihood, Cyclo is caught in a downward spiral that relentlessly sucks him into the corrupt heart of the..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

"Lesbian Vampires"

"...ever-informative lecturer), it persists in an overly intellectual approach that, well, sucks all the life out of vampire mythology..."

July 22, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

The next installment of this franchise that no one asked for

"...Beware the summer season tentpole franchise that purloins its opening action sequence from a one-off gag..."

May 26, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I'll See You in My Dreams

Blythe Danner is exquisite as a 70-year-old widow entering the dating fray

"...widow particular in her ways and wary of anything that might complicate her routine, which involves long walks with..."

June 5, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid

A Hollywood vessel of doom hunts for the Big Squeeze.

"...– paddle furiously against the movie’s riptide, but it sucks them in anyway. Gravelly-voiced Johnny Messner is appealing enough..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Moulin Rouge

This musical sucks you in with its own brand of willful illogic and breathtaking visuals. Set in turn-of-the-century Paris, a penniless poet falls madly in love with a nightclub's star performer, a chanteuse-cum-courtesan who has a heart of gold and is an incipient consumptive. The music is a combination of restructured modern pop tunes manhandled into clever new forms.

"...to stay seated. So chaotic is the film's opening that the fight or flight instinct is critically engaged; for..."

June 1, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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