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Half-Baked
Cameos from Steven Wright, Willie Nelson, Tommy Chong, and Janeane Garofalo help stoke this addled comic premise about selling pot to raise a buddy's bail.
"...have any use for the wheezy pothead humor of Half-Baked: no one I can imagine. As director Tamra Davis'..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Cookbook review: Baked Elements
Bakery owners share recipes based on their ten favorite ingredients.
"...Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito are the owners of Baked, a popular artisan bakery in the Red Hook neighborhood..."

Sept. 14, 2012 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Baked Cookies and Racism at UT
Young Conservatives get national headlines, local contempt
"...Young Conservative Network assembled to offer something more appealing: home-baked cookies. This was no ordinary distribution of flour and..."

Oct. 27, 2016 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Food Issue: The 'Chronicle' Is Baked
Confessions from a full-time addict
"...candies and breads and … Seriously, I've made enough baked goods in the past few years that I probably..."

June 10, 2013 Food Post by Monica Riese

Baked Brie Recipe from Austin Executive Chef
You, too, can Netflix and brie all day.
"...Baked Brie by Executive Chef Jo Chan..."

March 31, 2020 Food Post by Jessi Cape

Baked Goods
"...features a product called Brownie Butts, which are essentially twice-baked brownie biscotti. The Butts pack just as much chocolate..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

Road Plan Half-Baked
"...roads, do they have the right to pass the half-baked idea ["Road Foes: Down, but Not Out?," News, July..."

July 23, 2004 Postmarks

Wunderkeks Builds Safe Spaces With Baked Goods
Local queer-immigrant-owned company shares love through cookies

June 3, 2022 Food Post by Camila Llorente

Austin’s Best Locally Baked Thanksgiving Pies
Keep your eyes on the pies

Nov. 22, 2019 Food Feature by Jessika Roth

Eastside Trailer's Giant Spud Creations Are a Force to Be Reckoned With
The Southern fusion cuisine of Anything’s Baked Potato has earned its cult following
"...most foot traffic from longtime Eastside locals is Anything's Baked Potato. The food truck's decadent Southern fusion cuisine has..."

Aug. 5, 2022 Food Feature by Haris Qureshi

SXSW Interview: Jim Breuer
The 'SNL' alum bleats about the show, stand-up, and Metallica
"...co-starred with Dave Chappelle in the stoner-comedy classic Half Baked that year...."

March 14, 2014 Arts Post by Russ Espinoza

Gluten-Free Wild Wood Bakehouse Shutters Guadalupe Location
Their second location, Wilder Wood, remains open on Seventh Street
"...North Campus gluten-free restaurant and baked goods shop Wild Wood Bakehouse has closed its doors...."

Feb. 27, 2019 Food Post by Melanie Haupt

MFKZ
Franco-Japanese anime spoofs rap culture clumsily
"...a third-act dive into deep red backgrounds. But a half-baked global invasion subplot, characters disappearing for extended periods (most..."

Nov. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Fifty Shades Freed
Mr. and Mrs. Grey break out the whips one last time
"...the opening credits before we’re whisked away to the sun-baked beaches of an idyllic honeymoon on the Mediterranean, where..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Goosebumps
The ever-popular YA novels spring to life with Jack Black
"...like Gremlins and The Shining, but those homages are half-baked. While these shortcomings could be forgivable, the film’s utter..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Road to Juarez
Conventional Mexican crime drama
"...double-triple-quadruple crosses, and you have the makings of a half-baked thriller that looks pretty good (that second-unit stuff in..."

April 24, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Rum Diary
Johnny Depp stars in this adaptation of one of Hunter S. Thompson's earliest novels, which is set in Puerto Rico in 1960 and soaked in booze
"...Rum Diary feels like a work of writerly juvenilia, half-baked but not unpleasant. Like the tropical breezes that fairly..."

Oct. 28, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Horrible Bosses
While this comedy aims for new nadirs in raunchiness, the rest of its humor coasts on obvious gags and recycled jokes.
"...to commiserate about their troubles, which is where their half-baked idea of killing their bosses is hatched. They are..."

July 8, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Red Riding Hood
Catherine Hardwicke, the director of the first Twilight movie, helms this update of the fairy tale.
"...abundance of dour story strands, however, is the sometimes half-baked and sometimes overbaked look of the production design. Even..."

March 18, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Mechanic
A mediocre remake of a Charles Bronson assassin film that's downright repellent at times.
"...Job! Those Crank movies!), I walked out of this half-baked remake of Michael Winner's 1972 "killer of killers" film..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lake City
A heavy-handed melodrama that features a young, brooding antihero and Sissy Spacek as his emotionally paralyzed mom.
"...mixed so many unnecessary gangster subplots and so much half-baked psychobabble that it feels more like something you’d see..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Southland Tales
Six years after Donnie Darko, filmmaker Richard Kelly returns with this incomprehensible, self-indulgent mess of post-apocalyptic anxiety, political paranoia, and pop-culture references.
"...of post-apocalyptic anxiety and political paranoia, a confusion of half-baked social critiques, pop-culture references, sci-fi whimsicalities, and anti-corporate satire..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Grandma's Boy
What's funnier than having to move back in with your parents? Why, moving in with your grandparents, of course.
"...and Rob Schneider. It’s gross, it’s cheesy, and it’s baked beyond all reasonable limits, but this everything-and-the-kitchen-sink comic soufflé..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D
Robert Rodriguez adds a dimension with this kids fantasy movie, but only in the most literal sense – 3-D.
"...the next at a speed that leaves them all half-baked. It is in this respect that Sharkboy and Lavagirl..."

June 10, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Lot Like Love
This Ashton Kutcher/Amanda Peet romance film is a lot like mediocrity.
"...but the whole production is simply as mediocre and half-baked as Hollywood gets...."

April 22, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Johnson Family Vacation
Half-baked comedy is on the road to nowhere.
"...what should be a vacation romp. The comedy is half-baked – all setups with few satisfactory payoffs. There’s a..."

April 9, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Thirteen Days
"...it, is the genuine article. Not so Costner's outrageous Boston-baked-beans accent, which fluctuates from admirably restrained to outright silly..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mr. Accident
"...Aussie auteur Yahoo Serious is a frenetic mishmash of half-baked ideas and nonstop physical and prop-oriented comedy that, in..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Holy Smoke!
"...deprogrammer and his voluptuous Aussie charge is chock-full of half-baked statements, notions, and scenes that seem as though they..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Mod Squad
"...wants to take. The predictable result is a sketchy, half-baked, stylistically inconsistent movie that scarcely even pretends to care..."

March 26, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

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