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Day Trips & Beyond: July Events Roundup
Activities to help you stay cool as summer heats up
"...include copious amounts of air conditioning and/or a swimming hole...."

July 6, 2017 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Colossal
Toxic masculinity melds with a monster movie
"...to the small town where she grew up and holes up in the (conveniently abandoned) family home. There she..."

April 14, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Void
A gory serving of cosmic horror
"...Welsh) playing God, Carter’s dead child, and a triangular hole to another dimension. Students of horror might enjoy tracing..."

April 14, 2017 Movie Review by Dan Gentile

Day Trips: Lockhart State Park Golf Course
Playing the nine-hole course is cheaper than a pound of Lockhart's famous barbecue
"...one of Lockhart's famous eateries, duffers can enjoy nine holes of unrushed play...."

Sept. 9, 2016 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The Wailing
South Korean movie adeptly blends a variety of genre tropes
"...exhibit the same symptoms, Jong-gu goes down the rabbit hole of ancient magic, shamans, demonic possession, and a very..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Tickled
Doc goes beneath the surface of competitive endurance tickling
"...Reeve, and the two spelunk down into a rabbit hole of fetish, coercion, exploitation of the working class, blackmail,..."

July 8, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Underbelly's Alice in Wonderland
This new adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic sends its audience down the rabbit hole – and all over the Zach Theatre campus
"...Down the rabbit hole...."

April 8, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

By the Sea
Angelina and Brad topline this modern-day arthouse relic by Jolie Pitt
"...infusion of energy arrives in the form of a hole in the wall where they can surreptitiously view the..."

Nov. 20, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Black Mass
Johnny Depp plays the notorious South Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger
"...had executed). By necessity, Black Mass begins in a hole it can never dig out of. It’s the portrait..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Vacation
Rude and crude; make other vacation plans
"...lots of vomitus. An off-road excursion to a swimming hole winds up covering the hapless Griswolds in human excrement...."

July 31, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Unfinished Business
The crude humor and cloying sentiment of Vince Vaughn's latest comedy make it a dud
"...shenanigans involving rental cars, nude saunas, and a glory hole or two, and if that weren’t enough, Dan is..."

March 13, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Mortdecai
Johnny Depp fails to unleash his inner Peter Sellers in this globetrotting spy comedy.
"...exuded in a single raised eyebrow. He’s a black hole sucking in the superior actors in his orbit like..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Listen Up Philip
The director of The Color Wheel is back with this film about a narcissistic and abrasive young novelist.
"...young novelist in Listen Up Philip is a black hole of self-absorption – anyone who gets too close gets..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

All Is Lost
In this near-wordless film, Robert Redford is compulsively watchable as a man trying to save himself from his sinking ship.
"...cargo container in the Indian Ocean has ripped a hole in the hull of his boat. All is not..."

Nov. 8, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Shepard & Dark
The turbulent but creative connection between theatre legend Sam Shepard and writer and collector Johnny Dark is explored in this documentary. The film also features the work of a couple of Austin film mavericks: editor Sandra Adair and musician Graham Reynolds.
"...beloved wife Scarlett suffers a brain aneurysm and the whole mixed clan unites to care for the ailing spouse...."

Oct. 25, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Disconnect
This mawkish, preachy picture about technophobia has already dated itself.
"...eyebrows to prove it. A modernized Ace in the Hole ensues, with iPads. In another part of town, a..."

April 26, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Par For the Course [Updated]
Smoking while golfing kept controversy putting along
"...with Open Meetings Act requirements – far from a hole in one...."

Dec. 20, 2011 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Luv Doc Recommends: Austin Corn Lovers Fiesta
Hole in the Wall, Friday, September 16, 2011
"...and it's happening Thursday through Sunday at Lovejoys, the Hole in the Wall, Trophy's, and the Scoot Inn. The..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Column by The Luv Doc

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
Wimpy kid, wimpy movie.
"...it's like to be a square peg in a round-hole kind of world. But Ramona and Beezus did so..."

April 1, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Luv Doc Recommends: Knife Party! With the Jungle Rockers, Salesman, Flatcar Rattlers
Hole in the Wall, Saturday, July 31, 2010
"...go out drinking … except this Saturday, because the Hole in the Wall is hosting Knife Party! Bring your..."

July 30, 2010 Column by The Luv Doc

(500) Days of Summer
This romantic comedy is a deeply funny, seductive, and surprisingly honest dramatization of the ways we snooker ourselves into incompatible love.
"...In storybook fashion, the film then lays out the rabbit-hole, pop-cultural obsessions and core-rocking events that define the He..."

July 24, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Sonic Boomers and Bizarros
Hole in the Wall's anniversary weekend reunites the Bizarros
"...to play the Bizarros reunion Friday, June 12, during Hole in the Wall’s 35th anniversary. He wanted me to..."

June 11, 2009 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Babylon A.D.
Vin Diesel stars as a mercenary hired to escort a woman with a dangerous virus out of Russia.
"...fair, it's really just the old, Franco-Prussian existential angst hole ratcheted up and dumbed down for our not so..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Steep
The glories of extreme skiing are proclaimed from international mountaintops.
"...sport, by accidental daredevil Bill Briggs, who skied Jackson Hole, Wyoming's insanely vertical Grand Tetons in the 1960s. From..."

March 7, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Definitely, Maybe
Before giving in to romantic frippery, Definitely, Maybe functions as a believable, era-zagging retelling of one man’s overlapping love affairs with three women.
"...in to some generic romantic-comedy frippery that punctures a hole in its own believability. We begin in the present..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

In Bruges
Playwright Martin McDonagh directs his first feature film, which is about a couple of hitmen caught between heaven and hell.
"...and more antsy Ray regards it as a "shit hole." While waiting, like two figures out of Samuel Beckett..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

30 Days of Night
This film's high-concept stroke of genius lies not with its vampire clan but with the setting: a tiny Alaskan hamlet where nightfall indeed lasts all month.
"...bloodsuckers. So much so that they're eventually forced to hole up in squalid attics and crawl spaces, able to..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Luv Doc Recommends: Karaoke Apocalypse
Hole in the Wall, Friday, June 29, 2007
"...nearly as much timber if it weren’t for her Hole performance. Just imagine what Courtney’s love life would be..."

June 29, 2007 Column by The Luv Doc

Luv Doc Recommends: Rock & Roll Free-for-All
Hole in the Wall, Sunday, October 22, 2006
"...sweat. Save yourself the recap by fleeing to the Hole in the Wall for Paul Minor’s new Rock &..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Column by The Luv Doc

The Lake House
This tale of magical realism has potential for delightful originality, but the Sandra Bullock-Keanu Reeves love story lacks heat and the science fiction premise spirals into senselessness.
"...of physics have folded upon themselves, creating a black hole within the space-time continuum – the vortex of which..."

June 16, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

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