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Mad City
"...Danner. It's easy to imagine the pitch meeting for Mad City: Oh, it's a cross between Dog Day Afternoon..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mad Max: Fury Road
Glorious action cinema abounds on Fury Road
"...been winning bar bets with one simple question: What’s “Mad” Max’s surname? It’s only mentioned once in director George..."

May 15, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mad Love
"...time. Not for nothing was Joan known as “the Mad”; not for nothing was Philip known as “the Handsome.”..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Mad Dog and Glory
"...next project would be a Martin Scorsese-produced project entitled Mad Dog and Glory scripted by Richard Price, the esteemed..."

March 5, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mad Love
"...Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive and Ted Healy. Mad Love features Peter Lorre at his finest as a..."

Nov. 17, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mama Duke Releases First-Ever Music Video “Mad
“My ancestors gave me a sharp tongue and a power to take up space”
"...first-ever music video: The visual rendering of Duke’s single, “Mad,” the vid entwines Duke recording in the studio with..."

June 23, 2020 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

Mad Men Series Finale This Weekend
We say goodbye to Don Draper
"...The Sopranos and The Wire to Breaking Bad and Mad Men, the past decade and a half has been..."

May 15, 2015 Screens Post by Rod Machen

DVDanger: Mad Max
Before we hit Fury Road, the original revs up
"...Star Trek. And an unexpected little Australian underdog, the Mad Max movies...."

May 9, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Mad Money
Diane Keaton, Katie Holmes, and Queen Latifah as janitors at the Federal Reserve who plot the "recycling" of currency that is pegged for destruction.
"...in the movies isn’t a silver-tongued corporate hustler with pomaded hair and a closet full of $10,000 suits. In..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Diary of a Mad Black Woman
The fitful story of how one black woman gets her groove back
"...a good sudser and a laugh. Diary of a Mad Black Woman has enough suds to blow soap bubbles..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mad Men Archive Lands at HRC
Matthew Weiner show archive parks its fedora at Harry Ransom Center
"...With the announcement of the donation of the complete Mad Men archive to the Harry Ransom Center at the..."

Jan. 12, 2017 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mad Max: Fury Road Tops Austin Film Critics Association Awards
Full list of winners, plus who made the best Austin film?
"...Association has selected his return to the postapocalyptic Outback, Mad Max: Fury Road, as the best film of 2015,..."

Dec. 29, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

'Mad Men' Hits the Books
Half Price Books compiles 21 books from the AMC hit
"...Any good Mad Men fan knows the AMC classic about an advertising..."

April 4, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

Mad Whit Subdivides the Psyche in Striking “Yeah, She Says” Video
Just a day at the beach with your deepest insecurities
"...an actor plays multiple characters in a theatrical performance. Mad Whit carries out such an effort in the video..."

May 21, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Mad Tiger
The ups and downs of Japanese punk band Peelander-Z
"...he is opening, there is some closure. But mostly, Mad Tiger traffics in the all-too-relatable story of people who..."

May 20, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

sxswi: Mad About @BettyDraper
Helen Klein Ross talks about tweeting in character
"...than her Twitter handle, @BettyDraper, named for the sullen Mad Men character Ross channels to write her 140 character..."

March 12, 2011 Screens Post by Belinda Acosta

The Mad Men
Senate GOP votes to impose new abortion limits
"...Women dressed in Mad Men-era garb and women’s rights supporters wearing bright orange..."

June 19, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Notes on Mad Dogs
If you were young, talented, and a little crazy in the old Austin, you may have answered to the bizarre title of "Mad Dog."
"...Anyone who has tried to write about Mad Dog, a bizarre moment of this state's literary history,..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
The story is lacking but the spectacle is stupendous
"...that out of the way before discussing Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Because, while few filmmakers can put together..."

May 24, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

From Mad Dogs to Mister Golf
Bud Shrake, continued
"...booze-fueled cadre of writers and associates known as the Mad Dogs, and the golf habit that led to his..."

April 25, 2008 Books Feature by Spencer Parsons

Review: Nômadé Is a Tropical Dining Destination
Experience a melting pot of flavors at this Yucatán-inspired oasis
"...Finally entering my travel era, I’ve so far only made the acquaintance of one real jungle – the tropics..."

Feb. 9, 2024 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Mad God
Phil Tippett's stop motion masterpiece of depravity and the divine
"...a dying world. There's a narrative of sorts in Mad God, but it's episodic and disconnected. It's less a..."

July 1, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest: Behold! The Mad God, Phil Tippett
The stop motion legend's most personal and bizarre movie yet
"...art has its pantheon. Willis O'Brien, the man who made King Kong roar; Karel Zeman, who fused stop motion..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

MAD's Greatest Writers: Frank Jacobs
Collecting 50 years of the satire that's made MAD the preferred reading of smarty-pants fifth-graders everywhere
"...MAD's Greatest Writers: Frank JacobsRunning Press, 272 pp., $30 Cheap!..."

June 12, 2015 Arts Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Wrenchies Draws a Mad, Mad World
Dalrymple signs today at Austin Books & Comics
"...- the second they come of age. It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world constructed by New York Times..."

Nov. 10, 2014 Books Post by Jessi Cape

Mad Beat Hip & Gone
Playwright Steven Dietz takes Austin on the road with Kerouac and Cassady – sort of
"...Mad Beat Hip & Gone takes as its inspiration the..."

March 29, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Mad Hot Ballroom
The filmmakers would have us embrace their work as though it were the Spellbound of grade-school dance documentaries, but the film loses its footing.
"...the process and present their discoveries in this documentary, Mad Hot Ballroom. Unfortunately, there is more observation than discovery..."

June 17, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mad World
The year in albums, 2002
"...Donnie's bed, the haunted strains of Tears for Fears' "Mad World" sank in like a casket...."

Jan. 3, 2003 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Greil Marcus and the Mad Parade
In his book Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century, Greil Marcus explained punk to the world and created a bible for that music's true believers. As Austin theatre company Rude Mechanicals opens its stage adaptation of Marcus' book, the author talks about the Stones, the Sex Pistols, and the "mad parade" of history.
"...many college courses, and its discourses on music theory made not just rock & roll but rock criticism a..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Arts Feature by Margaret Moser

Mad Scientist on Wheels
Brian Beattie
"...Brian Beattie appears quite the mad scientist as he scrambles around, behind, and under the..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

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