ACL Live Shot: Cults

New Yorkers transcend their debut hit

"...When Cults played ACL Fest in 2011, they held down a..."

Oct. 13, 2014 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Holy Hell

A cinematic chronicle of the Buddhafield cult and its participants

"...suicide in 1997 and the ensuing media attention on cults, the paranoid Master hit the road and eventually resettled..."

May 27, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Midsommar: The Director's Cut

More time in the Land of the Midnight Sun

"...at press time. Didn't get enough of Swedish religious cults the first time? With the first edit still in..."

Aug. 30, 2019 Movie Review

The Other Lamb

Cult drama revisits, rather than revises, an old narrative

"...The truth is, charismatic cults are hard to explain. The sheer amount of work..."

April 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Chaz Bono Is All About That Cult Life in Reboot Camp

Come and join us!

"...Hell – but as someone self-described as "fascinated with cults," his persistence is understandable, as is his most recent..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Screens Feature by James Scott

Cults

"...CultsZilker Park, Sept. 16..."

Sept. 23, 2011 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Retribution

Liam Neeson does the Liam Neeson thing, this time with exploding cars in Berlin

"...disasters, alien invasions, shark attacks, cancer, insufferable houseguests, satanic cults – the list is endless, and chances are good..."

Aug. 25, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Midsommar Madness

The obsessions of Ari Aster illuminated in his folk horror hit

"...someone else is wailing, much as in ritual ecstatic cults, and they use that to draw Dani in. It's..."

July 12, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Music Rounds Up Last Wave of Talent

Bully, Khalid, Car Seat Headrest, Lizzo, and Billie Eilish join fest

"...as does Big Thief frontman Buck Meek, indie-pop darlings Cults, song scion Justin Townes Earle, and Austin-reared singer/guitarist/A Star..."

March 7, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

DVDanger: One Eyed Girl

Director Nick Matthews explores cult life, Australian-style

"...Cult films (as in films about cults) have seemed a particularly American genre. Most recently, the..."

Dec. 12, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

ACL Music Fest 2014 Sunday Review

"...Cults..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

2014 Austin City Limits Music Festival Line-up

Hip-hop tops the two weekends with ladies close behind

"...on the marquee and plays both weekends. Female-fronted populists Cults, Phantogram, KUTX-anointed “SXSW winners” Lucius, and Lake Street Dive,..."

April 22, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Appeal Filed for Fran Keller: The Oak Hill Daycare 'Ritual Abuse' Fiasco

Appeal cites outdated medical evidence and Brady violation

"...early Nineties were accused of being part of “satanic cults” that abused children placed in daycare. The most notorious..."

Jan. 14, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

SXSW Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Second night SXSW handicapping

"...to cut Americana to the bone. – Doug Freeman Cults..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Blood & Fire

Manu Chao's ACL, ACL aftershow, and everything in-between.

"...Friday, Cults confirmed its buzz, Brandi Carlisle and her drummer left..."

Sept. 22, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Wednesday night SXSW handicapping

"...Guinness required, but it doesn't hurt. – Margaret Moser Cults..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

The Causey Way With Loving and Open Arms (Alternative Tentacles)

SXSW Records

"...if they are a cult? We could use more cults with hymns that go, "You so bad, you so..."

March 17, 2000 Music Review by Kate X Messer

Con Safos

Keith Ferguson's Legacy

"...the world. Collectively and individually, the original T-Birds sired cults and mini-cults, changing the way musicians played, dressed, stood,..."

May 9, 1997 Music Feature by Dan Forte

Playing The Sacrifice Game

Director Jenn Wexler and producer Heather Buckley on seasonal scares

"...whole subtext. This whole idea of evil, roaming Satanic cults that are coming to get you. This is kind..."

Dec. 15, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: Cult Hero

Silly Canadian comedy-horror gets the biggest laughs from its smarts

"...reality TV series where he breaks people out of cults and deprograms them with all the subtlety and psychological..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin's Conspiracy Culture Exposed in The Pizzagate Massacre

John Valley embraces the horror community with his trip into Austin's dirty little secret

"...who team up to investigate a possible confluence of cults and lizard people, into the horror-based Nightmares Film Festival...."

Nov. 19, 2021 Screens Feature by Joe Gross

The Verde Report: Austin FC Struggled on the Field but Thrived off the Field in Memorable First Season

ATXFC’s passionate fans carried them through the good times and the bad

"...one of those good vibes, good people, good deeds cults."..."

Nov. 12, 2021 Sports Column by Eric Goodman

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...the realm bustles with strapping warriors, malevolent sorcerers, strange cults, dangerous women, and elder gods of fragile sanity. Created..."

Nov. 20, 2020 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Austin Film Festival Adds Nine Days and Welcomes the WWE's Brothers of Destruction

New Winston Duke/Zazie Beets movie as opening night film

"...• Chaz Bono explains his fascination with cults in Reboot Camp..."

Oct. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: A Cult of Ignorance

Belligerent idiocy has been trending in America since we started tossing tea in Boston Harbor

"...Texas. Every day they post something about celebrity pedophile cults, or about Bill Gates trying to microchip everyone so..."

Aug. 14, 2020 Column by The Luv Doc

Fallout Theater's The 2020 First Annual Hollywood Awards Show: Live in Hollywood!

A zany yet surprisingly relevant awards show satire dives into the glitzy soullessness of Hollywood

"...– we all know about the drugs, sex, and cults – but maybe that's exactly the point. Maybe within..."

March 13, 2020 Arts Review by Madelyn Geyer

Qmmunity: Fangirling Over Austin’s Queer Film Fest

Plus make marriage with p1nkstar and Y2K, and Erica Nix promises no cults

Aug. 23, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

Photos from Day 5 of SXSW 2019

"...Cults..."

March 13, 2019 Photo Gallery

Going on the Offensive With The Art of Self-Defense

Jesse Eisenberg navigates the hierarchy of martial arts

"...devotion to the rules – another aspect shared with cults. "In Faults," Stearns said, "we talked about levels. Each..."

March 8, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Southwest of Salem Director on Satanic Panic

Deborah S. Esquenazi talks collective madness before her SXSW panel

"...courthouses with a fearful, hysterical groupthink, wherein international satanic cults had infiltrated America...."

March 8, 2018 SXSW Post by Amani Newton

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