7 Chinese Brothers

Jason Schwartzman stars in this comedy from droll Austin auteur Bob Byington

"...even though Austin slackers have become a familiar character subset in modern independent films, Byington and Schwartzman have created..."

Sept. 4, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

American Ultra

This stoner action rom-com stars Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart

"...slice of stoner action rom-com (surely the nichiest geek subset yet explored). Halfway through, though, the film’s twinned tones..."

Aug. 21, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

You're Next

What begins on a familiar slasher/home-invasion note quickly escalates into a hellishly suspenseful, take-zero-prisoners affair.

"...In the end, however, Wingard’s film is its own subset of fractious family crazy...."

Aug. 23, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Flyboys

This story of the Lafayette Escadrille squadron, who become the first U.S. fighter pilots, is surprisingly inert.

"...to chronicle the heroics of the Lafayette Escadrille, a subset of the French Air Service in World War I..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

7 & 7 Is

"...up in than anything else. Speaking of good pop, Subset, another local trio, know it when they hear it,..."

March 5, 1999 Music Feature

Subset

"...SubsetDueling Devotions (Tight Spot) There's something inherently pretty about pain...."

Oct. 10, 2003 Music Review by Matt Dentler

Subset Overpass (Post-Parlo)

Texas Platters

"...SubsetOverpass (Post-Parlo) In today's culture of contrition-as-entertainment, it's a challenge..."

June 30, 2000 Music Review by Greg Beets

The Hightower Report

Agribusiness, Mutant Germs, and Us; and A GOP Leader's Economic Plan

"...risk of creating an entire class of people, a subset of people, just comfortable getting by living off the..."

Feb. 12, 2010 News Column by Jim Hightower

They Got the Beat

Living the pop life in Austin

"...Subset: The cherry...."

May 4, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Invader

Chicago-set horror from the director of Offseason.

"...delves into mumblecore – or, more specifically, its horror-tinged subset, mumblegore...."

March 15, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Destroy All Neighbors

Prog rock splatterpunk comedy revival is all bum notes

"...all feels like an in-joke, appealing to some weird subset in the Venn diagram of “people who find bassists..."

Jan. 12, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Sword Art Online: Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night

New adaptation of the MMORPG anime

"...game, in case you were in the very small subset in the intersection between "doesn't know what that means"..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Fire Music

It’s definitely not trad, dad, in this history of free jazz

"...the limitation of Surgal’s thesis. Free jazz is a subset of jazz, yes, but it’s also part of the..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Paper Tigers

Adorable new look at the oldest martial art story

"...of All Martial Arts Movies Ever," and a solid subset of them are comedies. But innovation is not what's..."

May 7, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Centigrade

Snowbound horror is a situation tragedy

"...claustrophobia. Within that strand, there is the very unique subset of vehicular sealed bottles, which always seem like having..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Don't Let Go

Sci-fi crime drama gives a cop a chance at redemption

"...joins The Lake House and Frequency in that small subset, where a MacGuffin that acts as a tin-can phone..."

Aug. 30, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Heavy Trip

Scandinavian black metal comedy plays a familiar tune well

"...right place, and never mocks the much maligned musical subset...."

Oct. 5, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The LEGO Ninjago Movie

The LEGO law of diminishing returns

"...Ninjago reeks of the dreaded marketing ploy, wherein a subset of LEGO’s omnivorous, pop-cultural universe is shunted out into..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Terri

The keen observational style of this indie drama elevates it above the more commonplace films about high school misfits.

"...rather than being unique, he forms part of a subset of school misfits that the assistant principal regularly counsels...."

July 22, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ladies Are Funny Festival: Are ladies ... funny? Girls Girls Girls insist, 'Yes, yes, yes.'

The second round of the comedy fest spotlighting women adds sketch, stand-up, and more

"...in delight? That's a question that falls into the subset called "rhetorical." Girls Girls Girls fall into the subset..."

April 25, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Good to Go

Taco Bell is for suckers. This town's taquerias are for SXSWers.

"...Mexican meat shop. Chicharrones, lard-fried pork-skin crisps, are a subset of fritanga (great with refried beans, by the way!)...."

March 10, 2006 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Sheiks of Industry

Austin record labels, part 2

"...pogos to the jingle-jangle guitars of Fivehead, Bedbug, and Subset, local bands that rock with way too much sincerity..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

TCB

Takin' it to the streets with the Dixie Chicks, Real Heroes, Ash, and Onion Creek Crawdaddies

"...Avril Lavigne, in September on Koch Records. Fivehead and Subset also have new albums in the can, neither of..."

May 30, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...SUBSET: This Austin-based pop trio wins both hearts and minds..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

"...SUBSET: Subset is regret tempered with the sugar rush of..."

March 9, 2001 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

House of Blues breaks ground at Southpark Meadows where the old stage will be replaced, but not before Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic.

"...split CD series, along with the new records by Subset, Eskimo Kisses, the Olive Group, and Ann Arbor Canasta..."

June 9, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

A recap of favorite SXSW venues that no longer exist, a few festival hot tips, some non-festival tips, a celebrity-sightings checklist.

"...at 10th and Guadalupe with Monroe Mustang, Viper Horse, Subset, and others performing. Subset, by the way, were recently..."

March 17, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Music of the Spheres

Sinatra in the Sahara

"...of sacred music, as well as the "world music" subset from which it is drawn: the belief that music..."

July 9, 1999 Music Feature by David Lynch

Gonin

"...the genre of the old yakuza films, a gangster subset that first came of age in the mid-to-late Sixties...."

April 24, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin's Juvenile Court Resists Publicly Addressing Criticisms of Racial Bias

A quiet court

"...in the county sit on that board; a smaller subset makes hiring recommendations to it. Judge Aurora Martinez Jones..."

July 14, 2023 News Feature by Maggie Q. Thompson

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