Watchmen

Although this hotly anticipated film has ideas galore, it remains bizarrely cold and uninvolving.

"...superheroine Silk Spectre II (Akerman) toward the end of Watchmen, just after a huge chunk of New York City..."

March 6, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Watchmen on the Walls of Freedom

UT composer Dan Welcher commemorates JFK: The Voice of Peace 40 years after the President's scheduled visit to Austin.

"...are -- by destiny rather than choice -- the watchmen on the walls of freedom. We ask, therefore, that..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Music Feature by Robert Faires

Watching the Watchmen

A crash course in privacy, in case you've been (not unreasonably) living under a rock

Feb. 28, 2014 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

The Watchmen

Three documentaries shine a light on playing to the audience

March 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Who Misquotes the Watchmen?

Non-partisan fact-checking group slams McCain campaign for misusing their research

Sept. 13, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Who Watches The Watchmen (at 8pm Eastern, 7 Central)?

MSNBC corrects misreporting of Murtha statement, then repeats misreporting.

Dec. 3, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Much Ado About Nothing

With Shakespearean language tripping off their contemporary tongues, the actors are more than game for Joss Whedon's informal, black-and-white take on this classic comedy.

"...life in the last act, when the estate’s night watchmen – looking like second-string Secret Service agents and behaving..."

June 21, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Man of Steel

This new Superman flies without a lot of emotional baggage, which is mostly a good thing though the character could stand a bit more dramatic heft.

"...who’s eyed the credits: Director Zack Snyder (Sucker Punch, Watchmen, 300) and producer/story co-conceiver and DC Comics movie stablemate..."

June 14, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

The director of Watchman and 300 makes his first 3-D animated movie about a young owl caught between warring factions.

"...director of action films with such streamlined titles as Watchmen and 300, assembles top British and Australian actors for..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Losers

In this action movie, a U.S. Special Forces unit on a mission in the jungles of Bolivia becomes the target for assassination and must figure out who is double-crossing them.

"...minus the ethically sketchy tone) than even Kick-Ass. Morgan (Watchmen's The Comedian) is Colonel Clay, the hulking leader of..."

April 30, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Comics

A sumptuous and splendid telling of how the greatest graphic novel in the world came to be

"...Watching the Watchmen..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Five Pet Cats in Modern Fiction

And you won’t believe what happens to the third one

"...in Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons’ seminal graphic novel Watchmen, the window that you’re helping dress provides such a..."

Feb. 15, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Big Show

Comic-Con has gone Hollywood, but Austin's comics pros say it's still the place to be

"...comics readers as a result. To paraphrase Rorschach in Watchmen, we're not set up in there with them; they're..."

Aug. 15, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

American Fiction

Cord Jefferson's literary comedy lets the Black middle class shine

"...and filmmaker Cord Jefferson (the Emmy-winning writer of HBO's Watchmen) has created quite a narrative cocktail...."

Dec. 15, 2023 Movie Review by Rod Machen

Medusa

Brazilian religious/political allegory loses its venomous bite

"...sensual intensity. The celebration is cut short by the Watchmen, a group of toxic men that “protects” the town..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

The Hunt

Scathing action-satire is more than Elites versus Deplorables

"...Lindelof, fresh off their highwire balancing act on HBO's Watchmen reinvention, is lean and ingenious, laden with simple digs..."

March 13, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Now Speaking at SXSW: Ozzy Osbourne, Trent Reznor, Janelle Monae

Plus: St. Vincent, Carrie Brownstein, Judd Apatow, Desus & Mero

"...produced stellar original soundtracks for Waves and HBO’s The Watchmen. That series’ director Damon Lindelof, co-creator of Lost, will..."

Feb. 11, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Film Gets Latest Apatow, Snowpiercer Premiere

Huge lineup includes new docs on St. Vincent, Ozzy, Zappa

"...some Alan Moore? The man that shook comicdom with Watchmen is back with his new film The Show. Stop..."

Jan. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sucker Punch

In this visually compelling but narratively bankrupt action fantasy, an institutionalized young girl finds escape through her vivid imagination.

"...Legend of Zelda. It's weirdly appropriate, then, that Snyder (Watchmen, 300) films these endless kung-fu-acrobatic battle scenes like a..."

April 1, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Was It Good for You?

The year in books

"...travesty of celluloid adaptation visited upon Alan Moore's acclaimed Watchmen, the milieu of Charles Dickens brought vividly to local..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

A Decade Under the Influence

The 'Chronicle' movie critics take a look back at what the Aughts wrought

"...à la The Dark Knight, V for Vendetta, and Watchmen. (Apparently this is Alan Moore's decade, whether he likes..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Notes From a Few Minutes With 'Over the Hedge' Creator Michael Fry

Austinite sees his comic strip hit the big screen

"...Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore's Watchmen – called Hollywood's attention to the funny-book industry, those..."

May 19, 2006 Screens Feature by Ken Lieck

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...reconstructing their comic's universe, Moore quietly came out with Watchmen. Watchmen, in conjunction with Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark..."

March 24, 2006 Column

Comic Creator Confusion No. 1

"...reconstructing their comic's universe, Moore quietly came out with Watchmen. Watchmen, in conjunction with Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark..."

March 21, 2006 Postmarks

V for Vendetta

This is a thinking person’s action film – a futuristic slice of pop-culture agitprop, replete with a costumed antihero, lovingly choreographed action sequences, cunningly ornate dialogue, and a terrific, rousing score.

"...and adapted from the graphic novel by Alan Moore (Watchmen, who, in a fit of pique too complicated to..."

March 17, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

"...comic book could be, from a literary standpoint, with Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and, most famously, From Hell. Norrington,..."

July 11, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

American Fiction, American Reality

Cord Jefferson is putting the Black middle class back on the screen

"...from there to gigs on Succession, Station Eleven, and Watchmen, for which he won an Emmy...."

Dec. 15, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

We Have an Issue: Politics as Performance, Political Activism as Performance Art

In this week's issue: postmortem on the Ken Paxton impeachment trial, a profile of drag powerhouse Brigitte Bandit, and finalists revealed in the Best of Austin: Restaurants Readers Poll (get voting, y'all!)

"...Honor Damon Lindelof: The TV super-scribe (Lost, The Leftovers, Watchmen) will receive the Outstanding Television Writer Award at AFF's..."

Sept. 22, 2023 Column by Kimberley Jones

Austin Film Festival to Celebrate Lost's Damon Lindelof With Outstanding TV Writer Award

Fall fest also adds All of Us Strangers, The Holdovers

"...and lows for super-scribe Damon Lindelof (Lost, The Leftovers, Watchmen)...."

Sept. 14, 2023 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Emerald Fennell's Saltburn to Open Austin Film Festival

Promising Young Woman followup leads first title drop

"...making his directorial debut is The Good Place and Watchmen writer Cord Jefferson with his new satire, American Fiction...."

Sept. 1, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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