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Citizens' calendar, Aug. 5-12

Why are the critics giving Salt a pass?

God loses faith in humanity and sends a legion of angels to start the apocalypse.

From the writer and director of Saw 4-6 comes this horror film about a handyman who tries to rob his employers' home but finds it rigged with a lethal maze.

This unusual U.S.-Mexico border film is a thriller starring Simon Baker and Paz Vega, and it's screening in Austin prior to its national release.

Food Blogger happy hour at parkside

Transcript of Austin senator's remarks

This horror film is a full-on, old-school, gore-hound heaven – a supersaturated arterial goregasm with zero socially redeeming values for anyone other than first-year med students.

Sophisticated wine flights and tapas foster post-convention lingering on Second Street

The weird, ever-evolving world of ARGs

At Salvage Vanguard Theater Gallery, artists Debra Broz and Adde Russell both try to say something important, but it's difficult to make out what

Barton Springs Pool, Saturday, July 7, 2007

Pardon the pun, but audiences will reap little from this satanic backwoods juju thriller.

Grindhouse, which was filmed in Austin, raises the bar for movie showmanship and the theatregoing experience.

Sandra Bullock again turns toward the supernatural in this thriller in which she plays a housewife who's uncertain whether her husband is alive or dead.

A person could have a reasonably good time with this confusing, Tarantinoid actioner starring Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Jeremy Piven, and Alicia Keys, but there’s not actually much tension in the movie.

Charles Bukowski's Henry Chinaski is back, played by Matt Dillon in a low-key, gorgeously beery performance; it's 100-proof Bukowski, but with a decent barkeep at the helm and Lili Taylor's Jan on his arm. Factotum, for all its grim grind, is funny-serious and smart-stupid.

This kids movie, which was filmed in Austin, is not as wormy as it sounds.

A preview

This Aussie coming-of-age film features a mesmerizing performance by stateside newcomer Abbie Cornish as the 16-year-old lead.

'Sin City' set for small screen? Plus: Amber Heard, 'Cavite,' and an Austin finalist for the Nicholl Fellowship.

Spielberg and the gang at Industrial Light & Magic have knocked the ball not only out of the park but out of Earth orbit as well.

That droning sound you hear is White Noise.

Love’s fractured fairy tale, writ small and petty and almost too real to bear without flinching.

The big hole we need libraries to fill

On one level, Annie Weisman's Be Aggressive skewers SoCal culture, from Spanish stucco to smoothie shops, but at its heart this tale of a cheerleader whose mother has just died shows us with humor and affection how to deal with the unexpected holes in our lives.