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TWITTER: @YorkshireTX
The Chronicle's token Englishman, and a graduate of the universities of York, Stirling, and Texas, Richard's multitude of beats include education, the legislature, and film news. He has also been covering roller derby since 2007, the longest run for any mainstream journalist.
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Borg vs McEnroe
Tennis' greatest feud re-evaluated as an inner battle.
Film Review, Apr. 12, 2018
Rampage
The Rock! The ape! The lizard! The ... flying wolf?
Film Review, Apr. 12, 2018
You Were Never Really Here
Joaquin Phoenix and Lynne Ramsay renew the revenger's tragedy.
Film Review, Apr. 12, 2018
Giddyup to the Home Movie Round-Up
Texas Archive of the Moving Image needs your old tapes
Screens Feature, Apr. 12, 2018
Rooster Teeth Tells All!
Teaser for Austin web geniuses' doc Why We’re Here
Screens Daily, Apr. 7, 2018 12:01 AM
John Krasinski and Emily Blunt on Their New Horror A Quiet Place
The filmmaking power couple on fighting monsters and real intimacy
Screens Daily, Apr. 6, 2018 12:01 AM
AFF On Story Takes The Shape of Water
Season begins with co-writer of Oscar-winning fairy tale
Screens Daily, Apr. 5, 2018 11:45 AM
A Quiet Place
As monsters lurk, the world survives with a whisper
Film Review, Apr. 5, 2018
Beirut
John Hamm sweats stylishly in gritty, grim spy thriller.
Film Review, Apr. 5, 2018
Blockers
Butt-chugging gags can't hide Blockers' big heart.
Film Review, Apr. 5, 2018
Austin Writer Explores the Contradictions of Ted Kennedy in Chappaquiddick
Telling the tale of the shattering of Camelot
Screens Feature, Apr. 5, 2018
AFS Grant Emphasizes Diversity
Society offering $130,000 for emerging filmmakers
Screens Daily, Apr. 3, 2018 2:30 PM
Felicity Comes to ATX Television
TV fest reunites cast of beloved show, plus Mayans, more
Screens Daily, Apr. 3, 2018 2:00 PM
DVDanger: Pyewacket
Classical witchcraft drama gets a bleak, contemporary twist
Screens Daily, Apr. 3, 2018 8:00 AM
Sherlock Gnomes
Gnomeo and Juliet sequel heads to London. For reasons.
Film Review, Mar. 29, 2018
Ready Player One
Video gaming and Eighties culture get the Spielberg treatment
Film Review, Mar. 29, 2018
The Terrifying Laughter of Parenthood
Award-winning comedy Maybe Shower comes home
Screens Feature, Mar. 29, 2018
Graveside at The Death of Stalin
Armando Iannucci on monsters and accents
Screens Daily, Mar. 23, 2018 7:00 AM
Isle of Dogs
Wes Anderson's stop motion wonder is a tail-wagger
Film Review, Mar. 22, 2018
New PBS Documentary Uses Austin Photographer to Explore Death
What we (don’t) talk about when we (don’t) talk about death
Screens Feature, Mar. 22, 2018
From the ATX to Chi-Town
Kyle Henry explores Chicago in Rogers Park
Screens Feature, Mar. 22, 2018
SXSW Film Review: Upgrade
Cyberpunk action thriller has a few hidden features
Screens Daily, Mar. 19, 2018 9:54 PM
SXSW Film Review: American Animals
A docudrama as audacious as the heist it re-creates
SXSW Daily, Mar. 19, 2018 2:00 PM
SXSW Announces Audience Awards
First Match, All Square lead narratives
Screens Daily, Mar. 17, 2018 2:30 PM
SXSW Film Review: Chef Flynn
A slice of life in the kitchen of a culinary enfant terrible
Screens Daily, Mar. 15, 2018 1:07 PM
SXSW Film Review: Nossa Chape
Football's tragedy becomes a tale of imperfect healing
Screens Daily, Mar. 14, 2018 10:15 PM
SXSW Panel Recap: The Bleeding Edge: A New Generation of Horror
Is horror more diverse than the rest of cinema? Maybe.
SXSW Daily, Mar. 14, 2018 4:46 PM
SXSW Film Review: Time Trial
Redemption denied in this lyrical tale from the cycling seat
SXSW Daily, Mar. 14, 2018 8:00 AM
SXSW Film Awards Announced
Grand jury and special awards given out tonight
Screens Daily, Mar. 13, 2018 10:00 PM
SXSW Film Recap: The Director and the Jedi Q&A
Mark Hamill and Rian Johnson on their different Skywalkers
Screens Daily, Mar. 12, 2018 5:30 PM
Nurture vs. Bloody Nature
The costs of being yourself in Wildling at SXSW
SXSW Daily, Mar. 12, 2018 4:00 PM
SXSW Adds Ready Player One
New Spielberg movie takes the Sunday night prestige slot
Screens Daily, Mar. 10, 2018 2:30 PM
Meet The Unicorn Boyz
The writers of the SXSW sex comedy The Unicorn
Screens Daily, Mar. 10, 2018 9:00 AM
The Cured
The zombie apocalypse is over. So now what?
Film Review, Mar. 8, 2018
Thoroughbreds
America's class system goes under a bloody scalpel.
Film Review, Mar. 8, 2018
Jay Duplass Stars in Outside In at SXSW Film
Homegrown filmmaker on mumblecore, friends, and his first South By break
Screens Feature, Mar. 8, 2018
A Fresh Look at Gentrification in SXSW Feature Blindspotting
Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal on their comedy-tinged drama about modern America
Screens Feature, Mar. 8, 2018
Britain's Outsider Art Icon Frank Sidebottom Unmasked at SXSW
Where the man ends and the mask begins in Being Frank
Screens Feature, Mar. 8, 2018
Telling Some Very British Ghost Stories at SXSW Film
Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman on the evil seed that would become their midnighter
Screens Feature, Mar. 8, 2018
Robert Rodriguez Goes Back to His Roots for New Reality Series
The rebel without a crew becomes a rebel with a cable show
