Daily Screens - The Austin Chronicle

Every month, the Chronicle’s film critics select a theme and offer movie recommendations. It's Halloween season, so we decided to spotlight our favorite depictions of the Father of Lies himself, Satan.

2:25PM Fri. Oct. 30, 2015, Chronicle Film Staff Read More | Comment »

13 Reasons to Love Wizard World

If it's Halloween in Austin, it must be Wizard World, the travelling circus of comics, pop culture, and fandom. But aside from the wallet-emptying trade show floor, and the dozens of artists all taking commissions, there's some weird and wonderful programming to enjoy. Here's 13 of the most deranged, charming, and suitably seasonally spooky.

11:40AM Fri. Oct. 30, 2015, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

SXSW Cancels Panels, Cites Safety Threats

Events get canceled at SXSW every year. Bands drop out, films have technical issues, panelists and moderators oversleep. However, the festival has announced that two panels scheduled for SXSW Interactive 2016 have been canceled over security concerns.

12:35PM Tue. Oct. 27, 2015, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Monster Jam

Moody Center

Freedom + Juneteenth: A Night of Jubilation at Pease Park

Kids Block Party
at Central Library

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

DVDanger: Edgar Allan Poe's Black Cats

Few authors have been so influential on horror as Edgar Allan Poe. And yet few writers have had their works more liberally adapted, translated, and mangled than the father of East Coast Gothic.

10:00AM Tue. Oct. 27, 2015, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

VIDEO: Decker Fright Night

Just before the weekend’s frightful weather pulled in, students at Decker Middle School celebrated their 6th annual Fright Night, a combination costume, dance, and haunted house party.

12:35PM Mon. Oct. 26, 2015, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

Return to the Forbidden Zone

Whatever happened to the midnight movie? You know what I’m talking about, those super cool, super weird, sometimes rowdy, often socially or culturally or stylistically transgressive flicks that used to pack theatres to the rafters come every Friday and Saturday witching hour? It seems they’re not all that present in the present anymore.

1:20PM Sat. Oct. 24, 2015, Marc Savlov Read More | Comment »

DVDanger: Of Manos and Mosquito

It is a truth universally accepted that The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was the Lone Star State's first successful independent movie. However, it wasn't its first memorable independent movie. For good or ill, that title goes to Manos: The Hands of Fate, which gets a home release after an oddly long-awaited digital restoration.

10:00AM Sat. Oct. 24, 2015, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

SXSWedu Announces 2016 Speakers

Wondering whether your panel has been picked for SXSWedu? Wait no longer. The education-centric segment of the SXSW family has announced its first round of panels and speakers for 2016.

11:00AM Fri. Oct. 23, 2015, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Richard Jenkins Wields a Bone Tomahawk

Western heroes need a sidekick. Every Rowdy Yates has a Wishbone, every Hopalong Cassidy a Windy Halliday, every Sheriff Chance his Stumpy. In revisionist Western Bone Tomahawk, it's clear Sheriff Franklin Hunt (Kurt Russell) would be half the man he is without his back-up deputy Chicory (Richard Jenkins).

9:00AM Fri. Oct. 23, 2015, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

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