The Luv Doc: High Anxiety

Minds seem to be happiest when they're not doing a lot of thinking

"...the mark. That's a good start. Ramping up your anxiety and annoyance is not going to help the situation...."

Oct. 16, 2020 Column by The Luv Doc

Elizalde Bails Out of Austin ISD, and There Was Much Rejoicing (and Great Anxiety)

Short-time superintendent leaves budget, morale crises behind

May 22, 2022 News Post by Morgan O’Hanlon

Fear, Anxiety for Texas Trans Kids Under GOP Attack

Republicans' moral panic leads to real panic for marginalized kids

April 22, 2022 News Feature by Kit O’Connell

Forty Acres of Anxiety: UT Students Return to Campus

Aug. 21, 2020 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

Why The Anxiety Over The Good Guys?

TV Eye weighs in on the chatter over Dallas-shot series

June 19, 2010 Screens Post by Belinda Acosta

Anxiety of Influence

Teenagers Georgia and Wyatt Pierson on their family's filmic mission to Fiji

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Separation Anxiety

Skyboxes: The Gated Communities of Sports

Oct. 4, 1996 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Bad Milo!

In this gross but smart comedy from Jacob Vaughan, a man's stress grows into a monster that explodes from his rectum.

"...Marino effortlessly tackles the "could've-been crappy" role of the anxiety-plagued accountant Duncan, whose (highly relatable) fears and neuroses take..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bigger, Stronger, Faster*

While examining steroid use and abuse, this documentary discovers that enhancement drugs permeate our culture. Who’s to say which ones should be illegal?

"...are everywhere – beta blockers for musicians with performance anxiety, liquid Viagra for porn stars with … well …..."

June 6, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Seeking Stress Relief at Austin’s Center for Music Therapy

What the opposite of anxiety sounds like

"...Young contends that, throughout that time, controlling stress and anxiety has been one of its most globally pervasive functions...."

Oct. 2, 2020 Features Feature by Kevin Curtin

Fatalistic Filmmaking

Alex Karpovsky hits the road to find the comedy behind his anxiety

"...The result, Red Flag, is a comedy about anxiety, loneliness, love, misery, jealousy, death, the search for redemption..."

Sept. 28, 2012 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Council Member Natasha Harper-Madison Taking 60-Day Medical Leave for Depression

District 1 staff will continue to run the office

"...a 60-day medical leave of absence for treatment of anxiety and depression, effective immediately...."

Sept. 25, 2023 News Post by Lina Fisher

Time Trap

Time-bending thriller needed more, well, time

"...such heady subjects are, like, three hours long. An anxiety-ridden contemplation on history and mortality simply needs more time...."

Nov. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Accessing Personal Care While Trans, Nonbinary, or Queer in Austin

New Cute Nail Studio promises a safe space and rock star vibes

"...being misgendered multiple times by a previous stylist, the anxiety of it happening again has been too much of..."

June 3, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Taylor Prewitt

In This Corner of the World

The life of a Japanese girl during wartime

"...Life during wartime may include privations, anxiety, and in this deceptively beautiful and gracefully animated film,..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kidnap

Don't mess with Halle Berry

"...of passing road markings and helicopter views for added anxiety, that leads to massive destruction – yet authorities are..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

Hounds of Love

A deft reimagination of the serial-killer genre

"...fear-freighted vacillation. Smartly shot, edited to generate maximum audience anxiety, and featuring an appropriately doomy score by Dan Luscombe,..."

May 12, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

2017 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live Action

Why not form an opinion instead of guessing what will win?

"...to the times, with stories of resistance, refugees, and anxiety over our ever-advancing technology. “Sing,” Kristof Deák’s Hungarian short..."

Feb. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Cop Car

Two boys go on the lam in Kevin Bacon's cop car

"...to the details of this relatively simple but borderline anxiety attack-inducing story is as real as it gets, as..."

Aug. 7, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Amazing Spider-Man

The Amazing Spider-Meh might be a better name for this dullish retread.

"...decidedly dark tone, which befits our age of self-perpetuating anxiety, but makes the overlong running time a total bummer...."

July 6, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Girl in Progress

The roles of mother and daughter get mixed up in this old story told in a smart way.

"..."I'm a teen named Anxiety," neatly sums up everything you need to know going..."

May 11, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Project X

In the vein of John Hughes, this movie celebrates that innocent time of life when a badass backyard party is the ultimate key to social success.

"...Hughes emo-fueled teen anthems, retooled for the age of anxiety and adulthood in distress...."

March 2, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Buried

Buried takes place entirely inside a coffin where a man is buried alive.

"...Chris Sparling; they milk every single frisson of nail-ripping anxiety from a stunningly simple – yet universally recognized and..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Devil

A group of strangers takes a ride with the devil on an elevator to hell.

"...there's something else in there with them. Fear, mounting anxiety, and a decided lack of Xanax are the rules..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Square

A satchel full of ill-gotten cash looms over the characters like the iconic root of all evil in this fantastic Australian suspenser.

"...displaying the intricacies that implies, mines tremendous levels of anxiety from everyday encounters and an unassuming-yet-eerie suburban-Aussie backdrop. It's..."

April 16, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Knowing

It's up to Nicolas Cage to save the world in this movie about a man who deciphers a cryptic artifact that predicts major disasters, past and future.

"...German techno artists, but damned if it isn’t an anxiety-fueled kick in the teeth that feels just right in..."

March 27, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Panel Recap: Therapy 2.0: Mental Health for Geeks

Dr. Keely Kolmes talks about Information Anxiety

"...with a relatively new category of neurosis – Information Anxiety caused by information overload...."

March 19, 2009 SXSW Post by Rebecca Farr

The Dark Knight

The visuals soar and Heath Ledger's Joker is magnificent, although this Batman movie is grim and chilly, as if made for our age of anxiety.

"...short, it's a Batman for the new age of anxiety. Gotham D.A. Harvey Dent (Eckhart, straying far from Tommy..."

July 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Teeth

Austin-shot horror pic about a girl who discovers that her naughty bits are bitey.

"...sexual freedom and freedom from sex while making castration anxiety and teen-female empowerment fun – or at least weird..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Southland Tales

Six years after Donnie Darko, filmmaker Richard Kelly returns with this incomprehensible, self-indulgent mess of post-apocalyptic anxiety, political paranoia, and pop-culture references.

"...Southland Tales, is an incomprehensible, self-indulgent mess of post-apocalyptic anxiety and political paranoia, a confusion of half-baked social critiques,..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

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