Lit-urday: 'Some Dead Genius'

Lenny Kleinfeld paints a vivid portrait of murder in Chi-town

"...Some Dead Genius..."

July 12, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Ones Who Will Take Your Dead

Director's real life experiences with gang members inspire horror

"...not William, the begrudging protagonist of I'll Take Your Dead...."

June 15, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Everybody Wants Some!!

Time moves on, but Richard Linklater's characters still walk and talk

"...Seventies/early Eighties: Raul’s Club and Voltaire’s Basement), Everybody Wants Some!! presages, in a very Linklater-ensemble-cast way, the dawn of..."

April 1, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Reviving 'The Dead'

Fantastic Fest 2010 zombie horror returns this weekend

"...revenant have risen again! Fantastic Fest 2010 fave The Dead returns for a highly limited run this week, and..."

Oct. 6, 2011 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Back From the Dead

Stephen Romano cheats the grim reaper to launch Eibon Press

"...By all rights Stephen Romano should be among the dead himself, albeit the non-ambulatory, intravenous juice-box sucking sort. His..."

July 15, 2016 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Genius of Love

"...and unhealthy looking. The the 38-year-old songsmith looks like some half-mad, aging Mozart overworked to the point of exhaustion..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Genius and Jive

My roller-coaster relationship with Daniel Johnston

"...greater creative community, that it seems almost generic to some. The rise and fall, the innocence trumped by experience,..."

May 5, 2006 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Dead Rabbits

Townes Van Zandt's Insight

"...by his friend and manager Harold Eggers, who had some business to talk over with me. They'd been sightseeing..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Music Feature by Ed Ward

Playback – Dead Man Walking: Jimmy LaFave

As terminal cancer ticks down Jimmy LaFave’s life, he says the show must go on

"...to compile the creativity of his final stage "in some orderly fashion" that can be rolled out postmortem. For..."

April 21, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Jesus Christ Superhoot, Cannibal Club, July 25, 1989

"...Kris McKay as Mary Magdalene quite simply knocked 'em dead. Also notable was Steve Chaney as the high priest..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Music Review by E.A. Srere

Film Premieres: The Waiting Is the Hardest Part

Sometimes the lines you're doing have nothing to do with cocaine

"...precisely, all those state-of-the-art projectors will bring? Except that some of the works among the dozens and dozens –..."

March 11, 2015 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Powers in Goldmember

"...a goldenrod. (He also likes to peel off his dead skin and suck on it, but that's just gravy.)..."

July 26, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Page Two: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Watching the Tide Roll Away

The Chronicle at 35

"...straight at them, and if they have to reach some that is a good thing."..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Shooting Lessons by Lenny Kleinfeld

Kleinfeld's newest Chicago-based crime thriller takes the safety off

"...resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental?..."

April 5, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Mystery: What’s on Kleinfeld’s List?

10 classic solutions to which crimes are worth reading about

"...Lenny Kleinfeld’s one of our favorite modern crime-fiction authors..."

Nov. 30, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

July Is Crime Month

As summer heats up, the 'Chronicle' runs afoul of the law, in fiction and nonfiction

"...dumped off at the Chronicle offices like so many dead bodies, it seemed an optimum time to indulge our..."

July 4, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

We Remember What the Dormouse Said

Ten authors cut you a little slice of their own personal Wonderlands

"...– as expressed by several of our favorite wordsmiths, some of whom live right here in Austin, and all..."

March 31, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Drink You a Little Coupe of Crime, Oenophile

Some would say that the glass is half full … of blood

"...those compelling pages while sipping at the remains of some Two-Buck Chuck as you relax on your sun-dappled South..."

July 12, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Six-String Samurai

"...Road Warrior/Death Race 2000 post-apocalyptic hero genre is stone-cold dead, and no amount of clammy-lipped CPR from Kevin Costner..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Predator

The Predator needs an editor

"...paper, right? And for a time, The Predator offers some popcorn thrills, grisly deaths, and funny one-liners. But the..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

War Photographer

"...without having to leave the theatre. That Nachtwey's a genius with a pristine and unflinching eye isn't in question,..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tucker & Dale vs. Evil

This is the rare horror comedy that near-perfectly balances its blend of grue, guffaws, and gag reflexes.

"...Referencing everything from Deliverance to The Evil Dead to Fargo and nailing its central conceit dead-on (literally!),..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Final Destination

This new addition to the ongoing film series takes a terrific premise and turns it ho-hum.

"...– sundry teens and bystanders manage to escape a deadly catastrophe (plane crash, car crash, roller-coaster crash) only to..."

Sept. 4, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Pink Panther

In this pointless rehash of the 1964 Blake Edwards film that introduced Inspector Clouseau to the world, Steve Martin inhabits the role of the bumbling French detective without a trace of the comic genius of Peter Sellers.

"...bumbling French detective without a trace of the comic genius of Peter Sellers. He doesn't come close to reimagining..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Callas Forever

While Callas Forever seems sincere in its attempt to pay tribute to the world’s most famous opera singer, it unwittingly disserves her in its bizarre wish-fantasy about resurrecting her voice onscreen.

"...in works such as Norma and Medea, her dramatic/vocal genius was never captured on celluloid, leaving for posterity only..."

March 25, 2005 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Boy Raises Man

Yes, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" often sidesteps grief and even undermines its critics by slyly layering the self-deprecation. Chronicle contributor Stuart Wade explains why, In Eggers' hands, it works.

"...a highly praised memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Simon & Schuster, 480 pp., $23) -- from which..."

March 3, 2000 Books Feature by Stuart Wade

I.Q.

"...her feelings for Ed. Matthau's Einstein is a physical dead ringer for the late genius, but the actor's take..."

Jan. 6, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Meet the Feebles

"...Jackson's second feature (shot before last year's brilliantly horrific Dead Alive) has finally arrived on American soil, and Jim..."

April 8, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Stepping Razor -- Red X

"...blend indeed. Part paranoid, part religious mystic, and part genius entertainer, Tosh's success never quite managed to equal that..."

Feb. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gift

"...(there's the standard “Any similarity to persons living or dead...” disclaimer at the end of the film, so who's..."

Feb. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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