Thanks!

"...spreading spurious allegations and innuendos about one of Austin's cherished cultural institutions, KLRU-TV. First of all, Bill Arhos will..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Column

SXSW Film Review: Descendent

Alien abduction drama probes trauma, parenthood

"...by a white light, and finds himself in an alien ship, bound to a surgical table by webbed, mucous-y..."

March 12, 2025 SXSW Post by Alejandra Martinez

Let Me Paint You a Picture

Movies were made to be shared

"...when the management decided they would not be screening Aliens, I was gutted. Alien had been a near-mythical movie..."

May 20, 2011 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

My Child, My Child, My Alien Child

My Child, My Child, My Alien Child reveals poet-performer Zell Miller III in Richard Pryor mode, spinning tales of fatherhood in richly comic, broadly accessible style

"...My Child, My Child, My Alien Child..."

April 6, 2007 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Skinnerview

Actor Mitch Pileggi Opens Up The X-Files

"...way-out-there subject matter -- including but not limited to alien abductions, shadowy government hit squads, human-alien hybridization experiments by..."

Nov. 17, 1995 Screens Feature

Squirrels, Girls, and Other Pearls in This Weekend’s Recommended Events

Acro-Cats, Earth Day, and all manner of arts and culture happenings

"...a sad laptop screen at home.   – Lina Fisher Tiniest Dog Party in Texas: Spring Fling..."

April 11, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

To Infinity and V/H/S/Beyond

Anthology horror filmmakers talk taking the franchise into space

"...series (not counting feature spinoffs SiREN and Kids vs. Aliens), V/H/S/Beyond takes the series into strange new territories by..."

Oct. 2, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Catches Taika Waititi's JoJo Rabbit

Thor: Ragnarok director's film to open 2019 celebration of the strange

"...can hear you scream with Memory: The Origin of Alien. There's a different dark creativity in play with Nail..."

July 30, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Safety Net

Chillin' with a trio of Austin's hippest emergency-services personnel

"...progress uneventfully through the opening set by nü-metal newcomers Alien Ant Farm, the California group whose cover of Michael..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

The Animated Truth

"...the craft is reminiscent of Sigourney Weaver's Ripley in Aliens. But instead of being slothfully derivative, Groening has taken..."

April 2, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

SXSW 2025 Heads to The Studio With Seth Rogen

New films from Ben Affleck, Nicole Kidman, Nic Cage added to fest

"...of the return of his estranged brother, Brax (The Punisher's Jon Bernthal)...."

Jan. 22, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Memoir of a Snail

Australian stop-motion drama will draw you out of your shell

"...of a Snail, may not have an a actual shell, she has retracted into her life like her favorite..."

Nov. 1, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Wild Robot

Beautiful children's book adaptation is all heart

"...Or rather, that's what it comes to mean. When she first crashes from the skies onto this arboreal paradise..."

Sept. 27, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Petite Maman

Magical French tale is a strange tribute to Totoro

"...press rounds for Portrait of a Lady on Fire, she mentioned that a shot of the women in the..."

May 6, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...Capella Fahoome When a recently widowed mother becomes houseless, she convinces her 8-year-old daughter that they are only camping..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...gonzo king, Hunter S. Thompson, and his run for sheriff of Aspen, Col. in 1970. MIDNIGHTERS..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Do-It-Yourself Girl Revolution

For the last two years Miranda July's work in fanzines, performance art, music, and movies have allowed her to support herself off her art. "No day job" - how many performance artists can say that?

"...and multimedia performance. Barely into her mid-20s, July is well-established as a darling of the performance art scene, the..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Screens Feature by Ada Calhoun

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...Margie realizes, with no small amount of pain, that she can't leave her mother and once-abusive father to their..."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...a detective investigating the seemingly unrelated murders, but if she isn't careful, those tics and mannerisms may soon become..."

Nov. 3, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...a detective investigating the seemingly unrelated murders, but if she isn't careful, those tics and mannerisms may soon become..."

Oct. 27, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...in last year's The Last Seduction, is wasted here; she's all breathy beauty and nothing else. Friedkin, to his..."

Oct. 20, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...to match her up with a good Chinese husband. She appeases her parents by going out with the dates..."

Oct. 13, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...the meanderings of the Count's daughter, Nadja (Lowensohn), as she tries to cope with both the recent death of..."

Sept. 29, 1995 News Feature

Invader

Chicago-set horror from the director of Offseason.

"...writer/director, is his most minimalist work since his 2015 alien invasion chiller Pod. Since that breakthrough, he's played around..."

March 15, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Jumbo

True love this wild and weird romance between a woman and her fairground ride

"...has finally found someone that appreciates her for who she is. Jumbo is kind, considerate, pays attention to her,..."

Feb. 19, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

News of the World

Tom Hanks evokes one of his most celebrated roles in this tragic Western

"...towns and cities in post-Civil War Texas, it seems alien. At the same time, he has the gravitas of..."

Dec. 25, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Swallow

Pregnancy horror reclaimed as a woman’s issue

"...of control over her spiraling sense of reality after she discovers she is pregnant...."

March 13, 2020 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

"...is best known as Richard Linklater's longtime editor, but she finally makes her directorial debut with Austin-set documentary The..."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Announces Midnighters and Shorts

Henry Rollins, Jeremy Sisto join horror lineup

"...closer together. Cast: Bethany Orr, Mary Loveless, Wes McGee, Sheresade Poblet, Jill Jacobson, Dana L. Wilson, Kristin Minter, Robert..."

Feb. 10, 2015 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Rating the VH1 Divas

This year’s crop prepare to lipsync for their lives

"...Perhaps that is why this year’s installment of VH1..."

Dec. 14, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

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