Wild Nights With Emily

Molly Shannon breaks the myth of the staid Emily Dickinson with this vibrant biopic

"...Since her work was published posthumously after her death in 1886, the perceived persona..."

April 19, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

You Oughta See the Pictures

Hollywood forever: New film books reviewed

"...Halston dresses and exotically named models, some of whom she'd later discover were balling her then-boyfriend, Jack Nicholson. Huston..."

Nov. 21, 2014 Screens Feature

Full-Gore Press

Mind the viscera: Austin's horror filmmaking scene is exploding

"...as the year the Austin horror filmmaking community definitively established itself as a vital hub for gore? Consider the..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Austin City Limits Festival Picks & Sleepers

"...Bond may be a relative newcomer, but the way she belts the blues and purrs Western swing suggests a..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Music Feature

The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat)

This is a wonderfully universal narrative based on oral tradition about the introduction of evil into a peaceful Inuit community.

"...of Barton Springs. For this is a movie that refreshes the mind and spirit along with the body, so..."

July 26, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postmarks

Losing Our Lunch

"...night's lodging in downtown Austin, the Alamo Hotel, was demolished in 1984, people with thin wallets have had to..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Column

Permanent Midnight

Jerry Stahl's junkie confession is the author's fictionalized account of how to maintain a successful Hollywood career as well as a $6,000-a-week heroin habit.

"...up with his high-paying TV job, writing for an alien puppet show called Mr. Chompers (Stahl wrote for ALF)...."

Sept. 25, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Governess

"...Sleepers, Grosse Pointe Blank, and Good Will Hunting. Here she returns to Britain to play the title role of..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Nacho Vigalondo on Colossal

Combining the mediocre and cosmic with the creature feature director

"...wastrels that hang out in his bar. That's when she discovers that she's mystically connected to a giant monster..."

April 14, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'Halloween'/'Prince of Darkness'/'Eyes Without a Face'

Three throwback horrors for your Halloween pleasure

"...town," as shrink/soothsayer Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) warns the sheriff...."

Oct. 29, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Thursday SXSW can't escape the blurbs!

"...fairy music. Through her liberal deployment of loop functions, she churns out ethereal, spun-sugar hauntings that tap into a..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

Everything Must Go

Tower's last hours

"...the floor before reaching checkout. CDs fly off the shelves...."

June 25, 2004 Music Feature by Matt Dentler

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...Chicago's Shappy. Texas is represented by Dallas poet Tara Sheth, the Ordained in Lyrics ensemble, and the 2000 San..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Follies, Samurai, and a Few Non-Alcoholic Events for the Weekend

Got a resolution to get out more? No problem.

"...place for societal change (Watch Out for Flying Kids!), she’s shown teen and tween readers the joys, complexities, and..."

Jan. 10, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

SXSW Film Review: We're All Gonna Die

Sci-fi romance balances humor and grieving

"...by Southwest world premiere We’re All Gonna Die, an alien spike resembling an iridescent pillar touches down near the..."

March 11, 2024 Screens Post by Dex Wesley Parra

Retribution

Liam Neeson does the Liam Neeson thing, this time with exploding cars in Berlin

"...family through a series of cataclysmic events. Natural disasters, alien invasions, shark attacks, cancer, insufferable houseguests, satanic cults –..."

Aug. 25, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Nope

Jordan Peele's sci-fi horror/satire on minor celebrity is a "yeah"

"...selfish sister, Emerald (Palmer), wants to be famous but she's not sure why or how. Next door, former kid..."

July 22, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Offseason

Coastal cosmic horror in the eerie latest from Mickey Keating

"...On the other side of a scream, she adds, “What’s that? Just an old friend.” Old indeed...."

March 11, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Tragedy of Macbeth

Joel Coen's stark and silvery take on the Bard's revenger

"...and shadows of Giorgio de Chirico. Spilled from this alien land comes a trio of witches (a thrice welcome..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Father

Anthony Hopkins gives a timely career highlight in this story of dementia

"...so he tells his oldest daughter Anne (Colman) when she comes to discuss placing him in a residential facility...."

March 12, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Archenemy

Revisionist Superman riff brings new meaning to street-level superheroics

"...Scandinavian roots. Now Archenemy revisits the idea of the alien fallen to Earth to become our savior...."

Dec. 11, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Infiltrators

Reckless, heroic, or both? Immigration center story told through reconstruction and fly-on-the-wall footage

"...Illegal. Undocumented. Deportable. Inadmissible alien. “They’re all just other words for ‘afraid,’” explains immigration..."

April 3, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Other Worlds SF Festival Is in The Honeymoon Phase

Project Greenlight title will be closing night film

"...keep coming with a new New Zealand sci-fi comedy Alien Addiction. Festival founder Bears Rebecca Fonté said that, in..."

Oct. 17, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

ATX Fest Recap: How Archer Made it Into Space

Getting galactic with FXX's animated comedy at ATX TV Fest

"...a parrot, and now a spoof on Ash from Alien. That's one of dozens of references that Thompson says..."

June 8, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Dark Phoenix

The X-Men finally leave the silver screen with a story they already told

"...James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan and Jessica Chastain...."

June 7, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Transformers: The Last Knight

Stick meet dead horse

"...at the preview screening seemed to realize this when she soiled her britches 15 minutes in...."

June 23, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

10 Cloverfield Lane

Unrelated Cloverfield follow-up is a dandy suspenser

"...on a dark and lonely stretch of two-lane blacktop. She awakens in a drab cinder-block cell, chained to the..."

March 18, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Up

Can Joss Whedon break loose in ABC's Marvel series?

"...terrorists in the guise of human drone warfare, and alien contagions whose killer symptom is high-voltage energy discharging through..."

Nov. 12, 2013 Screens Post by Aleksander Chan

Reefer Madness

As questions about possible political improprieties dog White House Office of the National Drug Control Policy, agency head John Walters hits Austin in search of good PR

"...at the Austin Recovery treatment facility (before he was ushered into a waiting minimotorcade by his very own suited..."

July 27, 2007 News Column by Jordan Smith

The Iron Man

Longtime local stage phenom Ken Webster has a record to rival that of a Baseball Hall of Famer

"...for Zell Miller III (My Child, My Child, My Alien Child), he opens his second one this week and..."

April 13, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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