A Crime, Not Terrorism

"...in the frustration of seeing so many lives – American and otherwise – ruined by our imperialist aggression. No..."

Nov. 22, 2009 Postmarks

SXSW Film Review: American Animals

A docudrama as audacious as the heist it re-creates

"...genre-bending documentaries like SXSW 2012's deceptive The Imposter. In American Animals, he experiments again with the hybridization of documentary,..."

March 19, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Back to the Scene of the Crime With Heat 2

Austin author Meg Gardiner and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Michael Mann team up for a literary sequel to the classic heist flick

"...the literary sequel to the director's increasingly deified epic crime movie, Heat. The 1995 original was a flick Mann..."

Aug. 5, 2022 Arts Feature by Joe Gross

Five Films Not to Miss at the Austin Asian American Film Festival

A long weekend of movies defined by global possibilities

"...cinema isn't one cinema, and the returning Austin Asian American Film Festival (June 23-26) reflects that diversity. In its..."

June 17, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Attica Locke on Solving Crime on Highway 59

Heaven, My Home author talks her East Texas roots and the blues

"...and that she's now made a setting in her crime fiction series set along Highway 59...."

Oct. 25, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

True Crime?

Why is the Austin American-Statesman in touch with the lawyers for Holtzbrinck Publishers Holdings and its subsidiary Holt, publisher of the critically acclaimed A Death in Texas?

"...On Valentine's Day, 1999, the Austin American-Statesman printed a story by staff writer Denise Gamino that..."

June 28, 2002 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

American Caste

"...becomes evident also that there are three kinds of crimes for which these individuals have been tried and sentenced..."

Oct. 20, 2000 News Feature by Ricardo Ainslie

Austin Asian American Film Festival Raises Its Profile

Asian cinema is back on the calendar and AAAFF celebrates its filmmakers

"...Asia Minor, from Vietnam to Switzerland, the Austin Asian American Film Festival celebrates the diversity of the global Asian..."

June 14, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Your Guide to the Most Intriguing Films of This Year’s Austin Asian American Film Festival

AAAFF looks cool AF

"...The Austin Asian American Film Festival is back in town, but if you..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Screens Feature by Michael Agresta

Hate Crime at Austin Mosque?

APD investigating three incidents at North Austin Muslim Community Center

"...he believes the mosque is a victim of hate crimes...."

Sept. 21, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

U.S. Run by Organized Crime

"...New York Times, then offered his take. We, the American people, are not looking for someone who is "pure."..."

Nov. 10, 2007 Postmarks

The Great American Drug Book

How Robert Sabbag set out to write the Great American Novel but ended up becoming the nation's best chronicler of the drug trade.

"...of people. He was going to write the Great American Novel. But it was the early Seventies and it..."

Jan. 18, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Austin Asian American Film Festival Review: Starring Jerry as Himself

Hybrid documentary hides a true crime drama inside a true crime drama

"...the way, Chen leaves little hints that there's a crime being committed, but it's nothing so prosaic as international..."

June 27, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Crime Month: In the Dark Podcast

Why did a boy's murder go unsolved for 27 years? Just listen.

"...years. The case was still open, in fact, when American Public Media began producing its podcast In the Dark,..."

July 11, 2019 Arts Post by Laura Jones

APD Shuts Down Effort to Reopen Crime Lab

Interim Chief Manley: "We recognize the failure in our lab. We're taking responsibility, and pushing forward."

"...way into public knowledge. On Nov. 30, the Austin American-Statesman reported that an eight-day-long malfunction with a freezer containing..."

Dec. 23, 2016 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

July Is Crime Month: Raymond Chandler’s 'The Long Goodbye'

Sleuthing for a childhood relic

"...junior high, charged with a presentation on an important American author, my classmates chose from the English 101 syllabus..."

July 11, 2014 Books Post by Raoul Hernandez

July Is Crime Month: 'Texas Servant Girl Murders'

PBS's 'History Detectives' tackle Austin's biggest mystery: the unsolved string of killings in 1885

"...all but one were female, with most of those African-Americans working as domestics. Because so many of the crimes..."

July 11, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

American's Don't Understand England and Violence

"...shooting people, which is what a lot of you Americans seem to think is OK. As for the rise..."

Dec. 8, 2003 Postmarks

American Caste

"...two discrete drops, although the forensic description described a crime scene splattered with blood. A forensic expert also tested..."

Oct. 20, 2000 News Feature by Alan Pogue

American Caste

"...The crime for which he or she was sentenced to death;..."

Oct. 20, 2000 News Feature by Rob Owen

Calls for Federal Hate Crime Investigation Follow Stabbing of Palestinian American in Austin

After Sunday’s statewide protest, a young man was attacked

Feb. 9, 2024 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Ben Wheatley Catches Free Fire

Director on making his U.S. action debut

"...saw two of the UK's leading directors arriving with American crime films. Edgar Wright unleashed Baby Driver, which he..."

April 21, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...This comedy of the American frontier by Christopher Guest (This Is Spinal Tap, Waiting..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

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

"...125 films. 85 world premieres. 11 North American first time looks, and 51 feature debuts. The SXSW..."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Who Killed Father Ryan?

A 1981 Odessa murder haunts crime researchers, the Catholic Church, and an ex-con determined to prove his innocence

"...1981 – although he was duly convicted of the crime. Everyone familiar with the details of the case agrees..."

June 17, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Crown Heights

Another reminder of racial inequality in the American prison system

"...Coincidentally or not, the current surge in true-crime stories as the underpinnings for popular film, television, and..."

Sept. 8, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Minority Report

"...Runner and Fifties film noir. In the year 2054, crime has been virtually eliminated in the city of Washington,..."

June 21, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hell or High Water

Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, and Ben Foster shine in West Texas crime film

"...This West Texas crime movie barrels in with the force of a full-gale..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party

Another distorted salvo from Dinesh D’Souza

"...in fact an extended editorial ascribing every kind of crime, oppression, and abuse of power to the Democrats...."

July 22, 2016 Movie Review by Louis Black

The Kingdom

Initially, The Kingdom seems like it might be another of this season's politically charged movies, but it actually plays more like an explosive episode of CSI: Riyadh.

"...a series of devastating bombs goes off within the American oil-workers' compound in Riyadh, and FBI man Ronald Fleury..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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