Biker Boyz

"...Thompson noted it way back 1966 in his Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Life Less Ordinary

"...tale of that unholy, clichéd triumvirate: love, kidnapping, and angels. Hodge actually wrote this script before the other two..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Prophecy

"...he becomes involved in a literal war between the angels. As director Widen (who also had more than a..."

Sept. 8, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Temple of Angels, a DJ Chicken George benefit, a Soap Creek Saloon reunion, and more recommended shows

"...Temple of Angels, Mujeres Podridas Parish, Saturday 26..."

Aug. 25, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

The Black Angels & Kikagaku Moyo, Video Age & Shy Boys, Exhumed & Creeping Death, ST 37 & the Gary, Arooj Aftab, and Kool Keith

"...Levitation: The Black Angels, Kikagaku Moyo with A Place to Bury Strangers, Ringo..."

Oct. 29, 2021 Music Column by Michael Toland

Levitation Materializes 2018 Lineup

Slowdive, Electric Wizard, Black Angels, etc. à la carte

"...Wizard, shoegaze vets Slowdive, and hometown hosts the Black Angels...."

Dec. 7, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Wednesday Rewind

Another local highlight reel with Spoon and Matador at 21

"...of Wednesday Rewind, Spoon gets paranormal and the Black Angels entertain Rolling Stone, while the Octopus Project just gets..."

Nov. 17, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

Articulations

These Angels Have Flown

"...discussing the recent Zachary Scott Theatre Center production of Angels in America, fellow Chronicle editor and colleague on the..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Exhibitionism

Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika: Feels Like Hope

"...key, I think," notes Prior Walter, a protagonist in Angels in America. "But it's impossible." In Perestroika, the conclusion..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Arts Review

Levitation’s Insane 2024 Lineup Includes the Jesus Lizard, Slowdive, and Gang of Four

Psychedelic festival returns October 31 to November 3

"...going to be one for the books. The Black Angels-founded psych rock festival returns to Austin October 31 to..."

June 27, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Courtney Barnett, Kurt Vile, and Alvvays Lead the Austin Psych Fest 2024 Lineup

The relaunched fest returns to the Far Out Lounge April 26-28

"...with Courtney Barnett, Kurt Vile, Alvvays, and the Black Angels leading the bill...."

Dec. 13, 2023 Music Post by Carys Anderson

What We’re Listening to This Week

Charley Crockett, Flora & Fawna, the Black Angels, and more

"...strolls into Lone Star country mythology just that easily – in title alone, perhaps. Laid down in Lockhart at..."

Oct. 14, 2022 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

A tribute songwriting Legend Cindy Walker, Daikaiju, A Giant Dog & Go Fever, Sonic Movidas with Carrie Rodriguez, and Temple of Angels

"...I liked, I would look up who wrote it – Cindy Walker every time. You know that 'Behind every..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

2017/18 Austin Music Awards Reveal

Black Angels and Lucinda Williams lead highlights

"...has begun taking shape. Austin’s psych sovereigns the Black Angels, whose 2017 album Death Song highlighted a triumphant year..."

Jan. 18, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Inferno

Hanks tours the museums of Europe trying to save the world

"...in previous outings The Da Vinci Code (2006) and Angels & Demons (2009), Langdon finds himself at the center..."

Oct. 28, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Too Late

Experimental neo-noir is held together by the magnificent John Hawkes

"...and Tarantino’s kaleidoscopic visual take on the City of Angels. Hauck structures this film into five single-take shots, which..."

March 25, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Psych Fest in Angers

Levitation France debuts in our sister city

"...Angers, features 18 acts from seven countries. The Black Angels made the trip to the Loire Valley to translate..."

Sept. 19, 2013 Music Post by Abby Johnston

Wednesday Rewind

The Boxing Lesson, the Weird Weeds, the Black Angels, and rapping Rick

"...random grab bag of new tunes from the Black Angels, the Boxing Lesson, the Weird Weeds, and a rapping..."

Oct. 27, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Oliver Stone delivers an enlivening and wickedly entertaining take on the occasional angels and plentiful demons that have run the country into financial ruin.

"...enlivening and rather wickedly entertaining take on the occasional angels – but mostly demons – that ran the country..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Micmacs

This French-language film from Amélie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet resembles a live-action cartoon.

"...gone. The Micmacs are an odd collection of junkyard angels whose personal narratives are as inventive as their surroundings...."

June 25, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Legion

God loses faith in humanity and sends a legion of angels to start the apocalypse.

"...you've seen one plague of flies and death and angels at war with each other, you've seen ’em all...."

Jan. 29, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Moon

A man (Sam Rockwell) and his computer (voiced pitch-perfectly by Kevin Spacey) – alone on a moon-based work station of the future – plumb the depths of identity and inner space.

"...man and machine and between man and his better angels. (See "Sitting in a Tin Can, Where Hell Is..."

July 10, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Chocolate

This spicy Thai actioner comes from the director of Ong Bak.

"...occasionally most cloying stripe, but where would avenging Thai angels-in-the-making be without it? I'm guessing not in Hong Kong...."

Feb. 13, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Changeling

Clint Eastwood directs Angelina Jolie in this Depression-era-set mystery/thriller/proto-feminist drama based on a true incident.

"...the always entertainingly sordid history of the City of Angels, this period mystery/thriller/proto-feminist battle cry is drenched in the..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Henry Poole Is Here

Director Mark Pellington has turned soft with this corny, redemptive, and/or inspirational tale that stars Luke Wilson.

"...world is the pipe organ and the choir of angels...."

Aug. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Munich

Munich is dense, thoughtful filmmaking that nonetheless flies along: Seething not only with multilayered, subtextual arguments, it’s also a heck of a thriller.

"...events, of course, and Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner (Angels in America) take tremendous pains to humanize both sides..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Chicken Little

Disney's first all-CGI, made-in-house, animated feature is painful for all ages, despite a voice-talent roster to make the angels weep.

"...all ages, despite a voice-talent roster to make the angels weep. (Wallace Shawn! Harry Shearer! Fred Willard! Adam West!..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Millions

A sweet, emotionally complex film about faith, charity, and growing up is not what most people would have expected from Trainspotting's Danny Boyle, but this new movie is unmistakably his.

"...the time. It’s childhood done just right: part cotton-candy angels, part gurning adult frighteners, and all wide-eyed kidhood bravado...."

March 25, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie

Animated Old Testament.

"...is there, along with chlorophyllic choirs of produce department angels, but it's hardly the strident screeching of cable-access pulpit-pounders..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Notorious C.H.O.

"...like menstruation, fisting, colonic therapy, her “drag queen guardian angels,” pornography, BDSM clubs, and her quest for the elusive..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

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