The Chronicle Guide to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

As Captain America enters a Brave New World, every MCU film reviewed

"...with or without muscles. Plus, talk about long story arcs. Steve makes a promise to Peggy (Atwell) that he..."

Feb. 14, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Glen Powell Clears His Throat for The Best Man's Ghostwriter

Austin's movie A-lister on his new Audible audiobook comedy

"...curve represents one of Powell’s favorite kind of character arcs: “Know-it-alls who find their comeuppance and their humanity, and..."

Sept. 11, 2024 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, January 5-11

"...while the Mediterranean will be less well-endowed with skyborne arcs of color that come from sunlit rain. But I..."

Jan. 5, 2024 Column by Rob Brezsny

Review: Austin Playhouse’s Murder on the Links

Agatha Christie’s 1923 mystery gets a surprising remake as a farce

"...end guide the audience along the event timeline). Character arcs are also hard to identify, though perhaps that's an..."

Dec. 15, 2023 Arts Feature by Jasmine Lane

Radical

True story of a miracle-working teacher busts misery porn cliches

"...Radical may hit all the requisite narrative arcs, but it does so with a level of nuance..."

Nov. 3, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

AFF Review: Grapefruit

Rosanna Arquette is tenderly flawed in this addiction dramedy

"...finds a quiet kind of resonance in the parallel arcs of redemption between mother and son. But rather than..."

Nov. 1, 2023 Screens Post by Matthew Monagle

RTX 2023: Red vs. Blue Is Back for the Last Time

Final season announced for 20th anniversary

"...the first 10 seasons, covering the three big story arcs (The Blood Gulch Chronicles, The Recollection, and The Project..."

July 7, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Boogeyman

Can Hollywood just knock it off with the trauma horror?

"...interpersonal effects. For example, one of the major narrative arcs in The Boogeyman sees Sadie being retraumatized by her..."

June 2, 2023 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Album Review: Jaimee Harris

Boomerang Town (Thirty Tigers)

"...finds a poignant truth in leaning into more character-driven arcs than personal crises, though the songs still burn with..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The Lege Opens, Here's What Happens Next

Not all of the bills are bad! Our analysis of the just-begun 88th Texas Legislature.

"...that we'll see some happy endings to the story arcs we preview here – from the budget to the..."

Jan. 13, 2023 News Feature by the News Staff

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

The Point, Ben Buck, and some holiday options highlight this week's recommended shows

"...game-changing it's little surprise they named Berto's Banquet, which arcs with raw, one-take vitality, in his honor. – Kevin..."

Dec. 23, 2022 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Super Soldier, Super Spy: Eugenio Mira on García!

The Spanish filmmaker unpacks the inherent fascism of the superhero

"...And all the arcs that intersect between the characters, I focused to make..."

Dec. 17, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Thor: Love and Thunder

The Slayer of Thanos becomes a lovesick clown in this mirthless sequel

"...co-writer Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Sweet/Vicious) draw superficially from two arcs from the recent run on the Thor comic by..."

July 8, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Top Gun: Maverick

Tom Cruise proves he’s the last of his kind

"...was surprised how invested this made me in character arcs and plot lines picked up from a movie I..."

May 27, 2022 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Small-screen stately manor still can't fill the big screen

"...the medium, where capital-D drama could unfurl in seasonlong arcs alongside sillier subplots tidily dispensed in single episodes, and..."

May 20, 2022 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The King’s Daughter

Long-delayed historical fairy tale is an overdue oddity

"...be little more than a blip in the career arcs of its talent, one can understand why executives were..."

Jan. 28, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

True Love Cast Out All Evil

New oral history explores the head and mysteries of Austin's psych pioneer

"...both real and imagined consume him, the sanguine Austinite arcs across Eighties shock rock, Nineties psychogenic dilapidation, and finally..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Arts Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Aaron Frazer’s MCU of Soul

The Indications’ drummer and soul crooner introduces himself at ACL

"...worked with Homer Steinweiss and Leon Michaels with the Arcs. There were a lot of parallels...."

Oct. 7, 2021 Music Post by Austin Powell

Strand of Oaks and the Cadence of Joy

Overcoming grief and exploring sobriety, Tim Showalter finds himself In Heaven

"...out of nowhere, In Heaven builds through multiple emotional arcs in its first half, but never strays too far..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Music Feature by E. Ryan Ellis

Sator

Occult horror will hold you in its dark, subtle spell

"...as assemble it over six years, eschewing conventional narrative arcs in favor of a unifying tone of all-encompassing dread...."

April 23, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Vanquish

Wooden Wick knock-off wastes Ruby Rose's star power

"...actually. The plot mechanics, action set pieces, and characters arcs – or lack thereof – are all dreadfully overfamiliar,..."

April 16, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Nightstream Review: Frank & Zed

Horror puppet movie is beautiful, heartbreaking, and gory

"...cavalcade of previously anonymous villagers become secondary characters with arcs and relationships at a point when the emotional tone..."

Oct. 17, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...control and self on "It Ain't Easy." The album arcs from that point of lost identity amid success to..."

Sept. 25, 2020 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Who Will Be Nuked by the 819?

Austinites unleash a new postapocalyptic RPG on Twitch

"...where we break story and come up with narrative arcs,” and I was like, that’s it, that’s how we..."

Sept. 7, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

The Hot Sauce Fest, a Love & Lightstream, and more sounds to check

"...syncs with "Little White Lies" in a combo that arcs the album from newfound ardor to bitter disillusionment as..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

Aliens in Russia: Inside Sputnik

Director Egor Abramenko explores the Soviet myth of heroes

"...that could support the story and help the character arcs. Eventually, that worked out, because we tried to integrate..."

Aug. 14, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sputnik

Russian sci-fi horror is a welcome break from all the '80s throwbacks

"...of Eighties science fiction. But without more believable character arcs – or any kind of character arcs in general..."

Aug. 14, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Black Magic for White Boys

Sorcery and gentrification wrapped together by Onur Tukel, the Brueghel of Brooklyn

"...Baby. Digressions become the plot: Minor figures get redemption arcs while the leads circle in their own nothings. Tukel,..."

July 17, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Fantasy Island

Our advice? Get back on the plane

"...but all end up acting in different films. Redemption arcs falter and fail, plots are rehashed, and everyone is..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: Black Magic For White Boys

The latest from Onur Tukel is his most rambling and pointed

"...Baby. Digressions become the plot: minor figures get redemption arcs while the leads circle in their own nothings. Tukel,..."

Aug. 5, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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