What We Leave Behind

Iliana Sosa's extraordinary portrait of her grandfather's cross-border life

"...a small bedroom with his son Jorge, who is blind. As Sosa asks “Grandpa” questions only a granddaughter could,..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Movie Review by Jessi Cape

The Good Boss

Spanish workplace comedy shows the perils of imbalance

"...own game, which cleanly ties up the “justice is blind” theme – though Blanco still gets what he wants..."

Sept. 2, 2022 Movie Review by Lina Fisher

Spin Me Round

Lumpen anti-rom-com won't turn heads

"...subtextual nuance about workplace power dynamics, sexual antics, and blind romance. After floundering around, unsure of its exact tone,..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Innocents

Norwegian "evil kids" horror delivers a sickening catharsis

"...wrest Thor back from the clutches of Hollywood. Now Blind director, longtime Trier collaborator, and (far from coincidentally) Thelma..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Inu-Oh

Japanese medieval history gorgeously reimagined as a rock & roll fable

"...of a wandering musician, Tomona (voiced here by Moriyama), blinded by a magical sword, and his friendship with the..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

My Donkey, My Lover & I

Giddy romp through the South of France is charming and scenic

"...big heart. Her reckless behavior is softened by her blind optimism, making Antoinette an easy protagonist to fall in..."

July 22, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

The Phantom of the Open

Mark Rylance raises this fantastical golfing biopic above par

"...love with the game of golf. After submitting a blind application to the British Open, Flitcroft makes international headlines..."

June 24, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Austin at Large: Asymmetrical Info Warfare

Scorched-earth polarization makes us see our foes’ weaknesses as strengths

"...changes the reality of our laws. “The Ties That Blind”..."

May 13, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Central Market’s Meatless Butcher, Hoboken’s 14th Anniversary, Suerte’s Taquero Takeover, and More

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...You know how Fermín Nuñez’s excellent Suerte does those..."

April 27, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...The Blind Man Who Did Not Want To See Titanic (Finland)..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Eternals

Marvel’s immortal heroes overstay their welcome

"...completely fails to tackle its own core conceits of blind loyalty, of the perils of immortality, of rebellion against..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

1,400-Acre Development Near Hamilton Pool Ignites Push to Protect Salamander

Environmentalists petition to list Pedernales River springs salamander as endangered species

"...said Bunch. The Pedernales salamander's local cousins, the Austin blind and Barton Springs salamanders, are already designated as endangered..."

Oct. 8, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Eighth Street Survivors Still Wait for Resolution From the City and APD

Sixteen months later, civil and criminal cases move slowly

"...to me. Because like, it could make me go blind. Then I'd be blind on top of this.”..."

Sept. 29, 2021 News Post by Brant Bingamon

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Formulaic biopic captures subject's glow without critique

"...“You follow blindly and in the end all you are is blind,”..."

Sept. 17, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Live Review: With Nothing Left to Prove the Black Crowes Shake Their Moneymakers – Front-to-Back

Robinson brothers invoke a good old-fashioned rock ‘n’ roll bash

"...been performed in many years, “Could I’ve Been So Blind” rocked passionately, while the ballad “Seeing Things” reminded not..."

Aug. 16, 2021 Music Post by Michael Toland

Undine

Love is like drowning in this German fairy tale-inspired romance

"...disbelief that her lover would abandon her, and with blind passion rushes through her tour to try to get..."

July 16, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Violation

Brutal drama turns takes the lurid appeal out of the rape-revenge horror

"...it bloody, amorality, and whole continents of kingdoms left blind from that eye-for-an-eye mentality. In this, it almost feels..."

April 2, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The New Mutants

The last of the X-Men finally get to the screen

"...comics. There's that of the filmwatcher, who goes in blind about the franchise, and they will merely be disappointed..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Bill & Ted Face the Music

Can we all finally just be excellent to each other?

"...Now here's the deal. Rockwell wasn't blind to the ills of the world, but he tried..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Feels Good, Man

The tragic story of Pepe the Frog

"...that they’ve both lost control of the situation. The blind optimism with which Furie believes that incels and radicals..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Checking In: D-Madness Calls Getting Cut-off ‘Pure Hell’

Multi-instrumental funk marvel holds on tight to his sound-makers

"...cease wholesale. Now imagine that same scenario only you’re blind. “We don’t have to be sentimental about it,” D-Madness..."

Aug. 24, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

All I Can Say

Blind Melon singer's home movies give you less insight than you'd think

"...Blind Melon frontman Shannon Hoon died 25 years ago, but..."

June 26, 2020 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Tainted

Cold Canadian crime drama wears its sins on its sleeves

"...good her cakes are when she knowingly turns a blind eye to his crimes. Everyone is tainted, the story..."

June 19, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Deerskin

Wrong director goes, well, wrong in this film-making spoof

"...Dupieux's characters have a habit of being blithely blind to their own oddness, which is fine when they..."

April 30, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Grudge

A new haunting from the J-horror franchise

"...form of the yūrei, the Japanese long-haired ghost whose blind vengeance on the living leaves nothing but doom. It’s..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Food Editor Jessi Cape's Top 10 Austin Bites

Conscious craving has always been

"...9) Blind Salamander Not one of my usual suspects, this Omni..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Jojo Rabbit

Anti-hate satire in the ruins of the Reich finds heart and humor in the chaos

"...cherubic Davis). That perspective renders the terrible allure of blind, unswerving fear of the Other utterly explicable before dismantling..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Can't-Miss Acts for Sunday at ACL Music Festival

Including three weekend-two-only performers

"...Third Eye Blind6pm, Honda stage Masters of Nineties alternative, Third Eye Blind..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Music Feature

10 Can't-Miss Acts for Sunday at ACL Music Festival

And concluding the first weekend ...

"...Third Eye Blind6pm, Honda stage Masters of Nineties alternative, Third Eye Blind..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Music Feature

Stuber

Buddy cop action-comedy isn’t making many friends

"...getting that all-important five-star Uber rating, while the temporarily blind Vic bumbles and stumbles his way through one groaningly..."

July 12, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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