Spotlight: Glass Eye

Austin's Glass Eye reunites!

"...and signing with Bar/None, for whom they recorded 1988's Bent by Nature and 1989's Hello Young Lovers. A big-record-deal-gone-bad..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Live at Liberty Lunch

The Neville Brothers

"...Burning Spear's Winston Rodney photograph by John Carrico..."

July 23, 1999 Music Feature

Glass Eye

Record review

"...Is Dead" as an aching portrait of grief unfettered by aspirations toward grandiosity. "Exodus Song" is Glass Eye's tweaked..."

April 7, 2006 Music Review by Greg Beets

Desert Island Discs

"...6. Glass Eye, Bent by Nature (Bar None)..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature

The Wild Thornberrys Movie

"...Directed by: Jeff McGrath and Cathy Malkasian. Although I'm a huge..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tyler Perry's Acrimony

Tyler Perry takes on the "woman scorned" trope.

"...Directed by: Tyler Perry. Starring: Taraji P. Henson, Lyriq Bent, Crystle..."

April 6, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Godzilla 2000

"...Directed by: Takao Okawara. Starring: Takehiro Murata, Shiro Sano, Hiroshi Abe,..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Besieged

"...Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci. Starring: Claudio Santamaria, David Thewlis and Thandie..."

July 16, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Eagle Huntress

Real-life heroine soars above tradition

"...Directed by: Otto Bell...."

Nov. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Holes

Adapted from the children’s book by Austin author Louis Sachar, the film features LaBeouf as a teen stuck at a Texas camp for juvenile delinquents.

"...Directed by: Andrew Davis. Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Shia LaBeouf,..."

April 18, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Stonewall

"...Directed by: Nigel Finch. Starring: Frederick Weller, Guillermo Diaz, Brendan Corbalis,..."

Sept. 20, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Dr. Akagi

"...Directed by: Shohei Imamura. Starring: Masanori Sera, Jacques Gamblin, Jyuro Kara,..."

July 23, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Boyhood

With Boyhood, filmmaker Richard Linklater paints his masterpiece.

"...Directed by: Richard Linklater. Starring: Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke..."

July 18, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cherish

"...Directed by: Finn Taylor. Starring: Robin Tunney, Tim Blake Nelson, Jason..."

July 5, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Once Upon a Deadpool

Deadpool is back ... and he brought Fred Savage with him

"...Directed by: David Leitch. Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Fred Savage, Josh Brolin,..."

Dec. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Ruins

Four friends on a Mexican vacation discover something evil among the Mayan ruins.

"...Directed by: Carter Smith. Starring: Shawn Ashmore, Jena Malone, Jonathan Tucker,..."

April 11, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Tommy Lee Jones has made a modern Western in the culturally askew tradition of Peckinpah, Huston, and Boetticher. Don't let the near-impossible-to-remember title keep you away from this singular and slightly surreal scorcher.

"...Directed by: Tommy Lee Jones. Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper,..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Glitter

"...Directed by: Vondie Curtis-Hall. Starring: Mariah Carey, Max Beesley, Terrence Howard,..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Movie Review by Steve Davis

99 Luftballons (International Acts at SXSW Music)

South by Southwest by way of Sudan, Scotland, Colombia, and more

"...while last year's Homesick follows a sample-soaked route framed by glittery synths and Sebastián Narváez's muffled vox. – Isabella..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Funniest Person in Austin 2016: Lashonda Rules!

Lashonda Lester takes the title in the competition's 31st year

"...2014, took the stage Monday like a force of nature and copped the crown – a win that was..."

May 17, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Like the Rest of Us

Atmosphere's Slug isn't dead from tequila poisoning yet

"...A hell-bent touring schedule has put Atmosphere – Slug and DJ..."

Nov. 5, 2008 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Heavy Melody

Judas Priest's K.K. Downing Q&A

"...Priest smote its most ambitious album in Nostradamus, overlong by a platter, but “Conquest” nonetheless. The hot breath of..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Stronger With Each Tear: Mary J. Blige

Soul queen slays the Moody Theater

"...host, I don’t get to enjoy it – much. Moby Grape, Stooges, and PJ Harvey fell on my lone..."

March 1, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Strawberry Fields Forever

Future Clouds & Radar float to the magical kingdom of … Peoria?

"...a pack of alpacas emerging from the ocean, overseen by a distant satellite, and a human body with a..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Adjusting to the Mise-en-Scène

Nine nonfilmmakers – artists out of place – make one in 48 hours

"...well-watered aesthetic prejudices (not to mention lingering exhaustion) and bent their skills to the collaborative task of making a..."

July 13, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Saturday Showcase Picks

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...8pm, Red 7 Austin's Arclight Records, founded in 2003 by Mauro Arrambide and Hector Elizondo, normally resides at the..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

Miss Potter

This Renée Zelweger movie about the life of Peter Rabbit author Beatrix Potter lacks dramatic tension and a sense of purpose.

"...Directed by: Chris Noonan. Starring: Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Emily Watson,..."

March 9, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...time to stop a deadly plague Ð possibly created by the mythical ÒArmy of the 12 MonkeysÓ Ð that..."

Jan. 5, 1996 News Feature

The Traveling Lady

With The Traveling Lady, Different Stages has mounted a pleasant, innocuous little drama by Texas playwright Horton Foote, but while the actors are honest and heartfelt in portraying its awkward, kind-hearted small-town souls, the scenes sometimes play out in ways that betray the intimacy of small-town life.

"...pulled out a pleasant, innocuous little drama, this time by Texas playwright Horton Foote. Literary is an apt description,..."

April 11, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

In Person

In a fast-paced two days late last month at the Red Lion Inn, the most successful writers conference in the Writers' League history saw some 200-plus writers get the hard-knock world of real publishing described to them gently but firmly by a dozen agents and editors from both coasts.

"...of real publishing described to them gently but firmly by a dozen agents and editors from both coasts. As..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Books Feature by Ric Williams

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