Dev Patel Swings Into South by Southwest With Monkey Man World Premiere

Fest gets new docs on Stormy Daniels, Alex Jones, and Jon Bon Jovi

"...Cast: Marco Pigossi, Mya Taylor, James Bland, Marisa Tomei, Bill Irwin, Sean Mahon (World Premiere)..."

Feb. 7, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

All The Pieces Fall in to Place as SXSW Adds Tetris

New titles include experimental Visions and 24 Beats Per Second

"...Harroche, Riley Keough, Gina Gammell, Screenwriters: Franklin Sioux Bob, Bill Reddy, Riley Keough, Gina Gammell War Pony follows the..."

Feb. 1, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Spoiler Alert

Jim Parsons gets his Love Story moment in this wonderful tearjerker

"...Michael Showalter. Starring: Jim Parsons, Ben Aldridge, Sally Field, Bill Irwin and Nikki M. James...."

Dec. 9, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Irresistible

"Can't we all just get along?"-style political comedy from The Daily Show veterans

"...you're looking for a comedic bottom here, it's when Bill Irwin turns up, buried under prosthetics as a technology..."

June 26, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Announces Features Lineup

Competitive narratives and docs unveiled, plus more

"...in by an intriguing woman with a stalker. Cast: Bill Dawes, Sarah Butler, Christine Woods, Michael Rivkin, Amir Arison,..."

Feb. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Bobby McFerrin Gets Happy – Tonight!

Pharrell Williams, Yo-Yo Ma & Esperanza Spalding can’t be wrong

"...Watching the video with Bill Irwin and a mustachioed Robin Williams cracking up at..."

April 24, 2014 Music Post by Nina Hernandez

The Carper Family

Imagine the Carter Family writing songs about texting

"...had influential admirers like Americana champion Jim Lauderdale and twangabilly guitarist Bill Kirchen. Best of all, Leslie Rouffe, a..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Higher Ground

Oscar-winning actress Vera Farmiga makes her debut as a director with this film in which she also stars as a woman who struggles with religious faith.

"...Vera Farmiga, Joshua Leonard, Dagmara Dominczyk, Norbert Leo Butz, Bill Irwin, John Hawkes, Donna Murphy, Taissa Farmiga, McKenzie Turner,..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

'Mojo' Recommends

The best British music at SXSW as selected by Mojo Editor-in-Chief Phil Alexander

"...to the album was instantaneous. Mojo's folk columnist Colin Irwin declared it his album of the year and demand..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature by Phil Alexander

Fantastic Fest First Wave Films Announced (Finally)

Fantastic Fest 2009, Round One

"...Boll, 2009, Canada) Fed up with his dead-end life, Bill constructs a full-body kevlar armor suit and rampages through..."

July 13, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Res Publica

"...CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE FORUM Place 5 candidate Bill Spelman discusses neighborhoods, public participation, and open government. 10am-noon...."

Feb. 20, 2009 News Feature

Rachel Getting Married

Anne Hathaway tears up the screen in Jonathan Demme's new film about a self-absorbed woman who wreaks family havoc while out of rehab to attend her sister's wedding.

"...Directed by: Jonathan Demme. Starring: Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin, Mather Zickel, Debra Winger, Tunde Adebimpe, Anna Deavere..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Dispatches From Darfur

Austinites Rio Tenango and Leah Pries take their activism, and their aliases, all the way to Africa

"...former U.S. Rep. Harry Johnston, who served as President Bill Clinton's special envoy to Sudan from 1998 to 2000...."

July 11, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Fantastic Five

What we'll (try to) see

"...in Austin trailing enough buzz to mortally wound Swarm-meister Irwin Allen, and some we picked just because we keep..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Three Cuckolds

At the Blue Theatre, you can see an outstanding example of commedia dell-arte in Tongue and Groove Theatre's awesomely entertaining production of 'The Three Cuckolds'

"...Three Cuckolds, a play by Leon Katz adapted by Bill Irwin and further adapted by director David Yeakle –..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Return to Clod-Cuckold-Land

Director David Yeakle revisits 'The Three Cuckolds,' the commedia classic that got his Tongue in Groove

"...Just to be clear, Bill Irwin is down with it...."

Aug. 12, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Hanging Up the Torches

After 20 years of juggling fire and other foolery, the Flaming Idiots are calling it quits.

"...look to see these two guys, and it was Bill Irwin and Kevin Kline...."

Dec. 26, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...pass Proposition 9 will continue to keep the $16 billion fund performing below its potential, something our budget and..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Column

Dancing About Architecture

Daniel Lanois confirms as SXSW keynote, Springsteen cancels, and another club -- the Six of Clubs -- closes. Biz as usual, in other words.

"...a few conference panelists have been confirmed already, including Bill Bentley, Frank Riley, Donald Passman, Jeff and Todd Brabec,..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

A Crash Course in Brain Salad Surgery

"...music professionals including, Newsweek's Lorraine Ali, Warner Bros. VP Bill Bentley, ASCAP's Todd Brabec, Rounder Records' Ken Irwin, Island..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

SXSW confirms a keynote speaker.

"...John Fogerty). Confirmed speakers include Lorraine Ali of Newsweek, Bill Bentley, senior vice-president of Media Relations with Warner Bros...."

Dec. 14, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Antitrust

"...as a cutting-edge, ripped-from-the-headlines cyber-thriller in the vein of Irwin Winkler's 1995 Sandra Bullock vehicle The Net and Iain..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Professors of Pleasure

Their name may suggest a lack of intelligence, but make no mistake, the Flaming Idiots are wise men when it comes to comedy.

"...masters of modern entertainment as the Flying Karamazov Brothers, Bill Irwin, and the Big Apple Circus...."

Dec. 22, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Standing Next to a Mountain

Examining the 3-CD Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble box set.

"...That, according to the box set's producer Bob Irwin, who insists both musicians were kept "in the loop,"..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas

"...Taylor Momsen, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski, Molly Shannon and Bill Irwin. Whoville is a truly great place to visit,..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dancing About Architecture

Austin's live music scene turns up missing.

"...you should joke about a Poison 13 reunion happening," Bill Anderson said to me a couple of weeks ago,..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Songs of Innocence and Experience

From poetry scrawled on walls to poetry inscribed on CD: the saga of the Gourds.

"...the burgeoning enclave for live music to see a bill that included a headlining set by Austin's True Believers...."

Sept. 22, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Eight Men Out, The Grifters, Say Anything

"...Cusack, Charlie Sheen, D.B. Sweeney, John Mahoney, Michael Rooker, Bill Irwin. When players on the Chicago White Sox agreed..."

March 31, 2000 Screens Review by Sarah Hepola

Texas Book Festival Schedule

"...11:30am-12:15pm LBJ: A Life Irwin & Debi Unger..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Books Feature

Illuminata

"...Turturro, Katherine Borowitz, Christopher Walken, Susan Sarandon, Beverly D'Angelo, Bill Irwin, Rufus Sewell, Georgina Cates and Ben Gazzara. “It's..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

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