Vortex

French cinema’s enfant terrible faces the horrors of growing old

"...a scholarly book about film and dreams, conscientiously takes blood pressure medicine after suffering a stroke three years ago,..."

May 6, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Morbius

Marvel's living vampire gets a Sony Spidey-verse spinoff

"...you happen to be prone to a raging, murderous bloodlust...."

April 8, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Riders of Justice

Mads Mikkelsen is out for revenge in this sweet, strange Danish tragicomedy

"...a Danish military man, back from the war with blood on his hands and murder on his mind after..."

May 21, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Becky

Because sometimes you just have to deal with a few neo-Nazis the old-fashioned way

"...derailed by a teenager. Becky (Wilson) goes full First Blood when the bumbling blackshirts menace her family, but it's..."

June 5, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Faster Than Sound: School’s Out for Dayglow

Nineteen-year-old Sloan Struble leaves UT for the bedroom-pop big leagues, while two new area record stores make their debuts

"...Call You Tonight?" Early attention from indie blog Honey Punch fueled placement on chilled-out Spotify playlists, Struble's effervescence aligning..."

June 21, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Black Panther

High drama and high action as Marvel gives Wakanda life.

"...Tony Stark (arguably the Black Panther's dissolute analog) has blood on his weapons-developing hands, T'Challa is left to question..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Reasonable Doubt

Did misleading DNA analysis land an innocent man on death row?

"..."We could see puddles or blotches of blood and smears," testified Perry. "There was an iron skillet,..."

April 29, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

There Will Be Mondo

Print series celebrating P.T. Anderson on sale this week

"...one-two on Thursday with his most widely debated work, Punch Drunk Love, and his heart-scarred examination of how the..."

May 14, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Thousand Words

Eddie Murphy plays a truth-challenged literary agent who learns his lesson when a bizarre set of circumstances allow him to utter only 1,000 words before dying.

"...Bodhi tree nearby with which to make an accidental blood pact. Or something. Jack’s fate becomes linked with the..."

March 16, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

30 Days of Night

This film's high-concept stroke of genius lies not with its vampire clan but with the setting: a tiny Alaskan hamlet where nightfall indeed lasts all month.

"...Candy, a movie of dubious moral clarity but undeniable punch. The classic folkloric terrors that have translated so seamlessly..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Joy Ride

"...trucker who pursues you with the sort of single-minded bloodlust usually reserved for cocker spaniels and their tails --..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Countdown to Ecstasy

A New Drug for a New Millennium

"...drugs, having previously given the world the one-two sucker punch of morphine and Dilaudid (and by extension, William S...."

June 9, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Scream 3

"...Kruger/Freddie Krueger? Ow, my head) toss everything and the blood-soaked kitchen sink into the mix, and, though it's at..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

That Old Revival Spirit

Testifying About Movies

"...him. It is impossible to watch this entertaining and bloody tour of hell now without wondering whether the atavistic..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

Film

Film Reviews

"...good family. Lee's eighth film is missing the in-your-face punch of previous outings such as Do the Right Thing,..."

Sept. 22, 1995 News Feature

Film

Film Reviews

"...good family. Lee's eighth film is missing the in-your-face punch of previous outings such as Do the Right Thing,..."

Sept. 15, 1995 News Feature

Austin FC Season Kickoff, Black History Month, and More Community Events

Get out and about in Austin while the weather's good

"...and sip on themed drinks such as Charizard’s Fire Punch – or the mysterious Guess That Pokémon drink. Sorry:..."

Feb. 23, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...James Woolsey, former director of the CIA ["Follow the Blood Money," Sept. 28]. Of all the moronic and infantile..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

Hell Yeah, I'm Spiritual

The Natural Way to Salvation

"...would be banned, I thought, "All right. Cake and punch. Childish bedlam. A little singing and maybe some games...."

Dec. 27, 1996 News Feature by Suzy Banks

Joshua Saunders: Crip/Blood

Attaching gang names to mundane objects, the show seems to be one big punch line

"...'Joshua Saunders: Crip/Blood'Domy Books, 913 E. Cesar Chavez, 476-3699 www.domystore.com Through March..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Arts Review by Andy Campbell

Full-Gore Press

Mind the viscera: Austin's horror filmmaking scene is exploding

"...Herschell Gordon Lewis may have beaten Hooper to the punch by more than a decade in terms of drive-in..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Gray Band

How can a band singing almost exclusively about serial killers engender so much life?

"...Titles, they stuck: "Shotgun Boogie," "Blood Sucking Freak," "Born To Raise Hell." Work's tunnel vision..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Never Coming to a Theatre Near You

Stephen Romano's continuing adventures in fake movies

"...The punch line? A sizable percentage of the people that picked..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Page Two: Earth, Stones, and Thorns of the Wild Ground Growing

The poetry of the right-wing soul: an appreciation

"..."[To be sung to the tune of The Blood of the Lamb with indicated instrument]..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...up, or we eradicate them. Nothing but a long, bloody, costly, and above all unified and unflagging war on..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...the streets of New York have run with the blood of our families is unbearably cruel, but it is..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Column

A Macbeth

In the State Theater Company production A Macbeth, director Guy Chandler Roberts strips the Scottish Play of its dramatic spectacle and boils it down into a compelling ritual of human evil, a Black Mass.

"...work, to unsheathe their ambition and cruelly spill the blood of kings, warriors, and other hapless victims across the..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Record Reviews

"...open your veins into a hot bath, letting your blood stain the water. And as your life slipped away,..."

March 14, 1997 Music Review

Texas Craft Brewers Festival Debuts Beer List

The Texas-only beer celebration returns to Austin

"...the plate to set you up for the big punch-out...."

Sept. 1, 2016 Food Post by Eric Puga

DVDanger: 'Hatchet III'

Gleefully signing up for the Hatchet Army

"...a massive hole in the face of mass-murdering, swamp-dwelling, blood-and-guts ghost Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder.) Of course, that's not..."

Aug. 18, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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