Cartel Land

Vigilante groups on both sides of the border fight the Mexican cartels in this harrowing doc

"...Vigilante groups fighting the Mexican crime cartels are the subject of this harrowing documentary. Filmmaker Matthew..."

July 10, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

New Road Trip Drama Travels into No Man's Land

The filmmaking Allyn brothers see Mexico through a new lens

"...No Man's Land, the new cross-border road trip by North Texas filmmaking..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Five O'Clock Land

Closing Encore Records is no walk in the park for Chuck Lokey

"..."This is five o'clock land over here," says Lokey when we meet on December..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Music Feature by Adam Schragin

A Private War

Rosamund Pike captures war journalist Marie Colvin

"...Take the director of fearless documentaries like Cartel Land and City of Ghosts (Heineman) and let him..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

This Ain't No Picnic: Minutemen on Patrol

The sinister legions of the 'Drug Cartel' have little to fear from the latest incarnation of border hysteria. As for the rest of us ...

"...steel." There, on a generous expanse of privately owned land 50 miles southeast of El Paso, is what McGauley..."

Oct. 28, 2005 News Feature by Diana Welch

Los Zetas on the Backstretch

Drug cartel launders money with horse racing

"...unsealed Tuesday, 15 members of the Los Zetas drug cartel – including its co-leader, Miguel Angel Trevino Morales –..."

June 13, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

The Specialist

"...bridge and take out a drug dealer as his Land Rover passes by. Stallone goes into a fit when..."

Oct. 14, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Future Was in Toronto

Toronto International Film Festival showcased the fall's big films

"...for which I made exceptions were Nicole Holofcener's The Land of Steady Habits, which is currently streaming. Holofcener (Enough..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

City of Ghosts

Battling ISIS with journalism

"...Documentary filmmaker Heineman’s last film was the Oscar-nominated Cartel Land, and City of Ghosts only ups the ante..."

July 28, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Robert Lorenz Takes Aim at The Marksman

Writer/director on why Liam Neeson is the new Clint Eastwood

"...his Taken career; and if you hear "Hollywood border cartel movie," you'll envision all the clichés. But director Robert..."

Jan. 14, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Critics Announce Award Nominees

Carol leads nominations with seven nods

"...Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley, Inside Out Alex Garland, Ex Machina Taylor Sheridan, Sicario Josh Singer & Tom..."

Dec. 16, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Reefer Roundup 12/14/2010

News from the front line of the War on Drugs

"...Ted Poe joins the fight against pot-growing on federal land...."

Dec. 14, 2010 News Post by Jordan Smith

Carmen

Did Bizet's classic tragic opera need a soft reboot?

"...home when her mother is murdered by a drug cartel. (I think? The film’s inciting incident, a gripping flamenco..."

July 7, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Inherent Vice

Highbrow mixes with lowbrow in Paul Thomas Anderson's screen adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's novel.

"...been forever crippled by Altamont, Charles Manson, and California’s land-grab capitalism (shades of Chinatown), and Nixon’s silent majority lurks..."

Jan. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Reefer Roundup 12/2/10

News from the frontline of the War on Drugs

"...seized only roughly $41 million leaving the U.S. across land borders. "CBP is unable to inspect every traveler leaving..."

Dec. 2, 2010 News Post by Jordan Smith

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

The blurbing of SXSW

"...9:30pm, Austin Music Hall Forget L.A.; it was Finland's Hanoi Rocks that perfected glam metal and sax-playing shrieker..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...its charm and character away. A lot of Austintatious landmarks have already closed for the sake of growth. I..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Column

Mueller No Utopia

"...the project like the city, project managers, and neighborhood/environmental cartel have done [“Building Utopia,” News, Sept. 29]. It sounds..."

Oct. 3, 2006 Postmarks

How DPS's Occupation of a Border Town May Have Crippled Its Economy

Rio Grande City sees a marked decline in sales and tourism

"...judge's bailiwick is Starr County, an arrowhead-shaped stretch of land about an hour west of McAllen that abuts the..."

Oct. 6, 2017 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

Mobilize & Organize for Immigrants

"...others, was unlucky enough to be targeted by the cartel. He ran, but, knowing his family would never be..."

Nov. 12, 2019 Postmarks

Texas Thriller Coyote Lake Draws Suspense From True Crime

On the shores of the border with filmmaker Sara Selig­man

"..."The police tried to do an investigation, but the cartel didn't let them get in there." She started researching..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin Filmmaker David Blue Garcia Goes Back to the Border for Tejano

Guns, drugs, and laughs in this microbudget thriller

"...his property. "This man defended his home against the cartels with a hunting rifle, until they finally overtook him."..."

March 29, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

DPS Troopers Push Undocumented Immigrants Into a Deportation Pipeline

Spike in traffic stops raises concerns about racial profiling, faulty record keeping, and the damage done to families

"...They lasted a week inside their home, until the landlord evicted them. They abandoned the family's used furniture, asked..."

June 2, 2017 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

Texas Book Festival 2016: The Full List

TBF hosts Don DeLillo, Thomas Dolby, Emma Cline, 277 more

"...will be back; plus, there's Texas true-crime specialist Skip Hollandsworth (The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for..."

Sept. 15, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Reefer Roundup 1/26/11

Your drug war news, all in one place!

"...Reynosa was decidedly less elaborate: Found on communal village land, the tunnel's entrance was covered only by a "table,..."

Jan. 26, 2011 News Post by Jordan Smith

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing SXSW 04 music – Wednesday only

"...Super Secret/Mortville 8pm-2am, Beerland Super Secret and Mortville are two Austin-based labels specializing..."

March 12, 2004 Music Feature

Austin Record Convention

Live Shot

"...purchased from DJ Smoove, I was most happy to land a series of early 2 Live Crew singles as..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Music Review by Robert Gabriel

Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?

"...merely a four-paragraph item: evidence that the Colombian drug cartel contributed money to Mexican presidential elections. So not only..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura

Live Shots

"...and all the interesting places exploring that relationship can land you. -- Christopher Hess..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Music Feature

Amor Prohibido

Selena's Crossover Dream

"...from the gun of her fan club president/business associate Yolanda Saldívar. Despite her star status, Selena was only a..."

June 28, 1996 Books Feature