Holiday Viewing: The Dead

The shadow of Christmas past hangs long over Huston's classic

"...O, the rain falls on my heavy locks And the dew..."

Dec. 4, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Flirting With the Bizarre: Isaac Ezban Unleashes Párvulos: Children of the Apocalypse

New zombie horror bites into the family dynamics of brothers

"...If there’s defining streak to the films of Isaac Ezban, it’s..."

April 4, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sleeping With the Television On

Teething Problems at the Austin Music Network

"...will star George Kennedy, and if you flip on the Austin Music Network, you'll see footage from the Austin..."

Feb. 21, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

'The Ultimate Christmas Musical: The Musical!' Saving the season with every Christmas story you've ever heard

The Yellow Tape gang works its high-energy, kitschy, crowd-pleasing magic on the holidays

"...Consulting a trademark attorney before conjuring the name of a production company most likely does not..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Gets Political With the Chronicle

He should be a prime-time news analyst. Televisions would melt.

"...Interviewed by phone Feb. 19 in London on the occasion of a keynote appearance at the subsequently canceled..."

March 20, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Weird, Weird West

Giddings gets retro-futuristic for Weird West Fest

"...Strap on your best leather chaps and fire up that home-crafted iron horse: The..."

Dec. 12, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Taking the Temperature of 'Cold in July'

The film based on Joe Lansdale's novel, 'Cold in July,' is a gnarled tale of modern horror

"...Joe Lansdale's novel Cold in July, he expected a by-the-numbers thriller. What he got, instead, pulled not just the..."

May 30, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Holiday Viewing: The Spirit of Christmas

A ridiculous delight in the Hallmark movie pantheon

"...It’s becoming a modern Christmas tradition: the inundation of holiday romances. Almost 30 movies..."

Dec. 12, 2017 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Jingle All the Way

"...Robert Conrad, Martin Mull and James Belushi. Jingle All the Way is yet another scary, mean-spirited, holiday “comedy” that's..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Eye of the Beholder

"...time after viewing a midmorning press screening of Elliott's (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) new film..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...South by Southwest audiences have seen the artier side of Ryan Gosling with films like the..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

A Way With Guns

Young writer Kevin Wood grew up with BB guns, and rifles and hunting, so it was a bit of a shock for him to discover that he wasn't as comfortable with a handgun.

"...Last week, my father and I went to a gun range -- you..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Features Feature by Kevin Wood

DVDanger: The Battery

Jeremy Gardner and Adam Cronheim swing for the fences

"...Necessity is the mother of invention. Sometimes, so are road blocks. That's..."

Sept. 13, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Get Real. Get Right. Get Savage: The Return of Barrence Whitfield

Whitfield rekindles his local love affair

"...Barrence Whitfield & the Savages' visits to Austin in the Nineties are things..."

June 27, 2012 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

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

"...SXSW has strapped on the rockets with not just a few titles for this..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Crunk Christmas

The curse (and charms) of Christmas albums

"...Having made it through Scott Weiland's new Christmas coaster, The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, I..."

Dec. 20, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Mark the Calendar for A John Waters Christmas

The filmmaker and raconteur takes on COVID arguments, sloppy airplane dressing, and how to be rich with class

"...No one wants the same present every Christmas. Yet we all have that..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things

Star Alan Ormsby on the counterculture zombie classic

"...1972, when Alan Ormsby starred in Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things, it was all fresh meat. Ormsby said,..."

Feb. 26, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Budget Implosion

School finance runs aground, but health spending will follow soon

"...Does anyone really know what's happening with school finance reform? Quick answer, no, but if there..."

May 24, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

A Christmas Carol

Zach Theatre's musical version abounds in great voices, but it may drown out Dickens with songs

"...There are two types of people in this world: those..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Review by Laura Jones

Playback: Crazed for Christmas

Grammy nominations, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductions, and eight days of Christmas

"...its holiday spirit. Like department stores that begin playing Christmas jingles on December 1, we've already blown our festive..."

Dec. 19, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Back in the Realm of the Senses and Provoking All Five

AFS Essential Cinema presents Smashing the Rules: Films of Oshima Nagisa

"..."In the first place, to make films is a criminal act..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Luv Doc: Your Gaping Existential Void

Surprise! Unlike Jesus, the Luv Doc doesn’t have a sure-fire formula for eternal happiness.

"...job, but he really only pretends to look through the listings and never follows through. I am not asking..."

Dec. 29, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc

The Luv Doc: Turkey Day Decorating Tips

Get your turkey day feng shui together with this helpful list.

"...Once again it’s time to ramp up the holiday schmaltz, if only to remind ourselves that we..."

Nov. 29, 2013 Column by The Luv Doc

A Decade Under the Influence

The 'Chronicle' movie critics take a look back at what the Aughts wrought

"...'I'm Sorry I Beat Up the Bathroom'..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

From the Ridiculous to the Sublime

How do you take Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and, in less than a month, condense it into a 100-minute one-man play, with the actor playing 20 characters from the novel plus a New York City drag queen? Everett Quinton and Eureka, veterans of the fabled Ridiculous Theatre Company and creators of Twisted Olivia, explain how they did it.

"...characters in a 19th-century English novel, portraying some of them with dolls and one with just a baseball cap..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Taste of Things

Charming touching tale of love between two middle-aged chefs in 19th-century France

"...From its English-language title, French-Vietnamese filmmaker Trần Anh Hùng’s The Taste of Things (La passion de Dodin Bouffant) could..."

Feb. 9, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Grudge

A new haunting from the J-horror franchise

"...If you’re looking for the dead bodies of abandoned studio horrors, January is the..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Horror for the Holidays, Part 1

Vintage re-releases for unseasonal scares

"...Let's be honest, no one is really ready for the holidays this year. It's hard to get festive when..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The AggreGAYtor: December 18

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...Hawaii mourns Daniel Inouye, and Honey Boo Boo reasons the season. Away in the manger, no crib for a..."

Dec. 18, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

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