Gemini Man

It's Will Smith vs. a younger Will Smith

"...It’s not enough that government assassin Henry Brogan (Smith) can still shoot a man in a..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Day Trips

"...Out back of the store, Clay Henry, the mayor who is a goat, still guzzles..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...Last Days of Disco, Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight, Henry Jaglom's Déjà Vu, Hal Hartley's Henry Fool, Tom DiCillo's..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

VHYes

Bizarro tribute to camcorder culture is silly and profound

"...Directed by: Jack Henry Robbins. Starring: Mason McNulty, Rahm Braslaw, Lindsley Allen, Kerri..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film Announces Features Lineup

Competitive narratives and docs unveiled, plus more

"...Disrupt and Reform America's Public Universities drops, as does Clay Liford's Slash, a humorous dive into the realm of..."

Feb. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Readers Poll

"...Pho 75, Tan TanBEST BREAKFASTKerbey Lane CafeRUNNERS-UPMagnolia Cafe, Roy Henry's Famous Chicken & Waffles, Omelettry..."

May 12, 2000 Food Feature

SXSW 2025 Heads to The Studio With Seth Rogen

New films from Ben Affleck, Nicole Kidman, Nic Cage added to fest

"...Genevieve Hudson-Price, Liz Caribel Sierra, Ajay Naidu, Richard Price, Henry Czerny (World Premiere)..."

Jan. 22, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Further Reflections

"...under this thing we might could make it hop-to. --Clay Smith..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

Austin Critics Table Nominations, 2002-2003

The full list of nominations for the 2002-2003 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art

"...Henry V, Austin Shakespeare Festival..."

May 9, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Fall Film Previews

September

"...CLAY PIGEONS..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

'Sleep Toward Heaven'

We're not reviewing Amanda Eyre Ward's debut novel, Sleep Toward Heaven, and we're not interviewing her as an author, either, because she has contributed to The Austin Chronicle for more than three years. It would be a conflict of interest. We are, however, excerpting an early chapter of the book, and we are proud and happy to do so.

"...am a friend of Amanda's, as is my predecessor, Clay Smith, and Screens editor Kimberley Jones, and because I..."

March 21, 2003 Books Feature

Anime, Activism, and Aerodynamics in This Weekend’s Recommended Events

Arts and culture abound!

"...and conservation in Walden (remix). Instead of strictly retelling Henry David Thoreau’s isolated-ish years in a cabin by Walden..."

April 4, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Texas Writers Month Events, May 2-May 9

"...one of the judges for the 25th Annual O. Henry Pun-Off. Lederer is a regular guest on the weekend..."

May 3, 2002 Books Feature

SXSW Film Announces 2015 Lineup

Circling the Thunderdome

"...THE BOY Director: Craig Macneill, Screenwriters: Craig Macneill, Clay McLeod Chapman THE BOY is an intimate portrait of..."

Feb. 3, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Pirates!: Band of Misfits

Whether it's Pirates or Wallace and Gromit or Chicken Run, Aardman's stop-motion animation delivers the goods.

"...Christmas, the British animation studio here returns to the clay figures and stop-motion techniques that earned them such success..."

April 27, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Friggin' Genius

SXSW Film announces feature film lineup

"...The One, directed by Mike Dolan, Earthling, directed by Clay Liford, Helena from the Wedding, directed by Joseph Ifantolino,..."

Feb. 4, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Who's Texas?

The story of Texas history says a lot -- about the storytellers

"...landscape artists, and one painter of historical subjects named Henry McArdle, of whom even the loyalist Handbook of Texas..."

Sept. 6, 2002 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Where They're Coming From

Connecting the Dots of Texas Writers Month 2002

"...year, and Holland was being quoted by Books Editor Clay Smith about the Poster for a story on the..."

June 7, 2002 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Play It Again, Sam

All About Eve (1950)

"...cards, or that other Western canard, drunk floozies. (7/7-8) --Clay Smith Duck Soup Duck Soup (1933)..."

June 4, 1999 Screens Feature

Making Lists

"...piece, transferred the old American lit dichotomy of Paleface/Redskin (Henry James vs. Mark Twain) to Texas, and characterized literary..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Spike & Mike's '97 Festival of Animation

"...goofy. Stiffy, by Canadian Brian McPhail, is a simple claymation look at a lonely little lad who receives that..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Untrained Wonders

UT's Exhibition of Self-Taught Artists Features Miracles

"...Driver's miraculous recovery from an accident; Frank Jones and Henry Ray Clark's incarceration in prison; Eddie Arning's release to..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...Dir/ed: Kyle Henry; Prod: Calvin N. Preece, Dan Delaney, Kyle Henry; DP:..."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

Arrested Development?

Young-at-heart Austin is home to a booming Young Adult literature scene

"...success was not lost on the festival's literary director, Clay Smith. "YA events for us are always harder to..."

Dec. 24, 2010 Books Feature by Melanie Haupt

AFF Announces Film Lineup

Black Swan! Meek's Cutoff! Blue Valentine!

"...Premiere) Fair Game – Doug Liman (Director), Jez & John-Henry Butterworth (Writers) – (Regional Premiere) High School – John..."

Sept. 21, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Writes of Winter

"...Bay: A Quasi-Novel by John Updike Knopf, $23 hard Henry Bech is a hopeless modernist and a helpless tourist,..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Books Review

Sundance Announces Shorts Program

Texans get the nod

"...In the narrative shorts category, UT grad Clay Liford will show "My Mom Smokes Weed," which previously..."

Dec. 8, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Showdown at Lick Creek

As once clear water runs dark, a community defends its natural heart

"...developers know they have to have certain permits," said Clay Church, a spokesman for the Corps' office in Fort..."

July 2, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...nor to date, had a field researcher (I think Clay Smith should read My Mexico). To the contrary, although..."

March 1, 2002 Column

Heat

"...in high tractor seats perched over spinning globs of clay, learning how to throw pottery...."

July 13, 2001 Features Feature by Robin Bradford

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