The Shape of Water

An unconventional love story from one of the best fabulists

"...Fear and loathing of The Other is always with us,..."

Dec. 8, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Fate of the Furious

The car thieves are back to save the world

"...Kurt Russell, Nathalie Emmanuel, Scott Eastwood, Elsa Pataky and Kristofer Hivju...."

April 14, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Midnighters Bring the Fear

"Exists", "13 Sins" and "The Guest" kick down the door

"...SXSW has just announced its Midnighters, and it's all fear and nothing but. Festival producer and senior programmer Jarod..."

Feb. 5, 2014 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Ballad of Townes & Blaze

The twisted but not-so-tall tale of Van Zandt and Foley, Lonesome Dove meets Barfly

"...The jigsaw of geography in filmmaking is such that one day during..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Features Feature by Sybil Rosen

Shades of the Past

Austin's ghosts, from pioneer times to the present

"...shades have settled in like dust. Did the lives of certain of our forebears cut a groove so deep..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature

The Bio of John Wesley Hardin The Fortysomething Killer

"...quality. While still a teenager, he earned the respect of noted gunslingers like Bill Longley, Ben Thompson, Jeff Milton,..."

Sept. 8, 1995 Arts Feature

Born on the Fourth of July

Explosions in the Sky are blowing up. (Sorry, we resisted the pun as long as we could.)

"...A surge of lightning flickers as thunder cracks above the rumble of..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

Meet Me at Waterloo Records: Playing, Shopping, and Encountering Life-Changing Moments at the Heart of Austin Music

Influential Austin characters reminice on 40 years of playing, shopping, and encountering life-changing moments at the heart of Austin music

"...flashed back to my fourth day in Texas: Fourth of July, 1992. Crossing over through El Paso 72 hours..."

April 8, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Last Shotgun Blast of SXSW Film Programming

'Hobo,' Spike's 'Scenes From the Suburbs,' and more

"...fans salivating on title alone. In its last reveal of the 2011 fest lineup, SXSW announced Hobo as one..."

Feb. 10, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

War of Words

Hays County planning battle turns into a war of words.

"...As stewards of one of the fastest-growing areas in the nation, Hays..."

July 7, 2000 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

DVDanger: 'Tower Block'

UK suspense with a thick slice of social realism and bloodshed

"...from Shout! Factory) drops you right in the heart of such a dilapidated development. The story is a simple..."

July 8, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'Crimewave'

Sam Raimi's weirdest, plus nunsploitation and swinging sleazy London

"...just completed Fargo. They bonded over their shared love of quirky rural crime dramas and the problems of shooting..."

May 18, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

No Country for Old Men

The Coen brothers display magnificent form with this Cormac McCarthy tale about intransigent evil in the modern West.

"...first like an odd pairing: the Coen brothers, they of the dark-humored film genre conflations, and Cormac McCarthy, the..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Confrontational Cinema

Companion doc to The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence revisits Indonesian atrocities

"...They are reflections of each other. The dreaming man is from Joshua Oppenheimer's..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Shrewd Productions' Alabaster

This deeply felt staging of Audrey Cefaly's new play brings us into a home where loss lives to show us when to leave

"...it will set. And we all feel the length of its day differently, each of us in our own..."

March 6, 2020 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Excited About Life

Friends keenly mourn the death of Esme Barrera

"...when she spotted Esmeralda Barrera right up in front of the stage. Barrera was "so enthusiastic," Blue recently recalled,..."

Jan. 13, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Letters at 3AM

To be an artist is to live a life of service to one's gift.

"...the streetlamps' light as they fell ... the gentleness of their descent and the harshness of the air, damp..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Psychopaths

More murder and mayhem from Mickey Keating

"...bad things just because they can. The gory Night of Chaos ensues after mass murderer Starkweather (indie horror icon..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...in Dawson neighborhood, I am terrified by the city of Austin's mandatory zoning changes which create a "Neighborhood Plan..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Column

'The Butcher's Hands'

Short Story Contest second-place winner

"...1935, the month of July: while the rest of Spain suffered through a..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Books Feature by Dana De Greff

Where the Shadows Are Deepest

The search for, and subsequent conversation with, country singer James Hand

"...Writing about music offers many rewards, but seldom does it present an opportunity..."

May 5, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Secrets Shared

The documentary photos of Donna DeCesare

"...DeCesare's photos raise a curtain on the darkest side of childhood. From her current featured work documenting exploited Central..."

Nov. 3, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Dark Shadows

Billy Miller on the return of Cold Sun at Austin Psych Fest

"...Cold Sun is an anomaly in Texas psych history. As..."

April 29, 2011 Music Post by Austin Powell

Cicadas

Honorable Mention

"...from the sidewalk catches your eye: it's the wing of a cicada; you see the other wing; and a..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Books Feature by Billy Cope

Double Jeopardy

The state of Texas jailed Cuban exile Carlos Lavernia for 16 years for a crime he did not commit. Now the INS might send him back to Cuba.

"...years ago. But somewhere between his hassles with immigration officials and his dealings with the Austin Police Department, the..."

Feb. 23, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

Play It Again, Sam

All About Eve (1950)

"...ethereally beautiful Marilyn Monroe as Miss Caswell, "a graduate of the Copacabana School of Dramatic Arts." Mankiewicz's script and..."

June 4, 1999 Screens Feature

New to DVD

You can turn your back on a drug, but never turn your back on Criterion Collection DVD #175, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, an "eerie trumpet call over a lost battlefield."

"...Fear and Loathing in Las VegasThe Criterion Collection, $39.95 It..."

March 7, 2003 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

bottom

Second place

"...was still lighting the smoke pots: the other men of the infantry spread out and vanished from sight: because..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Books Feature by William Sparks

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...work in 50 minutes and have time to drop off her kids. I admire Mike Dahmus and Patrick Goetz..."

May 30, 2003 Column

Letters at 3AM

Monet's Water Lilies transport us to a time before the definition of eyesight and humanity.

"...as a typesetter on Sixth Avenue, in the basement of an immense building, several levels below the street level..."

June 8, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

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