Mountain Men

Estranged brothers exchange truths while stuck in the woods

"...the film never fully convinces us of its characters’ cold, pain, and desperation, their brotherly sparring keeps the story..."

Jan. 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Point Austin: In Defense of the Public Square

We need to keep rejecting publicly the preposterous notion that ubiquitous guns make us safer

"...of the announcement; see "Public Notice: Out of Their Cold Dead Brains," Jan. 8). In fact, the measures (most..."

Jan. 15, 2016 News Column by Michael King

Tennessee Ernie Ford

"...pop (the mesmerizing arrangement of "In the Pines"), while "Cold, Cold Heart" and "Half as Much" (1960) close with..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Music Review by Doug Freeman

AC Date Night: Emmer & Rye and Geraldine's

Temperatures rising on Rainey Street

"...tune hasn't left my head: "You're hot then you're cold/ You're yes then you're no ...." (You're welcome.) But..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Food Column by Adrienne White

Opal Divine’s 13th Annual Whisky Festival: A Review

A night of quaffs from those distant lands where the wild haggis roam

"...of fruits and veggies and cubed cheeses and rolled cold cuts of ham and salami and so forth, there..."

Dec. 7, 2015 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Spectre

Spectre brings the spectacle, but it lacks a soul

"...Cold open to a breathtaking sequence in Mexico City during..."

Nov. 6, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Food Food Food Fest

Your guide to the best festival eating

"...be enjoyed with seminal Bronx DJ Afrika Bambaataa, and Cold Ones' paletas will cool you down after shaking it..."

Nov. 6, 2015 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

ICE Still in Austin

Travis County Commissioners Court asks sheriff to stop honoring ICE detainer requests

"...claiming that cooperating is not optional, but mandatory (see "Cold as ICE," July 4, 2014). But Caceres is buoyed..."

Oct. 30, 2015 News Feature by Tony Cantú

Labyrinth of Lies

German postwar drama looks at national psyche scarred by the Nazi era

"...U.S. and the Soviet Union became embroiled in their Cold War dance, Germany was left to heal on its..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Daito

The best Japanese restaurant you've never heard of

"...is the canvas for a variety of preparations. The cold, dipping-style curry tsuke udon ($9) was a luxurious brown,..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Hitman: Agent 47

A great old video game is back for a lackluster film reboot

"...him, so stop fucking shooting him!). Friend, as the cold, emotionless, overly competent assassin who dispatches an endless supply..."

Aug. 21, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Planting the Seeds

Commercial kitchens keep Austin cooking

"...cooking stations, a dishwashing area, plus some dry and cold storage, but the air conditioning is limited. Each new..."

Aug. 21, 2015 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Brian Kremer

"...Standards like "Don't Fence Me In" and Hank Williams' "Cold, Cold Heart" are executed with the same care and..."

Aug. 21, 2015 Music Review by Abby Johnston

Confrontational Cinema

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

"...as Communists, and this was the height of the Cold War, many Western nations applauded the genocide. The story..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Terminator: Genisys

The Governator is back

"...the director’s most action and emotion-laden pre-CGI spectaculars: the stone-cold classic The Terminator, 1986’s relentlessly dark Aliens, and 1989’s..."

July 3, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

10 Things to Do in Austin This Fourth of July

Not sure what to do this Independence Day?

"...is sure to be quite the night with a Cold Lampin’ DJ on patio, pool, dunk booth, crawfish boil..."

July 1, 2015 Events Post by Shannon Shankman

Good Kill

Ethan Hawke pilots drones over Afghanistan from a trailer in the Nevada desert

"...but the character’s existential despair is evident. Unfortunately, the hot-and-cold dynamic of Egan’s deteriorating marriage in director/screenwriter Niccol’s script..."

June 12, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared

A bestselling Swedish novel jumps to screen with inevitable Forrest Gump comparisons

"...becomes a double agent for the CIA during the Cold War, confers with Ronald Reagan, etc. Throughout it all,..."

June 5, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Someone’s Got a Soul Grudge and It’s Gonna Hurt Like Whoa

Blue High Machine Mid-Southern Wrestling Coalition brings the pain

"...Cartwright smiles, but it’s the smile of a stone cold killer – a stone cold killer who’ll be defending..."

May 26, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Slow West

A whimsical and wistful fable follows a young romantic and a hard-nosed realist out West

"...left to smolder and desperate settlers gunned down in cold blood, reflects the bleak promise of the land and..."

May 22, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

The Unwanted

Sheridan Le Fanu's vampire story Carmilla is given a Southern Gothic edge

"...after all – but this cutter-meets-cuter reworking left me cold and dead inside...."

May 22, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

First Look: Craftsman

Vintage charm and craft cocktails

"...Dead Man Walking adds Reyka vodka, Disaronno amaretto, Chameleon Cold Brew, and orange juice to the bubbles. The sweetness..."

May 20, 2015 Food Post by Andrew Thomas

B.B. King Saved My Life

He played blues so we can find a way through ours

"...King concert was at the Pladium Ballroom on a cold winter night in 1967. I went alone, and walked..."

May 15, 2015 Music Post by Bill Bentley

Introducing the New Official Beer of Austin

ATX has a brewed awakening

"...Austinite, for that matter. If someone handed you a cold one today, you would no doubt drink it. There..."

May 15, 2015 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Counter 3. Five. VII

Congress Avenue's new math

"...If that seems a little cold, well, it is somewhat at first (which is not..."

May 8, 2015 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Good Sports

Austin food should go to bat

"...for running, biking, and swimming long distances like a cold, locally crafted brew. But why should Williamson get all..."

April 10, 2015 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

The Gunman

Sean Penn stars as a regretful ex-mercenary in this international game of cat and mouse

"...never takes because you’re only fleetingly acquainted with the cold-blooded killer who appears in the film’s first 20 minutes...."

March 20, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Red Army

Doc presents the Russian team members' views of their stunning defeat by the U.S. during the 1980 Olympics

"...ice.” Placed squarely within the context of the Reagan-era Cold War, when the Soviets were derided as an “evil..."

March 20, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: I Hear Voices

Horror elevated aurally by Henry Rollins and Jeffrey Combs

"...has seen him steadily been moving across the Americas (Cold Sweat and Penumbra in Argentina, The Accursed in Costa..."

March 7, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Leviathan

This Oscar nominee for best Foreign Language film exudes existential Russian angst in cinematic form.

"...individual; power makes might makes right, and the only cold comfort apparent in Leviathan is the omnipresent vodka and..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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