DVDanger: From the Dark

Star and director talk monsters, mud, and New Kids on the Block

"...writer/director Conor McMahon created new vampire flick From the Dark, he deliberately stripped its down to the barest of..."

April 11, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Dark Matter

A Chinese student studying theoretical cosmology in the U.S. also has a lot of dark matter occupying his head, and not even the assistance of faculty wife Meryl Streep can prevent it from taking over.

"...If I’ve got this right, cosmologists use the term “dark matter” to refer to the 99% of the universe..."

April 18, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Afraid of the Dark

"...they might have looked something like Afraid of the Dark. This British movie uses common childhood fears and anxieties..."

Nov. 13, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Crossing Over to the Dark Side

Alan Parsons answers the $64,000 question

"...Alan Parsons about his engineering experience for Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. SXSW 08 proved no exception..."

March 20, 2008 Music Post by Austin Powell

Vanilla Sky

"...with a dull clatter where it began, in the dark, with a sibilant female voice whispering “Abre los ojos.”..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Proposed Sports Complex Threatens Dark Skies in River Hills

Westside project faces new wave of resistance

"...a nearby neighborhood wishing to protect its low-light, star-filled sky. The 12 Fields Foundation, a partnership of West Lake..."

Oct. 6, 2017 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

Nazi Schmatzi: 'Iron Sky' Ist die Bombe

SXSW Film 'Iron Sky' reviewed

"...Nazi is comedy gold in our book and Iron Sky, from Finnish director Timo Vuorensola, is a crackerjack bit..."

March 13, 2012 SXSW Post by Marc Savlov

Circle Sky

For your resident Head, the Monkees' Michael Nesmith still lassos 'Circle Sky' country-rock

"...a mixtape more than 40 years before our new-millennial Dark Night of the Soul. Danger Mouse on LSD...."

Feb. 18, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Space and Distance: A Joint Interview With Balmorhea and Explosions in the Sky

How Austin’s landmark instrumental outfits soundtrack the state of Texas

"...Chris Hrasky wishes there was a better backstory to Big Bend..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Bringing Joy to Grief in Apple TV+'s The Sky Is Everywhere

And B. Iden Payne winner Jacques Colimon is the sun

"...leads of the strange and luscious new drama The Sky Is Everywhere. But for Austin audiences, he's recognizable as..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

A Moonless, Starless Sky

This journalist’s accounts of ordinary people seeking to create good in Africa is challenging, frightening, and powerful

"...our cultural awareness. A book like A Moonless, Starless Sky seizes our attention and reminds us that the lives..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

Altamesa Gets Dark in Video for New Single “Interstate”

Premiere courts the ghosts that haunt late-night desert highways

"...vinyl single on Mr. Pink Records, “Interstate” b/w “Yellow Sky.”..."

May 28, 2020 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon

When the album becomes Immersion

"...Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon (Capitol)..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Music Feature by Austin Powell

DVDanger: Dark Skies

Keri Russell is a modern suburban scream queen

"...Dark Skies (Starz/Anchor Bay, Blu-Ray combo pack) should not to..."

June 3, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Review: The Dark Red

Psychic powers and powerful delusions in this bloody thriller

"...Signal and The Reconstruction of William Zero. Yet The Dark Red pushes that into surprisingly grisly territory, even in..."

Oct. 27, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Angel in the Dark

The last release from pop noir princess Laura Nyro.

"...Angel in the Dark, released last week on Rounder Records, was recorded in..."

April 6, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Texas School for the Blind’s "I Can’t Hear You, It’s Too Dark in Here"

TSBVI student artists go WEST with an exhibition of their work

"...Mikkah is a landscape featuring a broad waterfall under dark hills and a red sky. The students' teacher, Gretchen..."

May 12, 2017 Arts Feature by Sam Anderson-Ramos

The Great Gig in the Sky

The best albums of our lives – and the afterlife

"...up his gear for the great gig in the sky...."

Jan. 2, 2015 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Cinematexas Heads for That Big Screening in the Sky...

But festival season soldiers on

"...highly anticipated gore-fest Five Across the Eyes, and enough dark and fantastic cinema and animation to blow your brain..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

U2

When the album becomes Immersion

"... pronounces Bono in a DVD documentary titled From the Sky Down, the best supplement herein. Released two years before..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

DVDanger: The Hallow

There’s something evil in the woods

"...that Robert Frost was wrong. The woods may be dark and deep, but they are far from lovely. In..."

April 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: The Club

Home release roundup time

"...for sins against the church. The Club is its dark kin, but there's little humor here...."

May 21, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Light Versus Night

UT's video guide to cutting light pollution

"...what they're missing when they blank out the night sky with unnecessary or badly-aligned bulbs...."

July 1, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: If There's a Hell Below

Director Nathan Williams on his post-Snowden thriller

"...If There's a Hell Below – intelligence analysts with dark secrets in their archives...."

Dec. 10, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Shining Star: Dripping Springs Conquers Light Pollution

Ranch town awarded for outdoor lighting ordinance

"...almost mythical, that owes much to the immense night sky. Georgia O'Keeffe painted it just before daybreak as an..."

Feb. 14, 2014 News Feature by Brandon Watson

Opinion: Wildflower Center Fails Its Conservation Mission by Lighting Up Its Landscape

Field of Light exhibit glamorizes outdoor landscape lighting and ignores light pollution's harmful effects on wildlife, plants, and human health

"...harm light pollution does to our view of the sky and to wildlife...."

Sept. 23, 2022 Column by Soll Sussman

"Krista Steinke: Good Luck With the Sun" at W&TW

These spectacular images of the sun and sky captured with homemade pinhole cameras reveal more about us than celestial objects

"...cognizance of the sun: where it is in the sky, where to escape it or else bathe in it,..."

June 1, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

Chicken Little

Disney's first all-CGI, made-in-house, animated feature is painful for all ages, despite a voice-talent roster to make the angels weep.

"...on the head with a mysterious octagonal piece of sky, he becomes the laughingstock of Oakey Oaks, a sylvan..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Day Trips & Beyond: May Events Roundup

It's a great time to get out and explore

"...on April 14 that the Greater Big Bend International Dark Sky Reserve, which includes parts of northern Mexico, is..."

May 5, 2022 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

This animated Batman is from the same folks behind the TV cartoon series, and is a diverting take on the Caped Crusader.

"...Eric Radomski and Bruce W. Timm. Not exactly the Dark Knight you'll always remember, but a diverting one, and..."

Dec. 31, 1993 Movie Review by Robert Faires

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