Eat Me, Maybe?

MC Chris does Carly Rae Jepsen via George Romero's cookies

"...We just came across this amazing and totally NSFW smashup that left..."

Sept. 9, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Dead Girl Talking

Showtime approaches the subject of death with Dead Like Me, a new series that moves the focus from those left behind to those dearly departed.

"...a subject matter, it was only a matter of time before there were imitators. Even the Cartoon Network took..."

June 27, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Speaking of the Dead

To mark the Grateful Dead's final performances this weekend, a look back on the band's local history

"...Austin receives no such shout-out in "Truckin'," the Grateful Dead's highest-charting single of the Seventies. The psychedelic shamans also..."

July 3, 2015 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Graceful Dead

Almost 50 years of Jerry Garcia worship comes full circle

"...When word of the Grateful Dead began oozing out of San Francisco in 1966, they..."

June 30, 2015 Music Post by Bill Bentley

Dawn of the Dead

It's hard to keep a good zombie down

"...Directed by: Zack Snyder. Starring: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Mekhi Phifer, Ty Burrell, Michael Kelly and..."

March 26, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Everything Went Black: I Was Dead Before Dead Was Cool

Shoot him in the head. He's dead, he's all messed up

"...I have watched the zombie media apocalypse overtake American pop culture with a mix of..."

Oct. 17, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Drag Me to Hell

Sam Raimi makes a triumphant return to the "splatstick" horror genre he more or less invented with The Evil Dead and its two sequels.

"...Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver, Dileep Rao, David Paymer, Adriana Barraza, Chelcie Ross and Reggie Lee. Drag Me..."

May 29, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead

Every generation gets the George A. Romero socio-political zombie opus they deserve. We must be living right, because this new film cuts right to the heart.

"...Directed by: George A. Romero. Starring: Joshua Close, Michelle Morgan, Scott Wentworth, Shawn Roberts,..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Reviving 'The Dead'

Fantastic Fest 2010 zombie horror returns this weekend

"...revenant have risen again! Fantastic Fest 2010 fave The Dead returns for a highly limited run this week, and..."

Oct. 6, 2011 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

The Ones Who Will Take Your Dead

Director's real life experiences with gang members inspire horror

"...Winston Wolf. Charlie from John Wick. Crime drama has a long history of cleaners: Not the..."

June 15, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Quick and the Dead

"...interminably, laying out ritualized gunfight after ritualized gunfight, while fragments of the wholly predictable backstory waft about like so..."

Feb. 10, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Over Her Dead Body

In this DOA romantic comedy, Eva Longoria Parker plays a ghost who haunts her former fiancé-to-be when it's time for him to move on.

"...Sheppard and Wendi McLendon-Covey. There’s just no end to America’s love affair with blandness, is there? Every time some..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

DOA: Dead or Alive

Female fighters start out as enemies but strip down to their bikini tops to fight a common foe.

"...Directed by: Corey Yuen. Starring: Jaime Pressly, Holly Valance, Devon Aoki, Sarah Carter, Natassia Malthe,..."

June 22, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

That's the Way I Like it

"...Starring: Kumar, Steven Lim, Pierre Png, Anna Belle Francis, Medaline Tan and Adrian Pang. Disco dead? Perish the thought...."

Oct. 22, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Remember Me

Robert Pattinson gets to sink his teeth into something more than posturing in this refreshingly rendered love story.

"...lot in common: a shared philosophy class, overbearing fathers, dead relatives. Ally's mother was murdered in front of her..."

March 12, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not

Colombani's debut features a finely nuanced and altogether striking performance by Tautou, whose wide eyes adroitly reflect an inner world that ricochets from hopelessly in love to simply hopeless.

"...Colombani. Starring: Audrey Tautou, Samuel Le Bihan, Isabelle Carré, Clément Sibony and Sophie Guillemin. The pathology of Eros gets..."

March 7, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Other Worlds Review: Dead Dicks

The realities of depression meets the trap of reincarnation

"...It sounds like a bad joke. It's a title designed to draw..."

Dec. 11, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Garth Manor Brings Out the Dead

FX maestro Robert Kurtzman on the seminal Evil Dead 2

"...The elevator pitch for 1987's classic comedy-horror Evil Dead 2 would be simple: the same, but..."

July 31, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Thrill Me, Creep

Night of the Creeps reunion at the Alamo Ritz

"...thinking the world was coming to its exhaust-choked, living dead end last night, particularly if you were in the..."

June 14, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Danny and Michael Philippou Say Talk to Me

Creators of the new A24 horror on the foolishness of youth

"...In new A24 horror, Talk to Me, the greatest peril is not the supernatural force surrounding..."

July 27, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

FF2011: 'Juan of the Dead' Premiere

A love letter from Cuba to Austin, signed in zombie blood

"...Last night's US debut of Juan of the Dead was a strange sort of homecoming for Havana's first..."

Sept. 24, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

'Deliver Me'

First-place winner

"...gravel popping under tires, checked the door one last time – locked – and stepped down onto the driveway...."

Feb. 12, 2010 Books Feature by John Roberts

All Over Me

"...and rich and they spend most of their after-school time up in Claude's bedroom practicing and just hanging out...."

July 4, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Opinion: As a Transgender Person, I Am Afraid That Staying in Texas May Harm Me in the Future

Why does Texas attorney general Ken Paxton want to know about me?

"...article in The Washington Post that was specifically about me. I don't think that happens too often to most..."

Jan. 6, 2023 Column by Kat Steele

Call Me by Your Name

Tenderness comes in many tongues in this coming-of-age romance

"...Directed by: Luca Guadagnino. Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, Victoire..."

Dec. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me

Touching documentary captures Campbell's final tour, which is made more poignant and brave because of the musician's worsening Alzheimer's.

"...Directed by: James Keach...."

Nov. 21, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Graveyard: Ungrateful Are We the Dead

Graveyard

"...“I’m been alive and I’ve been dead,” cries Nilsson, “Must be something wrong with my head.”..."

Sept. 9, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

My Life Without Me

Unusual film about dying young avoids sentimentality.

"...by: Isobel Coixet. Starring: Sarah Polley, Mark Ruffalo, Amanda Plummer, Scott Speedman, Deborah Harry and Maria de Medeiros. One..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin Improv Celebrates the Day of the Dead With La Vida de los Muertos

Hideout Theatre breathes life into una vida improvisada

"...Not yet changed out of their bright costumes and excellent sugar-skull makeup, Cat Drago and J.R. Zambrano..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Arts Feature by Trey Gutierrez

Lit-urday: 'Some Dead Genius'

Lenny Kleinfeld paints a vivid portrait of murder in Chi-town

"...book – let's call it Lit-urday. Maybe you feel like getting out of town, feel like dropping in on..."

July 12, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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