The Red Turtle

Poetic beauty abounds in this animated gem

"...The simple story told in the near-wordless animated feature film..."

Feb. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Beneath the Darkness

This thriller starring Dennis Quaid was filmed in Smithville and Bastrop.

"...Devon Werkheiser and Brett Cullen. Despite its release during the dreaded post-holiday theatrical dumping grounds of January and February,..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation

"...is going on in this Tsui Hark-produced-and-written animated adaptation of his Eighties smash live-action film of the same name,..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In My World of Disorder, the Top 100 Austin Records of 2021

Kevin Curtin ranks his favorite local releases of the year

"...My worst quality, other than making up voices for other people's pets and..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

More Like the Pink Panthers! (Sorry I'm Not as Funny When They Win)

"...This Sunday's game against the Panthers was like my dream come true, complete with..."

Oct. 31, 2006 Sports Post by Jeremy Martin

Music Mo'nday: 5 Favorite New Artists of 2011

Rob's picks for the music's great new hopes

"...In a year full of meh comebacks, Lady Gaga, Radiohead, Panda Bear and so..."

Jan. 9, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

DVDanger: The Club

Home release roundup time

"...There’s a famous and brilliantly subversive British-Irish comedy called Father..."

May 21, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Moon-Shaped Panties & the Saint of White Trash

The Late Lucinda Williams

"...The morning starts normally for Lucinda. Well, maybe not normal,..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Cinematic Wisdom of Hank Sr.

The Last Picture Show with your host Hank Williams Sr.

"...The other night, TCB's dreams of one day going to..."

Feb. 14, 2007 News Post by Christopher Gray

The World <3 Scott Pilgrim

Cast of the nerdcore adventure hit the Highball

"...So with Scott Pilgrim vs. the World hitting cinemas harder than Goro's finisher today, where..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Lessons of Losing: Texas Is No. 2

What's eating Garrett Gilbert?

"...it reminds us just how many more serendipitous lessons there are in losses, for both the losers and the..."

Jan. 14, 2010 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

Nosferatu Festival Celebrates the Original Cinematic Vampire

Get in on the nights of the living dead

"..."Nosferatu? Does this word not sound like the call of the death bird at midnight? You dare..."

May 31, 2019 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Cinemapocalypse at the Alamo Ritz: Die, Nazi, Die!

Quentin Tarantino premieres Inglourious

"...cinema-lovers and Nazi-haters alike," said Eli Roth, by way of introducing Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, which had its Austin..."

Aug. 16, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Welcome to the Bungle

A review of Guns N' Rose “Chinese Democracy”

"...Bad news first: Chinese Democracy isn’t the massacre Axel Rose deserves. Cornrow Buffy comes off smelling..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Joseph Stack Manifesto

Reprint of pilot's suicide note

"...The pilot who crashed into the building in North Austin..."

Feb. 18, 2010 News Post by Lee Nichols

Screen Dreams

Drive-In Theatres... on the Web!

"...It's about 1965 or so. One of my earliest movie memories is going to see It's..."

Aug. 29, 1997 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Talk to the Hand

The first ever Puppet Parts Film Festival

"...On Austin's burgeoning Eastside, in a neighborhood that splits the distance between suburban French Place and the hipster cafe..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

The Water Diviner

Russell Crowe stars in and directs this historical drama

"...by actual events”) that involves multiple continents, 17 million dead, the Battle of Gallipoli, forbidden love, brothers (literally) in..."

April 24, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Scene Is Gone But Not Forgotten

The Evolution of Austin's White Blues

"...used to go to Antone's every weekend but all the good bands are gone."..."

Aug. 9, 1996 Music Feature

The War Tapes

As raw and disturbing as it is wry and satirical, this film gives voice to U.S. National Guard soldiers in Iraq.

"...Scranton. "Whoever said being a soldier was all about the blood and glory obviously forgot about the shit." These..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Exorcist: The Beginning

Help us, Lucifer. This prequel is cursed.

"...Izabella Scorupco and Remy Sweeney. If you’re like me, then you’ve probably been saying to yourself, "Gosh, where on..."

Aug. 27, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Usual Mayhem

A Potpourri of Book Reviews

"...Evans Cartlage A blurb from Simon & Schuster, plugging the publication of Kinky Friedman's ninth and latest mystery novel..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Books Feature

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...SXSW has strapped on the rockets with not just a few titles for this..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Joy of Socks!

Please disregard Lady Fuchsia's sweaty feet

"...Today is July the Ninth...."

July 9, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Gasoline Dreams

Rounding up 2000 LPs.

"...The New Millennium. Same as the old millennium...."

Jan. 5, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Whispers in the Dark

"...Dale. Provocative? Sexy? Maybe just a little perverse? That's the advance expectations set up by this film. Sciorra plays..."

Aug. 7, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

The Art of Gothic Brings Darkness in Full Slick Color

New coffeetable tome from Backbeat Books is an inky danse macabre.

"...Bela Lugosi's dead, of course, but we can imagine that man's Dracula..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2005

Spike & Mike has always been a hit-or-miss program, and this year is no different, with a few genuinely brilliant pieces surrounded by examples of puerile fun and juvenile humor.

"...really been 15 years since Craig "Spike" Decker and the late Mike Gribble initiated this surprisingly durable cavalcade of..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

All the Gory Details

The Maestro of movie make-up Tom Savini talks about George Romero, the increasing popularity of CGI, and what it felt like to shoot a crotch-gun.

"...A man jumps onto the hood of a car and fires both barrels of..."

March 24, 2000 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Your Field Guide to the 101 Essential Acts at SXSW

Scroll eternal through the best and buzziest artists at the fest

"...Maxo Kream's journalistic eye remains trained upon his hometown of Houston. The rapper's half-decade of granular, street-life storytelling (with..."

March 11, 2022 Music Feature by The Chronicle Music Staff

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