Musical Top 10s of 2021

One writer's favorite Austin-sourced albums, songs, and such from the last 12 months

"...2) Mobley, Young & Dying in the Occident Supreme (Last Gang)..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Antlers

Del Toro-endorsed creature feature is stylish but empty

"...a teacher at the local middle school. But when young and frail student Lucas (Thomas) begins to exhibit signs..."

Oct. 29, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Capote Tapes

A literary life of oblivious self-destruction

"...divan, the seductively posed author – disturbingly looking much younger than his actual age of 23 – announced himself..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Not Going Quietly

A suitably complicated study of the health care advocate

"...function and have difficulty interacting with his wife and young son. These moments of vulnerability and intimacy are important..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Movie Review by Cody Song

Our Friend

Jason Segel is the friend you'd want in this true story of facing death

"...metastasizing cancer. Whether playing nanny to the couple’s two young girls (Rice and McGraw), confidant to the struggling spouses,..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Marksman

Liam Neeson is the action man again in this border thriller

"...his battered pickup one sullen afternoon he encounters a young woman and little boy who’ve moments before broken through..."

Jan. 15, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Madre

Spanish drama explore the devastating mysteries of loss

"...police are no help, and the battery on the young boy’s phone is dying. He tells her that a..."

Oct. 30, 2020 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words

The conservative justice finally apologizes for it all. Nah, just kidding.

"...road-to-Damascus moment and concluding that certain principles are worth dying for, but the movie never lays out with much..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Mike Clark-Madison

Doctor Sleep

Back to the cinematic hallowed ground of the Overlook Hotel

"...ambiguity about the relationship between the Overlook Hotel and young Danny Torrance (played in brief flashbacks by Floyd, but..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Anna and the Apocalypse

Scottish zombie musical is your new Christmas playlist

"...Walk Alone" and Carousel is about an abusive spouse dying in a botched robbery). Yet this delicious, charming and..."

Nov. 30, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

“I saw the world” at Pump Project

Imperialism and identity compete in Betelhem Makonnen’s solo show about a 19th century Ethiopian prince

"...to England and educated with the British elite before dying of pleurisy at a young age. In another version..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Arts Review by Caitlin Greenwood

The Shallows

Blake Lively is trapped by a shark on her own bikini island

"...no end of terror. I saw Jaws way too young (I was 7), and don’t get me started on..."

July 1, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

SXSW List No. 7

Music fest drafts Dion, Børns, Sun Kil Moon, Faust and 143 more

"...The Head & the Heart, Oregonian doom metallers Lord Dying, dark comedy rapper Open Mike Eagle, garage psych cadets..."

Feb. 12, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Joining Forces Against HIV

Wright House reopens; continues the fight against HIV alongside other local orgs

"...with HIV, but we still have clients that are dying," Scott explains. "It all depends on when they test..."

April 10, 2015 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Wrong Cops

French musician-filmmaker-writer-editor Quentin Dupieux (Rubber) returns with more lo-fi absurdism.

"...from his forehead.) There’s $20K in mystery cash, a dying man, death by trowel, and Marilyn Manson – who..."

Jan. 17, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Chronicle

Like a marriage of Cloverfield and Carrie, Chronicle blends faux-naif techniques with a teen telekinesis plot and gets fresh results.

"...and authentic. Add in the facts that the three young lead actors are all relative unknowns and that the..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Is Anybody There?

Michael Caine stars as a magician who's come to live in a retirement home when his mental faculties start to fail.

"...Rosemary Harris and Angie Inwards. "Rage, rage against the dying of the light," mutters Caine as an aging magician..."

May 1, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Shine a Light

The Rolling Stones gather no moss in this Martin Scorsese-directed concert film that's playing on both IMAX and conventional screens.

"...Glimmer Twins engender the same trademark chemistry as the young outlaws in Cocksucker Blues, more cinematic Stones bare-all. Close..."

April 4, 2008 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

In Her Shoes

Even if these Shoes are not perfectly stitched, the fit is nevertheless comfortable and the look is polished.

"...are opposites in every way, except that since a young age they have both been motherless girls who are..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...are more than two music camps in Austin for young people. One such camp is the "Childbloom Guitar Only"..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Column

Boys to Men

"...realms. “The Mountain King” by Duncan Tucker concerns a young man's idyll with a hustler on the beach and..."

July 13, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shades of the Past

Austin's ghosts, from pioneer times to the present

"...which flooded and created a yellow fever epidemic. The dying soldiers were boarded at a mansion still standing today..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature

Postmarks

The beefs this week: Chronicle reporter Robert Bryce on CNN, genetically engineered foods, Steamboat, John Aielli, Paul Minor, and more.

"...The point about "Frankenfoods" is that if butterflies are dying as a short-term result, then what about the long-term..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Column

Windhorse

"...for screaming “Free Tibet” in public. Tending to the dying Pema shames Dorjee and Dolkar into giving up their..."

May 21, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Gang of Guerillas

"...old man and his grandson, both without names, are dying of the same mysterious and debilitating disease. Add to..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Books Review

The Hi-Lo Country

"...would have us expect a reflective elegy for a dying breed, the movie instead straddles turf that might be..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Growing Chorus

Sex, Drugs & Hepatitis C

"...it in 1973," he says. "That's when I was young and stupid. I used needles for six months, maybe..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Countdown, 2001

"...a hole in the Barton Springs fence to discourage young people from passing through. The glass was planted within..."

March 14, 1997 Column

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Writer

"...All of which is pretty much true. When young writers query me, I say: Whatever your talent, to..."

Aug. 16, 1996 Column by Michael Ventura

From Dusk Till Dawn

Vampires, whiskey, sex, and Hayek's famous snake dancing color this film.

"...hell, I'll expound. Written by and co-starring Hollywood's other young, stylistically hip auteur, Quentin Tarantino, From Dusk Till Dawn..."

Jan. 19, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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