Playback: Austin Psych Fest Peaks

The sixth annual Austin Psych Fest preps for a peak head trip

"...Don't expect a complete departure from the echo chamber...."

April 26, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Olympus Has Fallen

It''s Die Hard at the White House as a lone man battles the terrorists who take the building with diabolical force.

"...tarnished hero in a role that can’t help but echo Clint Eastwood’s disgraced Secret Service agent in In the..."

March 22, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Resident Evil: Retribution

In the fifth installment of this horror franchise, Milla Jovovich again stars as the saga's heroine Alice, who fights the Umbrella Corporation and the undead.

"...or may not be Alice's daughter. There's obviously intentional echoes of the Ripley/Newt relationship from James Cameron's Aliens but..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Way It Is and Isn't

Ben Rubin's art installation at UT shows the gap between TV news in Cronkite's time and now

"...being interviewed on CBS News or from the right-wing echo chamber of Fox or the left-wing echo chamber of..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Sleepwalk With Me

In his directorial debut, Mike Birbiglia plays a struggling comic who begins sleepwalking shortly after he moves in with his longtime girlfriend.

"...twice on hollow Abby and you might hear an echo, which is no way to treat an actress with..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Heart & Soul, Part 2

Second half of lengthy Q&A with Huey Lewis

"...My point is that stuff, when you hear the echo on the drums it sounds like an old echo..."

July 19, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Ann, Taylor-made

A stage tribute to Ann Richards becomes Ms. Holland's opus

"...of all – I did want to be an echo of her, but what I didn't know was that..."

April 29, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Taiwan Indie Night

The Taiwanese will play anywhere, even South by Southwest!

"...friends in DayGlo posters WonFu (9pm) and moody alt-rockers Echo (1am)...."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature by Richard Whittaker

ACL Music Fest Sunday Listings

Sunday ACL handicapping

"...If Dawes rustles an echo of Laurel Canyon, they do so with a decidedly..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Music Feature

I Witness

This dance/spoken-word production embodies our waking, sleeping dream

"...Fernando Pessoa, St. Augustine, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr – echo in and out of music from equally disparate sources,..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Shutter Island

Martin Scorsese's new thriller is set in 1954 in an institution for the criminally insane.

"...enjoyable for onrushing obviousness, Shutter Island is a delicious echo of and stylistically masterful hats-off to Val Lewton, Robert..."

Feb. 26, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tetro

Francis Ford Coppola embraces smaller-scale filmmaking with this story about the reunion of estranged brothers in Buenos Aires.

"...the lingering scars of family life, topics that has echo such films as Rumble Fish and The Godfather. Tetro..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Synecdoche, New York

Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s first venture as a director is audacious, ambitious, and amazing; it’s also intricate, self-referencing, and all-encompassing: in a word, a masterpiece.

"...the reverberations of his fantasies, taking us into the echo chamber of his thought process instead of corralling them..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

An Angel-Free Angeles

Detective novelist Michael Connelly trolls L.A.'s seedy underbelly again in The Brass Verdict

"...a LAPD homicide detective named Harry Bosch. The Black Echo, released in 1992, won the Edgar Award and sent..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Hamlet 2

The manic comedian Steve Coogan plays a high school drama teacher who pens a scandalous remake of the Bard's classic in an attempt to save his Tucson class from budget cuts.

"...date, is the character of Alan Partridge, a superficial echo of a human being masquerading as an erudite BBC..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Zombie Strippers

The filmmakers score an A+ for the title of this tongue-in-cheek horror film that stars porn star Jenna Jameson and horror fixture Robert Englund, even though its best special effects come courtesy of breast implants.

"...guess that’s where the film sees itself as an echo of Rhinoceros, Ionesco’s famed play about conformity), they all..."

April 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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.

"...bored-looking dead folks. Too, it had a genuine Sixties echo in Dennis Hopper, a living, breathing actor who nevertheless..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

License to Shrill, Uncensored

A conversation with New York Times columnist Paul Krugman

"...was overwhelmingly favorable, and now we have that plan echoed by Obama and Clinton. That's a useful role. If..."

Nov. 9, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Lomita Reviewed

"...Indierect reissued a supersized version of Lomita's debut, Stress Echo, less than a year after its 2005 release, and..."

April 27, 2007 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Blood and Chocolate

Lycanthropy and young love: not as yummy as it sounds but nowhere near as godawful as Van Helsing, a small mercy but very much appreciated.

"...kill!), and, less clever than it probably sounded preshoot, Echo & the Bunnymen's still-frisson-inducing "The Killing Moon." Pray avoid..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Planet Funk Meets Planet Punk

Nu beats on famous bleats

"...Cultural echoes of the explosively artistic 1980s have been pinging about..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

In this prequel to the original Chainsaw, we learn how Leatherface grew up to become a monster.

"...era, and to the film's vast discredit, this hideous echo is never even noted...."

Oct. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Be Real

Sound Team's major label debut has Capitol

"...bobbing. Sound Team is feeling it, bringing beat and echo together into a surreal wave of sound. Clifford Antone..."

June 9, 2006 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

The Beauty Academy of Kabul

This documentary shows how real power flows not from the barrel of a gun but rather a can of hairspray.

"...to their homeland for the first time. The others echo the feelings of citizens around the world who, after..."

May 26, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

RV

Robin Williams loads his family into a camper and goes on vacation.

"...we and Williams are left with is a less-than-faint echo of former glories. On the plus side, he could..."

May 5, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

TCB

SXSW 06: Was it all a dream? Or a nightmare?

"...BEDKNOBS AND BALLYHOO"Fate, up against your will" – Echo & the Bunnymen, "Killing Moon," 1985..."

March 24, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Kelley Stoltz

"...to pin on any one influence; his love of Echo & the Bunnymen was recorded on his track-by-track cover..."

March 17, 2006 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Kinky's Mexican Riptide

A near-death experience convinced Freidman that 'I have to do more with my life'

"...his parents, both educators. In 1953, they opened the Echo Hill Ranch summer camp, which continues to operate on..."

Feb. 17, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Shopgirl

Steve Martin's latest stands out as an elegant work, one that provides a welcome look at love, romance, and heartbreak without the encumbrances of the usual Hollywood folderol.

"...and cello score by Barrington Pheloung often seems to echo Tucker’s previous film, Hilary and Jackie. Ultimately, Shopgirl stands..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Three ... Extremes

This lush and horrific anthology film from three of the finest craftsmen working today – Fruit Chan, Chan-wook Park, and Takashi Miike – is an instantly memorable and squirm-inducing assemblage.

"...sublimely arresting as any you’ve ever seen (and frequently echo traditional Japanese sumi-e painting), the story of a generation-spanning..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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