Earth Days

Directed with a flawless eye and judicious craft, this documentary is an informative and nonpolemic look at the birth of the modern environmental movement.

"...environmental movement and its various offshoots and key players, Earth Days is directed with a flawless eye and judicious..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Heaven & Earth

"...or a complete and utter mess. With Heaven & Earth, Oliver Stone has created the latter. Stone's latest film..."

Dec. 24, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The First Earth Day, 1970

Austan Librach remembers

"...On its 40th anniversary, Earth Day has become a rather warm and fuzzy event...."

April 23, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Down to Earth

"...overzealous angel (Claude Rains) and then sent back to Earth in the body of callous millionaire Bruce Farnsworth plays..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Can the Earth Be Saved?

Walter Cronkite and the creation of Earth Day

"...Way It Is. What an ideal way, just before Earth Day, April 22, to memorialize the TV newsman who..."

April 20, 2012 News Feature by Douglas Brinkley

20,000 Days on Earth

This documentary (for which Nick Cave receives a script credit), gets inside the artist's notoriously fussy creative process.

"...– all thunder, blood, and salvation sundered. 20,000 more days on Earth, if you please...."

Oct. 3, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Eight Days a Week

"...a date flick for open-minded lovers. Further enhancing Eight Days' prospects for success is the presence of Felicity sweetheart..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

No Place on Earth

A spelunker in the Ukraine turns amateur sleeuth as he tries to make sense of the remnants he finds in a cave: They were left by Jews who hid there from the Nazis.

"...Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams), No Place on Earth recounts an astonishing tale of discovery and survival. In..."

May 3, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Charting an Earth-Based Trajectory Among the Stars in It's Quieter in the Twilight

All Earth’s voyagers must meet their end of days

"...launched, Voyagers 1 and 2 continue to communicate with Earth and probe the secrets of deep space. But soon..."

March 11, 2022 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

28 Days Later

A zombie picture, with lots of topical updating.

"...takes on a whole new connotation after watching 28 Days Later, a low-budget, British, epidemic film in which an..."

June 27, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Public Notice: Earth Day Redux

Early showers stretch timeline for Earth Day celebrations

"...Earth Day was supposed to start a week early this..."

April 26, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro

(500) Days of Summer

This romantic comedy is a deeply funny, seductive, and surprisingly honest dramatization of the ways we snooker ourselves into incompatible love.

"...up front: This is not a love story,” (500) Days of Summer’s omniscient narrator warns us. In storybook fashion,..."

July 24, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

End of Days

"...I die, 'cause I've already been to End of Days. The first of this season's apocalyptic horror shows is..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Inside the Last Days of City Manager Spencer Cronk

After dramatic days of extreme weather and backstabbing, Council lets Cronk go

"...power for more than a week. Then, in the days after the ice storm, CMs took issue with a..."

Feb. 17, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Austin Film Festival Adds Nine Days and Welcomes the WWE's Brothers of Destruction

New Winston Duke/Zazie Beets movie as opening night film

"...only a week away, but they've just added nine days - or rather, Nine Days, the new Sundance award-winning..."

Oct. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

To the Ends of the Earth

Japanese travel story captures the isolation of culture shock, with fear and levity

"...wander and internalize. In To the Ends of the Earth, Kiyoshi Kurosawa is able to flip this trope on..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

'Mother Earth'

"...Oh, Mother Earth,..."

March 31, 2006 News Feature by Neil Young

Nine Days

Winston Duke sits in judgment on the worth of life in this metaphysical drama

"...a metaphysical premise like the one that steers Nine Days along its ruminative, lyrical, sometimes maddening course...."

Aug. 6, 2021 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Page Two: Days of Blame

The only enemy is us!

"...– Pogo, Walt Kelly's Earth Day 1971 Pogo comic strip..."

April 23, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Earth Day, Record Store Day, and More Recommended Events

Go green in a number of ways this week

"...Though these days it comes twice a year thanks to shopping bonanza..."

April 19, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Perfect Days

A toilet cleaner in Tokyo quietly goes about his days in this stirring Oscar nominated picture

"...his teacher how a fern grew out of the earth and astonished the teacher.” These mundanities of life are..."

Feb. 16, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Best Things We Saw at Oblivion Access 2023: Earth, BEAK>, GEL, and More

Highlights from year two of the underground Austin music festival

"...to the long lines camped out hours ahead of Earth’s rare performance. New partnerships, including with Stereogum and a..."

June 19, 2023 Music Post by Wayne Lim

Point Austin: From Earth Day to Climate Strike

In a dark time, it's worth recalling decades of progress

"...effects on the oceans (in truth really a single earth-ocean) to the indirect effects on coastal people and communities...."

Sept. 27, 2019 News Column by Michael King

DVDanger: 'Byzantium,' 'Kiss of the Damned,' 'Nosferatu,' 'Aeon: The Last Vampyre on Earth'

Time for a real vampire weekend

"...the risks that entails. Aeon: The Last Vampyre on Earth is a sealed bottle drama, bleak and merciless. In..."

Nov. 17, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

More Things in 'Heaven and Earth'

Fidencio Duran opens a new solo exhibition at the MACC

"..."Heaven and Earth" is the title of this all-encompassing exhibit in the..."

Jan. 19, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Gay Place: Austin's Gay Days

We've got all the Pride info and sneak peeks into a very gay fall season.

"...glow of legendary piano wild woman, Ms. Margaret Wright. Thursdays and Fridays, 6-8pm. Skylark Lounge, 2039 Airport. Free. www.fb.com/theskylarklounge...."

Aug. 28, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth – Now at SXSW!

The de-fossilizing of SXSW.

"...1,000 acts with names like When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, they may be overlooked by the younger set. Gone..."

March 7, 2007 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

In Between Days

At the Crossroads of the 1999-2000 Austin Music Awards.

"...chosen fields, as relevant today as in their younger days. Add tributes to two guys who didn't quite make..."

March 10, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Playback – Austin Record Convention: The Greatest Record Store on Earth

ARC of the covenant, good Reputations, and Blind Sight

"...greatest record store in the known universe for three days only...."

May 5, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Fell on Black Days

Reunited, reinvigorated, Soundgarden wallops the Music Hall

"...riff) and the brooding dark of “Fell On Black Days” to the dissonant crunge of “Rusty Cage” (the encore..."

May 28, 2013 Music Post by Michael Toland

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