Oldboy

This 2003 revenger from Korean upstart Chan-wook Park is a multilayered, intensely performed, shockingly violent, and viscerally visual tour de force.

"...double bed, and television – but which is, in reality, a cell. Days, months, and years go by with..."

April 29, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Texas Book Festival

Chapter Three

"...So much of the discussion about what it means to be a..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Books Feature

Postcards from the Fringe

Guerilla Media Collective Searches For the D.I.Y. Truth

"...Paco Nathan, president of FringeWare, Inc.photograph by Kenny Braun..."

Feb. 28, 1997 Screens Feature by Brad King

Simulated Sex

The ins and outs of virtual pornography

"...totally in our faces for keeps. On the cusp of a bold new frontier in adult entertainment, niche software..."

March 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Russ Espinoza

Going With the Flow

The LCRA Connection

"...The tunnel itself is a simple concept, and enough of its specifics have already been outlined that "design" will..."

Sept. 4, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Thank You Very Much

Doc explores the unknowable comic genius Andy Kaufman

"...because it’s the noise that emerges from the intersection of the primordial and the cerebral. He wanted to find..."

March 28, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Ol' Webhead's latest adventure is a breathtaking masterpiece

"...Spider-Verse) answers a question that has been plaguing fans of Sony's Marvel spinoff: The illustrated "Spider-Verse" is definitely part..."

June 2, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes

There's something creepy in this Eurosleaze castle

"...and '70s Eurosleaze. Oddly, there's been a surprising lack of films riffing on directors like Jean Rollin and Mario..."

July 8, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Needle in a Timestack

Time-travel drama proves the rich can even mess up causality

"...tend toward a very specific philosophy. It is one of destiny: that no matter the overwhelming distance of space..."

Oct. 15, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Fire Music

It’s definitely not trad, dad, in this history of free jazz

"...Hilariously badly. Just wrecking the song. But he would often receive praise from other pianists for his skill. Anyone..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Protos Place

AMODA's first fest marks a new start

"...The Austin Museum of Digital Art (AMODA) has risen from some obscure but..."

May 29, 2013 Screens Post by Nate Jackson

Theoretical Physicist Brian Greene Has a Few New Dimensions He'd Like You to Meet

The universe-explainer brings his 'Hidden Reality' show to Austin

"...Greene, renowned proponent of quantum string theory and parallel universes, has fanboys and..."

Jan. 16, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Catch a Fire

Phillip Noyce explores the havoc and repercussions caused by white interlopers toward indigenous peoples in this straightforward account of real-life black South African activist Patrick Chamusso and the white Boer police agent, who hunts him.

"...white interlopers toward indigenous peoples in this straightforward account of real-life black South African activist Patrick Chamusso (Luke) and..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM

No country gets two centuries anymore. The 21st will be China's century. That's what $4-plus a gallon means, and nothing can stop it. We're heading for a modern Dust Bowl.

"...after he's run out a few paces past the edge of the cliff – he'll take a few more..."

April 29, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Relic

Senility and the supernatural in this nerve-wracking Australian horror

"...One of horror's most embedded tropes may be the crazy old..."

July 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Friday Picks & Sleepers

Friday night blurbage of SXSW

"...at the Saxon Pub turn on a shared love of vintage rock & roll and singer Jodi Adair's undeniable..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Bay almost three years ago, in the editorial pages of the San Antonio Express-News...."

Aug. 25, 2006 Column

Securing the Substance

Richard Linklater on his adaptation of A Scanner Darkly

"...it rattles you to your core. You walk out of the theatre dazed and confused, unsure of whether what..."

July 7, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

TV Eye

So, you wanna be in pictures?

"...I was receiving monthly notices and phone calls from reality-show producers telling me about their "extraordinary" new reality series..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Up Series

At age 22, as a researcher for Granada Television, Michael Apted was charged with finding participants for a documentary project that, unbeknownst to him, would become his life's work

"...– 7-year-old children from upper-, middle-, and lower-class areas of England, both urban and rural – offering opinions on..."

Dec. 31, 2004 Screens Review by Nora Ankrum

Letters at 3AM

As we approach the most pivotal election since 1860, the work of Stirling Silliphant comes to mind because he shows that our present situation was not created by 9 / 11 but has been brewing for a long time

"...beautiful simple thing, a single morality, a single set of standards, was smashed like an atom into 10 million..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Scream 2

"...Wes Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson reintroduced the joys of the slasher film to the American moviegoing public with..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Another Rotten Day

John Lydon on the Radio, Punk Rock, and Reunions

"...we go!" smirks the thick cockney accent. "Johnny's version of 'istory: It never sounded so good!" After a few..."

Feb. 2, 1996 Music Feature

SXSW Film Unveils March Lineup

So much ado!

"...The big story coming out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival was the wealth of..."

Jan. 31, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Letters at 3am: Joe Ely's Reverb: An Odyssey

The road goes on forever, and there's never a destination

"...very romantic place – if you've just gotten out of the pen. [Laughter.]..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Before There Was TikTok There Was Negativland

Pioneering culture jammers come to AFS Cinema this Sunday

"...An incomplete selection of the post-postmodern woes and talkin' internet anxiety blues Austin..."

July 22, 2022 Screens Feature by Julian Towers

Short and Sweet From SXSW

The full list of short docs, dramas and animation playing this year

"...Time for a blur of information. SXSW unleashed their phenomenal list of Midnighters and..."

Feb. 5, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bedside Manner: Science Lesson

How I learned that I know next to nothing

"...Standing in the threshold of my concrete cube, I could gaze upon the Carver..."

Dec. 10, 2012 Books Post by Lauren Tucker

Metallurgy

Metallurgy

"...No bonus tracks or DVD append the Dio-driven Rules of Hell (Warner Bros./Rhino), five discs anchored by 1980's Dante-worthy..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Future’s So Dark I Gotta Wear Mirror-Shades

On cyberpunk

"..."The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and intelligent. The..."

July 25, 2008 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

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