Encounters at the End of the World

Werner Herzog, contemporary cinema's most consistently lyrical examiner of the (in)human condition, returns to the documentary form in yet another wonderfully improbable locale: Antarctica.

"...for a terrific new board game – for kids of all ages!. It's called Where in the World Is..."

July 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Genius of the Crowd ... Source

Austin programmers look to create a public redesign of the city's website

"...We describe websites as "portals" – windows into worlds where we can do any number of things: read,..."

June 5, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Back in the Realm of the Senses and Provoking All Five

AFS Essential Cinema presents Smashing the Rules: Films of Oshima Nagisa

"..."In the first place, to make films is a criminal act..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Adventures of Pinocchio

"...Directed by: Steve Barron. Starring: Martin Landau, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Rob Schneider, Udo Kier, Bebe Neuwirth, Genevieve..."

July 26, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

The Time of Their Lives

Richard Linklater and Ellar Coltrane reflect on the 12 years they spent making 'Boyhood'

"...Richard Linklater is busy. So busy, in fact, that even though..."

July 18, 2014 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

Emotions at the Table

No matter the diet, how we feel affects our health

"...One of the greatest revelations I took from the pursuit of..."

May 24, 2013 Food Post by Margaret Shugart

Turning the Page on the Year in Books

New works by Cormac McCarthy and Sarah Bird make for a memorable year in literature

"...a new Cormac McCarthy book arrives, especially in light of his absence from the scene since winning the Pulitzer..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

The State of Trans Health Care

Gender affirming care in Austin is improving. But by how much? And how far must it still go?

"...By the time she'd turned 35, Beth West­brook had made her..."

April 14, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

The State of Utopia

Karen Valby’s dispatches from a small Texas town

"...tasked with writing about a small American town, one relatively remote from the obsessive universe of popular culture. "I..."

May 28, 2010 Books Feature by Cindy Widner

Letters From the Women of SAFPF

A small sample of the letters received by Austin attorney Derek Howard; transcribed and minimally edited

"...In early 2008, Jodi Stodder-Caldwell, an inmate at the Ellen Halbert SAFPF unit in Burnet County,..."

Dec. 12, 2008 News Feature

Art of the State '98

Art & Theatre to See Around Texas This Summer

"...Windows of Remembrance at Josef and Edith Mincberg Gallery, Houston That..."

May 29, 1998 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Trying To Fix the World

Five-year review of APD Chief Art Acevedo

"...On the April morning of the funeral for slain Austin Police..."

May 25, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Austin Film Fest Review: Diani & Devine Meet the Apocalypse

Cali comedy duo blow up some seriously sweet and smart doomsday heart

"...subversive comedy, which partly explains why this gleefully absurdist, end-of-the-world, road movie romance works so very, very well on..."

Oct. 15, 2016 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Ever-intrepid Werner Herzog guides us through a cave in southern France that holds the oldest drawings known to humanity.

"...my! Such images join galloping horses, woolly mammoths, and other remnants of prehistoric life that were drawn on the..."

May 20, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Night He Came to Fantastic Fest

Genre fest announces Halloween for opening night

"...is coming early to Austin this year – or rather, Halloween is. Fantastic Fest has announced that the revamp..."

Aug. 22, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Search Through the Skies

The new musical Jouét represents a journey not only for the title character, a pop star in search of a home, but one for Austin composer Allen Robertson and for the city's Zachary Scott Theatre Center, which is producing its first original musical.

"...and as he guides his RAV 4 away from the curb, he punches a button on the CD player...."

April 6, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Jimmy LaFave in the Present Tense

Honoring the local musician’s commitment to life

"..."Don't want to get out of this car," sings Jimmy LaFave at the beginning of..."

May 12, 2017 Music Feature by Dave Marsh

Into the West

Kelly Reichardt re-creates the hazards of the Oregon Trail in Meek's Cutoff

"...On the Oregon Trail in 1845, a wagon train of three..."

May 6, 2011 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Latest dinosaur romp sticks to the equation, but still evolves the action

"...Directed by: J.A. Bayona. Starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rafe Spall, Justice Smith, Daniella Pineda,..."

June 22, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Circle

"...Palvin Almani, Nargess Mamizadeh, Fereshtedh Sadr Orfani, Elham Saboktakin, Fatemeh Naghavi and Mojhan Faramarzi. It may be hard to..."

June 8, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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

Meet the Robinsons

While Disney’s latest animated feature might not be a sign of the apocalypse, it’s at least a sign that Disney needs to find some decent writers.

"...Directed by: Stephen J. Anderson. Ever since seeing the ads for Cinderella III: A Twist in Time, I..."

April 6, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Swept From the Sea

"...Kidron. Starring: Rachel Weisz, Ian Mckellen, Vincent Perez and Kathy Bates. Conventional wisdom wouldn't seem to bless the idea..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Lone Ranger

The Lone Ranger is a Western without a compass.

"...a revisionist Western, check out 2011’s Rango, in which the actor gives voice to an animated chameleon in a..."

July 5, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Werner Herzog focuses on Siberian fur trappers in his latest documentary.

"...although to be fair, Grizzly Man only used portions of bear-lover Timothy Treadwell’s self-recorded video of his interactions with..."

March 1, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Brown Bunny

Vincent Gallo's notorious film turns out to be an anti-action road trip that has the feeling of a fever dream.

"...Vareschi and Mary Morasky. Willfully monotonous, tonally vacuous, and cinematically bankrupt, this much-maligned feature from the director of Buffalo..."

Oct. 1, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

CNN Obama-Clinton Debate: The full transcript

Word for word, the whole shebang

"...Posted after the jump is the entire transcript of CNN's Democratic presidential..."

Feb. 21, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols

Austin Film Festival Selection The Other Fellow Looks at Life Being Named James Bond

The names are Bond. James Bond.

"...What's in a name? With James Bond, it's the iconic..."

Oct. 21, 2022 Screens Feature by Rod Machen

Review: Zach Theatre's The Girl Who Became Legend

World premiere of epic Americana folktale delights young and old

"...Many of us have witnessed and some of us are living..."

Sept. 22, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

SXSW Film Review: It's Quieter in the Twilight

The mortality of machines and their creators gently explored

"...We are mortal, and what we create is mortal too. That's the lesson of..."

March 16, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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