John Carpenter Lit Up By El Rey

Legendary director first guest in "The Director's Chair"

"...Don't ask John Carpenter to pick his favorite movies from his own back catalog. If he had to make..."

May 10, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Thrill Me, Creep

Night of the Creeps reunion at the Alamo Ritz

"...of the cult classic's coming October 20th DVD release from Sony Home Entertainment, director Fred Dekker (Monster Squad) and..."

June 14, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Escape From New York (Special Edition)

Subsequent to both The Warriors and Mad Max, yet predating Blade Runner by a year, Escape From New York laid the groundwork for John Carpenter and Kurt Russell's ensuing masterpiece, 1982's The Thing

"...Escape From New York (Special Edition)..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW 2025 Heads to The Studio With Seth Rogen

New films from Ben Affleck, Nicole Kidman, Nic Cage added to fest

"...2025 Film & TV Festival with The Studio, the new Apple TV+ half-hour series from Seth Rogen and just..."

Jan. 22, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

Steve Carell and Keira Knightley find love and companionship in the face of the apocalypse.

"...finds Penny (Knightley) bawling on their apartment building’s fire escape because she missed the last flight out of New..."

June 22, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's

This doc about the storied department store stays relentlessly on-message.

"...feeling may be empowerment, ascendance, discernment, sex appeal, or escape, for the joy of shopping is not just the..."

May 24, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Day at the Beach

"...Jane Adams, Joe Ragno and Martin Shakar. There's no escape quite like a weekend getaway in the Hamptons. Especially..."

June 26, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

Montiel's debut feature about growing up in Astoria, Queens, in the mid-Eighties is full of the filmmaker's instinctive brio and inchoate ideas and the elaborations of a brilliant ensemble cast.

"...he can think of, like a kid with a new toy, and it helps that he has the nimble..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

2020 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live-Action

An uneven selection does not represent the best narrative shorts

"...Opener "A Sister" from French director Delphine Girard is a compact, taut thriller..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dream House

Despite an impressive cast and director, Dream House is a confounding mess.

"...must, but Koteas has built a solid, character-driven CV from small but memorable roles in films as varied as..."

Oct. 7, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

And on Keyboards, John Carpenter!

Horror master successfully re-tunes his career

"...hourlong main set with the one-two punch of the Escape From New York and Assault on Precinct 13 themes..."

June 24, 2016 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

Maria Full of Grace

A desperate young woman from Colombia, who hopes to better her life, becomes a drug mule for the syndicate, transporting heroin to the States.

"...drug trade – specifically the illegal transport of heroin from Colombia to New York City – is a harrowing..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Furious 7

Furiouser and furiouser

"...pretty much dug the crazy shebang. Jacking the title from producer Roger Corman’s unremarkable 1955 noir, original director Rob..."

April 3, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Metallica: Through the Never

The 32-year-old British quartet is shown in depth that only begins with the 3-D.

"...Through the Never. In Led Zeppelin’s infamous concert film from 1976, The Song Remains the Same, Madison Square Garden..."

Sept. 27, 2013 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

Red

Over-the-hill crime-fighters band together to save their own in this smirky, goofy mashup of a rom-com and action picture.

"...an intense, sympathetic performance as an ambassador of the new breed of cutthroat, hyper-competitive Langley spooks, but Red is,..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Major Payne

"...eight years running). The group, a classic mix, ranging from the fat one to the bespectacled intellectual and including..."

March 31, 1995 Movie Review by Louis Black

Lockout

In this Luc Besson-produced thriller, a man must rescue the president's daughter from a prison in outer space that has been taken over by the inmates.

"...bulkhead and powered by cigarettes and vinegary asides plucked from the collected musings of Indiana Jones, John McClane, and..."

April 20, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Dark Blue

"...believable (as was the dialogue, ripped though it was from a multitude of Fifties-era Westerns) as the lone gunslinger..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Something Worth Living For

Michael Fracasso's World in a Drop of Water

"...the Austin-based singer-songwriter: Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison. While from a descriptive standpoint, there are clear and distinct vestiges..."

May 8, 1998 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Austin Film Festival Announces Full Lineup

AFF's finalized lineup

"...Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut Synecdoche, New York, and Kelly Reichardt's followup to Old Joy, Wendy..."

Sept. 24, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Fun Fun Fun Fest Live Shot: Cro-Mags

Reformed NYC hardcores resume the ‘Quarrel’

"...wounds and bruises on your back. Yet the pre-Guiliani New York punk scene was harder and tougher than The..."

Nov. 11, 2013 Music Post by Marc Savlov

Blues, Funk, and La Bamba: Antone’s Austin Blues Festival Returns to Waterloo Park

Home of the Blues revives its genre mosh nearly a quarter-century later

"...Street, on a hot August night straight out of Escape From New York or The Warriors – bacchanalia in..."

April 30, 2023 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

'Dallas Is the Reason …'

It's Texas Frightmare Weekend

"...Biehn (The Terminator, The Abyss), and, omfg, Ernest Borgnine (Escape from New York, Oscar-winner Marty) will be reminiscing about..."

May 3, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Dancing About Architecture

Dee Dee's dead, everything else is crumbling.

"...noise for the second of the Ramones to pass from this plane, Dee Dee Ramone, aka Douglas Glenn Colvin..."

June 14, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Postmarks

First, the good news ...

"...issue was well-focused, clean, and relaxed. Getting himself flung from far-off Washington by the Great Shovel on top of..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Column

The Alamo's Action Man

Programmer Greg MacLennan on the world's most ridiculous job

"...and I love it. I get where I go from throwing myself head over heels hard into whatever I'm..."

Oct. 13, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Robert Rodriguez to be Honored on the Avenue of Paramount Stars

Spy Kids, Machete director gets his plaque this summer

"...Rodriguez called the news “a tremendous honor to be receiving from the Paramount..."

Jan. 26, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Panel: Lawrence Wright

“Trump is the most 'Texas' president we’ve ever had”

"...conversation Friday afternoon, the loudest reaction Lawrence Wright evoked from his audience of a couple hundred people was when..."

March 10, 2018 SXSW Post by Michael King

The Art of Schlock

A conversation with Shock Festival art director Tim Bradstreet

"...and instead went straight to me. So, clearly, he knew my work and mentioned that he had this project..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Carpenter's Apprentice

Robert Rodriguez on "Planet Terror"

"...Tarantino's parts, but also on that of the relatively new independent studio the Weinstein Co., which has spent more..."

April 6, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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