Driveways

Brian Dennehy shows his mastery in final, small performance about home

"...the all-time great heavies in films like First Blood, evil personified in To Catch a Killer, and both a..."

May 29, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Wretched

Supernatural horror is perfect Friday night fun

"...Only the Wretch, The Wretched's ever-hungry, ever-malicious force of evil, is hiding in plain sight, right next door to..."

May 1, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Grudge

A new haunting from the J-horror franchise

"...do franchise horrors. His debut, The Eyes of My Mother, was a black-and-white study in psychosis; his second, Piercing,..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

A Hidden Life

Malick's Nazi-era drama sees the heart and soul overriding the State

"...the couple (along with Fani’s sister and Franz’s elderly mother) are content and fulfilled by the very nature of..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

Humanity's scarring of Earth mapped out in graphic, terrifying detail

"...compelling examples of the ways we are profoundly changing Mother Earth, giving the viewer the room to formulate judgments..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Ready or Not

Party games will be the death of Samara Weaving in this raucous black comedy

"...but all that potential seemed derailed by the underwhelming Devil's Due in 2014. Ever since then it's been, well,..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Halloween

The night he came home again (for the first time)

"...nurture: Green's version is that pure, unstoppable force of evil, as described in a recording by the late Dr...."

Oct. 19, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Geostorm

It's not just a storm, it's a ...

"...dubbed “Dutch Boy.” But someone – Steve Bannon? Doctor Evil? – has hacked their way into said satellites and..."

Oct. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...captivating portrayal. Bond journeys deep underground to thwart the evil schemes of the villainous Dr. No, a founding member..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Innocents

Polish nuns raped by soldiers during WWII trigger wider moral issues

"...Cross intern who agrees to secretly treat the expectant mothers, the medical welfare of these women and their infants..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

DVDanger: The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T

Hate piano practice? Dr. Seuss' oddity is for you

"...Terwilliker (veteran character actor Hans Conried), demanded by his mother Heloise (Mary Healy)...."

June 4, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bless Me, Ultima

This honest, earnest, and naturalistic kids’ story about growing up Mexican-American in 1940s New Mexico is based on the popular book.

"...films, One False Move, with Billy Bob Thornton, and Devil in a Blue Dress, starring Denzel Washington in the..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

'Hansel and Gretel'

Mezzo Liz Cass lands a big break playing the familiar fairy-tale villainess

"...even one show where I was the Witch, the Mother, and the Sandman. So I was just: "Oh! I..."

April 23, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Drug War Blowback

Drug-raid tactics come under increasing scrutiny

"...house. He did so and was followed by his mother, 70-year-old Cruz Rosales. The only person left inside, mother..."

Dec. 21, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Sydney White

Teen popularity traumas are translated here into a loosely updated version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

"...the quintessential movie tomboy. Having grown up mostly sans mother, Sydney arrives at college armed with photos of her..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Page Two: Free Means Free

Knee-jerk support of Chavez's TV-station shutdown legitimates all censorship

"...views are in fact bad people who are doing evil things intentionally. I tend to think that, most of..."

June 8, 2007 Column by Louis Black

The Animation Show 2005

This second incarnation of the Mike Judge- and Don Hertzfeldt-produced animation anthology is, if anything, even better than the first.

"...interplanetary fisherman and his alien pet, who encounter the mother of all fish tales while visiting a distant planet..."

April 15, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wednesday Picks

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...jazz musicians. His sixth album for Blue Note, Same Mother, has just been released...."

March 11, 2005 Music Feature

Boogeyman

Don't go into the closet.

"...the hope of laying to rest not only his mother but also the bad dreams that never seem to..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War

The most costly and the most popular film in South Korean history is also one of the most gripping and epic war films ever made.

"...Young-shin (Eun-Joo) and takes care of the pair’s ailing mother. And then: war, and forced conscription into the army,..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...expertise. ["Postmarks Online," June 11]. As a determined new mother, I needed a seminar and several hours of individual..."

June 25, 2004 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...who made ridiculous awards "to get back at the evil insurance companies," something that dipshit Ralph Nader created. Here's..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Iraq, Iran, and North Korea as an "axis of evil" in his 2002 State of the Union Address, but..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Column

TV Eye

Keeping one eye on television and the other on pop culture.

"...was that unfortunate time in my teens when my mother dragged me to the Kingdom Hall to listen to..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

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The Tenth Annual "Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest Results

"...well for a relationship without end, ahmen ahaaaamen. My mother had already warned us girls, "If you marry a..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Books Feature

Letters at 3AM

The total absence of popular backlash to the paganism of The Mists of Avalon shows that the American fundamentalist influeunce has begun to ebb.

"...course. It's just like having a father and a mother."..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Hot Sweltering Summer Sex Vignettes

Author and semi-regular Chronicle contributor Spike Gillespie (All the Wrong Men and One Perfect Boy) has been working on a new novel called thebelljar.net, about the high-tech nightmare that Austin has become. In it, our heroine, Alice, takes on a job as "the world's oldest high tech intern" to escape her former career in food service. At her new company, The Universe, she is in charge of making coffee and copies and building an in-house Web site to act as a style guide for her higher-ups. Her self-appointed position is to keep high the morale of one of the programmers (aka moles) whom she decides is fuckable (she's naive).

"...shirt featuring Charles Manson's face, bigger than life, his evil eyes drilling into anyone who dared look at me..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Features Feature by Spike Gillespie

Bless the Child

"...Coleman, Yan Birch and Lumi Cavazos. They say the devil's in the details; if that's the case, then Bless..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Second Coming

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Definitive Director's Cut (1977)

"...obsessed Neary embarks on a crazy-man's adventure to Wyoming's Devil's Tower, where he and the assembled government (including a..."

July 30, 1999 Screens Feature

Redboy Thirteen

"...his school one day bearing the grim news that evil is up to its old tricks. Saying good-bye to..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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