Love! Valour! Compassion!

"...-- one stereotypically good and the other, of course, evil -- the brothers' surname must also be Jeckyll. A..."

June 13, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Timecop

In a future in which time travel has become possible, a cop's life is torn asunder by political malfeasance.

"...rich and running for president. Which is exactly what evil Senator McComb (Silver) is doing. Walker, for his part,..."

Sept. 16, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film Review: Deadstream

Horror-comedy that gets the laugh/scream ratio right

"...notable exceptions – films like Tucker & Dale vs. Evil are too wonderful for even me to ignore –..."

March 12, 2022 SXSW Post by Matthew Monagle

Blood Over Texas Gets Fleshy

Eighties horror celebrated at the North Door

"...to resurrect them with Splatterdrome, a celebration of all things terrible and technological...."

Aug. 22, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Puzzling: Cowboys/Patriots Revisited

"...I have yet to figure out several things in life. I’m not good with algebra, can openers,..."

Oct. 15, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

Page Two: Unreasonable Discourse

When it's 'good vs. evil,' political discourse is impossible

"...likely win this Saturday. They have any number of things going for them, including most prominently their marketing labels:..."

May 12, 2006 Column by Louis Black

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

Telling Some Very British Ghost Stories at SXSW Film

Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman on the evil seed that would become their Midnighter

"...In spite of that, the evil seed of what would become Ghost Stories was planted...."

March 9, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Drag Me to Hell: The Wait Is Almost Over

Sam Raimi shows a work-in-progress print of his new horror film Drag Me to Hell at a SXSW midnight screening

"...Drag Me to Hell is definitely one of those things. Fans of Darkman and his Evil Dead films have..."

March 16, 2009 SXSW Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Point Austin: Blue Spectre

The 'Statesman' discovers a sinister plot to take control of city government. The culprits? Those union goons, of course

"...training facilities ... You can think of all these things that might be advantages. I do know there's a..."

June 30, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Roxane Gay, Tim O’Brien Join Texas Book Festival Lineup

Full author roster revealed for November fest

"...the Texas Book Festival’s annual free celebration of all things books and bookish...."

Sept. 13, 2023 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

TV Eye

Sometimes real life is much scarier than scary movies.

"...with not knowing there were bigger, more troubling, unspeakable things to be frightened of. Things as frightening as Lourdes..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

James Hand’s Gone to Heaven at Age 67

Life wrote his songs, he just tried to remember the words

"...the next year, he released his breakout sophomore LP Evil Things on Cold Spring Records. Six years later, he..."

June 8, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Ha-Ha-Hitler: The Importance of Mocking Nazis in Jojo Rabbit

Taika Waititi, Stephen Merchant dissect hate in anti-Nazi satire

"...If you can't laugh at evil, what can you do? That's the message of Jojo..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Let Us Prey

Star, director on strong women, evil, and rape in film

"...There's a theory in religion that the Devil isn't just evil. Instead, what if he's doing a..."

May 26, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: How to Date in a Sci-Fi Universe

Premature and The One I Love probe romance

"...new in film, we just keep doing the same things over and over again: At best, we're creating hybrids..."

Nov. 8, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Downton Abbey recap: Episode 5

Cora gives Lord Grantham the cold shoulder

"...work as her maid/cook). Bates and Anna grokked Vera’s Evil Suicide Pie plan. Sybil had a baby girl. Sybil..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Screens Post by Melanie Haupt

Top Chef Texas, Week 11: Who's The Fairest Of Them All?

Charlize Theron is such a queen.

"...because she didn’t trust her team to not fuck things up. Sarah’s just pissed that Bev won. One order..."

Jan. 20, 2012 Food Post by Melanie Haupt

Late Nights ... and Suspense

"...As you say, “There’s a visceral thrill to watching things go boom, and comic book movies allow us to..."

July 8, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Band of the Month: Magnet School

Magnet School pops and swells

"...full-length, Tonight We Drink … Tomorrow We Battle the Evil at Hand on local imprint Arclight, and while the..."

March 27, 2008 Music Post by Darcie Stevens

Grandma to Tony La Russa: 'Shape Up or Ship Out'

"...a 3-mile jog to retrieve my car from the evil clutches of a colleague's-birthday-party parking spot – thanks for..."

Oct. 8, 2006 Sports Post by Shawn Badgley

Media Clips

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones fields allegations that he's been stifling free expression on Austin Cable Access television.

"...trying to sue me, I've always sort of let things go. But I have a tape of all the..."

July 14, 2000 News Column by Lee Nichols

Fightin' Words

Rich Oppel and Mike Levy Spar on Paper:

"...charge, while the bad guys continue to do really evil things of the worst magnitude...."

Jan. 17, 1997 News Feature

Full Collapse: Rebecca Hall on Madness and Abuse in Resurrection

The Night House star on her latest horrifying role

"...it may not be enough to offset the resurgent evil in her character's life...."

July 28, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fear Street Becomes Queer Street in Austin This Weekend

Come celebrate Netflix's landmark LGBTQ+ horror

"...way back into Austin early this year, and as things in Texas often do, it’s returning big. This Sunday,..."

July 9, 2021 Screens Post by Avery Wohleb

Fantastic Fest Review: The Golden Glove

True-life serial killer drama is too real and grimy for its own good

"...Zac Efron as Ted Bundy in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile was romanticizing a serial killer. There's no..."

Sept. 25, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin at Large: This Road’s Gone On Forever

Is it wrong, or dumb, or evil to spend billions to fix I-35?

"...we feel the need to move ourselves and our things from this place to that place at a certain..."

May 17, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Get Ready for the 11th Annual Austin Ice Cream Festival

A day jam-packed with frozen treats, competitions, games and more

"...That is where ice cream, shaved ice, and all things frozen at the 11th Annual Austin Ice Cream Festival..."

Aug. 3, 2017 Food Post by Kali Venable

SXSW Interactive Adds Featured Speakers

Doctors, scientists, athletes, and more

"...and bands and films to the SXSW lineup? Well, things aren’t getting any easier as the Interactive portion of..."

Jan. 11, 2016 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Breaking Chains, Bending the Knee

'Game of Thrones’ complex consideration of freedom and slavery

"...as another front in the battle between good and evil...."

May 7, 2014 Screens Post by Rod Machen

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