Jokers, Murders, and Walpurgisnacht in This Week’s Recommended Events

Arts and culture events to populate your weekdays

"...the gangster roots of Batman’s detective origins. And a femme fatale whose steely edge and soft core will knock..."

April 25, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

SXSW Film Review: The Dutchman

Cerebral drama flips the script on Civil Rights era classic

"...align when a white woman, Lula (a hauntingly imperious femme fatale played by Kate Mara), follows Clay onto the..."

March 9, 2025 SXSW Post by Dex Wesley Parra

Turkey Day Drama, a Red Hot Patriot, and Scares for the Season in Our Recommended Events

I scream, you scream, we all scream for the weekend!

"...right-hands of a swordsman and smoking gun, and a femme fatale would blend with what Western audiences understand of..."

Oct. 11, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

A Pickin’ Party, a Big Squeeze, and Mother’s Day Music Are This Week's Crucial Concerts

Some recommended sounds for your week

"...woodwinds, accordions) and sounds: trip-hop tempos, digital chops, Auto-Tune. Femme fatale one moment, wronged the next – digital disco..."

May 10, 2024 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Review: Georgetown Palace Theatre's The 39 Steps

An aerobic workout for the cast, a delightfully mindless experience for the audience

"...movie, including its low-budget aesthetics, gentlemanly hero and mysterious femme fatale, dark and misty ambience, unforeseen double crosses, and..."

Aug. 11, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

The Lesson

Plagiarism noir is too derivative to be a real page-turner

"...countryside, an award-winning author in a late-career lull, a femme fatale wife, their troubled son, and a talented young..."

July 7, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Rally Road Racers

Animated race movie about a slow loris with speedy dreams

"...as the unsubtly named frog Archie Vainglorious) uses a femme fatale (Shelby, another slow loris, played by Bennet) to..."

May 19, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Hypnotic

Robert Rodriguez and Ben Affleck team up for a pulpy mindbender

"...like Alice Braga, here playing back-alley fortune teller and femme fatale Diana Cruz. And, of course, everyone seems to..."

May 12, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Qmmunity: Real Roxy Hours

Local queer comic and jill-of-all-trades Roxy Castillo talks her performance style and history ahead of her run on the Moontower Just for Laughs Fest

"...a she/they looking for yer forever bae or a femme fatale finding yer next victim, this queer dating event..."

April 14, 2023 Column by James Scott

Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre

Statham and Ritchie reunite for an oddly monotonous spy flick

"...at his most reservedly Stathamesque), backed up by tech expert/femme fatale Sarah Fidel (Plaza, relaxed to the point of..."

March 3, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Review: Broadway in Austin’s Chicago

Hello, suckers!

"...top of the second act of the touring Chicago, hoofer-turned-femme fatale Velma Kelly (Texas State University's own Logan Floyd)..."

Nov. 4, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Fantastic Fest Review: Hellraiser

The Cenobites are back in the third best entry in the franchise

"...of the era's screens, the idea of a horror femme fatale was intriguing and alluring. Because of her, the..."

Sept. 29, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Qmmunity: Queer Texan Pride Rides Again

Qmmunity rustles up queer events all over Central Texas

"...entertainment as well the evening excitements of Haus of Fatale's drag show. Lockhart's first-ever Pride festival comes on Sun.,..."

June 3, 2022 Column by James Scott

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

Longing and loss explored in this stunning, tender anthology

"...confessional setting the best, following Nao (Mori), an adulteress-turned-amateur femme fatale, whose mission is to seduce a successful professor..."

Oct. 29, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...the main event: Lynne's fever dream seduction from a femme fatale. As choreographer Alexandra Achieng Ligawa and A Giant..."

April 16, 2021 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

The Whistlers

Convoluted Romanian noir gets lost in translation from birdsong

"...beat in Bucharest. That was where he first meets femme fatale Gloria (Marlon), who pulls him in to an..."

April 3, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

ACL Live Review: Kali Uchis

Astral chic all femme fatale

"...All femme fatale, Uchis sashayed to the Afro-Caribbean rhythms on “Nuestra..."

Oct. 6, 2019 Music Post by Alejandra Ramirez

Billie Eilish

"...musical status quo and lacerates it, opting out of femme fatale for tomboy cargos and goth macabre, and sleek..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Music Feature by Alejandra Ramirez

Louisianna Purchase Named Dragula Season Three Contestant

Austin's leading scream queen to take on her next frontier of drag

"...zombies. Then there's Louisianna Purchase, giving us her ultimate femme fatale vixen with a little evil Bond girl mixed..."

July 12, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

July Is Crime Month: The Crime Blotter, Week 1

A curated guide to unlawful activities around town July 1-7

"...and finds himself snared in the web spun by femme fatale Joan Bennett. With his terrific leads and directorial..."

July 1, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

A Life Reconstructed in Noir Classic The Killers

A death in New Jersey

"...noir (the benevolent close friend, the trigger-happy acquaintance, the femme fatale) – this enigmatic man whose character entrance gives..."

June 21, 2019 Screens Feature by Julian DeBerry

Top 20 Hip-Hop Artists at SXSW Music

"...Rico NastyThu. 14, Belmont, 11:45pm Ricocheting between pop-trap femme fatale Tacobella and goth nü metallist Trap Lavigne on..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Alejandra Ramirez

Nicole Kidman, Still To Die For

How the Australian A-lister stays true to her indie roots

"...turning point in the career of Kidman, completing a femme fatale trilogy of sorts preceded by a pair of..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Screens Feature by Britt Hayes

Qmmunity

Austin's 10 queerest highlights of 2018

"...Cherry Haze, Veronica Valentine, and Chitah Daniels embrace their femme fatale onstage. Fri., Dec. 28, 10pm-2am. Swan Dive, 615..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Column by Sarah Marloff

Y2K Welcomes You to cyb3rqu33n

The future is femmebot at local queer, DIY showcase

"...help: “cy.ber.queen – /ˈsībər.kwēn/ – independent, fierce, strong, warrior-like femmes of cyberspace.” (It also doubles as the title of..."

Nov. 27, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

Bad Times at the El Royale

Neo-noir hijinks gets away with being style over substance

"...priest (Bridges), an aspiring singer (Erivo), and a mysterious femme fatale (Johnson), all of whom have reasons for staying..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

GayCL 2018 Is Queerer and More Diverse Than Ever

Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows you’re queer

"...Dungeon femme fatale Belladonna got her start in the local drag..."

Oct. 10, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

Fantastic Fest Review: Bad Times at the El Royale

Was it good times for the Fantastic Fest closing film?

"...Bridges), an aspiring singer (ECynthia Erivo), and a mysterious femme fatale (Dakota Johnson), all of whom have reasons for..."

Oct. 3, 2018 Screens Post by Matthew Monagle

Chronicle Recommends: Crime and No Punishment

For Crime Month, our favorite films about getting away with it

"...yet K Turner's Matty Walker elevates the role from femme fatale to master contriver as she seduces William Hurt's..."

July 9, 2018 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Gay Place

Tarik Daniels celebrates the release of his first novel and GQB raises cash for SAFE

"...Violent Fem (ROUND II) High-glam drag goes femme fatale. Hentaii, Rhonda Jewels, Chique Fil-Atio, and more –..."

April 27, 2018 Column by Sarah Marloff

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