Catherine Hardwicke Looks Harder at Don't Look Deeper

Twilight director solves the Quibi enigma for her new show

"...a massive lie, is Hardwicke's first excursion into science fiction. The underlying themes of technology and humanity made Don't..."

July 29, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Dead Dicks

The realities of depression meets the trap of reincarnation

"...Lee Paula Springer, Dead Dicks never lets its science fiction mechanism (odd as it is) outweigh what matters, which..."

July 24, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Local Coffee Subscriptions to Keep You Humming Along

Another way to to get that needed caffeine: by mail

"...great coffee, and a love for weirdo art, science fiction, design, and excruciatingly long exposition." Never mind their self-effacing..."

July 24, 2020 Food Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Flannery

The first lady of Southern Gothic letters on the cusp of the modern era

"...Fiction, Flannery O'Connor wrote, is not an escape from everyday..."

July 17, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, July 17-23

"...who wrote in several different genres, ranging from lesbian fiction to essays on boxing to plays that used poetic..."

July 17, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

Sulfuric Songwriter David Ramirez Pens His “I’m in Love” Record – Breakup and All

Austinite goes through heavy self-reckoning on new LP

"...It's fiction, but the story mirrors real events surrounding its audio..."

July 17, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Now Streaming in Austin: Recorded by Arizal

Rooster Teeth's new show takes the animated vlog into the future

"...preludes - made. With her interest in Young Adult fiction, Recorded by Arizal would be a very different project..."

July 13, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Permanent Vacation in Palm Springs With Max Barbakow

A time loop movie influenced by everything but Groundhog Day

"...The science-fiction element evolved because of influences like doppelganger rom-com The..."

July 10, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

AGLIFF Presses Play on The Capote Tapes

LGBTQIA+ film festival announces online lineup for 2020

"...department, to play a role in the reform effort. FICTION JURY COMPETITION..."

July 8, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Truth

Binoche and Deneuve clash exquisitely as mère et fille

"...film The Truth, the great Catherine Deneuve plays the fictional role of Fabienne Dangeville, an aging doyenne of the..."

July 3, 2020 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mayor's Book Club Says: "Read Local"

The 2020 choice? Three dozen books, all by Austin authors

"...the COVID-19 pandemic. The three dozen-plus titles cover adult fiction and nonfiction, YA fiction, middle-grade chapter books, children's books..."

July 2, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Other Worlds Shows Us The Artist Depiction

Join a Q&A about this incredible dive into NASA's art tonight

"...Bonowicz debuted season 1 at the Other Worlds science fiction film festival in 2018, and this Wednesday, July 1,..."

June 30, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Now Streaming in Austin: Slash

Join us tonight for a live Tweet of Clay Liford's queer nerd comedy

"...sexualized spoofs of their favorite shows. It became slash fiction when life went online, and ever since it's been..."

June 11, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin-Based Choreographer Hopes to Make a "Social Justice Summer"

With some crowdfunding support, Charles O. Anderson will be able to make dances for this time

"...Sower and Parable of the Talents by the late science-fiction writer Octavia E. Butler. Alongside James Baldwin, Butler is..."

June 12, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Wanna Watch Clay Liford's Slash With Us?

Join us Thursday night for our weekly live-Tweet

"...Now Streaming in Austin live-Tweet selection is coming-of-age/sexual awakening/fan fiction fave Slash...."

June 9, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

ATX Television Festival Goes From Small Screen to Big Screen to Small Screen Again

How the celebration of TV is leading the way in streaming fests as it becomes ATX TV ... From the Couch!

"...Rebecca Fonte, founder and executive director of dedicated science fiction fest Other Worlds, said that they are waiting until..."

June 5, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Good Lord Bird Swoops in for ATX TV Fest ... From the Couch!

Ethan Hawke series to headline Saturday: Plus The Mandalorian

"...this adaptation of James McBride's National Book Award for Fiction-winning biographical novel, his story is told from the viewpoint..."

June 3, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The 23 Words That Changed the Way Texas Sells Alcohol (or Not)

Say what, Governor?

"...valuable Twitter characters and an almost certain work of fiction. Abbott's tweet says two things – one is already..."

May 8, 2020 Food Feature by Kareem Hajjar

Other Worlds Wants You to Hear You Say "Rarrrgh!"

SF film festival wants your best Wookie roar for May the 4th

"...little more remote than ever. However, Austin's own science fiction film festival, Other Worlds, still wants us to come..."

May 4, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

In Lawrence Wright's Novel, an Imagined Pandemic That's Frighteningly Real

If disease-ravaged world of The End of October feels like our own, that’s because the author did his research rigorously

"...suspect and others are delivering misinformation. Do you think fiction is any better at getting this crucial information across..."

May 1, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Now Streaming in Austin: A Room Full of Nothing

End-of-the-world romance foresaw Austin today

"...pandemic lockdown experience would make for a great science fiction movie. A Room Full of Nothing proves that point...."

April 22, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Indie Meme Film Festival Goes Virtual

Celebration of South Asian cinema comes to your living room

"...that there will be 10 films, including narrative and fiction titles, both features and shorts...."

April 20, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

This Bubblegum Is Packed With Chewy, Fucked-Up Flavor

Fantastic new novel deeply reimagines our world for better and worse

"...seemed at a helpless intellectual remove from, in his fiction – it’s that which Shepherd trucked in so well,..."

April 20, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Five Post-Apocalyptic Novels for Your Plaguetime Pleasure

Because these ain’t the endtimes yet: Not. Quite. Yet.

"...before the last couple decades’ relentless flood of YA fiction of similar flavor, there are so many good novels..."

April 13, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Whistlers

Convoluted Romanian noir gets lost in translation from birdsong

"...to make, and is trying to use the post-Pulp Fiction cut-up noir as vehicle for it. Ivanov has all..."

April 3, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Hunt

Scathing action-satire is more than Elites versus Deplorables

"...you think that this is simply trust-fund Maoist fan fiction, then that means you're prejudging as badly as the..."

March 13, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Complicity And #MeToo in The Assistant

Kitty Green unravels systems that enable the Weinsteins of the world

"...get works in documentaries and couldn't find work in fiction film." Her 2017 film Casting JonBenet fused reenactments, interviews,..."

Feb. 24, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Assistant

The film industry’s quiet complicity in #MeToo crimes placed in stark context

"...the offense under investigation in The Assistant, the first fiction film of the #MeToo era that indicts the system..."

Feb. 14, 2020 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Teacher

This prize-winning novel's tale of a student piecing together the hidden life of her teacher, a Holocaust survivor who killed herself, is haunting

"...life, she readily admits that her speculation is purely fiction. That said, the narrator crafts a gripping story-within-a-story of..."

Feb. 14, 2020 Arts Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Now Speaking at SXSW: Ozzy Osbourne, Trent Reznor, Janelle Monae

Plus: St. Vincent, Carrie Brownstein, Judd Apatow, Desus & Mero

"...revolutionized comics and re-defined the boundaries of super hero fiction – from its creation in the 1960s, to its..."

Feb. 11, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

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