Fantasia Review: For the Sake of Vicious

Merciless revenger's tragedy never blanches from violence

"...Nobody directs violence like Gabriel Carrer. There's something unrelenting, something apologetically disturbing and confrontational about how..."

Sept. 2, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: The Book of Mormon

Outlandish, unlikely musical hit might make you a believer

"...Fish don't get much farther out of water than the leads in this Trey..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Top 10 Festival Films of 2020 You Haven't Seen Yet

The best of the fests from Austin and beyond

"...Every year, Austin's film festival highlight some of the best up-and-coming filmmakers. And every year, there are..."

Jan. 1, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Festival Films of 2021 You Haven't Seen Yet

From retro horror to COVID survival, the best of the fests

"...The 2022 film festival is just around the corner (even..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Dance With the Devil

Getting Austin Artists in Step With Their Audience

"...Gras in New Orleans will be a little different for the Krewe of Sinbad this year. They've been driven..."

Dec. 27, 1996 Arts Feature by Brett Holloway-Reeves

Sex Addiction and the City

Steve McQueen on Shame's New York state of mind

"...think we live in overstimulated times. We crave stimulation for its own sake. We gorge ourselves on it. We..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Ex-Files, Part II

"...living room and literally not recognized my wife -- there was an expression on her face that I labeled..."

July 19, 1996 Column by Michael Ventura

Dreaming of Buffalo

Prairie preservationists want to turn Austin's eyes – and energies – eastward

"...driving through Kansas? That ain't prairie. Those monotonous fields of scraggly knee-high grass in the pastures outside town? That..."

Dec. 23, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Waist Deep

An ex-con in Los Angeles gets pulled back into the gang wars when he has to rescue his son, who was in his carjacked vehicle.

"...Vondie Curtis-Hall. Starring: Tyrese Gibson, Meagan Good, Larenz Tate, The Game and Henry Hunter Hall. The lengths to which..."

June 30, 2006 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Le Draft 2007

"...a freshman slumming in a dorm flat. This was the first year of my life with the magical and..."

April 29, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

DVDanger: Nick Damici Sees Late Phases

Werewolves, contact lenses, and the Hap and Leonard series

"...Ambrose, the surly, blind, widower/werewolf killer of Late Phases, doesn't get..."

Nov. 23, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...The Reasons Behind the Attack..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Column

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...I'm just now getting around to accessing the Chron via the Internet in the Balkans, where I've..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...her letter (Sept. 28), especially regarding Belinda Acosta and the "TV Eye" column. I can't imagine why Dr. Austen..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Column

Page Two: No Virtue

The vicious circle of constitutional desecration

"...There was a time when this column would more often..."

Aug. 12, 2011 Column by Louis Black

Top 40 Vices Playlist

A walk on the wild side with songs of the seven deadly sins

"...Johnny Rotten to Madness, Ian Dury's influence made him the UK's street poet laureate with this 1977 corruption of..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Tragedy Brings Out the Worst in 'Chron'..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Column

The Beauty Queen of Leenane

This Beauty Queen is harsh but effective, gritty as a sandpaper shamrock

"...The Beauty Queen of Leenane..."

June 20, 2008 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Scanlines

Mothering Heights

"...I remember mama. Lots of mamas in lots of movies. Mothers and mammies, matrons..."

May 12, 1995 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

All Creatures Great and Small

With the current state of the environment, long belabored by activists and scientists who point to any number of warning signs of planetary collapse, it makes sense, Chronicle contributor Dan Oko writes, that writers with deep green inclinations would juggle literary aesthetics and scientific data in their efforts to jar us from the stupefying impact of too much information and too much bad news.

"...Tinkering With Eden: A Natural History of Exotics in Americaby Kim Todd..."

May 18, 2001 Books Feature by Dan Oko

Friggin' Genius

SXSW Film announces feature film lineup

"...always been up with comedy, and a quick skim of the just-released feature lineup shows the fest continuing the..."

Feb. 4, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Postmarks

Losing Our Lunch

"...-- I hope you all are reading. This is for you...."

Feb. 12, 1999 Column

Never-Ending Story

Independent? Chain? The Bookstore Dilemma

"...Congress Avenue Booksellers photograph by John Anderson There's no hard data to corroborate the claim that many..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Shock and Awesomeness

Stephen Romano puts the movies in his mind down on paper in his fake-history coffeetable book, Shock Festival

"...The dream is always the same. It's summer, 1984-ish, and..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Page Two: Funny Papers

More than ever, the Chronicle is what people make of it

"...funny in person, but I have no real gift for doing the same in print. If anything, I think..."

Aug. 15, 2008 Column by Louis Black

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Friday

"...Central Presbyterian Church Perhaps better known as Derek Smalls, the most important completely noninfluential bass player ever, Shearer brings..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Dawson NPCD, Sept. 14, 2001). Ms. Smoot's rants against the neighborhood planning process should elevate her to the Republic..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Column

Tributes

"...RETURN OF THE GRIEVOUS ANGEL..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Music Feature

False Accusations

"...am writing in response to Mr. Strawn's letter to the editor (Vol. 16, No. 28). The letter falsely accuses..."

March 21, 1997 Column

ACL Music Fest Saturday Reviews

"...Who upset MuteMath? The indie-disco groove of the New Orleans experimental rockers' eponymous..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Music Feature by Richard Whittaker

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