SXSW Film Review: Another Simple Favor

Like con artists, sequels to even campy crime can be tricky

"...word-of-mouth cult on Kendrick’s comic chops, Lively’s incredible suits, and their sexual tension. The sequel is more yet less...."

March 7, 2025 SXSW Post by Joe Gross

Miyazaki, Hot Boys, Jane Austen Improv, and More Recommended Events

The weekend is looking ... a little weird

"...a force to be reckoned with, saffron will permeate and collaborate with facile joy at every layer.” Similar description..."

July 12, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Egg Hunts, Trans Visibility, and More Community Events

Meet your fellow Austinites as these goings-on

"...Rife with references to house, disco, and ballroom, Renaissance was Beyoncé’s ode to Black queer culture...."

March 29, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

A Boner Bizarre, Improvised Love Stories, and More Arts Events

Get some culture and love this week

"...C’mon y’all freaks and geeks: Austin’s premier transmedia festival dedicated to bold..."

Feb. 16, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Lunar New Year Parties, OUTsider Fest, and More Recommended Community Events

Get out the vote and more this week

"...C’mon y’all freaks and geeks: Austin’s premier transmedia festival dedicated to bold..."

Feb. 16, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Bottoms

The Shiva Baby team reunite for a ridonkulously horny queer comedy

"...Ayo Edebiri, Havana Rose Liu, Kaia Gerber, Nicholas Galitzine and Marshawn Lynch...."

Aug. 25, 2023 Movie Review by Lina Fisher

SXSW Film Review: Bottoms

Seligman and Sennot re-team for a wicked lesbian John Hughes riff

"...The teen experience, the teen gay experience, the gross and shameful and liberating catharsis of bloodlust and extremely silly..."

March 12, 2023 Screens Post by Lina Fisher

Reinventing the Fantasy Movie With SXSW Opening Night's Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Writers/directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein on dungeons, dragons, and heists

"...opening night slot at the South by Southwest Film and Television Festival has often celebrated movies that balance spectacle..."

March 10, 2023 Screens Feature by Matthew Monagle

ATX TV Festival 2022: Bill Lawrence on Life, Death, and Scrubs

A rewind of our 2020 interview with the series creator

"...Bill Lawrence woke up early for a Zoom chat, and Zoom life was starting to wear on us all...."

June 4, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Faster Than Sound: Versatile Electronic Producer Qrion Finds Calm in Austin

I Hope It Lasts Forever arrives Friday at the Concourse Project

"...from her hometown of Sapporo, situated on the northernmost island of Japan...."

Oct. 29, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Laughs, Deaths, and Scrubs

Bill Lawrence on the serious side of his crazy hospital comedy

"...It's been a big month for Bill Lawrence and Scrubs, the medical comedy he created 20 years ago...."

June 5, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Gets Virtual

VR film pioneer Jessica Brillhart announced as 2019 keynote

"...SXSW has already announced Garbage singer Shirley Manson and Chvrches' Lauren Mayberry as Music keynotes, Instagram CEO Kevin..."

Nov. 27, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

A Simple Favor

Anna Kendrick turns unlikely sleuth in this deliciously twisted romp

"...Directed by: Paul Feig. Starring: Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively and Henry Golding...."

Sept. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Game Night

Monopoly was never this brutal before this crime-com.

"...Directed by: John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. Starring: Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Jesse Plemons,..."

Feb. 23, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Gay Place

We are thankful – for you

"...the planners, the partygoers, the bar owners, the DJs and artists and creators, the visionaries, the activists, the homebodies,..."

Nov. 24, 2017 Column by Sarah Marloff

A Guide to Austin Stand-Up: Podcasts

So local you don't have to leave your house

"...one of Austin's busiest comics, with national TV appearances and gigs all over the country, but he keeps it..."

March 31, 2017 Arts Feature by Carina Magyar

Austin Music Awards Show Performers 1983-2016

Every AMA performance lineup of the past 34 years

"...1983: Angela Strehli & Band with special guest Stevie Ray Vaughan, Extreme Heat, Van..."

March 3, 2017 Features Feature

Slash

A sweet coming-of-age film set in the world of fan fiction

"...Black, Jessie Ennis, Tishuan Scott, Peter Vack, Violett Beane and John Ennis...."

Dec. 9, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Chasca Oinks Like Gods

Local crazies’ superstentialistic origin story

"...This week’s 35th anniversary Chronicle issue and its theme, “What We Talk About When We Talk..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Music Post by Alejandra Ramirez

10 Freaks and Geeks to Redefine Austin Music

Local passion projects with singular visions

"...chord organ for $20. Because such an unlikely score demands tribute to the forces of random fortune, Roper founded..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Behind the Bars Part II

We revisit Austin's LGBTQ bars of yesteryear

"...In honor of Pride and this week's queer spaces feature, we've reached out to..."

Aug. 25, 2016 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Austin Film Festival Announces First Wave of Awards

Paul Feig and Nancy Meyers recognized, plus panelists!

"...other worthwhile film festivals in this overpopulated, godforsaken town, and a great one just dropped some news...."

April 5, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

SXSW Music: 2015/16 Austin Music Awards

Robert Plant crowns magnum opus roots pull

"...night’s sold-out gala. Immaculate tribute to Twine Time deejay and veteran AMA emcee Paul Ray, led by Zeppelin icon..."

March 17, 2016 SXSW Post by Doug Freeman

Robert Plant Crowns Austin Music Awards

Fortune teller to unspool vintage Twine Time at local Grammys

"...Twine Time, a master class of classic soul, blues, and R&B. During a the station’s pledge drive in February..."

March 15, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Lust for Life

The 2015/16 Austin Music Awards' bedrock mania

"...ballroom with scores of future Austin High alma maters and materettes sitting in the aisles and shouting out their..."

March 11, 2016 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Deep Roots and Living Legends

Austin Music Awards celebrate our legends

"...The year is 1975 and Clifton Chenier and His Red Hot Louisiana Band have..."

March 8, 2016 Events Post by Lisa Gossett

Austin Music Legends Honored at AMAs

Susan Antone will receive the first-ever Margaret Moser Award

"...Last year, despite the all-star house band and one-of-a-kind tribute performances to Ian McLagan and Austin..."

March 1, 2016 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Playback: And the Award Goes To ...

The Grammys went bust, but their local equivalent – the 34th annual Austin Music Awards – just dropped its star-studded lineup

"...Monday night, I submerged into the couch and stared at my television, cross-eyed and drooling, as the..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Amira & Sam

Cross-cultural love between a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi girl flourishes in the Big Apple.

"...Dina Shihabi, Paul Wesley, David Rasche, Laith Nakli, Ross Marquand, Claire Byrne, Teddy Cañez and James Chen...."

Jan. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Music DVDs

"...the Canadian super trio's four decades of progressive hammer and thought, the nearly 20-hour Time Machine (also available on..."

Dec. 19, 2014 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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