Get Your Game Face On

'Tis the season to glue yourself to the PlayStation controller and get in some batting practice.

"...Sports' Triple Play series was the standard-bearer in baseball games, the first game to render both players and ballparks..."

May 17, 2002 Screens Feature by Michael Chamy

Get Your Jojo Working

"...Local Jonathan Richman fans have been somewhat spoiled in the past few years, with the founder..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Take Me to the River

Rock & Roll Books

"...broke up in 1970, they stand unchallenged when it comes to annually flooding the marketplace with high-dollar holiday gift..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Books Feature by Stuart Wade

Take Me to the River

Rock & Roll Books

"...Brothers cast a long and badass shadow in their hometown of New Orleans, where their red-hot blend of soul,..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Books Feature by Jay Hardwig

Makes Me Wanna Shout!

"...featuring playwrights Hare, Stoppard, Wertenbaker, and Simon Gray; critic Mel Gussow; director Frith Banbury; actor Janet Suzman; scholar Ruby..."

Oct. 4, 1996 Arts Column

If It Were Up to Me...

"...With all due respect to Dr. James Fishkin -- who looks like a very nice man..."

Feb. 2, 1996 News Feature

"Thank You - Now Get Off Me"

What happens when a documentary film maker gets a little too close - literally - to a subject they don't like?

"...While filming his documentary about professional homophobe Fred Phelps, Fall From Grace (which..."

March 15, 2007 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

If You Don't Agree With Me Then Get out of U.S.

Aug. 24, 2005 Postmarks

Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken

"...Yes, I suppose it's wimpy to start with a disclaimer, but it's difficult to review children's movies without one,..."

May 31, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

When a Stranger Calls

Simon West’s do-over of Fred Walton’s 1979 creepfest – in which babysitter Belle menaced by a stranger with a phone who probably isn’t that guy from Verizon – is a hollow, shallow, and just plain boring exercise in snooziness.

"...de Lint and Kate Jennings Grant. Long distance information? Get me Hollywood, USA: I’ve got a rusty ice pick..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Disaster Artist

The making of one of the most inept films ever made

"...Directed by: James Franco. Starring: James Franco, Dave Franco, Alison Brie, Seth..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Michael Jackson's This Is It

Michael Jackson moonwalks among us for a final hurrah.

"...posthumously released film about the preparations for his 50-concert comeback extravaganza is a strange creature indeed. Neither a true..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

We're still wild about Harry, even though this new adventure prefers to flush pink with its lovesick teens than forward-thrust toward the mammoth battle of good vs. evil.

"...we want so very much for the filmmakers to get it right, Rowling's potent mix of the cozy and..."

July 17, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Insidious

Insidious, from the original Saw team, lacks thrills and originality.

"...Directed by: James Wan. Starring: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins, Lin..."

April 1, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bowfinger

"...plan is to stalk Ramsey around with a hidden camera, documenting his terrorized responses to the Bowfinger players' scripted..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Spike & Mike's Festival of Animation '94

"...has assembled another hodgepodge of animated shorts, and this time, the most entertaining and thought-provoking involve canines or culture...."

Feb. 18, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Mr. Saturday Night

"...Directed by: Billy Crystal. Starring: Billy Crystal, David Paymer, Julie Warner, Helen Hunt, Ron Silver and Mary Mara...."

Sept. 25, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The God's Heaven Truth

Rev. Gean West & the Relatives add another chapter to Texas funk history

"...Dallas gospel group takes the stage for the first time in nearly three decades. Unless you happen to be..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

'Possession Arrow': Barnes<->Huggins

"...while watching Kansas State visit Texas, they of the 22-game home winning streak. John Razook will be playing the..."

Feb. 3, 2007 Sports Post by Shawn Badgley

Bob Byington Sees the World, Writes Home About It

Harmony and Me's adventures in Australia

"...When Bob Byington took his comedy Harmony and Me to Australia, we asked him to..."

March 8, 2011 Screens Post by Bob Byington

Philadelphia Freedom

Hockey, My Brother, the '74 Flyers, and Me …

"...We think that name is crumbs..."

March 23, 2001 Features Feature by Spike Gillespie

Transplanted Texan Discovers Breakfast Tacos in New York City

Good news for New Yorkers returning home from Austin

"...While many New Yorkers are in my old hometown of Austin for South by Southwest enjoying the hippest..."

March 17, 2013 Food Post by Jessica Lee

Everything Went Black: Why Fantastic Fest is Motörhead…

…And vice versa.

"...For me, the run-up to FF -- or any other film/music..."

Sept. 19, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Next

Nicolas Cage plays a man who can see into the future – a talent the FBI wants to put to use capturing terrorists.

"...pseudo-Phildickian actioner is chum for the bigger fish to come this summer; for Moore, it’s a slummer. As Cris..."

May 4, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

50 First Dates

Drew and the Sandman team up once more to make Valentine's weekend box-office dollars.

"...Astin, Blake Clark and Dan Aykroyd. What do you get when you mix Adam Sandler with SPAM gags, a..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Bend It Like Beckham

"...Gurinder Chadha. Starring: Parminder K. Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Anupam Kher, Archie Punjabi, Shaheen Khan and Ameet Chana...."

April 4, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Luv Doc: A Serious Conversation

You get to have emotions, sure, but that doesn’t unilaterally excuse you from reading the room

"...it must have been for her family. The whole time I was talking he was humming along to some..."

Jan. 17, 2025 Column by The Luv Doc

Words and Music

This year's Austin Chamber Music Festival and Austin Classical Guitar summer series really get lit

"..."Any time you combine words or literature or plays and music,..."

July 8, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

TV Eye

On why we should care about Tiger and his wood (psst: we shouldn't), and other major irritants

"...enough irritating things occur all at once to turn me into a crotchety, finger-wagging person talking back at the..."

Feb. 26, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

A Rocky Road to Recovery

The lights are still on at ME TV, but is it a new dawn?

"...do it. Sillers, a Fort Worth native, is a longtime music lover, and the "live music capital" provided an..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

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