All The Pieces Fall in to Place as SXSW Adds Tetris

New titles include experimental Visions and 24 Beats Per Second

"...a different form of being and kinship with other creatures. (Texas Premiere)..."

Feb. 1, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

This Thanksgiving, Consider Native American-Inspired Dishes

Cooking with Indigenous ingredients

"...it's all about the hearty hot-weather crops and the creatures that call this area home...."

Nov. 18, 2022 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Cine Las Americas Returns

A hemisphere of new films, plus SXSW fave What We Leave Behind

"...the command of her mother. Her uncanny affinity for creatures large and small allows Clara to find solace in..."

June 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Five Events to Scare Up a Great Halloween and Día de los Muertos

Some blood-tinged things to keep you occupied

"...engage the audience in an evening of classic Halloween creatures, suspense, comedy, and (of course) ballet. Ventana's own AJ..."

Oct. 29, 2021 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Titane to Open Fantastic Fest 2021

Cannes winner heads up this year's lineup

"...an apocalyptic world, he meets and fights monsters and creatures out of your worst nightmares in this passion project..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Screens Post

Godzilla vs. Kong

The madcap royal rumble we were always promised

"...necessary. The earlier films established the idea of ancient creatures that have lived in hiding, and occasionally (on a..."

April 2, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Creates XR Austin for Online Festival

Digital environment will be virtually like being there

"...at night, one becomes strangely entangled to plants and creatures. Until the forest starts to crystallise... (World Premiere)..."

March 2, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...at night, one becomes strangely entangled to plants and creatures. Until the forest starts to crystallise... (World Premiere)..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

12 New TV Shows to Watch in January

Plus another dozen returning shows to reacquaint yourself with

"...a step in the right direction. (Jan. 7) All Creatures Great and Small (PBS)..."

Dec. 29, 2020 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Local Video Game Takes a Deep Dive Into Creation Myths

Mythic Ocean focuses on the art of conversation instead of the art of war

"...journey dropped in a fantastical, watery world populated with creatures ranging from the mundane to the otherworldly. Swimming around..."

Feb. 18, 2020 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Dolittle

Downey has and is fun as the doctor who can talk with the animals

"...the superhero origin story. Instead, the Victorian-era translator of creatures already knows how to converse with fauna of all..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Plan Your Psychedelic Weekend With These Levitation Picks

Nearly two-dozen choices ranging from the Flaming Lips to Elephant Stone

"...rockers conjure lyricism of infernos, dark arts, and mythical creatures.  – Alejandra Ramirez..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Music Feature by The Music Staff

The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

This debut fantasy novel is appealing, in part because it draws on legends of the Arab world for its magic

"...English-language fantasies (note the distinction) have historically drawn their creatures from the mythologies of western Europe: elves, faeries, dragons,..."

March 2, 2018 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

The Prey of Gods

In a future South Africa, writer Nicky Drayden deftly mixes gods and robots and shows us how they and humans deal with change

"...droid. That's due largely to Drayden's understanding of the creatures that occupy the space between those two: human beings...."

Nov. 10, 2017 Books Review by Robert Faires

Five Arty Things to Do This Weekend: Oct. 5-8

Because, look, it’s not all about that ACL, is it now?

"...do, over millennia, with the exoskeletal structures of the creatures that will eventually inherit this planet...."

Oct. 5, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Episodic: American Gods

It's old gods vs. new in Starz adaptation of Neil Gaiman novel

"...religion imaginable – to take on the new gods, creatures like Media and Technology...."

March 11, 2017 Screens Post by Joe O'Connell

Gods of Egypt

We already have a strong contender for the worst film of 2016

"...The titans also bleed gold and transform into monstrous creatures at will, which makes for quite a shit show..."

March 4, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

DVDanger: Horror Roundup

The best and the rest of the month's home releases

"...the action moves from hipsters in Mexico, evading giant creatures, to soldiers in the Middle East. Now the monsters..."

July 3, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'Devil's Pass', 'Die, Monster, Die!', 'The Whip and the Body', 'Birth of the Living Dead'

A modern shocker, two vintage terrors, and a history lesson in zombies

"...also be the first film to truly show Lovecraftian creatures as the twisted, pulpy mass of tentacles that he..."

Jan. 11, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Extraterrestrial

Spanish filmmaker Nacho Vigalondo cloaks this romantic comedy within the promise of a science-fiction story.

"...alien invasion looms without fully actualizing, the possibility that creatures from outer space may have secretly inhabited the bodies..."

July 13, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two: That Was Then

The case for improving the quality of strategic political fictions

"...of film. They watch it, wondering about the odd creatures that once inhabited this planet. It is a Mickey..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Nightmares on Main Street

New media, same old story

"...major cities exploding, foreign armies invading our shores, twisted creatures haunting the night, civilizations failing, and technology often run..."

Sept. 17, 2010 Column by Louis Black

My So-Called Social Life

What happens when Facebook RSVPs stop being polite ... and start getting real

"...not the one I would have had – "For God's sake, why?" – but, "Are you writing about it?"..."

June 18, 2010 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Across the Universe

Q& A with Karl Denson

"...Friday night, Austin’s FunkyBatz and other assorted creatures take over La Zona Rosa to groove with local..."

Feb. 10, 2010 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

RocknRolla

Director Guy Ritchie once more delivers a kinetic and consequence-free tribute to the criminal lifestyle.

"...the Russian mob boss, most dangerous of all God’s creatures ….” And thank God for that narration because the..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Bee Movie

Jerry Seinfeld delivers an agreeable though tame animated picture that more than does the trick but is unlikely to become a superbuzz movie.

"...Movie makes a good case for equanimity among the creatures of the earth (or at least New York City,..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Vocabulary of Islamic Fascism, Neo-Leftist, and Moral Relativism

"...beds of Cretaceous limestone. The existence of all those creatures is no less significant than our own. Our blip..."

April 9, 2007 Postmarks

Constantine

Adapted from Alan Moore’s groundbreaking DC/Vertigo comic title, Constantine is sure to divide the series’ most rabid fans, but those who can set aside their preconceptions will discover one of the more artfully designed comic-based films in some time.

"...the ability to perceive both the diabolic and beatific creatures that walk among us and the attendant inability to..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In the Realms of the Unreal

The strange artwork and life of primitivist Harry Darger is given dimension by master documentarist Jessica Yu.

"...manuscript) and the accompanying illustrations, otherworldly images of fantastic creatures and epic battles painted, drawn, collaged, and overlaid on..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Where the Wild Things Star

'Secondhand Lions' is only the latest production in which Bobbi Colorado-trained beasts play a part.

"...the lions," says McCanlies, "out of respect to the creatures, but you could tell they sort of wanted to...."

Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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