God Help the Girl

Belle & Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch's first film is a charming movie musical in the key of Mod.

"...Saudade was the word I was grasping for while watching God Help..."

Sept. 12, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Film: Stuart Murdoch and 'God Help the Girl'

Belle & Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch talks about his directorial debut

"...& Sebastian singer Stuart Murdoch has been working on the God Help the Girl project for nearly 10 years...."

March 15, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...SXSW has strapped on the rockets with not just a few titles for this..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Ray Manzarek: Trying to Set the World on Fire

The late Doors keyboardist at the Garden of Eden

"...first semester, I only knew one individual who fit the criteria: Doors’ keyboardist Ray Manzarek...."

May 23, 2013 Music Post by Danielle Zelisko

Meet the New Neighbors

A fugitive sect of Mormon polygamists is building a home – and an end-time temple – in the West Texas town of Eldorado

"...The town of Eldorado, Texas, seat of Schleicher County, flanks..."

July 29, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Kingsman: The Golden Circle

The bloody spy series returns

"...Directed by: Matthew Vaughn. Starring: Taron Egerton, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Julianne..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Austin and the Academy

'Tree of Life,' 'Bullhead' score Oscar nominations

"...The Tree of Life, filmed throughout Central Texas by longtime..."

Jan. 24, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Art of Being Dagoberto Gilb

What's a successful writer like Dagoberto Gilb got against the establishment?

"...to be in Austin, he wanted to get to the bottom of something that had been bothering him for..."

March 23, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Wag the Dog

"...nimble direction and technical execution combine to make Wag the Dog one of the wittiest and most mordant political..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

More to the Story

Advocates work to change the conversation around human trafficking

"...She was living under bridges in San Antonio, Texas, the past year of her life a haze of heroin..."

April 22, 2016 News Feature by Lizzie Jespersen

The Lauryn Paige Fuller Story

Eighteen-year-old Donald Scott Fuller was brutally murdered last year. Jordan Smith explores

"...weeks before Christmas, but outside it feels like spring. The sky is clear and bright, and there is a..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Features Feature by Jordan Smith

The Drink/Drank/Drunk Issue: Stages of Inebriation

To drink or not to drink – for local thespians, no question

"...Want to hear some good drinking stories? Ask theatre people. Between their research for playing soused characters, work..."

July 3, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Luv Doc: Mostly Happy

Not only is the glass half empty, it's got a hole in the bottom and it's leaking poison

"...dog, and I have made some good friends in the past few years. My life was stress-free up until..."

June 22, 2018 Column by The Luv Doc

The Bride From Hell

The Austin Chronicle's style avatar wants your wedding to be the peachiest. Here, he offers helpful hints to make your wedding panning that much less disastrous.

"...if more couples would spend as much time planning the actual marriage as they do the wedding, fewer marriages..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Features Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

All Hail 'The Lords of Salem'

Rob Zombie on his fifth feature, a decade in the making

"...Rob Zombie admits it: "I've always been obsessed with the bad characters." His first four turns as a film..."

April 19, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Whole Bow

Alvin Crow fiddled it his way

"...or baseball, find Alvin Crow. If you're looking for the best fiddle player in Austin, Alvin Crow's your man...."

Nov. 12, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

'The NFL Beat': To Explode From Within

A personal take on the Jovan Belcher murder/suicide

"...Week 13 of the NFL season has arrived, and with it comes the..."

Dec. 1, 2012 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

The Luv Doc: Drunk Booty Call

Wherein the Luv Doc tries to explain a dine-and-dash scenario

"...Guy came to my drunk booty call, spent the night, no sex, then we made out, and he..."

Aug. 28, 2015 Column by The Luv Doc

The Love Parade

Star-cross'd love, superhero-style

"..."I know you said that the X-Men movies constitute 'art,' but would you really put..."

July 8, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

White God

This Hungarian film is the Battleship Potemkin of canine mutiny

"...The winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at the..."

April 10, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

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The Tenth Annual "Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest Results

"...The only reason Mrs. Reznik hired me that summer was..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Books Feature

God Is a Bullet

Merciless and bleak Satanic abduction drama is Mandy on crank

"...Shot Caller and Headhunters. Yet even in his résumé, there's something particularly bleak and unsettling about God Is a..."

June 23, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

Adaptation of Judy Blume's classic is just as perfectly poignant as the book

"...Bates, Benny Safdie, Elle Graham, Amari Alexis Price and Katherine Mallen Kupferer...."

April 28, 2023 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

The Tenth Annual "Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest Results

"..."Close the door, boy," barked the drunker and rougher of the..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Books Feature

The Neon Demon

Cinema's bad boy, Nicolas Winding Refn, strikes again

"...I have come to the conclusion that Nicolas Winding Refn doesn't give a fuck..."

June 24, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Dead Climb on Top of You

Third Place winner

"...was in my house. I was living alone for the first time, it had not even been a month..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Arts Feature by P. Tyson Midkiff

The Good Eye Looks Back

All the best glimpses caught by the Good Eye in 2014

"...column-versary has arrived! Who knew, when this simple country girl came to the Chronicle a few years ago, that..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

The Most Read Film Reviews of 2014

Bombs away!

"...Our most read film review of the year was also our most commented on, complete with..."

Jan. 1, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Believing the Children

In 1992, Fran and Danny Keller were convicted of multiple counts of child sexual abuse at their Oak Hill day care center and sent to prison for 48 years. It's likely they were innocent. Indeed, it's very likely that no crime ever occurred – except an absurd and overzealous prosecution

"...When the little girl on the witness stand said, "No, it..."

March 27, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Short Unhappy Life of Sophia King

The APD shooting death of Sophia King was a tragedy waiting to happen.

"...The short unhappy life of Sophia Chante King came to..."

Aug. 2, 2002 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

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