God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai

"...Li, Ray Lui and Charles Heung. Ouch. The original God of Gamblers, with Chow Yun-Fat, was an ingenious blend..."

Feb. 25, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Art of War 2 Invades Convention Center

"...True face-punching connoisseurs got a taste of the old mixed martial-arts combat in January when Chuck..."

May 10, 2007 Sports Post by Jeremy Martin

The Gods of War

America is distracted by the Pledge "crisis" while our government readies for war.

"...are few public spectacles more entertaining than the tribe of politicians in a chorus of full-throated sanctimony. We enjoyed..."

July 12, 2002 News Column by Michael King

The Price of War

"...consultant, believes that the real conflict surrounding the operation of the Longhorn pipeline stems from a turf war between..."

Nov. 19, 1999 News Feature by Mike Jasper

This Week's Waste of Time

We get nostalgic for handheld LCD video games

"...Having stumbled upon a browser version of God of War that plays like an LCD handheld..."

May 20, 2010 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Making Mjolnir Out of a WiiMote

Local game developers Red Fly talk 'Thor'

"...Fly got this week when Thor topped the box office: A surge of power and press for their tie-in..."

May 11, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Kingdom of Heaven

Ridley Scott's Crusades epic is a historical spectacle on the order of Gladiator and a dissection of war, as gritty and illuminating as Black Hawk Down, that takes flight when it becomes a canvas for ideas and ideologies in action.

"...Brendan Gleeson, Marton Csokas, Liam Neeson, Ghassan Massoud and Edward Norton. At the end of the 12th century, in..."

May 6, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

God Grew Tired of Us: The Story of Lost Boys of Sudan

This multiaward-winner from Sundance 2006 follows three “lost boys” of the Sudan, chronicling three years of their journey in the United States, while revealing as much about American life as African life.

"...Quinn and Tommy Walker. “Do you have a lot of freedom here that you didn’t have?” a woman asks,..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Of Comics and 'Immortals'

'Kabuki' creator David Mack talks about Tarsem's new epic

"...letting Tarsem – the director behind the visual overloads of The Cell and The Fall – loose with a..."

May 29, 2011 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Wrath of the Titans

The Greek gods of antiquity must be angry: this sequel is merely loud and uninspired.

"...Sure to lift the benighted spirits of Greeks currently flailing in an economic Hades of their..."

March 30, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

March of the Flower Children

The last interview with Seeds frontman and oh-so-brief psychedelic Austinite Sky Sunlight Saxon

"...perfect poise, Sky Saxon sits cross-legged atop a bed of brown and gold silk sheets in his living room...."

July 24, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Back in the Realm of the Senses and Provoking All Five

AFS Essential Cinema presents Smashing the Rules: Films of Oshima Nagisa

"..."They were a nation of anxious people, and they could do nothing individually, so..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Of Barbecue and Vampires

An interview with Todd Lowe, True Blood's Terry Bellefleur

"...Short order cook. War vet. Loving husband, daddy, and step-daddy. Terry Bellefleur of..."

June 13, 2013 Screens Post by R.U. Steinberg

Top 10 Theatrical Wonders of 2011

Remembering a theatrical year with superheroes, The Tempest, and a mash-up of the two

"...1) 'BLACK WATCH' (Texas Performing Arts) The National Theatre of Scotland used every weapon in theatre's arsenal – language,..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The High Art of Low Comedy

"...so bogged down with words that have fallen out of favor (I suppose "cock-a-hoop" had to go if the..."

Aug. 20, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Awesome Overload: Alamo Does the Kobayashi Maru Class of '82

Alamo Drafthouse screens 1982 30 years later

"...even that. Thanks to the Alamo Drafthouse's imminent "Summer of 1982" series, you can experience that insanely great summer's..."

April 16, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

War Room

Christian melodrama likens prayer to war against the devil

"...presents a novel idea for home renovation. How many of us have looked at the master closet and thought,..."

Aug. 28, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Letters at 3AM: Articles of Faith

"That all things are possible is God"

"...18, about to be 19, and learning the meaning of necessity. My task was to contribute to the support..."

Oct. 18, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Soldier of Fortune

Comic Steven Wright offers observations on his return to short film, "One Soldier," the pressure of following up an Academy Award, and this bad trick called life.

"...else. His exquisitely crafted one-liners and dancing quantum leaps of logic reveal a mind that has spent many hours..."

March 10, 2000 Screens Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

Mad God

Phil Tippett's stop motion masterpiece of depravity and the divine

"...effects guru and stop motion maestro Phil Tippett (Star Wars, Jurassic Park, RoboCop, Dragonslayer, Starship Troopers) has been handcrafting..."

July 1, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Avengers: Infinity War

Earth's mightiest heroes face their greatest, most nuanced threat

"...Yet the fragmenting goes deeper: Vision (Bettany) and Wanda Maximoff (Olsen) are off the grid, and Thor (Hemsworth) had..."

April 27, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Lege: Here Comes the Culture War

The culture war begins as conservative lawmakers file "religious freedom" bills

"...be another Texas legislative session without a heaping dose of right-wing fear-mongering, bat-shittery, and the perpetual effort to overtly..."

Jan. 23, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Letters at 3AM: A Prayer at the End of My Rope

The crucial element of prayer is "no alibis"

"...Actually, I have a surprising number of friends in AA...."

Feb. 11, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Drug War Blowback

Drug-raid tactics come under increasing scrutiny

"...stiff winds and heavy rain, and Monday's high temperature of 74 registered just before 12:30am, as the mercury continued..."

Dec. 21, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The God's Heaven Truth

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

"...decades. Unless you happen to be among the handful of parishioners at God’s Anointed Community COGIC in West Dallas,..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

In the Realms of the Unreal

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

"...say that when he dies penniless at the age of 81, you’re tasked with cleaning out his rented room...."

Feb. 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Shape of Water

An unconventional love story from one of the best fabulists

"...Fear and loathing of The Other is always with us, but much more..."

Dec. 8, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Trouble Puppet's The Wars of Heaven, Part I

The eons-old battle between heaven and hell gets reorganized along gender lines

"...with two Russian soldiers taking shelter in the rubble of Stalingrad as the Nazis lay siege. At first, they're..."

May 8, 2015 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Civil War Landscapes and Legacies When Johnny Came Marching Home

"...The number of words written about the Civil War surpassed the actual..."

July 21, 1995 Arts Feature

The Liminal Lone Star State: Iliana Sosa’s El Paso in God Save Texas

HBO docuseries screens at AFS Cinema this weekend

"...Making a documentary is always a process of discovery. While Iliana Sosa was filming La Frontera, her..."

March 1, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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