For Mature Audiences Only

How did Kevin Smith prep to make a movie about two kids making a porn? Years of research.

"...about Zack and Miri, why pornography isn't necessarily a bad thing, and why he used to take showers with..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

A Convenient Truth

Kevin Smith on 'Clerks II'

"...a sequel that's probably not going to be as good as the original and could even potentially damage the..."

July 21, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Dancing About Architecture

Butthole Surfers and Austin City Limits suffer set backs while Riverfest marches on.

"...Now would be a good time to make sure everybody knows the difference between..."

June 29, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Go, Girl! Go!

A father beams as her records his daughter's first season as a middle school football player.

"...the happiest child walking into that school. Life is good. "There won't be a practice today, Dad. It's the..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Features Feature by Phillip Schmandt

Tongue-in-Cheek Terror

"...Before that, it was up to the "Weirdo-American community," as the band's singer Gibby Haynes might call..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Hill Country Breakdown

"...warming the crowd considerably. Though Earle's effort was a good one, with some of the tunes for his latest..."

June 4, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

No Prozac for the Wicked

The Cool Capers of Donald Westlake

"...stage income with crime capers. The Grofield books were good. Grofield was not Parker. Westlake tried to write another..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Smart Women, Dangerous Men

Dracula and Fur Tempt Females With the Dark Side

"...people, yet Nena, played by Elaine Williams, wants this bad boy and will do almost anything to have him...."

Oct. 17, 1997 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

Whither Rock?

ii.

"...bands, managers, journalists, drug dealers and people who had good dirt on Courtney Love started to command huge prices..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Books Feature by Gina Arnold

Texas Platters

"...spectacle ("The Last Great Balloon Race"), happiness ("Too Damn Good"), penny-arcade religion ("Dreams of Christ"), co-dependency ("There's a Hole..."

July 11, 1997 Music Review

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...her parents' desire to match her up with a good Chinese husband. She appeases her parents by going out..."

Oct. 13, 1995 News Feature

A Jukebox Musical, Chicken Tips, and More Weekday Events

Don't pretend like you don't need chicken tips

"...for committing those dreams to tape. With the Drafthouse’s Weird Wednesday going a smidge more mainstream, Video Vortex is..."

July 26, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Books, Sculpture, and Weed Lead Our Recommended Arts Events

It'd be a lot cooler if you went to one of these events this week

"...great news, art lovers – it’s all for a good cause. The Umlauf Sculpture Garden showcases the emotionally wrought..."

April 19, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Wonka

Roald Dahl's candy king gets a flavorless and cloying origin story

"...what the deal was with Willy Wonka, the indelibly weird chocolatier. Follow that thought and you’ve arrived at Wonka,..."

Dec. 15, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Security Guard Nearly Killed in Machete Attack Urges Stronger Social Safety Net

Police union blames prosecutors

"..."You know what was weird is that when it was happening, it was like..."

Oct. 27, 2023 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Fantastic Fest Review: Cobweb

Song Kang-ho in the touching tragedy of a failing director

"...known to American audiences for his mondo western The Good, the Bad, the Weird, his career, too, defies easy..."

Oct. 9, 2023 Screens Post by Matthew Monagle

Dumb Money

The GameStop short squeeze is a meme-splattered discount The Big Short

"...or worse. Pete Davidson plays Keith's brother, Kevin, a weird but fitting slacker foil to Dano’s more straitlaced investor...."

Sept. 22, 2023 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

Richard Linklater's Memories of the Moon in Apollo 10½

The filmmaker's childhood in space race-era Houston recalled through Austin-made animation

"...it's, 'Oh, it works.'" With Apollo, "it's such a weird fantasy-reality mash-up that the literalness of live action I..."

March 25, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Night He Came to Fantastic Fest

Genre fest announces Halloween for opening night

"...In 1971 Argentina, Carlitos is a baby-faced youth whose good looks match his confident swagger. Carlitos’ passion is stealing;..."

Aug. 22, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Unscripted: Sexy Future Space Lady

What says summer fun more than out-of-this-world lovin' with a Sexy Future Space Lady? Especially improvised!

"...and loved "how silly it was, as well as weird and sexy." How could it not be with a..."

May 18, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Playback – Lukas Nelson: Real as Promised

Lukas Nelson is a chip off the ol' Willie

"...Did Maui represent anonymity for you? It must be weird being Willie's kid in Austin...."

Aug. 25, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

John Hughes Film Series at Moviehouse This March

Round Rock theatre screens the maestro of teen movies' greatest hits

"...River's Edge would be the result. Red Dawn allowed weird, prodigious high school Republicans to cosplay as Cold Warriors...."

Feb. 27, 2017 Screens Post by Dougie Gerrard

Full Circle

Ali to his friends, Shakey Graves to the world

"..."You've never seen it?" he chides. "It's actually really good, and I'm blessed to be a memorable character in..."

Sept. 26, 2014 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Descendents’ Uncontrollable Urge

Fun Fun Fun punks anew – coffee, documentary, and album

"...to go see as kids. It would be the Weirdos, X, the Germs, the Bags, and The Plugz –..."

Jan. 27, 2014 Music Post by Claire Gordon

The Q&A Hole: Which One Typeface Would You Eradicate Forever?

With Swissmiss, Marc English, Jennymarie Jemison, and more

"...had to cover my mouth because I made some weird noise – some whooping cross between a guffaw and..."

March 4, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Last Stand

Arnold Schwarzenegger plunges back into acting in this full-bore action vehicle helmed by the South Korean director Kim Jee-Woon.

"...credentials with 2008’s wild and comic Korean Western The Good, the Bad, the Weird. Still, this is Schwarzenegger’s film:..."

Jan. 18, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

'The NFL Beat': Week 11

American football and international affairs

"...racers prepare to speed around Austin's brand-spanking-new and decidedly un-weird F1 track, I have been stewing...."

Nov. 17, 2012 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

My Way

This South Korean epic is a gory and realistic portrait of the horrors of war.

"...Shot by Lee Mo-gae (I Saw the Devil, The Good, the Bad and the Weird), My Way puts every..."

May 4, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fairness, Consistency, Safety

Rosemary Lehmberg defends her record

"...I've taken a pretty good look at those [issues from the Hall case], and..."

Jan. 20, 2012 News Feature

I Saw the Devil

A serial killer meets his match – and then some – in this nasty revenge drama from South Korea that's nevertheless executed with superlative style and wit.

"...Sisters and his Eastern take on spaghetti Westerns The Good, the Bad and the Weird. Particularly with Park Chan-wook’s..."

March 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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