Jokers, Murders, and Walpurgisnacht in This Week’s Recommended Events

Arts and culture events to populate your weekdays

"...alter ego. Mark Hamill’s gleefully unhinged Joker. A moody Gotham setting that aptly tackles the gangster roots of Batman’s..."

April 25, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

In I Really Love My Husband, a Couple Becomes a Throuple

GG Hawkins on her SXSW debut and DIY filmmaking

"...question GG Hawkins was asked while attending New York’s Gotham Film & Media Institute...."

March 7, 2025 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: Death March of the Barbarians

The emperor has no clothes, no wisdom, and no moral center

"...find ourselves trapped in a particularly dispiriting version of Gotham, hoping desperately that some benevolent Bruce Wayne is just..."

Feb. 3, 2025 News Post by Michael King

A Drag Fest, Nutcracker, and Puppets in This Week’s Events

Lots of weekend events to keep you occupied

"...he beat a gloriously grotesque Danny DeVito in the Gotham sewers? I don’t think so. Besides, in this season..."

Dec. 6, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Dua Lipa, Reneé Rapp, and More From Saturday at ACL

Hump day brought more heat and fiery kiss-offs

"...Donald Draper sits in a Gotham bar, 1960, brooding. In the corner a trio sets..."

Oct. 6, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Joker: Folie à Deux

Joaquin Phoenix is back as the Joker in this musical sequel

"...the billion-dollar-grossing Joker. A return to the squalid, Batman-less Gotham of the original, with Joaquin Phoenix returning to the..."

Oct. 4, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Floral Realness, a John Aielli Experience, Spooky Movies, and More Recommended Events

Fill your weekend with the wild and weird

"...on all three dates.   – Lina Fisher Gaga Gotham City Ball..."

Oct. 4, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

The People’s Joker

Trans coming-of-age story filtered through superhero homage

"...Harlequin, an anti-comedian who navigates a dystopian version of Gotham: from a repressed childhood warped by prescription Smylex through..."

April 12, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Dev Patel Swings Into South by Southwest With Monkey Man World Premiere

Fest gets new docs on Stormy Daniels, Alex Jones, and Jon Bon Jovi

"...You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story, for which director Gotham Chopra got extraordinary access to multiplatinum rock star Jon..."

Feb. 7, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Gift Guide: Tabletop Gaming From Austin

Rolling the dice on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is just one way to kill some time over the holidays

"...thematic (but no less goofy) series of crimes in Gotham City.Steve Jackson's Munchkin Presents BatmanSteve Jackson Games$44.95, 3-6 players,..."

Dec. 8, 2023 Arts Feature by Matthew Monagle

Fantastic Fest Review: The People's Joker

Transgressive trans satire of superheroes is a victory for good

"...and oblivious mother (Lynn Downey) and make it to Gotham so she can be an alt-comedian on UCB Live..."

Sept. 27, 2023 Screens Post by Alejandra Martinez

Fantastic Fest Gets Toxic With The Toxic Avenger

Fall of the House of Usher, The Creator added

"...Premiere, 92 min The Joker finds new purpose in Gotham City after transitioning and opening an illegal comedy club..."

Aug. 15, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Comic Creator Spotlight on Evan Narcisse: “This Is Important Beyond Any Preconceived Notions About Superheroes”

For Free Comic Book Day we chat with Austin's sequential standouts

"...Rise of the Black Panther (Marvel); Wakanda (Marvel); Batman: Gotham Knights – Gilded City (DC); WWE The New Day:..."

May 5, 2023 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Scream VI

The meta-horror franchise gets less meta, more brutal

"...that heightens the principal characters’ justified paranoia. If the Gotham-set sequel in the Friday the 13th series, the multiple-shark-jumping..."

March 10, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Fantastic Fest Review: Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Into the shadowy mind of the man that created Hellboy

"...Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula, and the era-defining Batman: Gotham by Gaslight. He may not have had the spinner..."

Sept. 29, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Raises a Smile With First Announcement

The Banshees of Inisherin, V/H/S/99, sharks, and more

"...Premiere, 92 min. The Joker finds new purpose in Gotham City after transitioning and opening an illegal comedy club..."

Aug. 16, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

How to Escape the Field With Shane West

The Gotham star heads to the cornfields for new thriller

"...the makers of survival thriller Escape the Field get Gotham and Once and Again star Shane West to leave..."

May 12, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

AFS Announces Filmmakers for its Artist Intensive Program

Rising directors meet with industry experts to finesse future films

"...Maltz’s The Unknown Country, Channing Godfrey Peoples’ Sundance, SXSW, Gotham award-winner Miss Juneteenth, and Augustine Frizzell’s Never Goin' Back..."

May 11, 2022 Screens Post by Dina Barrish

The Batman

A new, brilliant, and bleaker caped crusader

"...or Nolan’s grandiose geopolitics, or Snyder’s overblown operatics. His Gotham is an almost recognizable mish-mash of the darkest corners..."

March 4, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

From the Music Desk

On Willie, Billy, Stevie Ray, Blaze, and more highlights from four decades of covering Austin music

"...Music Hall (2,000-2,500), once an abandoned warehouse in a gotham district only housing Liberty Lunch, now City Hall. The..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Features Feature by Michael Hall

Blindspotting Premiering at ATX Television Festival

New Starz show joins Central Park, Mythic Quest, more

"...the festival confirmed that series creator/executive producer Jordan Harper (Gotham), executive producer Anna Fricke (Walker), executive producer/director Michael Dinner..."

May 20, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Faster Than Sound: Live Music Preservation Fund Pays 73 Venues

Ongoing funding under Phase 2 to begin in March.

"...on the HBO Max show's third season. The character, Gotham City's police commissioner, was shot and paralyzed by the..."

Feb. 5, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Portrayal of Guilt Album Review

We Are Always Alone (Closed Casket Activities)

"...The title track drives in a final stake of Gotham retribution, moving from USBM to NYC2000 in 3:05. The..."

Jan. 29, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

AFS Invites You to a Sundance at Pioneer Farms

Festival brings drive-in screenings plus special streaming panels

"...debut feature Miss Juneteenth was recently nominated for two Gotham Awards. Richard Linklater's name is evocative of independent filmmaking..."

Jan. 7, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Spell

Appalachian hoodoo horror flips the switch on hillbilly cinema

"...years as a genre TV director on everything from Gotham to Doctor Who, dives right in there with him...."

Oct. 30, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Queens of Pain Shows Commitment to the Sport

For the love of Roller Derby

"...knew Roller Derby – and most especially New York's Gotham Girls Roller Derby – from the inside. As Haulin..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Announces 2020 Lineup

Dave Not Coming Back, Golden Arm this year's headliners

"...in Cassie Hay and Amy Winston's portrait of the Gotham Girls Roller Derby league, Queens of Pain. That's a..."

Oct. 1, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bill & Ted Face the Music

Can we all finally just be excellent to each other?

"...as memorable a character as Barry's NoHo Hank and Gotham's Victor Zsasz as an assassin droid sent dispatched from..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Now Streaming in Austin: 1985

Yen Tan's AIDS drama is about people drama, not a disease

"...place - suburban Dallas - meant. So does Adrian (Gotham star Cory Michael Smith), who has come to see..."

June 8, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

What Your Campaign Sign's Font Says About Your Politics

To serif or sans serif, that is the question

"...fonts – including Century Gothic, an analogue to Obama's Gotham font, and Jubilat, Bernie Sanders' font, as well as..."

Feb. 28, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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