TV Eye

Fall is falling … or rather, fall TV is falling into our laps. The question is, will it be as welcome as a purring li'l kitty cat digging in for a nap, or as rank as last week's bong water seeping in to your new chinos?

"...As I've read about or reviewed screeners for new fall TV series, one..."

Sept. 6, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Fall in the air, fall on the air

"...that come fall season, you'll take a new show out for at least one test drive...."

Aug. 9, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Yakuza Princess

Brazilian-set Japanese revenger could be weirder and bloodier

"...Adapting Danilo Beyrouth's graphic novel, Samurai Shiro (which gets a rather cheeky..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Divergent Series: Allegiant

The penultimate installment in this YA series arrives with a thud

"...would be pretty thin gruel if it were just about the architectural structure and class breakdown in Oz. World-building..."

March 25, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

APD Tracks Social Media

Local social media monitoring software company met with shady digital spying group

"...pertinent information from social media platforms over specific areas without drawing in irrelevant content from unwanted areas .... This..."

Sept. 4, 2015 News Feature by John Anderson

Fantastic Arcade Gets the Closing Party It Deserves

Devolver Digital and Wild Rumpus team up to let loose

"...antics to the usual music/dancing/drinking equation that usually balances out to a pretty raucous good time...."

Sept. 16, 2013 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Strange Bedfellows

Email hack job blows cover for undercover work within Occupy Austin

"...Stratfor, the Austin-based "geopolitical analysis" company, posted a report about the December "Anonymous" hack of the Stratfor website, its..."

Feb. 3, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

Bedside Manner: Hell on Earth

Dark literature in dark times, plus a plea for casting sanity

"...means that I face a delay between stories coming out in installments and the collection hitting the racks, but..."

Sept. 6, 2011 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Shoplifting From American Apparel

Cult fave Tao Lin's autobiographical novella is centered around a young Brooklynite with girl and law troubles

"...following the death of print media, and as a hack. His websites sell everything from "fuck america" stickers to..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Books Review by James Renovitch

Untraceable

This tepid, borderline-offensive cyber-serial-killer thriller rehashes both better and worse examples of the current, vapid clamor for so-called "torture porn."

"...of Saw, Se7en, and Feardotcom, among others) with an outraged tone, but the blatant, transparent hypocrisy inherent in the..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Taxi

Queen Latifah and Jimmy Fallon comedy stalls at the starting gate.

"...more to this than we know), Washburn commandeers a hack piloted by novice cabbie Belle (Latifah), and very nearly..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Hunting of the President

This Friend-of-Bill doc recounts the hard-right campaign to cut short the Clinton presidency.

"...and Michael Isikoff (Newsweek), perhaps embarrassed to be questioned about their shameless trafficking in Arkansas tall tales, were also..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Michael King

A Night at the Roxbury

"...a full-length feature that answers all our urgent questions about their backgrounds and aspirations. Both, it turns out, center..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Kull the Conqueror

"...is the one who's woefully miscast here. She gambols about shrieking at her poorly costumed minions and throwing baleful..."

Aug. 29, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Spectre

Spectre brings the spectacle, but it lacks a soul

"...an ironic self-consciousness that let a bit of air out of those Aston Martins’ tires with enjoyable results (Roger..."

Nov. 6, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Steve Jobs

Everyone works at the top of their game to deliver this timely biopic

"...and his own legwork – he’s spoken in interviews about getting first-person accounts from Jobs’ daughter and his former..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Dale Dougherty: Hacking the Physical World

If you can "mod software," you can mod the real world

"...to build your own solar-powered torch, or a ukulele out of a cake tin. For Dougherty, it's about reminding..."

March 1, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Attack of the Cybermen

Activism empowered by the Internet

"...the faux Fawkes faces to their fleshly countenances. Talk about being "anonymous."..."

March 9, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Page Two

An amalgam of influences with a life of its own, the Chronicle is smarter than we are

"...communicating; for the most part, I lay my ideas out so they are accessible and in a somewhat logical..."

Jan. 16, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Wrong Turn

"...the better for it. It seems everybody’s taken a whack at it by now, and when you have the..."

June 6, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...To the Chronicle's credit, you printed my letter without editing it...."

April 18, 2003 Column

Adaptation.

"...Donald). The solution of how to write a movie about orchids and obsessive passions is for screenwriter Charlie Kaufman..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

My First Mister

"...is perhaps not the best time to be rolling out another quirky little tale of transgenerational love -- especially..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Postmarks

Gore vs. Bush vs. Nader vs. Ventura vs. Hernandez vs. Simone, approximately.

"...way -- no one should have to accept any outcome that they don't like. Just sue someone. Works for..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Column

Dancing About Architecture

Ritalin Kids sign a record deal; Steve Wertheimer gets wet all over.

"...[to local radio station 101X, who also broke Dynamite Hack] and started annoying the hell out of them until..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Chrysta Bell quits the Souvenirs; the Meat Puppets' new record could come out in record time.

"...anything negative, she stresses. "It's just time to find out more about myself outside of the band." In fact,..."

July 21, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Ken rants about moving under the Congress Ave. bridge.

"...I'm not alone, it seems. My rant last week about the hell I was going through finding a new..."

May 5, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Austin leaves Ken Lieck homeless and fuming.

"...I've been living in not to unceremoniously boot me out on my ass last month as he had hoped,..."

April 28, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Dynamite Hack goes prime-time; Atomic Cafe hangs in there; the Old Settler's Music Festival is upon us.

"...Straight Outta Austin..."

April 7, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Another club bites the dust, the first happy bands of 2000, the Greatest Band in the World comes to SXSW, more people do stuff

"...I can't claim to be totally without influence when it comes to South by Southwest, and..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

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