All Hail 'The Lords of Salem'

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

"...victim, placing his wife Sheri Moon Zombie under hell's hammer...."

April 19, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Hitching the Movie Trailers at Super Bowl XLVII

Trailers for new 'Star Trek', 'Fast and Furious' break up game

"...Drift does not exist in this dojo). The Fast films have always been a blast when having foxes run..."

Feb. 4, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM: Why a Duck?

The Marx Brothers were funny but they weren't kidding

"...theirs would be a comedy of hustling. In their films, they are grifters playing any angle for a buck,..."

July 27, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Chew on This

Allez cuisine, with a generous helping of movie culture: Meet Ron Deutsch, Austin's Chef du Cinema

"...though it were some sort of revenant in a Hammer horror picture, or a forlorn bit of The Blob,..."

June 29, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Critics' Picks

Recommended at AFF

"...and a flashback to one of the greatest student films ever made, We Can't Go Home Again...."

Oct. 21, 2011 Screens Feature

Gay Place: Gay as the Day Is Long

From Long to Fiesta and night to day, Austin Pride rolls on

"...state of modern, queer cinema – in over 100 films. Tue.-Sun., Sept. 6-11. www.agliff.org...."

Sept. 9, 2011 Column by Kate X Messer

Res Publica

Citizens' calendar, July 7-14

"...makes its way to Austin with a slew of films devoted to social activism, on topics including Agent Orange's..."

July 8, 2011 News Column

Accidental Electrician

Matt the Electrician has switched day jobs

"...you have a skill set, a belt, and a hammer? Okay, come on down.' So, I went to the..."

June 24, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Art Week Austin

"...April. A map of the piano sites, along with films, photographs, and stories of people's experiences with the pianos..."

April 22, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Big Time

Gigantic director Matt Aselton's indie Cinderella story

"...to Mindy Goldberg, who owns my production company, Epoch Films. Mindy liked the script and optioned it and then..."

April 24, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Screens Top 10s

The Chronicle's film critics talk about their favorite movies of the year

"...Dueling Grunters: As two avengers in overpraised films, Clint Eastwood and Christian Bale seemed to take a..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Screens Feature

Blue Water, White Death and Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis

"...worn by the Jacques Cousteau and Walt Disney nature films to simply travel the globe in search of big..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Screens Review by Spencer Parsons

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...(to paraphrase Mr. Savlov). Is he a disaffected wannabe filmster whose dreams were squashed by a critic's razor-sharp pen?..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Column

Page Two: Look Who's (Still) Talking

Miers nomination pushes right-wing spin machine into disturbing, delicious overdrive

"...Democrats as the enemy, saying it was time to hammer in the final nail on their coffin. Another talk-show..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...finding out what it really means to be called "Hammer." Hats off to Ronnie Earle. And my understanding is..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Column

The Final Act

The Texas Documentary Tour hosts Robert Stone's 'Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst'

"...with the fact that a great many of my films concern the meeting of fantasy and reality and this..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Look Ma, No Wrapping

DVD boxed sets, no assembly required

"...they ushered in as for what they were. Horror films had been dead for years, relegated to TV skits..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Screens Feature by Jason Henderson

Short Cuts

Buy local! Go see Guillermo del Toro's Blade 2! While you're at it, check out his other film in theatres, The Devil's Backbone!

"...del Toro last Saturday, is slated to play the hammer-handed hellion, proof indeed that yes, Verotika, there is a..."

March 22, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Blow Up Your Video

MTV forces American youth to sell their souls, but has Joan Jett in a bikini!

"...clip of Debbie Reynolds doing "If I Had a Hammer" Vegas-style, the American distributor of Scopitone machines was out..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume Four (Revenant)

"...Jonas Mekas was an enthusiastic supporter of Smith's drawn-on-celluloid films, as was photographer Robert Frank. Allen Ginsberg took Smith..."

July 14, 2000 Music Review by Jeff Mccord

Postmarks

Texas Our Texas loves Texas; Neighbors for Neighbors hate strip-mining; Justin B. Andrews returns; and other delighted and dismayed letters from readers.

"...["Coal Hard Cash," Sep. 3]. I attended Anne Lewis' films and was impressed by her ability to capture the..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Column

Hadrian's Walls: A Novel

"...Walls comes not from fiction but from film noir, films like The Killers or Out of the Past or..."

May 14, 1999 Books Feature

Postmarks

Home Is Where the Tax Credits Are

"...Rent Rub," Vol.17, No.50]. We're going to have to jack-hammer this issue on a daily basis into the brains..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Column

The Texas Gamut

Titles From Texas

"...to do so is fairly common in fiction and films and needs to be individualized. But Harry merely seems..."

May 15, 1998 Books Feature

Public Notice

The Birds & the Bees

"...shirts! Since the show Fri, May 9 with Velvet Hammer, 10" Maria, Ursula's Curse, and Miss Xanna Don't's new..."

May 9, 1997 Column by Kate X Messer

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