SXSW Film Review: How it Ends

Apocalypse-lite comedy isn't light on heart or humor

"...How It Ends, the dark comedy from co-writers and directors..."

March 19, 2021 Screens Post by James Scott

How It Ends

Star-studded apocalyptic indie comedy is just too many vignettes

"...and Zoe Lister-Jones. Starring: Zoe Lister-Jones, Cailee Spaeny, Glenn Howerton, Helen Hunt, Bradley Whitford, Whitney Cummings, Finn Wolfhard, Logan..."

July 23, 2021 Movie Review by James Scott

How to Attend the Sundance Film Festival's Screenings at AFS

Indie film showcase brings this year's hottest titles to AFS's new drive-in screen

"...Pioneer Farms Dr. Tickets $25 per car, $15 per additional passenger, available in advance at www.austinfilm.org/2021-sundance-film-festival...."

Jan. 22, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

How to Fight Fires in Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire

David Oyelowo narrates new documentary about our burning world

"...In new documentary Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire, fire has many personalities. It is an enemy too large to defeat, driving..."

June 27, 2023 Screens Post by Amelia Nonemacher

It Follows Goes Everywhere

Director David Robert Mitchell on finding horror in Detroit

"...twins that have hovered over teen horror. But in It Follows, their connection is less a symbiosis, and more..."

March 26, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

"...a nuclear-waste dump, Kubrick's komedy at least kills us with laughter. Thirty-five years after its making, this film seems..."

Aug. 12, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

What Will It Take to Get More Police Oversight?

If Greg Casar wants more accountability for cops, the city’s gonna need to give the police union some more money

"...As City Council meetings go, the one held Thursday, April 20,..."

May 26, 2017 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

'It All Leads Back to Texas'

Robert Bryce on the Texas-Washington-international crony network

"...has bound the Texas energy business to the Texas political system and the way that tradition has now been..."

June 18, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

The Luv Doc: How Much Spirit Do You Like in Your Christmas?

Some people like to have a reasonable expectation of how the night will unfold

"...to get into full swing and I am dreading it because my husband always ends up drinking too much,..."

Dec. 14, 2012 Column by The Luv Doc

How to “Attend” SXSW Online

The annual citywide insanity becomes Couch by Couchwest

"...own couch. That doesn't mean this year's Fest is unambitious. SXSW IRL is almost too big to comprehend. SXSW..."

March 12, 2021 Features Feature by Kimberley Jones

We Have an Issue: Don’t Let Them Get Away With It

It's time to reckon with how our state government failed us – and if it was by design

"...Starting the week with the sun on our faces, the air warm enough..."

Feb. 26, 2021 Column by Kimberley Jones

How Sweet It Is

"...How beautifully righteous it was for New Orleans Saints wide..."

Nov. 29, 2006 Sports Post by Robert Gabriel

How Dean Fleischer-Camp Brought Marcel the Shell With Shoes On to Life

Inside the secret life of the stop-motion smash

"...It's rare a stop-motion movie makes it into cinemas, even..."

July 21, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

How Robert Rodriguez Saved Alita: Battle Angel From the Scrap Heap

After a decade and a half, the legendary manga's battle dreams are made real

"...Robert Rodriguez had touched down in Austin. It was less a homecoming and more a brief stop..."

Feb. 15, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

How Nice to Be Under the Sea

Kristin Hogan's plushy show drops you into an octopus' garden

"...Last summer, we met a deep-sea cephalopod so cute it won both our hearts and the unofficial name Opisthoteuthis..."

May 27, 2016 Arts Post by Ashley Moreno

Joshua Jay Tells You How They Died Their Tragic Deaths

Magicians, their assistants, audience members: Killed onstage

"...The NYC-based professional magician – award-winning, book-writing, highly respected – comes to Austin's Jewish Community Center..."

Feb. 18, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Making Ends Meet

The new AISD budget hurts, but less than in past years

"...administrators have clashed over salaries, program cuts, and simply how to run the process...."

Aug. 6, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

We Have an Issue: It’s Been a Year, All Right

It's the Top 10s issue; plus, meet the new Food Editor

"...It's never simple, distilling a whole year's events into lists..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Column by Kimberley Jones

What Made Him Do It?

Weeks-long bomb scare ends Wednesday with few answers

"...he was readying himself for yet another press briefing with his assistant chiefs, City Manager Spencer Cronk, and members..."

March 23, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

It's Noon. Do You Know What Your Children Are Eating?

Fernando Saralegui is in 'Papi's Kitchen' trying to help kids with healthy habits

"...as usual, at the center of a whirlwind of activity. A self-described type-A personality, the Austin cookbook author is..."

June 9, 2006 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

It's a Vision Thing

What's up with regional planning?

"...Since the mid-Seventies, the city of Austin has been too fractured by growth-related warfare..."

Oct. 26, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

AISD Ends T-STEM Partnership at Mendez Middle School

District will decide how to move forward in a vote later this month

"...2018, the Texas Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (T-STEM) coalition was tasked with turning around a school that had..."

Dec. 10, 2021 News Feature by Morgan O’Hanlon

Patrick Ends Two-Thirds Rule

Measure designed to increase the peace in Texas Senate dies

"...a second Senate vote if two-thirds of Senators felt it deserved a hearing, is dead, replaced by a new,..."

Jan. 21, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker

How the Force Was With Them

Spaced's Top 5 Star Wars Moments

"...Spaced is packed with pop-culture iconography, from extended homages to Manhattan, Say Anything,..."

July 25, 2008 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Bring It

'Soldier of Cinema' Werner Herzog unloads on the state of short film and the ancient Greek drama that is WWF

"...Blank and on the losing side of a bet with Errol Morris), he has shot some 50 films, ranging..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Scratch That: Lege Ends Lottery, Then Changes Mind

House avoids $2 billion school funding hole by saving scratch cards

"...It was supposed to be a prosaic procedural measure: the..."

April 23, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Josh Rosenblatt Has Seen the Future, and It Isn't Pretty

Magic eight-balling 2008, month by month

"...Culture, Uprising: Speculation This week, my fellow Chronicle Film critics and I looked back at 2007 and came up..."

Jan. 3, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Halloween Ends

Jamie Lee Curtis stars in her umpteenth face-off with a retirement-age Michael Myers

"...Each of the Blumhouse-era Halloween films has reflected its respective original counterpart in some way. 2018’s Halloween mimicked..."

Oct. 21, 2022 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

OUTsider Fest Review: Our Future Ends?

Lemurs, dancers, and the question: Are queer spaces going extinct?

"...Going into director Clement Goldberg’s OUR FUTURE ENDS, OUTsider Festival’s 2019 kickoff event described as a multidisciplinary,..."

Feb. 21, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Lilli Hime

Opinion: How to Win at Homelessness

A young adult with lived experience in homelessness argues that Save Austin Now’s push to criminalize destitution is short-sighted

"...ban on the May ballot. I not only agree with them – despite legal precedent that camping bans are..."

Feb. 12, 2021 Column by Summer Wright

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