The Insect Woman

"...Shohei Imamura. Starring: Sachiko Hidari and Jitsuko Yoshimura. The Insect Woman, from Japanese director Shohei Imamura, one of the..."

Nov. 17, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cult of Personality

Insect Records head and Attack Formation commander Ben Webster has never been photographed with Red River mascot-to-be Butcher Bear

"...More importantly, Webster's the founder of Insect Records and leader of Attack Formation, a broken social..."

June 25, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Bee Movie

Jerry Seinfeld delivers an agreeable though tame animated picture that more than does the trick but is unlikely to become a superbuzz movie.

"...selected, as did Woody Allen with Antz, a colonized insect whose driving impulse is to break away from the..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Strange Magic

Woodland goblins, elves, and fairies go to war in this animated movie from LucasFilm Animation.

"...tale populated by goblins, elves, sprites, and every creepy insect imaginable. The first third of the film meanders –..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Superhero Movie

Superhero Movie is a tonally confused spoof, which, for once, doesn't go far enough comedically.

"...be a mere annoyance of a spoof. Bah, puny insect!..."

April 4, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Mist

There's "something in the mist," and it's not only the beasts that bite but also the dark things that reside within.

"...alive! The Mist's grossly tentacled who-knows-whats and giant flying insect thingees are as shuddersome as they come. The story..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Winged Migration

Aviary rapture.

"...by Jacques Perrin, the same producer behind the much-lauded insect documentary Microcosmos, Winged Migration is a real knockout to..."

July 4, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Acid House

"...turned, à la Gregor Samsa, into a particularly annoying insect, which, in Welsh's world, serves him all the better...."

Oct. 1, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Microcosmos

"...appreciate beauty. This lyrical, often intoxicatingly gorgeous panorama of insect life in extreme close-up is certainly no National Geographic..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Borrower

"...a killer banished to earth by its own species, insect-like creatures who “devolved” him into a human being. He's..."

Oct. 18, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Cicadas

Honorable Mention

"...The actual insect was still judging its capacities on the curtain. It..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Books Feature by Billy Cope

Eating Bugs Is the Future of Sustainable Farming?

Austin entomophagy advocates bring the crispy, crunchy taste of crickets to the masses

"...Suggesting to the general public that entomophagy – eating insects – is the future of farming might raise some..."

Feb. 15, 2019 Food Feature by Jessi Devenyns

Fear(s) of the Dark

This French anthology of six short animated films, which are thematically linked by their dark tonalities and stirrings of dread, has greater appeal for animation buffs than horror hounds.

"...together, they tap into our deep-seated, primal fears: invasive insects, haunted houses, fierce dogs, mysterious disappearances, the amorphous existential..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gettin' Buggy With It? Yes: Gettin' Very Buggy With It

The Entomological Society of America's annual shindig: Now in Austin!

"...And this month's Dionysium is all about bugs – insects, arachnids, and the like – as presented by local..."

Nov. 5, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

ST 37

Record Review

"...ST 37The Insect Hospital (Black Widow)ST 37The Secret Society (Blue Circle)..."

April 9, 2004 Music Review by Michael Chamy

Elytra: New Synthesis

With Elytra, the artists of the Vortex Repertory Company and Ethos achieve a new level in integrating cyber-opera style and story.

"...war literal. His heroines are a quartet of female Insect-Angels who inhabit the drifting corpse of GoldSun, the cyborg..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Pigs, Pimps, and Pornographers

A look at this prolific, political Japanese filmmaker

"...Imamura's The Insect Woman (1963) has been said to be the director's..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Screens Feature by Salvatore Botti

Antz

"...find themselves outside the colony, searching for the mythical “Insectopia.” It's frankly bizarre to hear the voice of Broadway..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Unweaving the Tangled Web of Inspector Sun

Director Julio Soto Gúrpide on loving noir and insects

"...taking them to the USA – are all bugs, insects, and arachnids. Just, this being the golden age of..."

Oct. 28, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Retro-Futurists Reshape Austin Music

Half-a-dozen rising stars of local electro

"...He's simultaneously built his prolific Insect Records into something of a machine, beginning with incredible..."

July 1, 2016 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

First Plates Extra Helpings: What’s Cooking in the Entomophagy Scene?

Among other things, would you believe … crickets as a Dai Due special?

"...E-n-t-o-m-o-p-h-a-g-y. That’s, you know, the eating of insects – after they’ve been ground to a fine powder..."

Feb. 4, 2015 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Demdike Stare

UK industrializers of witchery

"...Darkness rhythms. “Grows Without Bounds” is a symphony of insect zappers...."

July 9, 2014 Music Post by Conor Walker

The Hightower Report

Bugs Benedict? Bee Stroganoff?; and Tea Party Toys With Consumer Protection

"...way to buffalo worms, locusts, caterpillars, crickets, and other insects for human consumption. Just as the American West had..."

April 29, 2011 News Column by Jim Hightower

"Diana Dopson: Biota"

In Women & Their Work's current exhibit "Biota," Diana Dopson creates color photo boxes with insects that draw out the bugs' beauty in unusual ways and nudges our perception of insects from the pestilential to the subtly reverential.

"..."Diana Dopson: Biota": The Secret Life of Insects..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Arts Review by Molly Beth Brenner

'We've Got Climate Change'

Lee Nichols interviews UT biologist Camille Parmesan about the evidence and consequences of global warming.

"...got all these species in a community interacting, the insects depend upon the plants for food, and the birds..."

March 7, 2003 News Feature by Lee Nichols

The Metamorphosis

Capturing the creepy power and tone of Franz Kafka's novella The Metamorphosis, in which a man awakes one morning to find himself turned into a giant beetle, in a stage production may be as difficult as capturing the rare Megolaponera foetens. Still, the Refraction Arts / Public Domain co-production of The Metamorphosis is a valiant attempt, and possible required viewing for any Kafka aficionado.@META_Category_arts: Review

"...Bartas rhapsodized back in 1578. And if you're an insect, you've likely got a pair of compound eyes, which..."

June 22, 2001 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

ClickBeetleMania

Bug-nut Wayne Alan Brenner goes coo-coo for click beetles!

"...One of the largest of this insect tribe is known as an "Eyed Elater" because it..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Features Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Eat the Beetles

"...Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Alusio Ten Speed Press,..."

April 2, 1999 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Nosferatu

A symphony of horrors is revived once more

"...threshold of Orlok’s decrepit castle, he is a fragile insect before a dark god, and so it is for..."

Dec. 27, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Inspector Sun

Fun-filled animated comedy brings back whodunnits for kids

"...a spider, and everyone in this adventure is an insect, arachnid, or bug of some kind. They live, as..."

Oct. 27, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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