The Barbarian Invasions

Winner of the Best Foreign Film Oscar, this French-Canadian film reunites a group of old friends.

"...the American Empire in order to enjoy The Barbarian Invasions. The characters stand on their own; although now in..."

March 5, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Calvin Gimpelevich’s Invasions Hurts So Good

New collection from Instar Books explores love in many forms

"...Invasions, a collection of short stories by Calvin Gimpelevich –..."

Dec. 17, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Retribution

Liam Neeson does the Liam Neeson thing, this time with exploding cars in Berlin

"...through a series of cataclysmic events. Natural disasters, alien invasions, shark attacks, cancer, insufferable houseguests, satanic cults – the..."

Aug. 25, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Read It Local, Pump Up Your Volumes

Local bookmongers offer curbside pick-up & delivery

"...order this final one directly from Instar Books: It’s Invasions, a recent collection of short stories by Calvin Gimpelevich,..."

March 23, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Fall of the American Empire

Oscar winner Denys Arcand mixes crime, political commentary

"...a misnomer. After winning an Oscar for The Barbarian Invasions, he name-checks one of his earliest works, 1986’s The..."

June 28, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Literally Show Me a Healthy Person

Darcie Wilder might make you stop wanting someone to hurt you

"...to judge books by their covers – Calvin Gimpelevich’s Invasions from Instar Books has a downright shitty cover, for..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Assassination Nation

Dark satire lets social media tear us apart

"...in one of the most brilliant and sickening home invasions ever filmed – he makes the stylish chaos all..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Last Days in Vietnam

Rory Kennedy's doc is a powerful and terrifying look back at America's hasty departure.

"...and seriously misreading the situation in Southeast Asia, the invasions of Afghanistan and especially Iraq tell the saddest part..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

Page Two: In the Red

Republican plans for economic recovery could make things worse

"...is that in the Bush White House, before the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, those advocating that there should..."

Oct. 14, 2011 Column by Louis Black

Goya in Bordeaux

"...last years of the Bourbon court and the Napoleonic invasions of Spain. This thumbnail background, however, is more historical..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Work in Progress

East Timor begins the process of reconstruction in its struggle for independence.

"...side of the earth from North America, has suffered invasions by the Portuguese, the Japanese, the Indonesians, and most..."

May 19, 2000 News Feature by John Sayles

Bowfinger

"...credulousness about the references of his “co-stars” to alien invasions and pod people. Now there's a movie I'd pay..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Running by Natalia Sylvester

Natalia Sylvester's YA debut makes the political personal

"...media training and changing schools and sees nothing but invasions of privacy in her future, whether it's national news..."

Oct. 30, 2020 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

"Lee Albert Hill: Signs" at CAMIBAart

This solo exhibition asks, What happens when shapes run away to join the circuits?

"...from CERN's bubble chamber. Or the lines aren't contrasting invasions of the polygons, sometimes; instead, they're equally thin and..."

July 3, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Gets Political With the Chronicle

He should be a prime-time news analyst. Televisions would melt.

"...for no reason – and illegal wars, completely illegal invasions of foreign sovereign countries and that they were there..."

March 20, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Do You Remember the Internet?

Instar Books wants you to help them tell everyone about it

"...We mean, they may well literally fly by night..."

Jan. 22, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Council, Community Urge APD to Halt Marijuana Arrests

Activists claim strategy unfairly impacts minorities, wastes resources

"...increase supply. This could potentially increase violent offenses, home invasions, and robberies." He added that so far in 2019,..."

Sept. 6, 2019 News Feature by Kevin Curtin

Friday ACL Fest 2018 Picks

TGIF picks for Zilker Park

"...UK songbird has been through divorce, motherhood, and home invasions, but instead of exclamations, this time she looks within...."

Oct. 12, 2018 Music Feature

That's How Doors Work

"...for entry into your own home? Victims of home invasions are due protection under the law, not recrimination from..."

Jan. 30, 2017 Postmarks

Homaro Cantu's Moto-Vation

Documentary charts a dazzling chef's tragic end

"...be eating a lot of food between those cinematic invasions of your sensorium. Lucky you, because, even if you..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Film Adds Midnighters and More

Horror lineup announced, plus shorts and more

"...Home invasions and true crime are a motif this year, spearheaded..."

Feb. 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Krum Bums, Eastside Suicides

"...announced "We are Krum Bums!" they prompted more stage invasions per second than was likely lawful, the singer riding..."

Jan. 8, 2016 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Point Austin: Happy Fourth!

Feel good about America, but not too good

"...the continuing chaotic legacy of our Afghanistan and Iraq invasions, the sorry state of our policing and criminal justice..."

July 3, 2015 News Column by Michael King

Don’t Go Away Mad!

Zimmerman’s Immigrant Affairs nominee withdraws

"...First,” a hard-right English nationalist political party that staged invasions and desecrations of mosques), Forest applauds the notion of..."

April 15, 2015 News Post by Michael King

Survive

Vinyl Bin/Reissue

"...scoring Michael Mann's Thief. Its synthesis of multiple British Invasions sidesteps space-age haircuts, mascara, and lipstick for an alternately..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Gazing Back at Other Worlds Austin

Time Lapse dominates Cthulhie awards, plus festival highlights

"...an underground comics artist, creating the purposefully offensive Vulgar Invasions. Pitching his work somewhere between Robert Crumb's Weirdo Comix..."

Dec. 13, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fun Fun Fun Fest 2014 Friday Listings

FFF Friday by the blurb

"...Rangers and Japanese game shows that hinges on space-monster invasions, adorably mispronounced choruses, and audience participation. The quintet of..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Music Feature

Exceeding Themselves

Lawrence Wright's Thirteen Days in September tells how Carter, Sadat, and Begin made an impossible peace

"...The incessant stream of reports about rocket attacks, airstrikes, invasions, and reprisals in the Middle East make it seem..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

One in a Crowd: 'Calls to Okies'

Local documentarian Bradley Beesley hunts down prank callers

"...got deranged was that recordings of the virtual home invasions became hot properties among bored teens...."

Aug. 15, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Almost Human

Attack of the intergalactic indies

"...Remember when aliens didn't engage in full-scale, all-CGI invasions, but just stuck to picking up hillbillies in the..."

June 22, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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