The Dark Backward

"...James Caan and Rob Lowe. You've got to hand it to first-time director Rifkin: if nothing else, The Dark..."

Feb. 14, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Listen: Manifest Destiny’s Child Veers Down a Dark Path on Rojo

Noise-rock crew gets witchy on double single set

"...stressful film Requiem for a Dream, a game show grows out of the television. Ellen Burstyn is then accosted..."

March 27, 2020 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

The Long and the Short of It

It's an uphill battle securing a future for a short film

"...short film, "The Quiet Girl's Guide To Violence," had its world premiere last month at Fantastic Fest, hope to..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

SXSW Film Review: Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Encyclopedic documentary finds the global roots of a genre

"...Knight of the Round Table slumber under Alderley Edge, waiting for when Albion faces its direst peril...."

March 16, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Encyclopedic and engrossing wander into the wilderness

"...Knight of the Round Table slumber under Alderley Edge, waiting for when Albion faces its direst peril...."

Sept. 28, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Billy Friedkin Kills It

Extended Q&A with the man behind 'The Exorcist,' 'French Connection'

"...In this week's paper, we have a Q&A with legendary director William Friedkin, whose latest film Killer Joe..."

Aug. 2, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Texas in Bold, Dark Strokes

Artist/Historian Jack Jackson

"...Jack Jackson, fiftysomething, wears glasses, has white hair and a white mustache and a moon tan...."

Nov. 15, 1996 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

How Sweet It Is

Austin Honey Company to host beekeeping workshop at Springdale Farm

"...inner workings through an observation hive. We caught up with the pair, eager to learn more about the tiny,..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Food Post by Anna Toon

Viral Bedroom-Pop Sensation Dayglow Grows Up

Sloan Struble, 21, turns 35. He'll explain.

"...legs and hugging them into him as he fiddles with his sunglasses. The 21-year-old behind Austin indie-pop phenomenon Dayglow..."

May 21, 2021 Music Feature by Laiken Neumann

It Came From Beyond

"I saw my first cadaver when I was about five years old. I saw my first rotting corpse at 10." Now, at 35, Guillermo del Toro is probably the world's most promising horror film director.

"...established him as an up-and-coming filmmaker and garnered relationships with James Cameron, Francis Ford Coppola, and Martin Scorsese. This..."

July 21, 2000 Screens Feature by Cary L. Roberts

Short and Sweet With Other Worlds Austin

Three micro-stories at the SF film fest

"...Just because a story is short, that doesn't mean it's short on story. This weekend's Other Worlds Austin festival..."

Dec. 3, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Intimate Relations

"...Holly Aird and Les Dennis. Intimate Relations is a dark, depressingly off-kilter black comedy based on “a true story.”..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Other Worlds Austin Adds Owen Egerton's Latest

Plus sci-fi fest's closing night title, and shorts

"...faves and cutting edge creations, now OWA adds Austin author-turned-scriptwriter Owen Egerton's latest, The Axe Murders of Villisca...."

Nov. 28, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

To Live and Die in Tsimshatsui

"...as well as the second film to shamelessly crib its English title from a past success within the genre...."

Nov. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

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.

"...a lifetime: Fear the monsters, but also beware the dark impulses the monsters provoke. Horror resides both without and..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kill List

This British crime film is very dark, funny, and violent – and thoroughly unpredictable.

"...intriguing movie before they get a sense of what it’s about and where it’s going. And even then, they’ll..."

March 2, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Higher Ground

Oscar-winning actress Vera Farmiga makes her debut as a director with this film in which she also stars as a woman who struggles with religious faith.

"...Ebon Moss-Bachrach. What happens to a person after she invites God into her heart but He fails to make..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

For Your Consideration

Although it attempts to skewer Hollywood, this new comedy from Christopher Guest, and his loyal troupe of improv actors doesn’t have even a drop of affection for its characters.

"...Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead that’s stuck with me ever since I saw it 15 years ago...."

Nov. 24, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Brightburn

What if Superman, but bad?

"...Banks, David Denman, Jackson A. Dunn, Matt Jones and Meredith Hagner...."

May 31, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Babadook

Tyro helmer Jennifer Kent conjures a disturbing spook story about a mother, a son, and an unnerving presence in their house

"...“If it’s in a word, or it’s in a look, you..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cheap Thrills

This grisly, dark comedy is last year's winner of Fantastic Fest's Midnighters Audience Award.

"...Film Midnighters Audience Award winner, Cheap Thrills, is a dark comedy that riffs on the ever-widening rift between the..."

March 21, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pieta

South Korea's Kim Ki-duk makes his most commercial film yet, but it's still full of queasy-making moments.

"...South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk is a festival favorite whose provocative and frequently abrasive films (3-Iron, Spring, Summer,..."

May 17, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dangerous Beauty

"...Directed by: Marshall Herskovitz. Starring: Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, Oliver Platt, Moira Kelly,..."

March 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Music Amidst Used Furniture

The History of the Red River Strip

"...It's a warm, late August afternoon, and it's eerie to..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Music Feature

Les Miserables

"...the Broadway phenomenon, this is actually my first brush with a cinematic version of Victor Hugo's sprawling, melodramatic epic...."

May 1, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mon Homme

"...Grinberg, Gérard Lanvin, Valéria Bruni Tedeschi, Olivier Martinez, Mathieu Kassovitz and Sabine Azéma. Love and prostitution make for a..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Color Out of Space

Lovecraft adaptation finally captures eldritch horror

"...just a dream. A dream you dream together is reality," failed artist turned alpaca farmer Nathan Gardner (Cage) tells..."

Jan. 24, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Downsizing

Alexander Payne creates a small word with big ambitions

"...Dense with captivating ideas and visual feats, Downsizing is a packed..."

Dec. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Transfiguration

A coming-of-age tale with a blood-sucking twist

"...It’s easy to tell what kind of vampire movie The..."

April 28, 2017 Movie Review by Michael Agresta

Children of the Revolution

"...Davis, Sam Neill, F. Murray Abraham, Richard Roxburgh, Rachel Griffiths, Geoffrey Rush and Russell Kiefel. What if Joseph Stalin..."

May 23, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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