Roxane Gay, Tim O’Brien Join Texas Book Festival Lineup

Full author roster revealed for November fest

"...of the Ocean) Ana Castillo (Dona Cleanwell Leaves Home) Kurt Caswell (Iceland Summer: Travels Along the Ring Road) Jorge..."

Sept. 13, 2023 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

Elvis

If you're looking for trouble, you came to the right place

"...by John Carpenter, which began his long association with Kurt Russell, who has thus far held the title as..."

June 24, 2022 Movie Review by Tim Stegall

F9: The Fast Saga

Script? We don't need no stinking script in the Toretto crew's latest

"...Cena, Finn Cole, Sung Kang, Anna Sawai, Helen Mirren, Kurt Russell, Lucas Black, Shad Moss, Thue Ersted Rasmussen and..."

June 25, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...inspirational rhymes. James, once described by Chaka as Nineties Kurt Cobain fused with old soul rock & roll, impresses..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Friends to the End (of the World)

Ric Roman Waugh and Gerard Butler reunite in Greenland

"...relationship to be cherished. John Wayne and John Ford. Kurt Russell and John Carpenter. Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog..."

Dec. 16, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Spree

Man Bites Dog hits the influencer generation

"...it drips from every pore of wannabe celebrity streamer Kurt Kunkle, aka @Kurtsworld96. He sends out his daily tedium..."

Aug. 14, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Our favorite albums, videos, and performances

"...Keen, Lukas Nelson, Lyle Lovett, Ziggy Marley, Margo Price, Kurt Vile, and more...."

July 3, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Now Streaming in Austin: Death Proof

Watch Tarantino's grindhouse road trip with us tonight

"...to the highways in hot pursuit of Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell), a driver with killer wheels - literally...."

April 2, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Top 20 Austin Breweries

Gird your liver for our annual Central Texas brewery power rankings

"...Wit-tington witbier) than all those actors in Miracle starring Kurt Russell. Except this really happened. 18) Blue Owl Brewing..."

Nov. 12, 2019 Food Post by Eric Puga

Travis County D.A. Moore and Her First Assistant Hire Top-Tier Help

Infamous defense attorney will represent the defendants in rape survivor's defamation suit

"...Houston powerhouse attorney Russell "Rusty" Hardin Jr. of Rusty Hardin & Associates will..."

Oct. 25, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

Tarantino takes Tinseltown head-on

"...Herriman, Al Pacino, Dakota Fanning, Margaret Qualley, Timothy Olyphant, Kurt Russell, Emile Hirsch, Mike Moh, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern,..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In Memoriam: Rhoda Winter Russell

Movement therapy pioneer who knew the greats of dance has died

"...aspiring dancer in the Forties and Fifties, Rhoda Winter Russell crossed paths with a number of influential choreographers and..."

Aug. 1, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Us

Jordan Peele has met the enemy, and they is Us

"...from character, not jump scares; while Duke is his Kurt Russell, all cocksure masculinity undercut by panicky self-doubt and..."

March 22, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Film Review: Jordan Peele’s Us

The Get Out director has seen the enemy, and it is us

"...Nyong’o is his Adrienne Barbeau while Duke is his Kurt Russell, all cocksure masculinity undercut by panicky self-doubt and..."

March 8, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Captain Marvel

Brie Larson confidently lays the next cornerstone of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

"...War. The de-aging software that Marvel field tested with Kurt Russell and Michael Douglas earlier in the franchise, in..."

March 8, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Chronicle Recommends: The Best of Austin

Our recommendations of the finest movies from and about the ATX

"...maids all in a road rage wage payback on Kurt Russell’s Stuntman Mike following a vehicular goregasm so realistic..."

Nov. 4, 2018 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Beto O'Rourke and Ethan Hawke in Conversation

Two Texans discuss politics, fear, and the power of Willie Nelson to bring us back together

"...Rickey and Jackie Robinson. You probably know this, but Kurt Russell played for El Paso's minor league team, the..."

Aug. 17, 2018 News Feature by Ethan Hawke

Overboard

Unexpected remake of the Eighties' most questionable rom-com

"...Anna Faris, Eugenio Derbez, John Hannah, Eva Longoria, Swoosie Kurtz, Mel Rodriguez, Mariana Treviño, Cecilia Suárez and Josh Segarra...."

May 11, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Felicity Comes to ATX Television

TV fest reunites cast of beloved show, plus Mayans, more

"...just the titular Cali-to-NY transplant Felicity Porter herself, Keri Russell (who had previously been announced for a panel on..."

April 3, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Star-Lord and co. return in the popular Marvel series

"...Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Kurt Russell, Pom Klementieff and Elizabeth Debicki...."

May 12, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Get Ready for Russellmania II

Alamo mystery marathon celebrates Kurt Russell (again)

"...from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake, Kurt Russell just looks that big ol' storm right square..."

May 3, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Fate of the Furious

The car thieves are back to save the world

"...Jason Statham, Charlize Theron, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Kurt Russell, Nathalie Emmanuel, Scott Eastwood, Elsa Pataky and Kristofer..."

April 14, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

With Ti West In a Valley of Violence

Director on PTSD, Westerns, and the world's greatest dog

"...and he said the best asset he had was Kurt Russell, because he knows so much about the West,..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Tower

Austin-made doc re-creates the UT Tower massacre with stunningly powerful immediacy

"...to the screen before, most notably with a young Kurt Russell as the sniper in the 1975 television movie..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In a Valley of Violence

Ti West takes a break from horror with this Ethan Hawke Western

"...modern Westerns, raise a sloshy tumbler of J&B to Kurt Russell in John Carpenter’s The Thing and Austin Stoker..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Deepwater Horizon

Mark Wahlberg stars in this throwback to Seventies disaster films

"...Directed by: Peter Berg. Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Gina Rodriguez, Douglas M. Griffin, Ethan Suplee, John..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Terror Behind Terror of Frankenstein

Austin debut of mind-bending horror Director's Commentary

"...has his own favored commentary tracks. John Carpenter and Kurt Russell bonding over The Thing, for example: "They're getting..."

Aug. 24, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

John Carpenter, Rock Star

Filmmaker as synth-pop pioneer horrifies the Moody Theater June 23

"...[Laughing] Are you having any flashbacks to working with Kurt Russell on 1979 TV film Elvis?..."

June 15, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Looking at the Big Picture

Paramount Summer Classic Film Series goes large

"...race), this sausage party of a yarn's anchored by Kurt Russell's MacReady, the beardliest of all the bro-wursts, as..."

May 20, 2016 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Film Review: In a Valley of Violence

Ti West and Ethan Hawke deliver a brutally entertaining Western

"...modern Westerns, raise a sloshy tumbler of J&B to Kurt Russell in John Carpenter’s The Thing and Austin Stoker..."

March 12, 2016 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

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