Battlefield Earth

"...Directed by: Roger Christian. Starring: John Travolta, Barry Pepper, Forest Whitaker, Richard Tyson, Sabine Karsenti, Kim..."

May 19, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

My Scientology Movie

Another doc on L. Ron Hubbard's cash cow

"...Cheekier than Alex Gibney’s Going Clear, but in its own way just..."

March 31, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Texas Book Festival 2013

Oct. 28, 2013. 36 photos.

"...The Texas Book Festival’s annual storming of the State Capitol and grounds took..."

Oct. 29, 2013 Photo Gallery

Infinity and Beyond

Return to Forever captain Chick Corea takes his Millennium Falcon out of mothballs

"...composer, and 14-time Grammy winner. He's a visionary who drastically altered the shape of contemporary music by continuously pushing..."

May 23, 2008 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

Pulitzer Prize-winner Lawrence Wright explores the origins and alleged abuses of the Church of Scientology

"...Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Beliefby Lawrence Wright..."

Jan. 25, 2013 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Montopolis Misconception..."

June 2, 2000 Column

The Great Wall

Matt Damon protects the Chinese from lizards

"...Directed by: Yimou Zhang. Starring: Matt Damon, Tian Jing, Willem Dafoe and Pedro Pascal...."

Feb. 24, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Warcraft

No fun storming the castle in this lousy adaptation of the hit video game

"...Directed by: Duncan Jones. Starring: Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, Ben..."

June 10, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

"...Directed by: Hironobu Sakaguchi. Is it live, or is it Memorex? And..."

July 13, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lucky Numbers

"...Directed by: Nora Ephron. Starring: Lisa Kudrow, John Travolta, Daryl Mitchell, Michael Rapaport,..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Postscripts

"...by Lee Nichols & Margaret Moser..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Books Column

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...The movie distributors compartmentalize the year by season -- summer, fall, holiday --..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

Even in the face of truth ...

"...Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Beliefby Lawrence Wright..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Music Review by Michael Toland

Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...Georges Melies never saw the Apollo astronauts tee off on the..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Jesus Gonna Be Here

Johnny Toxic

"...It has often been said that rock & amp; roll is a rather transparent metaphor for extreme sexual frustration...."

March 26, 1999 Music Feature

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Beetles, Scientology, questions, stars, and soft drinks

"...There are more than 350,000 kinds of beetles on Earth...."

Feb. 25, 2011 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Texas Platters

Surfin' Senorita

"...(Wildebeest)..."

March 5, 1999 Music Review

Punk, Puppets, and Manson as Messiah

John Roecker on 'Live Freaky! Die Freaky!'

"...After a grueling two years behind the camera, Los Angeles-based filmmaker John..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Luv Doc Recommends: Grease Sing-Along

Paramount Theatre, Saturday, July 26, 2003

"...You don’t have to be gay to love Grease (the musical, not the lubricant … and not..."

July 25, 2003 Column by The Luv Doc

The Luv Doc: AI Casanova

Maybe you’re not the Cyrano de Bergerac that reeled them in

"...Luv Doc,..."

March 22, 2024 Column by The Luv Doc

"The First Horizons of Juno" at MASS Gallery

Within this smart and variable group show are three works that are muscular, robust, something to pump your fist to

"...of Juno" features three moments I might describe as muscular. The first is Jane Hugentober's And that was that,..."

Oct. 14, 2016 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Review: Royal Jelly

Marching to the beat of their own drum

"...If the success of places like Radio Coffee & Beer and Haymaker tells us..."

Feb. 12, 2016 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Austin Film Festival: Sympathy For the Devil

The true story of rich people playing Satanist

"...the Process? After 100 minutes of Sympathy For the Devil: The True Story of the Process Church of the..."

Nov. 3, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

May Elections: Twice the Fun

Double election strains Travis County resources

"...If you're working in the Travis County elections division, or if you live inside county lines but..."

May 9, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

There Will Be Mondo

Print series celebrating P.T. Anderson on sale this week

"...First there was the gold rush, then there was the oil boom, now there..."

May 14, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

What Would Keith Richards Do?

Rock & Roll Summer Reading Lagniappe: “What Would Keith Richards Do? Daily Affirmations from a Rock & Roll Survivor”

"...Jessica Pallington West got it right. Even when her prayer book..."

July 17, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

FJA 4-EVER

Famous Monster of Filmland Forrest J Ackerman gravely ill

"...Ain't It Cool News and a host of online blogs reported last week that the world's oldest monster..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Alien Nation

Experimental filmmaker Craig Baldwin is down on corporatization and up with aliens, presenting a compilation of his work at the Blue Theater's Blue Screen series.

"...Electromagnetic pulses of awful power enshroud our globe with a..."

April 19, 2002 Screens Feature by Michael Chamy

Jailbird

The Prison Diaries of the Fabulous Thunderbirds' Preston Hubbard

"...My name is Preston Hubbard. From 1984-94, I played bass for the platinum-selling, multi-Grammy..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Music Feature by Preston Hubbard

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...South by Southwest is a game of numbers: approximately 845 showcases/bands, divided by five nights, divided by you...."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

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