Transportation Options at SXSW

How to get around during the clusterfuck of festival season

"...to navigate around. With so many travel options, we’re here to give you the rundown, that way you can..."

March 1, 2017 SXSW Post by Katarina Brown

Rings

Japanese horror franchise reboot falls flat

"...JVC may have manufactured the last VHS tape back in October of 2008, but that..."

Feb. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four

Doc chronicles a shameful chapter in San Antonio history

"...At the tail end of the last gasp of the satanic ritual abuse mania that needlessly..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Captain America: Civil War

It's a Marvel Universe, and we all just live in it

"...would be a better Avengers movie than, well, the last Avengers movie. While not all card-carrying members of that..."

May 6, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Tina Fey becomes a war correspondent in her new comedy

"...surpasses other recent comedies of this ilk, such as last year’s Rock the Kasbah and Our Brand Is Crisis...."

March 11, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

News Roundup: Delusions and Deluges

"Downtown doesn't exist just to entertain people of means."

"...week's News Roundup: Don Zimmerman and others continue their last-minute campaign against the proposed courthouse location; early voting this..."

Oct. 26, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Big Gay Summer Closeout

The next few weeks bring an all-you-can-eat buffet of gay

"...Gz, Bz, and Tz are studying the lineup of last-gasp of summer events. From Austin Pride starting this weekend..."

Aug. 17, 2015 Qmmunity Post by Blake McCoy

Alejandro Escovedo – Not Slowing Down

Third annual Moody show on Saturday whips up a hurricane

"...Ten days into 2015, Alejandro Escovedo takes the ACL Live at..."

Jan. 9, 2015 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Fury

Brad Pitt commands a Sherman tank in the waning days of World War II, and teaches his men the simple algorithm of war: Kill or be killed.

"...way to Berlin during the waning and most deadly days of World War II. It’s also, intentionally I think,..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Complete Jake Langley

Guitarist makes dazzling choices and then some

"...may be a relative newcomer to Austin, having moved here in 2010, but he’s impressed huge swaths of the..."

March 28, 2014 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Bombshell Incoming

'Smash' star Megan Hilty launches Zach concert series tonight

"...Last fall, Zach booked musical theatre legend Bernadette Peters to..."

June 18, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Cracks in the Ceiling

An extended Q&A with Ann Richards biographer Jan Reid

"...Last week the Chronicle sat down for a conversation with..."

Oct. 25, 2012 Arts Post by Michael King

Robot & Frank

This weird, winning little movie explores what happens to the essential self as the memory goes.

"...to lunch at a long-closed diner – “I ate there last week,” Frank puzzles anew, the disappointment always fresh..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

One Day

This gimmicky romantic drama charts 20 years of one British couple's ups and downs in one-day blips.

"...(Sturgess) falling into bed with each other on their last day at university. Emma – nerdy and socially conscious..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Mr. Popper's Penguins

Jim Carrey plays a man who inherits six penguins in this family film that finds the actor neither too manic nor mawkish.

"...Penguins Jim Carrey is neither in his ridiculous mode where he talks out of his ass nor in his..."

June 24, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

QueerBomb/Pride Roundtable: Extended Remix

QueerBomb and Austin Pride meet for a roundtable

"...sit-down together in the offices of The Austin Chronicle last week. This felt monumental. Last year, the relationship between..."

June 3, 2011 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Johnny Depp sails the seas once again.

"...Johnny Depp performance, but Richard Griffiths (best known these days as Harry Potter's tubby Muggle uncle, Vernon Dursley) does..."

May 20, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

This glad-hearted and furiously funny piece of pop entertainment stars Michael Cera and is told in the vernacular of video games.

"...referentiality (his pop culture hat tips are built to last) and honest-to-goodness goodness of spirit that made his early..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Greenberg

Ben Stiller and (one-time Chronicle cover girl) Greta Gerwig star in this new film by the director of The Squid and the Whale.

"...dabbled in recently (he produced Joe Swanberg's Alexander the Last and plucked the talented Greta Gerwig from its ranks..."

March 26, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Red Riding: 1974

This is the first of three absorbing adaptations (filmed concurrently by different directors) of David Peace’s linked novels about crime and corruption in Yorkshire, England.

"...back way deeper. This is a noir, the kind where the good-for-nothing gumshoe (here, an investigative reporter) has a..."

March 19, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...years and distill it all into lonely perfection. Stockholm's Last Days of April got the month wrong but the..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Gómez Goes Negative

Precinct 4 race heats up

"...UPDATE: After we posted this last night, the Gómez campaign called to set the record..."

March 1, 2010 News Post by Amy Smith

ASL Preseason Heats Up

The Alternative Softball League: Still cheap as free

"...in Pennsylvania knows something. It seems to hardly matter here in Texas what a rotund rodent who would have..."

March 14, 2009 Sports Post by Mike Crissey

Keep On Chooglin’

John Fogerty talks past, present, and future

"...was nice talking to you,” which made my week. Here are some excerpts of that conversation, including coming back..."

Sept. 24, 2008 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

The Mighty Hannibal Sees All

The Atlanta soul man has stories to tell, and who cares if they're true?

"...Georgia and tell my father that I’m way over here crawling in these trench holes covered with blood,” yearns..."

Aug. 27, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Josh Rosenblatt Has Seen the Future, and It Isn't Pretty

Magic eight-balling 2008, month by month

"...10 best movies of the year. After many long days and nights spent deliberating, arguing, and soul-searching in local..."

Jan. 3, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

The City Theatre Company's production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is not scintillating, but it is sufficient

"...The Last Days of Judas Iscariot..."

July 20, 2007 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

Radical Inclusion: A Morality Tale

Halfway through the 365 days of 365 Days/365 Plays, Suzan-Lori Parks' dramatic project has everyone making theatre and in new ways

"...are about at the halfway point of the 365 Days/365 Plays cycle, written by Suzan-Lori Parks and anchored locally..."

April 27, 2007 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

Page Two: Let's Get Lost

An invocation on the eve of South by Southwest

"...begins tonight (Friday, March 9) and runs for nine days. This issue is devoted to film, the next to..."

March 9, 2007 Column by Louis Black

The Omen

Julia Stiles is miscast, although Mia Farrow delights in this unnecessary remake of a perfectly good child-as-Antichrist movie.

"...reel of this finely honed yet utterly pointless remake. There is, as I'm sure you already know, the origin..."

June 9, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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