My Obsession: TV Monster Movies

Forget Seventies glamour: The decade’s made-for-TV movie monsters were the real stars

"...anthology series Thriller. But it was the made-for-television horror movies that really caught my attention...."

July 27, 2018 Screens Column by Amanda Reyes

Austin Film Society Presses Play on the Career of TV Superproducer Aaron Spelling

The History of Television series spotlights the man who built The House That Would Not Die

"...the age of instantaneous streaming and blind binging, made-for-cable movies seem almost an archaic artifact, reminding television viewers of..."

Feb. 25, 2022 Screens Feature by Sage Dunlap

Big Money, But Who Pays? The Cost of Emerging TV Studios

TV budgets get bigger, but so do network and streamer demands

"...the economics of adaptation. "Often beloved books turned into movies disappoint," she said, and the same was often true..."

June 9, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

TV Eye

Really bad TV deserves really bad haiku.

"...food-eating challenges on Fear Factor. Reruns and cheesy TV movies would be bad enough, but all the low-rent reality..."

July 12, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

MTV anoints its first-ever Twitter jockey, while the screen loses a slow-burn icon

"...I was first introduced to her in the 1971 made-for-TV movie The Homecoming: A Christmas Story. This precursor to..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Is That a Wrap for Incentives?

Amid economic woes and a race-baiting controversy, the future of TV, video game, and film funding in Texas looks shaky

"...Chronicle mused at the time, in "Money for the Movies," Newsdesk blog, April 16, 2007: "Does [Ogden] mean everyone-is-a-homicidal-nutter,..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

TV Eye

Keeping one eye on television and the other on pop culture.

"...new medium. Things started to change in the Seventies. Movies shot on location, made explicitly for the small screen..."

June 20, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

You Don’t Even Have to Go to the Movies Anymore

You really shouldn’t stop going to the movies

"...at least that’s how they perceive it. For the movies we are releasing, however, there are journalists for a..."

Aug. 16, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Holiday Gifts for Fans of the Big and Small Screen

From essential box sets to writers’ wisdom: stocking fillers and the gifts that keep on giving for your watching pleasure

"...comedies and family entertainment), Grit (all cowboy shows and movies, all the time), and the game show reruns on..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

ATX Fest Recap: Indie Film Studio Blumhouse Is Taking Over TV on Its Own Terms

The House That Horror Built – Inside Blumhouse Television

"...prolific than the theatrical arm, and Wiseman described streaming movies as "[Movies of the week] reinvented."..."

June 8, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

30 New Shows, Returning Series, and Other TV Premieres This April

Top Chef, crazy love, and sweet potters

"...streaming service nabbed headlines when it acquired Warner Bros. movies once slated to premiere theatrically – nabbed poison darts,..."

April 1, 2021 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Adds 102 Movies to 2019 Film Festival Lineup

After Us, what else does the film fest have in store?

"...large and small has announced its first wave of movies and shows, with new films from Olivia Wilde, Robert..."

Jan. 16, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

279 Movies and 2 Funerals

Toronto International Film Festival Report

"...annual festival, held between September 4-13. Along with these movies comes a huge influx of filmmakers and stars, publicity..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Made of Honor

Heart-on-the-sleeve sweets mix with pure raunch as Dr. McDreamy stars in this mean-spirited and uncomfortably blue romantic comedy.

"...functions, antiques shopping, and a certain handsiness that only boy-and-girl-best-friends-in-the-movies are allowed (activities include linking arms, kissing on the..."

May 2, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Year in Movies, and in Moments

What didn’t make my Top 10

"...with a heavy sigh. Sure, I could number 10 movies that curled my toes, shout out a couple standout..."

Dec. 31, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

TV Eye

The Big C offers a clear-eyed, sometimes comic look at cancer

"...intimate and sometimes uncomfortable. Unlike the typical disease-of-the-week TV movies of yesteryear, The Big C is not focused on..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Neighborhood Watch

"...Spelling produced more than 300 TV series and TV movies from the mid-1950s to the present. Although most of..."

June 30, 2006 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Checking In: Como Las Movies Cumbias Despite Performance Shutdown

“[We] won’t be playing live for a long time to come”

"...Como Las Movies projectionist Nelson Valente Aguilar minds your children. “I teach..."

Aug. 12, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

TV Eye

So what's snapped Belinda Acosta's bra strap this week? It's the announcement that the Wonderful World of Disney will remake Brian's Song.

"...and hopeful concept and before other, much weaker TV movies made the term "disease of the week" common parlance...."

May 4, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

England Made Me

Culture editor Richard Whittaker presents a season of classic British movies that defined the nation's cinema

"...of how geography and class and time made these movies so ... English...."

Oct. 28, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Why Darren Lynn Bousman Came Back For Spiral

Rock, racks, vices and games: the story behind the new Saw

"...the infamous body-mangling, limb-wrecking, jaw-splitting traps of the Saw movies. "They work the way we say they work."..."

May 12, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Racial Divide in Movies

The Austin Film Society unlocks The Sepia Screen with its new series on "race" movies

"...one time, she told me that there were all-black movies made for all-black audiences. "A lot like Blondie but..."

July 25, 2014 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Soundscapes, Bat Books, and More Arts Events for the Week

Things to do when you're not staring at an interloping moon

"...films like The Greasy Strangler. He’d made a few movies earlier, like cult fave Video Dead, but bagged his..."

April 5, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

The Austin Chronicle Guide to the Mission: Impossible Movies

Your mission, if you choose to accept it ...

"...Gun a decade earlier. Now, 27 years and seven movies later, Cruise is M:I and M:I is Tom Cruise,..."

July 14, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

R Is for Rerun

"...time of year as only being good for classic movies, TV auctions, and catching up on prime time...."

May 29, 1998 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

McConaughey and Harrelson Ask Texas Senators for New Film Incentives

New fund would smooth out cash crunches ... for culture warriors

"...the Bible Belt,” Campbell warned while calling for family-friendly movies...."

April 1, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Movies or Medicaid: A False Choice at the Texas Legislature

Another tug o’ war over funding for Texas’ film, TV, and gaming industry rebate program

April 12, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Future Is in Flux for the Texas Film Incentive Program

Texas loses productions to states with bigger and better incentive programs

"...allocating a set amount to games vs. TV and movies. At the same time, producers were pushing to nearly..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

TV Eye

This ain't your grandma's antiques show

"...tries to be different, in terms of former TV movies on the settling of the West, is that it..."

June 10, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

ATX TV Festival 2022: Patrick Somerville on Station Eleven

Showrunner talks adaptation and pandemic TV

"...audience accepts the fantasy space. The first Star Wars movies did this, too. Everything was broken. Everything was dirty...."

June 5, 2022 Screens Post by Rod Machen

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