Illuminating The Magic Lantern

The Austin film podcast conjures British ghosts for AFS

"...Before cinema, there was the magic lantern. That glorious, incandescent source of entertainment lives on..."

Nov. 19, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Magic Lantern Shines a Light on British Christmas Ghost Stories

Hang with the spirits of Christmas past

"...draw in, Ericca Long and Cole Roulain of the Magic Lantern podcast will unfurl two of the finest when..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Comin' at Ya!

3-D is back on the big screen -- again.

"...their pennies to see stereoscopic views shown through a Magic Lantern, couldn't have possibly imagined that nearly 150 years..."

July 25, 2003 Screens Feature by Ken Lieck

Dragon Chronicles

"...of “serious” master thespian Gong Li (Raise the Red Lantern, Farewell My Concubine), who seems notably out of her..."

May 9, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Paper Street Podcast Gives a Voice to the Indie Film Industry

With movie production in lockdown, try the sounds of Paper Street

"...The Magic Lantern Ericca Long and Cole Roulain reappraise classics and..."

May 22, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Year in Books

Thirty-one titles that got us talking this year

"...novel's lyrical unfurling of a love story between rival magicians in the late 19th century...."

Jan. 6, 2012 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Friday Picks & Sleepers

TGIF! Friday night insight to SXSW 09.

"...and specializes in reflective, subdued fun. – Melanie Haupt Magic Lantern..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

Letters at 3AM

Attorney General John Ashcroft is stuffing our Bill of Rights into the shredder

"...attach to your computer a device known as the Magic Lantern, which records every keystroke. They may re-enter your..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Estate Sale Roundup: November 7-9

Keep on truckin' this week for everything under the autumn sun

"...300 ft. Ebonized oak cabinet from the 1950's; French Magic lantern from 1850's-1870's with approximately forty hand-painted slides; children's..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

SXSW Friday Showcases

Friday night's SX showcases are bar-the-door-Katy good

"...titled discs (Parallel Seismic Conspiracies and The Year of Magical Drinking, respectively). And what of recent signees Times New..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

Streetcar Desires

The Austin streetcar has a consensus – it still needs champions

"...interviewed for this article wished they could rub a magic lantern and have a streetcar genie emerge. The right..."

July 20, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Projecting an Image

In a city filled with artists and filmmakers, Luke Savisky is an original -- an innovative projectionist whose unique art has graced the surfaces of buildings, rock stars, video screens, and more for over 15 years.

"...that. He did film and slide performances, like old magic lantern shows, but some of his films that are..."

June 16, 2000 Screens Feature by Bryan Poyser

The Long, Hot Summer

Books to Spend Your Summer With

"...Anti-Oppression Folk Art; the Hertzberg Circus Collection; and the Magic Lantern Castle Museum...."

June 5, 1998 Books Feature

Teen Titans Go! To the Movies

Forget that horrible live-action trailer – here's your real Teen Titans

"...is sacred. There are jokes about the misguided Green Lantern adaptation, jokes about Batman v Superman, even jokes about..."

July 27, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Raya and the Last Dragon

Disney's new Southeast Asian fantasy is a landmark, but loses its way

"...for a legend, and the shattered remnants of a magical stone that contains the magic of the last dragon,..."

March 5, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Pages And Pages of Free Comics

Flicking through this year's Free Comic Book Day comics

"...Green Lantern: Pulling his secret origin from the Geoff Johns-penned Green..."

May 5, 2011 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Jesus Gonna Be Here

Johnny Toxic

"...wanker of six-string distortion in the audience took these magic words to heart. The Smugglers' focus on sharpness over..."

March 26, 1999 Music Feature

Hot Movie Previews

Sneaking Into Summer

"...he's the one who got away. (June 27) ROUGH MAGIC..."

May 23, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Kid's Got Moxie!

Man of the Century director Adam Abraham talks about old-style Hollywood panache, the precarious nature of a career in independent cinema, and a little film that could -- and did.

"...Johnny suddenly enters an ancient Egyptian tomb carrying a lantern and wearing a safari outfit -- the film is..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Just Your Average Stiff

"...his infrequent public appearances. Maybe it's the do-right, square-deal, lantern-jawed confidence he projects on and off-screen, or maybe it's..."

June 4, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Chronicle Guide to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

As the Guardians of the Galaxy gather once more, every MCU film reviewed

"...to be perfect to start expanding the MCU's more magical and interstellar elements...."

May 5, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...LaPrelle last year, the Eastern Leaves' Light of the Lantern, he teams here with hot-hand producer Jonas Wilson in..."

March 5, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Embark on a Halloween Recipe to Suit Your Fear Factor

A dish best served frightening

"...Halloween posse, opt for recognizable foods with a little magic or silliness. Add a jack-o'-lantern pie crust to a..."

Oct. 23, 2020 Features Feature by Jessi Cape

DC Announces gen:LOCK, RWBY Comic Details at RTX

Creative teams confirmed, plus first cover image

"...wish passionately that I had had growing up - magic, mayhem, monsters, and friendship between girls who grapple with..."

July 5, 2019 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

All Over Creation: Glory Days

When is gazing back at the past looking in the wrong direction?

"...a just-animated Frankenstein's monster of branches, twigs, and a jack-o'-lantern head, the straw man and his metallic pal shake..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Love and Death, Underwater

Alison Ellwood's No Limits premieres tonight on ESPN

"...aftermath of a dive gone horribly wrong. Alison Ellwood (Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place) directs..."

July 23, 2013 Screens Post by Jessi Cape

Beat Box

Beat Box

"...Secret"), but NY's Finest (Nature Sounds) can't capture the magic he cut mid-1990s with C.L. Smooth. Instead, Rock features..."

March 28, 2008 Music Review by Chase Hoffberger

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...the teacher's gone. Writer-director Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern, Ju Dou) also takes a leave of absence from..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Live Shots

Beastie Boys, Rancid, Asiandubfoundation

"...suspiciously like Kathie Lee Gifford trick-or-treating in a Green Lantern costume, didn't just lack sex appeal, she was devoid..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Music Feature