A Nightmare on Elm Street

Freddy Krueger is back to disturb everyone's sleep.

"...skewed, anxious unreality of a bad dream. Watching Craven's masterpiece today, you're struck by just how fluidly surreal it..."

May 7, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Do Not Try This at Home

Tom Six on the surgical horrors of The Human Centipede

"...known laws of the exhibition universe, Six's groundbreaking, gut-churning masterpiece has secured stateside distribution from IFC, which is opening..."

May 7, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Losers

In this action movie, a U.S. Special Forces unit on a mission in the jungles of Bolivia becomes the target for assassination and must figure out who is double-crossing them.

"...the broadest and most memorable strokes. It's not a masterpiece, either, but it'll do until Hannibal, Murdock, and the..."

April 30, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Big Sigh

Beach House's warm embrace

"...Teen Dream, I didn't think it was quite a masterpiece. A few listens later, I still say it's a..."

April 23, 2010 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

BodyWorld

Dash Shaw's new graphic novel is a twisted masterpiece of storytelling built from stunning visuals and panel-manipulation

"...Altogether, BodyWorld is a twisted masterpiece of storytelling built from stunning visuals and panel-manipulation, rendered..."

April 23, 2010 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Battleship Potemkin (Blu-ray)

Battleship Potemkin still packs a lumpen proletariat wallop 85 years after it was first released

"...like reactionary Super-8 loops compared to Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 masterpiece of blood-drenched outrage and world-shaking mutiny, Battleship Potemkin, which..."

April 23, 2010 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

La Follia

La Serva Padrona was a surprise hit in 1733, and it still delights today

"...are giving Central Texans a chance to enjoy this masterpiece of opera buffa. Director Keith Womer explains why this..."

April 16, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Elton John

"...keyboards, and percussion, the quartet that cut John's 1973 masterpiece Goodbye Yellow Brick Road arrived in Austin intact, save..."

April 16, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Zach Theatre

The theatre is giving away a free wedding to some homegrown George and Emily

"...the folks at Zach Theatre, who are mounting Wilder's masterpiece this spring, to provide a matrimonial boost to some..."

March 26, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Film Review: A Serbian Film

"...to be. A Serbian Film is truly an unwatchable masterpiece. ..."

March 26, 2010 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The XX

Thursday

"...keyboards and gently urgent guitar pluckings anchor this minimalist masterpiece, allowing Romy Madley Croft's plaintive, laudanumlike vocals to tentatively..."

March 19, 2010 Music Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...just that, and the resulting film is a minor masterpiece of humanistic subtlety that feels like Cary Fukunaga's Sin..."

March 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

To Mars, With Love

Reinventing the romantic comedy, to infinity and beyond

"...Jarmusch's Dead Man, David Byrne's True Stories ("an underrated masterpiece"), and the films of Sergio Leone, to name a..."

March 12, 2010 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Twang Twang Shock-a-Boom

Reissue

"..."Nicotine Queen." The main feast serves up "Fishsticks," a masterpiece of steely throb and rhythm with a hook the..."

Feb. 26, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Hannibal Lokumbe: 'Dear Mrs. Parks'

"...textures, and jazz sensibilities on display here. Lokumbe's orchestral masterpiece, African Portraits, which debuted in 1990 at Carnegie Hall..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Mermen

"...Krill Slippin' (1989) to the titanic thrust of sophomore masterpiece Food for Other Fish (1994), both self-released works subsumed..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Beach House

"...A solid third LP, but it's not Beach House's "masterpiece." They've still got some gold dust to kick up...."

Feb. 5, 2010 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Naked If I Want To

Magnum opus on one of rock & roll's Rosetta Stones: 1967's Moby Grape

"...his motorcycle to Nashville, where he recorded his lo-fi masterpiece Oar (see "The Memory of Music," Dec. 17, 1999)...."

Jan. 8, 2010 Music Feature by Louis Black

Screens Top 10s

"...little more restraint, this would have been an unqualified masterpiece. Then again, who wants temperance from QT? Still bloody..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Screens Top 10s

"..."What the Fuck?!" Homage to an Obscure Ishirô Honda Masterpiece: Jason Statham's War of the Gargantuas/King Kong vs. Godzilla..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

A Decade Under the Influence

The 'Chronicle' movie critics take a look back at what the Aughts wrought

"...didn't hurt matters any that the recut and expanded masterpiece I was keystroking myself off over was Coppola's Apocalypse..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Stone Roses

Reissues

"...achievement of Manchester's ecstasy era, the Stone Roses' lone masterpiece successfully fused spacious psychedelia with danceable, acid house euphoria...."

Dec. 18, 2009 Music Review by Austin Powell

Grunge, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bob Seger, The Rolling Stones, and The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

'Picture book of people with each other'

"...a tour de force, a visual index to Booth's masterpiece The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones...."

Dec. 4, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk From Dead Kennedys to Green Day

There's a whole Gilman Street between the DKs and Green Day

"...oral histories with this endlessly fascinating and frankly addictive masterpiece of safety-pin journalism. Of key note here is the..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Music Review by Marc Savlov

Head of the Class

Spike & Mike sets aside its sick and twisted ways (for now) with New Generation Animation

"...French "11 Roses"). From the already classic stop-motion absurdist masterpiece A Town Called Panic to the swoopingly comic live-action/traditional..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Antichrist

Lars von Trier lives to affront again. Chaos, indeed, reigns.

"...to be trusted. That said, Antichrist is a flawed masterpiece and an example of highly personal auteurism that will..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pride and Prejudice

UT credibly brings the Jane Austen novel to life onstage, if in a rather rushed fashion

"...me, I would argue that the novel is a masterpiece of narrative and character. When one takes into account..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Danzig

He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named on Vampira and Hollyweird

"...N.J.'s suburban sprawl. That grinning rictus is an eerie masterpiece of previral design, and those eyes – hooded and..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

In a Dream

A fascinating portrait of an artist and adulterer

"...series of whole-building Philadelphia murals best known by its masterpiece, the Magic Gardens of South Street – but in..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Screens Review by Michael King

Letters at 3AM: The Missiles of October

Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis

"...So my masterpiece, on a lined sheet of loose-leaf paper, proclaimed with..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

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