Playback: Angel Dance

Robert Plant & Patty Griffin put the Continental Club in the mood

"...Griffin's haunting song "Cold As It Gets," Los Lobos' "Angel Dance," and Zep's Hobbit anthem "Ramble On," among others...."

Dec. 21, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Film Review: The Wrath of Becky

The teenage Nazi killer is back for more bloody fun

"...this funny, but with The Wrath of Becky, directors Matt Angel and Suzanne Coote manage to amplify both qualities..."

March 12, 2023 SXSW Post by Rod Machen

SXSW Goes Monster Hunting With Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves

Evil Dead Rises and more added to festival lineup

"...Garcia, Annie Gonzalez, Dennis Haysbert, Emilio Rivera, Tony Shalhoub, Matt Walsh, Pepe Serna, Bobby Soto, Jimmy Gonzales, Brice Gonzalez..."

Jan. 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Killing Nazis for Funsies in The Wrath of Becky

Matt Angel and Suzanne Coote unleash teen hell in the splatter satire

"...That was a question that filmmakers Matt Angel and Suzanne Coot had on the brain when..."

March 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: The Book of Mormon

Outlandish, unlikely musical hit might make you a believer

"...out of water than the leads in this Trey Parker-Matt Stone-Robert Lopez musical: two Utah-bred Mormons as lily-white as..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Willie’s Picnic Reboots Virtually, Glitches and All

Star-studded, 7.5-hour livestream proves a real feat

"...years at the unforgivingly hot Circuit of the Americas. Matt Bizar and Nelson grandniece Ellee Fletcher Durniak taking over..."

July 6, 2020 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Fonda San Miguel Celebrates Legendary Mexican Cuisine Expert

Honoring Diana Kennedy at May 6 dinner festivities

"...On Monday, May 6, Tom Gilliland, Matt Weissler, Casey Kittrell, and Soll Sussman are teaming up..."

April 16, 2019 Food Post by Emily Beyda

SXSW Film Gets Latest Apatow, Snowpiercer Premiere

Huge lineup includes new docs on St. Vincent, Ozzy, Zappa

"...Really Love D: Angel Kristi Williams, Screenwriters: Felicia Pride, Angel Kristi Williams Set..."

Jan. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Further Reflections

"...Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson at the Edtv premiere. photograph..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...in the Twilight Director: Billy Miossi, Producers: Alissa Shapiro, Matt Reynolds In an unremarkable office space, a select group..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Down We Go

Revisiting Renaissance man Robert Thom's prolific and hellish Hollywood visions

"...a stairway as a voiceover begins. A sweet but strangely toned voice lilts: "What is your first memory? My..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Tributes

"...RETURN OF THE GRIEVOUS ANGEL..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Music Feature

Short Cuts

Party on, Barna.

"...Nguyen, Josh Case, Victor Hernandez, Paul Beck, Jason Archer, Matt Rodriguez, Alan Watts and his Pixeltees, and Cinemaker/CYC mainspring..."

June 20, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Free Comic Book Day

Nine years in, the annual event is winning big crowds and new comics readers

"...Red 5 Comics), John Lucas (artist, DC and Marvel), Matt Frank (artist/writer/designer, Marvel, Bluewater, IDW), Rob Osborne (writer, The..."

April 30, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Page Two: Madness in General

A film review and recommendation for this blur of a year

"...to explain and celebrate that masterpiece of nails-on-chalkboard cinema Angel, Angel, Down We Go, the only film he directed..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Our Town, Our Time

Zachary Scott Theatre Center's production of The Laramie Project retells the story of Matthew Shepard's murder in a compelling, heartfelt way, but it also tells a town's story and gives us the opportunity to see our town in its reflection.

"...The murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard in 1998 was so shocking in its savage..."

March 15, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Holiday Viewing: TV Christmas Episodes

Celebrate the season in Sunnydale, the Oval Office, and more

"...in 1998 during season three, finds the recently re-souled Angel (played by a pre-Bones/more eyeliner David Boreanaz) haunted by..."

Dec. 14, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...Cast: Nita-Josée Hanna, Owen Myre, Adam Brooks, Alexis Hancey, Matthew Ninaber, Steven Vlahos, Kristen MacCulloch, Anna Tierney, Kenneth Welsh..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...Terry Pratchett, about a devil (David Tennant) and an angel (Martin Sheen) who play a bickering odd couple as..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Ringer

A Farrelly brothers comedy that purports to have a message about treating the intellectually challenged as regular human beings and stars Johnny "Jackass" Knoxville is about as disingenuous as a comedy that urges us to see past a person’s body size to appreciate the beauty within and stars Gwyneth Paltrow in a fat suit.

"...strong stage presence, Heigl works her preternatural division between angel and landlubber that she uses to such good affect..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

TV Eye

More grumbling about how dumb the Emmy Awards are

"...Charles Gunn and Andy Hallett as Lorne, both of Angel (WB). Given my soap-box speech about BTVS last week,..."

July 27, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Belinda Acosta was all set to hate The Oblongs, the new animated series on the WB about mutants living near a toxic waste dump. But then something unexpected happened: It was funny.

"...near you, living near toxic waste is no laughing matter. The battle to move the tank farms out of..."

April 13, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Record Reviews

"...a jazz album (and on a duet for that matter), I'd have told you that your bi-level was cut..."

March 7, 1997 Music Review

All My Love

C-Side Records' family values

"...It isn't until keyboardist Matt Gardiner issues the euphonious opening to "All My Love,"..."

Jan. 26, 2007 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Judas Priest Pounds Fun Fun Fun Fest 2014

Some heads are gonna roll

"...Alt-J, Angel Olsen, Chelsea Wolfe, City & Colour, Courtney Barnett, Dana..."

May 19, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...the orchestral pop of his Sub Pop labelmate Eric Matthews. Still sounds pretty darn unhappy, though. (Copper Tank Main,..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

SXSW and Amazon Announce Virtual Festival Lineup

Feature and shorts from 2020 fest going online for 10 days

"...and producers: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova Cast: Irina Atanosova, Angel Genov, Gilda Waugh This terrific comedy-drama is set on..."

April 21, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Texas Platters

Surfin' Senorita

"...of ukuleles, pennywhistles, and carnival barking, or the subject matter, which ranges from psychedelia ("Trippin' Over You") to alien..."

March 5, 1999 Music Review

Austin Film Festival Announces Full Lineup

AFF's finalized lineup

"...Swing” (USA, 81 min.) U.S. Premiere Directors: Jon Hart, Matthew Kaufman..."

Sept. 24, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Lingua Ignota, Daniel Fears, Mobley, a Doug Sahm celebration, and more worthy local shows

"...local artists including Paul Minor, Billy Broome, Andrew Duplantis, Matt Hubbard, Kevin Lance, Hilary York, Jordan Matthew Young, and..."

Nov. 4, 2022 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

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