Guess Who's Coming to Terrorize Your Night

UT alum Bryan Bertino's nerve-shattering debut, 'The Strangers'

"...latter of which is all-too-often as random as, well, death and taxes). Those genre films that do creepy-crawl inside..."

May 30, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Qmmunity: Paint Your Own Reality

Austin's queer community celebrates Frida Kahlo's legacy with Frida Friday ATX's Viva La Vida Fest

"...The Austin Chronicle, so be sure to look for your trusty Qmmunity editor at the Chron's festival table...."

July 22, 2022 Column by James Scott

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Music we’re playing

"...the turntable mat below. Once that gets up in your nostrils, inhale opener "Higher," deeply...."

June 12, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Better Git It in Your Soul

Why listen to jazz's greatest bassist Charles Mingus today? The Creative Opportunity Orchestra's monthlong Mingus Among Us series has answers.

"...their usual when playing with Mingus. They stretched to meet the requirements of his compositions, which often resulted in..."

June 16, 2006 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Point Austin: Death March of the Barbarians

The emperor has no clothes, no wisdom, and no moral center

"...The barbarians are inside the gates. Pick your nominated poison:..."

Feb. 3, 2025 News Post by Michael King

To Your Health

Is the Atkins diet a good option for weight loss?

"...research aimed at resolving the debate. His recent accidental death has not calmed the debate...."

June 6, 2003 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

The Gray Band

How can a band singing almost exclusively about serial killers engender so much life?

"...June 27, 2008; "Temple Stone," May 15, 2009; and "Your Satori Mind," July 23, 2010, respectively – my Encore..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Drank the Lemonade

As album sales give way to streaming services, how much longer will we be able to purchase music?

"...Death wrestled 2016 to the ground from the top on..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

AAAFF Review: Fan Girl

Filipino drama dissects the Faustian pact of idol culture

"...They say "never meet your idols," and that may go double when you're..."

June 4, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Best Live Music Performances of 2018

The bands and venues that kept our critics on their feet

"...Michael Toland: Meet Your Death, Beerland..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Critics Poll

"...Toland: Meet Your Death..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Music Feature by Neph Basedow

Meet Your Death

"...as a one-man barnburner. Debut of their new vehicle Meet Your Death, the pair's latest collaboration after a 2014..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Music Review by Michael Toland

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

Evil Dead Rises and more added to festival lineup

"...Unsheathe your broad sword and unpack your boom stick. South By..."

Jan. 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Adds 102 Movies to 2019 Film Festival Lineup

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

"...Start your SXSW Film Festival planning now: the annual celebration of..."

Jan. 16, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Stories That Tell Themselves

In town for the Texas Documentary Tour, Albert Maysles -- the man behind such famous documentaries as Gimme Shelter and Grey Gardens -- talks about his fierce philosophy of direct cinema.

"...20 films, along with his brother David (until his death in 1987), including Salesman (1969), about a door-to-door Bible..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Finding North

"...in between Tanya Wexler's debut feature is anything but your ordinary bridge story. Vibrantly funny and shot through with..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Sudden Death

"...why??? Why does the justice system keep people on death row for so many years?!?! Why not get it..."

Feb. 20, 1998 Column

Those Who Are About to Die

Your Texas death machine gets rolling again

"...but it wasn't until after he was sentenced to death that the Mexican government was contacted about his situation,..."

Aug. 1, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Lovers of the Arctic Circle

Using impressionistic and circular stragies, this Spanish film tells the story of two lovers from the time they meet at the age of 8 to the age of 25, when they may or may not meet again.

"...Spanish film that played here not long ago: Open Your Eyes. Both films challenge our ordinary constructs of reality..."

June 18, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Alleluia

A Belgian riff on the pitch-black legend of the Honeymoon Killers

"...Love and death, obsessive jealousy, and the futility of playing the long..."

July 31, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dead Alive

The Citizen Kane of Oedipal zombie-cannibal-right to death-comedy-love stories. In this early film, Jackson takes the shopworn flesh-eating zombie genre by its rotting horns, adds a dash of Monty Python, and comes up with a film so gleefully over-the-top that it's decidedly hard not to gag while you're laughing yourself incontinent.

"...Timothy Balme. The Citizen Kane of Oedipal zombie-cannibal-right to death-comedy-love stories. Kiwi auteur Peter Jackson -- best known stateside..."

April 16, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Luv Doc: Pineapple Pizza

A big ol' meaty, cheesy, greasy gastronomical death trap

"...of vascular health, eating a pizza is like injecting your arteries with bacon grease. (Psssst: That's super unhealthy.)..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

The Ultimate Queer Guide to SXSW 2019

Often imitated, never duplicated, we’re here to keep it real kweer

"...back again for another year. That’s right, y’all, it’s your ultimate guide to all things LGBTQIA-Z at this year’s..."

March 1, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Everest

Ace ensemble cast enacts the real-life story of a doomed climbing expedition

"...endure when they tread the unforgiving terrain of the Death Zone (starting at around 26,000 feet), a height at..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Puffy Chair

In their first feature, former Austinites the Duplass brothers have made a near-perfect relationship-trauma comedy.

"...to pick up Josh’s neo-hippie brother, Rhett (Wilkins), they meet one complication after another, most of them the result..."

June 2, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Valentine's and Beyond With This Weekend's Recommended Events

From dark stories to romantic dance

"...mating behavior, enjoy music in the Great Hall, a build-your-own-bouquet station, a Valentine card crafting station, and a Polaroid..."

Feb. 14, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Alita: Battle Angel

The manga heroine comes to motion capture life

"...much you enjoy Alita: Battle Angel will depend on your stomach for motion capture. Salazar is definitely the right..."

Feb. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Reasonable Doubt

Did misleading DNA analysis land an innocent man on death row?

"...– to get a conviction. Perez was sentenced to death on Oct. 20, 1999...."

April 29, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Félix & Meira

A Hasidic wife and a nonreligious man find love together in Montreal

"...with no religious inclinations (Dubreuil) who is mourning the death of his emotionally distant father. Meeting by chance in..."

May 29, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Beginners

Christopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor play father and son in this lovely drama about what happens to both after the older man discovers near the end of his life that he's gay.

"...a confirmation of, their ineluctable influence. When we first meet 38-year-old Oliver (McGregor), his patterns of speech, his quirks,..."

June 24, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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