Short and Sweet: “Red Sands”

Riding the dunes with El Paso's gearheads and off-roaders

"...grew up there. I’m from El Paso, and my boyfriend when I was 15 or 16 would bring me..."

March 7, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips & Beyond: March Events Roundup

March out there and celebrate spring

"...in late February and early March around the Big Bend region in the southwest part of Texas and gradually..."

Feb. 28, 2025 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

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

From dark stories to romantic dance

"...you haven’t been paying CLOSE attention to my every Calendar listing?!? I’ll simply sob if you say it’s so!)..."

Feb. 14, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Day Trips & Beyond: October Events Roundup

Catch up on Lone Star State news and plan some fall fun

"...units covering what now includes 113,114 acres and 300 miles of river and bayous...."

Oct. 4, 2024 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Theatre in Motion in Overheard on a Train

All aboard Austin's Red Line for Cheerful Secrets' interactive play

"...details they will discover as they take the roughly 20-mile round trip...."

April 5, 2024 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Emulating the Eighties in Dead Mail

Kyle McConaghy and Joe DeBoer synthesize tragic horror for SXSW

"...their lives to getting incorrectly marked mail to its intended destination. These two compulsions - one altruistic, one twisted..."

March 8, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Qmmunity: Holigay Movie Review

Three LGBTQ holiday movies to throw on, plus one bad queer movie challenge

"...list as a CHALLENGE only. All that I can recommend it for is having two nonbinary actors in lead..."

Dec. 22, 2023 Column

Qmmunity: Making It Ourselves

Examples of queer creativity abound in Austin, Texas

"...lawmaking from this conservative state. To answer that frustration, Transgender Education Network of Texas' new zine, Trans-gressive: A Trans..."

Sept. 22, 2023 Column by James Scott

Blood on the Controller With The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Who will play, and what will become of them?

"...the role of Leatherface and his chain saw – rendered in loving Atari detail as an appendage-like blob of..."

Aug. 18, 2023 Screens Feature by Matthew Monagle

The Boogeyman

Can Hollywood just knock it off with the trauma horror?

"...stuck in the dark is always the right idea. Films like Lights Out – or even Darkness Falls, which..."

June 2, 2023 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Public Notice: Move Fast and Break Things

Elon Musk and the Texas Legislature seem to be on the same path

"...site were pulverized by the initial rocket launch blast, sending shock waves and cement dust across a wide and..."

May 5, 2023 News Column by Nick Barbaro

A Man Among Monsters: Elijah Wood on No Man of God

Finding the heart of the man who hunted serial killers

"...There are many films about serial killer Ted Bundy. No Man of God..."

Aug. 28, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bog Bodies, Blood Pulling, and Muppets: Making the Monster of Boys From County Hell

How Chris Baugh raised the evil of Irish vampire

"...Vampires are vile. They are not your exciting friend, they are not sparkly, they are not sexy, and..."

May 7, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips & Beyond: Santa Fe, N.M.

Art and food in the enchanting city of Santa Fe

"...be the heart. In the space of a half mile more than 100 galleries and shops display the finest..."

Nov. 12, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

New Documentary Shows the Beauty of the Border, and the Perils of a Barrier

The River and the Wall captures a wilderness without divisions

"...through cities and towns, through impenetrable thorny thickets, across dead-end box canyons, along whitewater rapids, at the base of..."

May 3, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Devil and William Friedkin

The director's journey from The Exorcist to a real exorcism

"...But to look at these films as a circular theme in his life – or..."

Jan. 5, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

AFS Spotlights the Early Work of Support the Girls Director Andrew Bujalski

Three from the heart

"...(yet!). More significantly, he's made a half-dozen critically adored films that are about no less than the human condition..."

Jan. 4, 2019 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Texas Book Festival 2018: The Full List

Lineup includes Cecile Richards, Julián Castro, + 280 more

"...look forward to more than 280 great guests to attend, among them Cecile Richards, Julián Castro, Susan Orlean, and..."

Aug. 29, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Gay Place

(Still) celebrating National Coming Out Day

"...13th Slasher Party The Bear goes B-rate for slasher films. Get into the theme and come as yer fave..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Column by Sarah Marloff

Your Weekend in Film

What major releases and one-off screenings are worth your theatre time

"...This Week’s Pick: The Glass Castle..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Screens Post by The Screens Staff

They Shoot Movies, Don't They?

Heather Page on the state of the Texas Film Commission

"...to Hollywood. When she wanted to work with passionate independent filmmakers, she moved to Austin. Now she's having the..."

April 22, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Announces Midnighters and Shorts

Henry Rollins, Jeremy Sisto join horror lineup

"...Neece said, "all those filmmakers that we love had films ready to go." 2015, by contrast, is a lot..."

Feb. 10, 2015 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Gravity

Sandra Bullock is lost in space – alone with the beauty, terror, and the laws of gravity.

"...Certainly not after a Russian satellite explodes and a mile-wide debris field – whirling and jagged and deadly –..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Football Prophecies

Week five forecast

"...the head by an errant John Elway pass at Mile High Stadium in 1992...."

Oct. 6, 2012 Sports Post by Russ Espinoza

Fantastic Fest Is Here To Bash Your Brains In

Shock, schlock, and awe at America's premier genre fest

"...an alcohol-accentuated screening of Steve De Jarnatt's ridiculous/sublime/classic Miracle Mile, during which I might have hollered out "John Agar..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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

You really shouldn’t stop going to the movies

"...in like a fat kid trying to finish a half-mile? Austin at #47 in the 2011-2012 DMA rankings...."

Aug. 16, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Fun Platform

Helen Knode's new murder mystery finds her leaving noir and stepping into the light

"...When Knode attended graduate school at Cornell briefly in 1981, she said,..."

April 27, 2012 Books Feature by Cindy Widner

SXSW 2012 Film Lineup Announced

'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film

"...130 films – spread across categories including competition films, Emerging Visions,..."

Feb. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Oh, the Places You'll Go!

How Parallelogramophonograph survived Scotland and became a better improv troupe

"...see your show, in which you and your three friends make up a play on the spot – yes,..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Microcinema Mania

Bimonthly series Cinema41 highlights the underseen and underrated

"...front-row seats – tiered, no less – to the end of the Cold War world. It's even rarer that..."

July 22, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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