Short and Sweet From SXSW

The full list of short docs, dramas and animation playing this year

"...girl gets a keyhole look into a dangerous and mysterious world when a tattooed stranger checks into her roadside..."

Feb. 5, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Unveils March Lineup

So much ado!

"...man, who is crushed by the hostility of his mysterious past. Cast: Alejandro Goic (North American Premiere)..."

Jan. 31, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

La Machinista

Honorable mention

"...her fingers on the keys in a way that mysteriously suited her sense of aesthetics. She touched each of..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Books Feature by Lisa Carroll-Lee

Attention to Sound

John Cage's approach to music has shaped how Michelle Schumann listens to and plays it

"...a music composition professor asked her to play Cage's Mysterious Adventure on a concert at the University of Calgary...."

Sept. 10, 2004 Arts Feature by Jerry Young

Postscripts

The latest publishing deals that Texas authors have made concern murders both fictional and real.

"...When it came time to renew his contract with Mysterious Press, an imprint of Warner Books that has been..."

July 27, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

The New Rites of Spring

The Last Word in Instrumental Rock

"...the previous night as Experimental Audio Research, and his mysterious live electronic circuitry conjured otherworldly tones that elevated this..."

April 27, 2001 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

Hard Water

Second Place

"...matter. There were secret books with no titles and mysterious badges, rings and funny looking hats. But my membership..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Features Feature by Sharon L. Dutton

Wrapped and Ready

"...hope of finding a way clear lies with a mysterious ex-spy named Brill (Hackman). Director Tony Scott and producer..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fall Film Previews

September

"...mercenaries who've been assembled in Paris to recover a mysterious briefcase. The name of David Mamet, who did a..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

No Prozac for the Wicked

The Cool Capers of Donald Westlake

"...Channeling Hitchcock is easy while reading The Ax (Mysterious Press, $23). Published to rave reviews last June, The..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Prints Charming

Marking Austin's Museum of Art's "Fresh Ink" Exhibit

"...them in a national context. Austinite Amy MacHugh Moen's mysterious little intaglios (especially Examination, a stone-and-plate lithograph with intaglio)..."

Feb. 21, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...seemingly vanishes into thin air. ColeÕs search for the mysterious 12 Monkeys takes him in and out of various..."

Jan. 5, 1996 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...a feisty computer expert and information thief whom Stallone's mysterious employer wants dead. Of course, Stallone decides to rebel..."

Oct. 13, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...a feisty computer expert and information thief whom Stallone's mysterious employer wants dead. Of course, Stallone decides to rebel..."

Oct. 6, 1995 News Feature

S-S-Somebody Spank Me

The Asylum Street Spankers

"...Pops Bayless from Ken-Jutsu (sword) class, and Pops knew Mysterious John, an actor and impressionist who sings harmonies in..."

Sept. 29, 1995 Music Feature

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, April 4-10

"...all the reasons you love being alive on this mysterious planet...."

April 4, 2025 Column by Rob Brezsny

Opus

Maybe don't accept the invite to the remote compound teeming with cultlike vibes?

"...turn will be the reasons for checking into this mysterious retreat. However, I bet that there’s already another group..."

March 14, 2025 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Chronicle Guide to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

As Captain America enters a Brave New World , every MCU film reviewed

"...himself as ol' shellhead- changed the game for the mysterious superhero thing...."

Feb. 14, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Flow

Tender animated film follows animals on a quest for home

"...rescues an orphaned bird and must travel across a mysterious forest. That was an infinitely smaller production, effectively a..."

Dec. 6, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Horror Abounds in Our Weekday Event Recommendations

But it's more than just scares

"...voices, and disembodied shadows, all in service to a mysterious demon. Director Carl Theodor Dreyer tells the bloodsucking tale..."

Oct. 4, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

My Old Ass

39-year-old Aubrey Plaza doles out advice to her younger self

"...her sole dire warning to not sleep with some mysterious guy named Chad) is what really gives My Old..."

Sept. 13, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Viva México, Mooncakes, and Motorbikes in Our Recommended Events

Lots to celebrate this weekend

"...suspense about an American writer (Joseph Cotten) investigating the mysterious death of his friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles). But..."

Sept. 13, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Red Rooms

Disturbing courtroom drama with a sickening psychological twist

"...aimless serial killer lover and her more driven but mysterious counterpart. The evidence of the crimes is described rather..."

Sept. 6, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Fly Me to the Moon

Scarlett Johansson is the best thing about this kinda-silly, kinda-sweet space-race rom-com

"...Jones (Johansson, also a producer), hired by Woody Harrelson’s mysterious Nixon operative and brought to NASA’s base in Florida..."

July 12, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Watchers

Dakota Fanning stars as an artist who becomes trapped in an Irish forest and is preyed upon by mysterious creatures

"...in an Irish forest and is preyed upon by mysterious creatures...."

June 7, 2024 Movie Review

The Big Bend

Things get weird on a family vacation to the West Texas desert

"...away.There’s an intimacy that survives the intrusion of that mysterious stranger, a subplot that verges on the fantastical, but..."

May 31, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Monkey Man

Dev Patel’s directorial debut is a gritty, nasty piece of work

"...blending in, which is his goal. Patel plays a mysterious young man on a revenge mission who infiltrates a..."

April 5, 2024 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Drive-Away Dolls

Ethan Coen solo effort is screwball without the comedy

"...a life-changing vacation are upended when they discover a mysterious briefcase in the trunk of their car...."

Feb. 23, 2024 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Spaceman

Adam Sandler is an astronaut confronted with a mysterious creature

"...dramatic role, Sandler plays an astronaut confronted with a mysterious creature named Hanus (voiced by Paul Dano)...."

Feb. 23, 2024 Movie Review

Dev Patel Swings Into South by Southwest With Monkey Man World Premiere

Fest gets new docs on Stormy Daniels, Alex Jones, and Jon Bon Jovi

"...must survive their dystopian environment while being threatened by mysterious creatures that emerge at night. Cast: Nicolas Cage, Jaeden..."

Feb. 7, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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