New Year's Eve Events

"...white party. The dress code is minimalist, but the entertainment isn't -- enjoy party favors, imbibe champagne and applaud..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Features Feature by Wells Dunbar

New Year's Eve Events

"...end '03 stress-free, check on in, and enjoy cabaret-style entertainment from the cast of the acclaimed play I Love..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Features Feature by Wells Dunbar

WWJD?

Jesse Sublett's insider guide to Bouchercon.

"...Honor, the late Barry Gardner, a prolific reviewer of mystery fiction, will be represented by his wife, Ellen. If..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

All the World SA Stage

The Debut of the International Theater Festival at San Antonio

"...Alamo City intends to prove that it has the amenities, the facilities, the cultural savvy, and the audience that..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...celebrates the legacy of the legendary Austin writer and women's rights activist as part of the Documentary Spotlight lineup,..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Of an Age

Queer sexual awakening drama is depressingly familiar

"...a night of hard partying, her exact location a mystery...."

Feb. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Amazing Maurice

Can this tale of magical rodents beat the Pratchett adaptation curse?

"...which James Garner and Lou Gossett play two con men running a morally justifiable grift on Southern racists by..."

Feb. 3, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Holy Spider

True crime drama is an indictment of theocracy and misogyny

"...all, someone is cleansing the streets of sinful, opium-addicted women. Although the vigilante justice meted out is horrific, it..."

Nov. 11, 2022 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Outfit

Gangster flick is well-tailored but somehow still a little saggy

"...his head down and pays no mind to the men going to the black drop box in the back..."

March 18, 2022 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

30 New Shows, Returning Series, and Other TV Premieres This April

Top Chef, crazy love, and sweet potters

"...year when comfort TV became an essential for the mental health toolbox, this zippy little show about talented amateurs..."

April 1, 2021 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...So SXSW made its first announcement for film, so you've had your headliners and competition..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Buster's Mal Heart

Rami Malek's newest and strangest, plus more home releases

"...and family (see our interview with Smith, Drowning in Mystery on The Midnight Swim, July 6, 2015). Here she..."

Sept. 12, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Truman

Spanish film deals with serious issues in subtle ways

"...shows up at the front door of the Madrid apartment of his old partner in crime, an unkempt Julián..."

May 5, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

'FOUND: Photographs of the Rolling Stones'

The DEN shows lost images of the world's greatest rock & roll band when it was still a buncha young punks

"...snapshots showing a relaxed and casual group of young men enjoying the early stages of superstardom. The 23 small-format..."

March 7, 2014 Arts Feature by Rod Machen

Graceland

Ron Morales’ hostage thriller is a fluorescent-lit tour of the city’s seedy underbelly.

"...Directed by: Ron Morales. Starring: Arnold Reyes, Menggie Cobarrubias, Dido De La Paz, Leon Miguel, Ella Guevara..."

April 26, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Last Shotgun Blast of SXSW Film Programming

'Hobo,' Spike's 'Scenes From the Suburbs,' and more

"...the goods on the shorts lineups, too – narrative, documentary, animated, etc. – and there are plenty of familiar..."

Feb. 10, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Sundance Announces Competition Slate

Austinite Jeff Nichols will compete in Park City

"...announced the 32 features selected for U.S. Narrative and Documentary Competition – with a couple of Texas names in..."

Dec. 1, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

This Is My Life

LZ Love's reveal: dance music!

"...stories. In LZ Love's new CD, Mysterious, there's no mystery. She tells her story without shame or artifice, and..."

June 4, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Flash of Genius

Based on the true story of Robert Kearns, who invented the intermittent windshield wiper only to have his idea stolen by the Ford Motor Co., is a real David and Goliath story.

"...Genius, the directorial debut of producer Abraham (Children of Men, Spy Game) has all the ingredients of a great..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Roman de Gare

Until its piffling ending, Frenchman Claude Lelouch delivers a film that's intellectually cagey, potentially romantic, and, above all, an entertaining puzzle box.

"...entertaining puzzle box of duplicitous people doing mysterious things, men and women. Contemporary French cinema has been getting a..."

June 20, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Blade: Trinity

Originality is in as short supply as shirt buttons as Snipes' high tech vampire slayer meets up with what appears to be a steroidal Eurotrash pimp playing Dracula.

"...supply as shirt buttons in Blade: Trinity, as the men are frequently bare-chested. When Blade (Snipes) finds himself framed..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Auto Focus

"...Wilson, Willem Dafoe and Greg Kinnear. There's a telling moment early on in Auto Focus, the accomplished film about..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Latest in Paper

"Like Imperial Rome, Ode to a Banker is a sprawling, remarkable event masquerading as a trade paperback murder mystery," writes Marc Savlov of Lindsey Davis' novel, now in paperback.

"..."Mortui non mordent" -- literally, "dead men don't bite" -- admittedly sounds something like a pitch-black..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Signs of Other Times

A photographic guide to some of the markers that still point to parts of Austin that have disappeared.

"...in the mid-Eighties, is a memorial scrawled in the cement: "R.I.P. CACTUS COURTS '84," with a small tombstone drawn..."

Jan. 26, 2001 News Feature

Picking Up the Pieces

Karr Conviction Closes Another Chapter in O'Hair Case

"...exterior. Second was the sloth of the Austin Police Department, which was countered by the incredibly organized and motivated..."

June 9, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...The movie distributors compartmentalize the year by season -- summer, fall, holiday --..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Boys Don't Cry

Without resorting to dogma, ideological tracts, or cautionary tales, Boys Don't Cry evocatively tells the true story of a young Nebraska woman who changed her sexual identity and transformed herself (sans surgery) into a young man. Swank won her first Oscar for this role.

"...is a tale that has also inspired a fascinating documentary called The Brandon Teena Story. Wonderfully evocative camerawork by..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is a profound existential adventure, twistedly comic and openly bitter, brought to life by those two maniacs: Peckinpah and Oates. An ugly, vicious film about not very glamorous people engaged in ugly, vicious activities, it’s more black comedy than anything. – Louis Black

"...Webber, Helmut Dantine, Kris Kristofferson and Emilio Fernandez. A moment of silence now for the late, great Warren Oates...."

Dec. 2, 1999 Movie Review by Louis Black

Bad to the Bone

"...the affliction under the microscope here, a hereditary cultural ailment that's passed on from father to son...."

Feb. 19, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Screamlines

"...favorites, there are still so many gaps. No one mentions Vincent Price, whose role in The Pit and the..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Screens Feature

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