Goodbye Mystique

Drag Race Week Three recap!

"...Steven: I feel bad for Mystique. She was sweet, but so clearly out of her..."

Feb. 16, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

X-Men: Days of Future Past

Diverting but rarely riveting, this latest offering from the Marvel Universe kicks the can down the road some more.

"...back to the past to dissuade the blue-skinned shapeshifter Mystique, née Raven (Lawrence), from an assassination that will set..."

May 23, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Rebel in the Rye

The early life of J.D. Salinger is explored

"...The whole deal plays right into the famous tight-lipped mystique. And it’s really a bit of a bore...."

Sept. 15, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

Patriots Day

The hunt for the Boston Marathon bombers

"...Ortiz and his heartfelt shoutout to the Boston Strong mystique when he spoke before the first Red Sox game..."

Jan. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

X-Men: Apocalypse

Another bloated spectacle that serves neither the fans nor the story

"...(Shipp) and Nightcrawler (Smit-McPhee), as well as returning favorites Mystique (Lawrence), and that lovable scamp Magneto (Fassbender), here turned..."

May 27, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Man on the Moon

"...to capture the essence of the Andy Kaufman performance mystique. The image might more accurately describe the motion of..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Eve's Bayou

Actress-turned-first-time director Lemmons unravels a spellbinding tale that blends Southern Gothic magical realism and disturbing family drama.

"...this film, Lemmons is able to tap the romantic mystique of the old South while largely skirting the inherent..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Surviving Picasso

"...Prawer Jhabvala's script gets us no closer to the mystique of Picasso, and only a few scenes give us..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould

"...the movie does penetrate some of the convoluted Gould mystique. Colm Feore acts the part of Gould in the..."

June 10, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Switch

"...It's supposed to be an education in the feminine mystique, but it's so badly developed that you never see..."

May 17, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Year Two of Oblivion Access Festival Fills the Experimental Gap in Austin

How the music festival co-founders keep up the mystique June 15-18

"...the Flenser shows are rare, irreplaceable events. Chief in mystique are headliners: the gloom-ridden shoegazers Have a Nice Life,..."

June 9, 2023 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Children of Reverberation

Are Levitation vets Holy Wave Austin's next Black Angels?

"..."It's the Texas mystique, man."..."

May 13, 2016 Music Feature by Libby Webster

Why Archive?

The Harry Ransom Center explores its own raison d'être in a new exhibit

"...It's called "The Mystique of the Archive," and maybe a question mark just..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Books Feature by Katherine Catmull

The Book on Lance Letscher

What lies behind the buzz of Austin's hot collage artist

"...Letscher has more than buzz going on; he has mystique workin', too. The buzz comes from Letscher's art: poetic..."

June 25, 2004 Arts Feature by Madeline Irvine

TV Eye

TV Eye wonders where to find the positive images of women in TV

"...wrote about in her landmark 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique. That "strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Gilded Lili: Lili St. Cyr and the Striptease Mystique

Author Kelly DiNardo recounts the fascinating life of 'the queen of striptease'

"...Gilded Lili: Lili St. Cyr and the Striptease Mystiqueby Kelly DiNardo Back Stage Books, 272 pp., $24.95..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Books Review by Rick Klaw

Big in Japan

Austinites forge a career half a world away.

"...experienced that narcotic sense of rock stardom. A Certain Mystique Doug Allsopp is not a rock star. He's not..."

May 2, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Letters at 3AM

Michael Ventura weighs in with his Top 5 list of 2001's best film and television moments.

"...Redux. Coppola's subject was not only war but the mystique of war, and how people possessed by that mystique..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Kneecap

An accurate-ish biopic of the real-life Irish rappers, as played by themselves

"...Ó Dochartaigh as he falls in love with the mystique of donning DJ Próvaí’s signature Irish flag balaclava and..."

Aug. 2, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

BlackBerry

Rise and fall of the original smartphone as hilarious tech satire

"...of unsold modems to multibillion-dollar stock value and must-have mystique, and finally into electronic obscurity across 17 volatile, fascinating,..."

May 12, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Power of the Dog

Benedict Cumberbatch is malevolent and magnetic in this High Plains tragedy

"...dead for decades. But his shadow, his legend, his mystique and brutish masculinity hangs over the Montana ranch that..."

Nov. 19, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Bergman Island

The eternal story: filmmakers making films about filmmakers making films

"...with Fårö islanders utterly unengaged with the whole Bergman mystique. Yet, for all the interesting ideas, Bergman Island (like..."

Oct. 15, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Velvet Underground

The originators of alt music get the artistic biography they deserve

"...Read our interview with director Todd Haynes, "Chic Mystique," Oct. 15...."

Oct. 15, 2021 Movie Review by Tim Stegall

Bloodthirsty

Werewolf drama questions how the creatures of the night make that beautiful music

"...with a suspicious death hanging over him, and a mystique that's not been helped by his reclusive ways. That..."

April 23, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

To the Ends of the Earth

Japanese travel story captures the isolation of culture shock, with fear and levity

"...as a travel program personality often invites visions of mystique and adventure, for her it’s a tiresome job filled..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

House of Cardin

Biodoc of the fashion innovator is only sew-sew

"...aggressive international licensing of the brand aesthetically diminished its mystique. But there’s little time here for negativity here in..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Dark Phoenix

The X-Men finally leave the silver screen with a story they already told

"...Logan, no Josh Brolin as Cable). Even Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique, around whom the last three films have been built,..."

June 7, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Greta

Chloë Grace Moretz and Isabelle Huppert play cat-and-mouse in this glorious potboiler

"...know it, she’s ensnared in Huppert’s sad, lonely widow mystique as Greta. But as soon as Frances wises up..."

March 1, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Always at the Carlyle

Behind-the-scenes at NYC's legendary hotel is just PR fluff.

"...get that many Americans are captivated by the celebrity mystique, but many of the hotel’s customers are anonymous billionaires...."

June 1, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Letters at 3AM: So Big Deal, Hemingway

Will Huck Finn be a valuable and immortal American archetype in the future?

"...Wind hypocrisy, Faulkner's backdrop is always the Old South mystique of the Confederacy, without which he is incomprehensible. (In..."

July 25, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

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