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Mythologies and fables cover the walls of grayDUCK Gallery in this show by Megan Kimber and Adrian Landon Brooks

"...Mythologies and fables underlie our lives. The big ones, the..."

Oct. 31, 2014 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

The City of Lost Children

This follow-up from the same Frenchmen who made Delicatessen fancies itself a fairy tale – albeit a dark and scary one that's jam-packed with enough strange characters and wild mythologies for at least three movies.

"...a movie jam-packed with enough strange characters and wild mythologies for at least three films; ironically, therein lies both..."

March 1, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

The Kung Fu Cult Master

"...with literally hundreds of characters, twisting subplots, and outrageous mythologies, the only thing truly consistent about Kung Fu Cult..."

July 14, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

This Is What Mourning Looks Like

Beginners sits shivah, postmodern-style and with profound humor and heart

"...one of the most influential thinkers within structuralism. In Mythologies, published in 1957, Barthes examines the various layers of..."

June 24, 2011 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

The Northman

A vengeance-fueled odyssey across Viking culture and myth

"...There’s no monoculture here, but vying kingdoms, warbands, faiths, mythologies, and interests...."

April 22, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Wretched

Supernatural horror is perfect Friday night fun

"...by Drew Pierce and drawing from a multitude of mythologies, the Wretch appears in a multitude of forms -..."

May 1, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising

Get ready for anime superhero action!

"...and they've taken dramatically different approaches to their rich/impenetrable mythologies. Dragon Ball Super: Broly drowned in its own backstory..."

March 13, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Field Guide to Evil

Folk horror anthology has intriguing international scares

"...to Evil, an anthology of horror shorts pulled from mythologies and folklores around the world. Produced by Alamo Drafthouse..."

March 29, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

ACL Music Fest 2014 Sunday Review

"...MØNo Mythologies to Follow (Chess Club/RCA Victor)..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

Bellflower

Hellaciously original, this low-budget, post-apocalyptic film looks like no other in recent memory.

"...cut much like the Medusa and the hypermasculine personal mythologies of Aiden and Woodrow. The film’s timeline is jangled,..."

Aug. 12, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Stardust

This uneven adaptation of Neil Gaiman's bestselling novel is clogged with too much fairy dust.

"...out of Gaiman's seemingly unslakable thirst for the myriad mythologies that, then as now, act as civilization's crystalline framework...."

Aug. 10, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Parks, Gardens, Pisces, and More Arts Events for the Week

Get out and get arty, away from the SXSW crowds

"...Oz movie? Not ruby slippers, or weird death-related on-set mythologies, but in-world political intrigue, discussions of oppression, and a..."

March 8, 2024 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

A Very Jewish Horror in Attachment

Filmmaker Gabriel Bier Gislason discusses cultural authenticity

"...to pick and choose from the different religions and mythologies and liturgies that they think would work for a..."

April 5, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Your Field Guide to the 101 Essential Acts at SXSW

Scroll eternal through the best and buzziest artists at the fest

"...of folks like Norman Blake. Knowler's songs drum up mythologies around campfires in the desert and traveling wagons, but..."

March 11, 2022 Music Feature by The Chronicle Music Staff

Demons on the Set of Cursed Films

New series on Shudder asks why we want to believe in evil

"...While this broad approach to mythologies makes Cursed Films an infinitely richer series, there are..."

April 3, 2020 Screens Feature by Matthew Monagle

Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas Lives Up to Its Title

Stephen Harrigan chronicles the Lone Star State’s last 500 years

"...steak. We need a history that dials down the mythologies of the white settlers and cowboys conquering this vast..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Do You Remember the Internet?

Instar Books wants you to help them tell everyone about it

"...witches and vampires do in the weavings of arcane mythologies – because, who knows? But they’re also a solid,..."

Jan. 22, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Fantastic Fest Review: Under the Silver Lake

Fantastically ambitious love letter to Tinsel Town

"...limited to) dog murders, independent comics, missing billionaires, secret mythologies, art pop goths, heiresses, skunks. Everything and nothing is..."

Sept. 27, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Do We Really Need More Superhero Movies?

We asked local artists if we're approaching Peak Cape anytime soon

"...for some of its more crippling and egregious contemporary mythologies/socio-pathologies, the superhero unfortunately ranks right up there on the..."

April 25, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Performance Park Takes Over the Vortex

Bonnie Cullum’s dream wakes the Tarot into life in her company’s immersive theatrical experience

"...to the fore in what's being staged now. Esoteric mythologies, diverse cultural representation, the intersections of ritual and spectacle:..."

March 23, 2018 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Point Austin: Welcome to the Future

Texas is just like America, only more so

"...most have never been to either place. The outsize mythologies of both places travel far and wide...."

March 16, 2018 News Column by Michael King

The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

This debut fantasy novel is appealing, in part because it draws on legends of the Arab world for its magic

"...the distinction) have historically drawn their creatures from the mythologies of western Europe: elves, faeries, dragons, and the like...."

March 2, 2018 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Texas Book Festival 2017:
Flights of Fantasy

Authors Pulley and Rivera on what's new in historical fantasy

"...and Rivera have written books that feature characters and mythologies of different backgrounds than the authors themselves. Book festivals..."

Nov. 5, 2017 Arts Post by Elizabeth Cobbe

Blood Brothers

This book does a superb job of capturing the essence of these two great Americans and their shared love of the American West

"...their ironic political alliance. Stillman searches behind the complex mythologies surrounding Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull to offer the..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Arts Feature by Bobby Bridger

Sam Anderson-Ramos' Top 10 Takeaways From Austin's Gallery Scene in 2016

From making work to showing it, the visual art scene displayed commitments to risk, innovation, and community

"...RUIZ" (Not Gallery) These glittering, iconographic images depicted surreal mythologies with punch and humor, and in a very humble..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Sam Anderson-Ramos

UT Dept. of Theatre & Dance's In the Red and Brown Water

Multiple storytelling modes make Tarell Alvin McCraney's complex play operate as both theatre and ritual

"...top of that, McCraney's play is infused with multiple mythologies, notably Creole and Yoruba mysticism and folklore. Characters represent..."

Oct. 14, 2016 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

I Like to Watch

Sinner priests are here to save us all

"...genre elements are drawn from (admittedly several different) Aboriginal mythologies at least means it's trying...."

June 10, 2016 Screens Column by Jacob Clifton

Point Austin: Unlearned History

Vietnam War Summit raises ghosts and questions

"...bit more nuanced – not swallowing entirely the political mythologies offered by the others – but one was left..."

April 29, 2016 News Column by Michael King

DVDanger: The Hallow

There’s something evil in the woods

"...With the overhanging sense that pervades all Northern European mythologies, there’ll be price to pay for their intrusion, and..."

April 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

An English Spaceship Lands at SXSW

Director Alex Taylor finds the alien in teenage alienation

"...places where all our dreams are born, and our mythologies around us were built. You grow up from that..."

March 15, 2016 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

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