Thunderbolts*

Marvel assembles a new team of misfit superheroes

"...Speaking of redemption, director Jake Schreier (Robot & Frank, Paper Towns) is the latest director in the..."

May 2, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Chronicle Guide to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

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

"...allusions don't stop there; his tips-of-the-hat range from Powell & Pressburger's 1946 picture A Matter of Life and Death..."

Feb. 14, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Field Guide Festival Returns to Celebrate Ties Between Local Farmers and Restaurants

Food festival to feature 65 local chefs and farmers

"...ingredients. This dinner pairs the following farmers and chefs: • Ana Torrealba de la Vega (El Naranjo) and Tracy..."

Jan. 22, 2025 Food Post by Maryam Ahmed

Review: Deaf Austin Theatre’s Tiny Beautiful Things

Fostering connection through Cheryl Strayed’s advice columns

"...
Sorrowfully, Nihilist in Need..."

May 24, 2024 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

The Marvels

Lower, lesser, slower, baby

"...Directed by: Nia DaCosta. Starring: Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani, Zawe..."

Nov. 10, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Kendrick Lamar, Ethel Cain, and More Highlights From Friday at ACL Fest

Homegrown acts Font, We Don’t Ride Llamas debut on big stages

"...Festival – as well as second-weekend-only acts like Tegan & Sara, M83, and Sudan Archives still to come on..."

Oct. 14, 2023 Music Post by Doug Freeman

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

Nia Vardalos’ fossilized sequel to a sequel still has its charms

"...Directed by: Nia Vardalos. Starring: Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Louis Mandylor, Andrea..."

Sept. 8, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Austin Scientists Focus on Helping AI Do Good

Weighing the pros, cons, and concerns of humanity's future overlords

"...list of AI companies supposedly based in the city: Cogniac, SparkCognition, May Mobility, Persado, and CogniTensor. Then the last..."

March 10, 2023 News Feature by Benton Graham

Shotgun Wedding

J.Lo and Josh Duhamel mix matrimony and mayhem in this tepid rom-com

"...Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Josh Duhamel, Lenny Kravitz, Jennifer Coolidge, Sônia Braga, Cheech Marin, D’Arcy Carden and Callie Hernandez...."

Jan. 27, 2023 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Missing

Screen life thriller Searching sequel is fun if preposterous

"...Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker, Daniel Henney, Nia Long, Megan Suri and Tim Griffin...."

Jan. 20, 2023 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

You People

A modern riff on Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

"...Kenya Barris. Starring: Jonah Hill, Lauren London, Eddie Murphy, Nia Long, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and David Duchovny...."

Jan. 20, 2023 Movie Review

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Courtney Barnett, Kid Cudi, Butch Hancock, Marisa Nadler, Robert Earl Keen, and more

"...Here & There Festival: Courtney Barnett, Indigo De Souza, Ethel Cain..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Music Column by Alejandra Ramirez

The Burning World: Into The Territory With Alex Pritz

Documentary explores the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau tribe's fight for the Amazon

"...Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau Indigenous territory, in the northwestern Brazilian state of Rondônia...."

Aug. 19, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Dems Vie to Oust Sid Miller, Take Back Texas Agriculture

Priorities include economic incentives for small farms, rural health care, and internet access

"...Business­man Ed Ireson and attorney Susan Hays are the two..."

Feb. 25, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Biology Professor Brings Field Expertise to Craft of Botanical Foraging

Molly Cummings finds the spirit of West Texas

"...But she's gazing directly up at a juniper tree – one she's named Eve because it was the very..."

Oct. 15, 2021 Food Feature by Veronica Meewes

Austin at Large: And Our House Is Your House

What did you do today to provide decent housing where it's needed for everyone?

"...all of Austin. The last 15 years or so – that is, about 250,000 Austinites and nearly 1 million..."

Oct. 1, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Candyman

Cabrini Green’s monster returns to manifest abiding Black fears

"...Directed by: Nia DaCosta. Starring: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett,..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: The Feast

This horror's entrée is delicious, but the dessert is lacking

"...Glenda (Nia Roberts) knows she’s lucky to get catering assistant Cadi..."

March 19, 2021 Screens Post by Matthew Monagle

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...episodics, plus a whole raft of special events, from Q&As to dance parties. Films will be released online (seven..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

OUTsider Festival Beams Us Up and Away to a Gayass Galaxy Far, Far Away

Austin’s queer transmedia fest goes virtual on March 5-7

"...Latinx artist Xandra Ibarra (aka La Chica Boom) and Nia & Ness, a Black, out-lesbian couple and performance art..."

Feb. 5, 2021 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, July 17-23

"...understand what author Margaret Atwood describes as "echoes and emptiness and shadow." I believe this aspect of your repertoire..."

July 17, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

The Vast of Night

Jaw-dropping reinvention of the UFO scare genre is audacious and brilliant

"...it was. Not some modern spin, not making them millennials in thrift store sock-hop cosplay, but real and of..."

May 29, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

SXSW and Amazon Announce Virtual Festival Lineup

Feature and shorts from 2020 fest going online for 10 days

"...screenwriter: Camila Urrutia Producer: Inés Nofuentes Cast: Andrea Henry, Vanessa Hernández Claudia and Maria have fallen in love. They..."

April 21, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bacurau

Brazilian drama mixes social commentary and exploitation action

"...Directed by: Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles. Starring: Sônia Braga, Udo Kier, Bárbara Colen, Thomas Aquino, Jonny Mars,..."

March 27, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Banker

Controversial biopic about two bankers who helped build the African-American middle class

"...Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Mackie, Jessie T. Usher and Nia Long...."

March 6, 2020 Movie Review

Austin Playhouse's Tiny Beautiful Things

There's excellent work in Austin Playhouse's production about Cheryl Strayed writing an advice column, but where's the humility?

"...a period of terrible isolation. Then, after a time – days, months, years – we find that we aren't..."

Jan. 24, 2020 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

47 Meters Down: Uncaged

New sharks, who dis?

"...Foxx, Sistine Rose Stallone, Brianne Tju, John Corbett and Nia Long...."

Aug. 23, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Little Woods

Tessa Thompson takes all the tough choices in a grimy tale of downtrodden life

"...Directed by: Nia DaCosta. Starring: Tessa Thompson, Lily James, James Badge Dale,..."

April 19, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Qmmunity: The Future Looks Freeing

Events to queer SX and advocate for LGBTQ equality

"...to think about the past, present, and future of queerness. Last Sunday, March 10, I sat on a panel..."

March 15, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

SXSW 2019 Film Awards

All the winners from this year’s jury competitions

"...Special Jury Recognition for Empathy in Craft: Ernie & Joe (D: Jenifer McShane)..."

March 15, 2019 Screens Feature

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