Review: Fresh Squeezed Ounce of Opera

One Ounce Opera’s micro-opera showcase invigorates

"...The standout piece of the night is Ray Bradbury, Age 12, at the Carnival in Waukegan, Illinois,..."

Feb. 28, 2025 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

SXSW 2025 Heads to The Studio With Seth Rogen

New films from Ben Affleck, Nicole Kidman, Nic Cage added to fest

"...Kate Mara, Laurence Fishburne, Gabriel Luna, Ivana Milicevic, Macy Gray (World Premiere)..."

Jan. 22, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Announces 2024 Lineup

Love of out-there cinema brings Terrifier 3, The Wild Robot

"...There's a different kind of intimacy to a film portrayed in Children of the Wicker Man, in which brothers..."

Aug. 15, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...Wingate, Alex Bach, Zach Spicer, Joy Jorgensen, Miranda Kahn Rayelle Martin, a commercial cleaning woman in Gary, Indiana, stumbles..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...• And talk about famous: Nicolas Cage plays Nicolas Cage in the eagerly-awaited meta-comedy/commentary The..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...after years apart. But when her sister and brother-in-law betray her trust, she embarks on a vicious crusade of..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Checking in With Area Musicians Yielded 80,000 Words of Pandemic Realness

Stay TF home

"...Lindsey Verrill – and bluesmen knuckling into masculinity (Johnny Nicolas, Eric Tessmer), then the meeting of the two: Sue..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Here are the sounds we’re consuming

"...Seeing Stevie Ray..."

June 26, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Checking In: Pa’lante Superfónicos

Afro-Latin fusionist weighs in on the whole arepa

"...found on octet’s new single “El Adiós.” Bandleading bassist Nicolas Sánchez Castro steps on the scales...."

June 23, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

AGLIFF Going Online, Holding Weekend Teaser Festival

House of Cardin and more streaming free for Pride Weekend

"...dance film, set to an absorbing electronic score by Nicolas Jaar...."

June 11, 2020 Screens Post by James Scott

The Ones Who Will Take Your Dead

Director's real life experiences with gang members inspire horror

"...and as a character she's reminiscent of Francisca in Nicolas Pesce's The Eyes of My Mother: She's raised in..."

June 15, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Festival Films You Haven't Seen Yet

From charming zombies to pompous actors, 10 films to seek in 2019

"...apologia for the ultra-right, but a nerve-shredding depiction of betrayals, paranoias, and fake principles (read our interview with director..."

Jan. 11, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music

Support the home team!

"...Erickson would be there alongside Willie Nelson and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Father of garage rock, psychedelia, and horror rock..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...perfect teen comedy also marked the film debuts of Nicolas Cage and Forest Whitaker, the screenwriting debut of Cameron..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Not Very Martial, Very Little Art

Restored karate flop Death Machines, plus Chan's Amnesia

"...Death Machines have all the combat prowess of Rudy Ray Moore in Dolemite. However, unlike Moore, the trio can't..."

Jan. 7, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Horror for the Holidays Part II

New chillers and shockers to get you through the season

"...Door arrives under the most inauspicious of circumstances. A Blu-ray with a gray and white cover that looks home-printed,..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: More to Watch This Halloween

Part II: Slavic rednecks, emo vigilantes, and crazed snipers

"...has a rare sense of style. Unabashedly influenced by Nicolas Winding Refn (especially his revisionist Viking adventure Valhalla), Carrer..."

Oct. 31, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Announces Features Lineup

Competitive narratives and docs unveiled, plus more

"...A Stray Director/Screenwriter: Musa Syeed Trying to outrun his bad luck,..."

Feb. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

DVDanger: Tokyo Tribe

Sion Sono's deranged, delirious hip-hop musical rocks

"...Tokyo Tribe (XLrator Media) is out now on Blu-Ray. Also out now:..."

Dec. 1, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Fantastic Fest Rewind

Before the deluge, a 2014 flashback

"...a slate of 2014 titles arriving on DVD and Blu-ray this month. So if you didn't get enough last..."

Sept. 23, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Wild Boys

The Boy and other examinations of the pre-teen male mind

"...Craven portrays the insane night when a boy named Fool (Brandon..."

Aug. 26, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Chronicle Recommends: Short Story Films

Small stories find their Hollywood ending

"...on the short story by Daphne du Maurier, this Nicolas Roeg thriller about a grief-stricken couple (Donald Sutherland and..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

DVDanger: The Battery

Jeremy Gardner and Adam Cronheim swing for the fences

"...sensibilities of the filmmakers. "If you told me tomorrow Nicolas Refn Winding was going to make a zombie movie,..."

Sept. 13, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVD Watch: 'Jodorowsky's Dune'

Documentary about a film that never was heads this week's releases

"...a university lecturer but talks like a cult leader, portraying his version of Dune as more than just a..."

July 8, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Thursday Picks & Sleepers

S.H.I.T. – So Happy It's Thursday blurbs

"...baubles like "What Falls Away" and the hilariously poignant "Ray Davies and the Kinks." Greg Beets Venomous Maximus..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

The Good Eye: Misadventure Book Launch

February 20, 2014. 21 photos.

"...covers A Strange Object's sneak-peek launch of Misadventure by Nicolas Grider at Big Medium Gallery.Back to column...."

Feb. 20, 2014 Photo Gallery

DVDanger: 'Dark Touch' / 'Argento's Dracula'

Two very different dances with Irish Gothic

"...including an abysmal owl attack, and the worst giant praying mantis since SyFy 'classic' Insecticidal, are laugh-out-loud awful...."

Feb. 1, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'Frankenstein's Army'/'Hammer of the Gods'

Two different historic takes on the 'squad on a mission' tale

"...Really, it's what a lot of people thought that Nicolas Winding Refn's much more meditative Valhalla Rising would be,..."

Sept. 15, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVD Watch: 'Freaked'

Alex Winter talks cult classics and the Butthole Surfers

"...Surfers. Alex Winter's lost gem Freaked, which arrives on Blu-ray today, has them all. Winter said, "It was made..."

Aug. 6, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

In Praise of Michael Bay

Alamo Drafthouse brings 'Pain & Gain' to Baymaggedon on Sunday

"...run into their house, look at their DVD and Blu-ray collections, because I swear, every single person that hates..."

April 19, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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