Fantastic Fest Raises a Smile With First Announcement

The Banshees of Inisherin , V/H/S/99 , sharks, and more

"...Fantastic Fest is nearly upon us, and the cinematic celebration of all film bizarre, strange, and innovative..."

Aug. 16, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Record Store Day Unearths a Roky Erickson Rarity

Reanimating one of the great Austin tributes

"...Life sometimes offers the best surprises. Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye,..."

April 21, 2017 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

SXSW Film Announces Features Lineup

Competitive narratives and docs unveiled, plus more

"...After January's sneak peek of a half-dozen titles, SXSW Film has finally drawn back..."

Feb. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Unrelentingly Hostile: Editor's Cut

This is an extended version of the story that ran in the print edition.

"...[Ed. note: The Seventies and Eighties saw the horror movie redefined yet..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Qmmunity’s 2020 Guide to Gifting Queerly and Locally

Gifting queer cheer after one helluva year

"...It’d be an understatement to call 2020 a $hit$how of a year. If there’s one thing that’s certain despite..."

Dec. 3, 2020 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

Future Imperfect: Our Favorite Dystopian Films

VOTE: Deadly roller derby, sad clones, and a Road Warrior duke it out

"...None of us much want to spend our leisure time contemplating..."

Sept. 28, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Horns

Daniel Radcliffe sprouts horns in this spiky fable about the devil in all of us.

"...Alexandre Aja. Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple, Max Minghella, Heather Graham, Kathleen Quinlan, Joe Anderson, David Morse and James..."

Oct. 31, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Scanlines

Cemetery Man

"...Cemetery keeper Francesco (Everett) is talking on the phone when there's a knock on the door. He..."

July 2, 1999 Screens Feature

Courage Under Fire

"...Seth Gilliam. Courage Under Fire, director Edward Zwick's (Legends of the Fall, Glory) latest feature (an Austin-based production), begins..."

July 12, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Violet Crown Introduces Austin's Newest Horror Host

Join the sisterhood of scares at the Roxy Horror Picture Show

"...You can't talk about the history of horror hosts without women. The first ever..."

Oct. 13, 2023 Screens Feature 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

"...Music and the movies, the two oldest and most defining elements of..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Soldier's Heart

Thousands of Iraq War veterans will come home to face serious psychological problems and a system unready to help them

"...The first time Kristin Peterson's husband hit her, she was..."

Dec. 24, 2004 News Feature by Dan Frosch

Studio 666

The Foo Fighters make their own Evil Dead

"...come to life when I see your ghost,” in the song “All My Life,” he probably never imagined he’d..."

Feb. 25, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Fantastic Fest 2014: How It Felt

Artist Amy Everson on trauma and truth

"...first calling: But that did not stop her taking the Best Actress award in the Fantastic Fest Next wave..."

Sept. 24, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Che Bella

The Austin Film Society's series is called "Che Bella: Italy in the 60s," but the story really begins -- as does all of modern cinema -- in the streets of Rome, in May of 1944. Nick Barbaro looks at Italian neorealism and the movies it inspired.

"...The series is called "Che Bella: Italy in the 60s,"..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Screens Feature by Nick Barbaro

SXSW Music Review: Bush Tetras

Dance music only the Lower East Side in 1979 could’ve produced

"...Johnny Rotten snarled to Rolling Stone in 1978 that the Sex Pistols were “a great dance band that’s out..."

March 16, 2019 SXSW Post by Tim Stegall

History Repeats?

Nueva Onda Movie Night

"...Imagine it's 1988. You're sitting in Quack's on the Drag when a mop-headed guy named Rick starts talking..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Townes Without Pity

The battle for Townes Van Zandt's legacy

"...is far too eloquent a wordsmith to hang up the phone with a simple "No comment." Instead, he hung..."

June 14, 2002 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Books, Books, Books

The Summer of '95

"...its lazy days this way, it's difficult to resist the urge to follow its traditional beck and call. So..."

June 2, 1995 Books Feature

Fantastic Fest Adds Terry Gilliam And Metallica

Final round of films includes surprise big names

"...day for genre festival fans: First Housecore Horror released their initial film lineup, now Fantastic Fest has unleashed its..."

Sept. 5, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Music to Wallow By

Wayne Alan Brenner's list for maudlin millennium-toasting listening displeasure is sure to send you flinging yourself off of Leonard Cohen's "Tower of Song."

"...know, Darkness? You know what I'm talking about? Almost midnight, the year's drawing to a close around me in..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Features Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

TV Eye

Will a brown-out really change the way Latinos are portrayed on television? Also, only a few quibbles about the surprisingly promising premiere of Angel, starring Buffy's David Boreanaz.

"...A landslide of pre- mieres glided into living rooms across America last..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Su-Yee Lin's "An Interlude: Pig River"

Third Place winner in the 2017 Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest

"...So the pig said, "Get on," and he did. It was..."

June 9, 2017 Arts Feature by Su-Yee Lin

A Boogie Wit da Hoodie at Emo’s

Chart-topper employs Monster Energy on East Riverside Drive

"...“This man is only 23-years-old and from the Bronx! Three gold albums right now, eight platinum records,“..."

Feb. 21, 2019 Music Post by Derek Udensi

Things That Go Bump

Young writer Eli Kooris spends the night in a haunted photography shop to see what he can scare up.

"...effect nowadays can get a person in a lot of trouble. We are standing in the entrance hallway of..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Features Feature by Eli Kooris

Jesus Gonna Be Here

Johnny Toxic

"...It has often been said that rock & amp; roll is a..."

March 26, 1999 Music Feature

No Repeats, No Regrets: Metallica Catches Lightning in Arlington, Twice

Symmetrical nights on the M72 World Tour dug deeper into the catalog

"...else should we play?” James Hetfield grinned late Sunday night at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. “Have we played your..."

Aug. 21, 2023 Music Post by Austin Powell

SXSW Goes Monster Hunting With Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves

Evil Dead Rises and more added to festival lineup

"...Unsheathe your broad sword and unpack your boom stick. South..."

Jan. 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Turnstile Is Happy to Provide at Stubb’s

Big riff breakouts lead five-band testament to punk plurality

"...“And if it makes you feel alive/ Well, then I’m happy I provide/And when you see me on..."

May 7, 2022 Music Post by Julian Towers

Five Arty Things to Do This Weekend: Oct. 5-8

Because, look, it’s not all about that ACL, is it now?

"...And we’re starting off with Thursday again, yes. Because we say what a..."

Oct. 5, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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