DVDanger: Halloween Picks, Part I

Low-budget horrors for the scary season

"...hand-crafted graveyard. Sometimes that's true for horror films too: the lower the budget, the bigger the ingenuity...."

Oct. 29, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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

Cauleen Smith: NTSC

Smith uses the analog TV production standard to probe what's uniform and what's excluded in society as well as TV

"...Women & Their Work, through Nov. 17..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Arts Review by Nikki Moore

Express Midseason Report

"...The 40-50 Round Rock Express headed into the AAA All-Star..."

July 12, 2007 Sports Post by Mark Fagan

Nine Lives

Composed of nine occasionally interlocking vignettes that star a dozen or so terrific actresses, Nine Lives presents intimate portraits of women grapplng with life.

"...Dillane, Dakota Fanning, William Fichtner, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Holly Hunter, Jason Isaacs, Joe Mantegna, Ian McShane, Molly Parker, Mary..."

Jan. 6, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Marc Maron, Nikki Glaser Headlining Inaugural Moontower Just for Laughs Festival

Amped-up comedy fest adds over 100 comics and podcasts

"...for Laughs Austin has just dropped its first list of comics and podcasts for this year's inaugural festival (running..."

Jan. 19, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Menorah Roundup

This season's best menorahs

"...religions, on December 25 you can open presents in the morning and in the evening! Amazing!..."

Dec. 13, 2008 Design Post by Andy Campbell

You Can Leave Your Hat On

Watching movies in Marfa

"...big-sky West Texas, festivalgoers from as far as Holland gathered to watch the nearly 50 films of the Marfa..."

May 9, 2008 Screens Feature by Jardine Libaire

Shock Corridor (1963)

"Ever since my voice changed, I wanted to be in the company of the newspaper greats," thinks investigative reporter Johnny Barrett to himself early on in Fuller's predecessor to The Naked Kiss. "And this long corridor is the magic highway to the Pulitzer Prize."

"...Philip Ahn, Bill Zuckert, Constance Towers, Chuck Roberson, John Matthews, Larry Tucker, James Best, Hari Rhodes, Gene Evans...."

Dec. 6, 2002 Screens Review by Shawn Badgley

Time Code

"...Directed by: Mike Figgis. Starring: Glenne Headly, Holly Hunter, Xander Berkeley, Richard Edson, Kyle Mclachlan, Saffron Burrows, Salma..."

May 12, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Start Your Modems!

The Joy of B-Movie Websites

"...30 tons and used 17, 400 vacuum tubes. By the early Fifties, it was declared obsolete and languished in..."

Jan. 16, 1998 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Review: Broadway in Austin’s Beetlejuice

There's a lot of life in this show about death

"...Musical versions of successful films are often less like gilding the lily..."

Feb. 7, 2024 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Food-o-File: Weekend Lagniappe

A little extra Austin food news

"...Sometimes there is too much Austin food news to squeeze into..."

Aug. 29, 2015 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

In Memoriam: Phyllis Slattery

Remembering the longtime director of Dance Umbrella

"...The Austin dance community has lost one of the dearest..."

Dec. 19, 2012 Arts Post by Robert Faires

After a Fashion

Stephen remembers the bawdy Shelley Winters and goes to an all-girl affair!

"...GOODBYE, SHELLEY Not many could utter the line "Manny, if I get stuck, push!" with the..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Page Two

"...Mitchum and Jimmy Stewart died last week, and with them went some of the magic of films...."

July 11, 1997 Column by Louis Black

Checking In: Go Fever’s Acey Monaro Paints Houses Down Under

“So, so, so relieved about the outcome, can’t wait to get back now”

"...“Hello from the sunny, COVID-free East coast of Australia,” emailed Acey Monaro..."

Nov. 30, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Austin Horror Anthology Scare Package Comes Home For Other Worlds

Laughs and screams in Under Worlds center piece film

"...Get ready for a surprise! Scare Package, the Austin-made anthology comedy-horror, will get its home town debut..."

Nov. 12, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Housecore Horror Live Shot No.4 – Grand Finale

Goblins spook life into a long last day of extremes

"...later. “Everybody’s fucking fried.” After a 12-hour siege on the final day of the film and music festival, I’m..."

Oct. 28, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

There Ain't No Sanity Clause: Nasty Videos for Your Inner Naughty Child

Counter-programming Christmas with bad cheer and body counts

"...It's that time of year again. Overcast, wet, and about as warm as..."

Dec. 19, 2011 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Exhibitionism

Phantom of the Opera: Window Display

"...Phantom of the Opera In the Christmases of my childhood, I..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Arts Review

Dancing About Architecture

Grab the End of the Poll

"...that this is your last chance to vote in the 1997/98 Austin Chronicle Music Poll. Find it on p.15..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Music Column

Hissing Fits

Bryan Mealer sinks his teeth into the 1999 Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup.

"...For four nights Mike Hunter has been annoying his neighbors. Like most..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Features Feature by Bryan Mealer

R-e-s-p-e-c-t

The State of Austin's Hip-Hop Scene

"..."Jump On It" night at Rosewood Park on the Eastside photograph by Kenny..."

July 4, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Fright or Flight

Screenwriter Evan Hunter will be in attendance at the Paramount screening of The Birds, his 1963 collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock.

"...Hitch may have been the master of suspense, but he was also a master..."

July 12, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Lake City

A heavy-handed melodrama that features a young, brooding antihero and Sissy Spacek as his emotionally paralyzed mom.

"...Directed by: Hunter Hill and Perry Moore. Starring: Sissy Spacek, Troy Garity,..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Collective Wisdom

The Tonewheel Collective spins off Austin's indie scene of tomorrow

"...Mark David Ashworth is an unlikely master of ceremonies. Humble and soft-spoken even onstage, the 25-year-old songwriter..."

May 11, 2007 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

SXSW Film Announces 2015 Lineup

Circling the Thunderdome

"...Following January’s tease of six titles, SXSW Film has unloosed its 145-film strong..."

Feb. 3, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Local Aussie Rallies for Fire Relief

As wildfires continue destroying swaths of Australia, Go Fever frontwoman Acey Monaro rallied local bands for her homeland

"...Cutout glossy images of wallabies, koalas, and other Aussie critters lined the walls..."

Feb. 14, 2020 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...so you've had your headliners and competition titles, with the normal array of talent and titles Now it's time..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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