Nothing Bad Can Happen

The title is grimly ironic: In fact, a whole lot of bad things happen in this German horror film.

"...first feature comes across as a grimly ironic refutation: Nothing Bad Can Happen...."

June 27, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

Drafthouse Says 'Nothing Bad Can Happen'

Local distributor acquires German morality play

"...the folks from Drafthouse Films were heading to the Cannes Film Festival, we guessed it wasn't just to get..."

May 24, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Accidents Will Happen

Crash 'n' Burn Punkaholics

"..."Everything has just happened by accident," Marsh recalls over afternoon coffee at Star..."

June 14, 1996 Music Feature

What You Can Learn From Torture

Civil liberties lawyer tells UT about what the US can learn from torture in Guatemala (hint: it doesn't work.)

"...in the name of the U.S. to stop." If nothing is going to happen to them, she asked, why..."

Feb. 20, 2008 News Post by Matt Martinez

Bad Blood

Did the Austin Police Department Shut Down an Investigation of Its Own Cops?

"...a U.S. Attorney, and other federal agents (who either cannot go public or have thus far declined to do..."

Feb. 16, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Page Two: All or Nothing Is No Way Forward

Will the most hopeful mass leftist movement in recent years end up handing the presidency to Donald Trump?

"...but there is a very clear bottom line: Nader's candidacy resulted in Bush's election...."

June 17, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Ana Lily Amirpour on Her New Film The Bad Batch

Cannibals, cult leaders, and friendship

"...an idiosyncratic recall of the films that form her canon. Her new film, The Bad Batch, which plays like..."

June 23, 2017 Screens Feature by Lars Nilsen

Short-Term Rentals: Can't We All Live Together?

Publisher Nick Barbaro on the CSTR debate

"...if all the council members hear is "STRs are bad." Instead, they should be focused on the following:..."

Aug. 3, 2012 News Feature by Nick Barbaro

When Good Things Happen to Bad Bills – and Vice Versa

Bad bills fly, while good bills die

"...The Bad: Some Die, Others Fly..."

May 22, 2009 News Column by the News Staff

Sunny Sweeney: Everybody Else Can Kiss My Ass

Sunny Sweeney strikes out on her own

"...relationship requiem "My Bed," and Texas-sized stomp "Everybody Else Can Kiss My Ass."..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

When You Pause the Heart of an Eagle and Can Feel Its Fear

Steve Moore's smartphone thriller for Fusebox comes to an end.

"...sort of … creature. A creature that’s pretty much nothing but sentient air...."

Oct. 22, 2014 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?

"...to admit he doesn't know who's in charge of American foreign policy. He does so only to make one..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura

Bad Medicine?

If Austin's Public Clinics Go Private, the Poor Could Suffer

"...and not on Medicaid, she says, but she also can't afford to pay for her own medical care. The..."

Nov. 22, 1996 News Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

DVDanger: The Evil That Men Do

Nothing Bad Can Happen, and other meditations on darkness

"...that we do, or something that we allow to happen? In German morality tale Nothing Bad Can Happen (Drafthouse..."

Oct. 14, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Announces Keanu Reeves as 'Man of Tai Chi'

Plus 'Big Bad Wolves' and 'Nightbreed - The Cabal Cut' and more

"...ballads of Mexico. Color us particularly excited by Big Bad Wolves, the follow-up to Rabid by Navot Papushado and..."

July 24, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Wrong Turn

"...Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto, Kevin Zegers and Lindy Booth. The American horror film, like Michael Jackson’s nose, has become a..."

June 6, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Midnight Clear

"...series of unexplained events: a pair of German and American corpses, standing in the middle of a road, locked..."

June 5, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Drafthouse Films Returns to Release Jallikattu

Local distro house acquires India's Oscar contender

"...Films will partner with XYZ Films for a North American theatrical, digital, and Blu-ray co-release of the critically-lauded and..."

Jan. 20, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Field Guide to Evil

Folk horror anthology has intriguing international scares

"...Fiala, Peter Strickland, Ashim Ahluwalia, Agnieszka Smoczynska, Katrin Gebbe, Can Evrenol, Calvin Reeder and Yannis Veslemes. Starring: Birgit Minichmayr,..."

March 29, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Film Flam

Production news, plus early brushes with 'Guardians of the Galaxy'

"...pilot, Hysteria, that’s currently shooting in Austin. Mena Suvari (American Beauty) and T.R. Knight (Grey's Anatomy) star; Shaun Cassidy..."

June 27, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Fantastic Mr. League

Alamo Drafthouse honcho Tim League on debates, distro, and the change in venue

"...Wright; violent Dutch drama Borgman; German religious morality play Nothing Bad Can Happen; and Japanese supergonzo experience Why Don't..."

Sept. 20, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Drafthouse Asks Us, 'Why Don't You Play in Hell'

Madcap yakuza flick to play Fantastic Fest, open in 2014

"...period piece A Field in England; German morality play Nothing Bad Can Happen; Partially animated Stanislaw Lem adaptation The..."

Sept. 2, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Drafthouse Films Picks Up 'Borgman'

Tim League and co. bring home another souvenir from Cannes

"...Just one week after announcing its acquisition of Nothing Bad Can Happen, the distribution arm of the Alamo..."

May 31, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

The Next Austin Bust

Will it be bad? Can we be ready? Or should we not care?

"...also the shattering mid-Eighties energy bust that left Downtown vacant and left behind the ashes from which today's hipster-tech..."

March 8, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Fantastic Fest Honors Japanese Film Master Takashi Miike

Third wave includes special tribute to the J-horror innovator

"...ADORATION D: Fabrice du Welz (France, Belgium, 2019, North American Premiere, 98 min) Paul lives with his mother on..."

Sept. 11, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Film Flam: Neon, Blue Starlite, and Kiss

Movie news, Tim League, and Gene Simmons (not dueting, sadly)

"...Simmons' booking means Wizard World Austin is definitely happening, which is good news for fans since the future..."

Jan. 20, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

And the Fantastic Winners Are

Fantastic Fest awards go to 'Jodorowsky's Dune,' 'Afflicted'

"...Best Actress: Swantje Kohlhof (Nothing Bad Can Happen) Fantastic Features..."

Sept. 23, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

'R100' Is the New NSFW

Bizarre, charming Japanese gutbuster finds the heart of S&M

"...VOD release in 2014. It joins Borgman, The Congress, Nothing Bad Can Happen, and Why Don't You Play in..."

Sept. 23, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Animation Show 2005

This second incarnation of the Mike Judge- and Don Hertzfeldt-produced animation anthology is, if anything, even better than the first.

"...not only of the myriad forms that animated films can take but also of the sheer otherworldliness inherent in..."

April 15, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin at Large: The Pleasure Is Not Ours, Sir

If GOP bad boys like Chip Roy dislike Austin so much, why not just leave us alone?

"...There's probably nothing we can do about Chip Roy now as he..."

Sept. 17, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

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