Kill the Messenger

Jeremy Renner stars in this crusading-journalist story that recounts the downfall of real-life San Jose Mercury News reporter Gary Webb.

"...K. Williams, Tim Blake Nelson, Paz Vega, Michael Sheen, Oliver Platt, Andy Garcia, Yul Vazquez, Dan Futterman, Richard Schiff..."

Oct. 10, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Reporting an Assassination

"Parkland" director Peter Landesman on JFK research

"...are docudramas that follow one character, while he called Oliver Stone's JFK "a wonderful audience experience. It's fascinating, it's..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

ASK: Roland Swenson

JFK symposium exposes SXSW head as CIA operative!

"...The Oliver Stone film [JFK] was shooting in Dallas, and there..."

Nov. 21, 2013 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

A Journey to 'Parkland'

Writer/director Peter Landesman on the untold stories of JFK's death

"...PL: They're telling different stories. Oliver Stone, I don't know what story he was telling...."

Oct. 5, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Celluloid Icons

The larger-than-life John Milius and the enigmatic, introverted Harry Dean Stanton come into focus

"...you've got Charlie Sheen calling your subject insane and Oliver Stone saying he's not grounded in reality, you know..."

March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

'The Voice in My Head': Requiem for a Dream Season

Is it too soon to toast 2012-13 as the best season ever?

"...Given Super Baugh,” written and directed by the incomparable Oliver Stone – with Bradley Cooper having too many Baughs..."

Feb. 5, 2013 Sports Post by Russ Espinoza

Power Play

In Robert Schenkkan's new play, LBJ roars back to life to make civil rights history

"...one egregious example) or shaded with sinister colors. Remember Oliver Stone's JFK, which had LBJ complicit in John Kennedy's..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

From the Vaults: Nada Lado

'Savages’ Benicio del Toro talks about developing character in 'Che'

"...He does no less in Oliver Stone's new movie Savages. As Lado, the chief enforcer..."

July 8, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Savages

Oliver Stone’s movie is volatile, nasty, hypnotic, gory, and nearly irrestible – at least when the young 'uns aren't onscreen.

"...Directed by: Oliver Stone. Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Aaron Johnson, John..."

July 6, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Say Hello Again to His Little Friend

Scarface blasts its way back to the big screen

"...watchable. It was then-fledgling director (The Hand) and writer Oliver Stone's seething, subtext-bloated screenplay that put the words in..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Of Family Heirlooms and Industrial Films

The Texas Archive of the Moving Image preserves the state's cinematic roads less traveled

"...chronicles of Austin teen culture, featuring shots of long-haired stoners playing in the grass and bands like the Talking..."

May 27, 2011 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

sxswf: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Senna

The Formula One documentary comes to the new Formula One city

"...the crew managed what Michael Mann, Antonio Banderas and Oliver Stone had all failed to achieve: Bring the story..."

March 13, 2011 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Gray Band

How can a band singing almost exclusively about serial killers engender so much life?

"...– see "Mabuta no Ura," June 27, 2008; "Temple Stone," May 15, 2009; and "Your Satori Mind," July 23,..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

AFF Honors Robert Rodriguez

Austin's favorite troublemaker to receive award

"...footsteps of previous honorees Ron Howard, Danny Boyle, and Oliver Stone, to name a few. Rodriguez will accept the..."

Sept. 30, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Oliver Stone delivers an enlivening and wickedly entertaining take on the occasional angels and plentiful demons that have run the country into financial ruin.

"...Directed by: Oliver Stone. Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Michael Douglas, Carey Mulligan, Josh..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Off the Record

Sign of the Times: Emo's partners with Antone's as the Cactus Cafe's iconic years draw to a close and Daytrotter moves to town

"...Austin branch will be managed by studio owner Matt Oliver of TV Torso and his assistant engineer, T Bird..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

SXSW Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...Tick, the quartet left SXSW last year with Rolling Stone's David Fricke touting them as his breaking band of..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

If It's Too Loud, You're Not Lemmy

Notes from the very 'eavy documentary premiere at SXSW

"...What's in a name? Lemmy, Greg Oliver and Wes Orshoski's portrait of Motorhead founder Lemmy Kilmister..."

March 16, 2010 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

The Wolfman

This monster reboot disappoints terribly, making up in blood and entrails what it lacks in heart and soul.

"...under a curse like Lon Chaney Jr. in Universal's stone-classic 1941 original (nor suffering from the contraction of the..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

ACL Music Fest Friday Picks

The blurbing of ACL 2009

"...(bassist for Medeski, Martin & Wood) and his brother Oliver (the guitarist for Atlanta's King Johnson) aren't laboring at..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Music Feature

Opie on Top

AFF to honor Ron Howard's extraordinary contribution to filmmaking

"...with his partner Brian Grazer, was honored with the Milestone Award by the Producers Guild of America (PGA)...."

July 14, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Developing Story

AFF honors Arrested Development creator Mitchell Hurwitz

"...Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio (Shrek), Bryan Singer (X-Men), Oliver Stone (Platoon), and Chris & Paul Weitz (About a..."

July 6, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Charles Dickens Masterworks Collection

Muck and maggots and food slopping down chins, or: The World According to the Original Chuck D

"...provide kindness and sometimes fortune – Great Expectations' escaped convict, Oliver Twist's Nancy, Bleak House's avuncular John Jarndyce – and..."

June 19, 2009 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones

Off the Record

Crew54 hits the streets and documents the ATX hip-hop underground, Austin's all-American Idol contestant, and Ohn dials in a new music platform

"...River Shore," Nov. 7, 2008)? In the latest Rolling Stone, Dylan says he received the proclamation from Dubya himself..."

May 8, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Believing the Children

In 1992, Fran and Danny Keller were convicted of multiple counts of child sexual abuse at their Oak Hill day care center and sent to prison for 48 years. It's likely they were innocent. Indeed, it's very likely that no crime ever occurred – except an absurd and overzealous prosecution

"...the county's Precinct 3 road crew, put in a stone walkway to the front door and began clearing cedar..."

March 27, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Milk

Gus Van Sant's deeply heartfelt Milk, which features a magnificent performance by Sean Penn as the crusading gay activist, is a finely wrought yet fairly standard biopic.

"...a case of curious timing. In the instance of Oliver’s Stone’s rush job, W. – made too soon to..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Mincemeat

Give this amazing, ambrosial concoction a chance

"...be without! Gargan­tuan amounts were put down yearly in stone crocks. Without refrigeration, the mincemeat was used for months,..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

'Boys Will Be Boys'

Jeff Pearlman's new book exposes the excesses and successes of the Nineties Dallas Cowboys

"...rebuilt with the kind of characters usually sequestered for Oliver Stone films. The antics of Irvin are just the..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

W, meet Laura. Laura, meet W.

W. kicks off AFF at the Paramount

"...back two days later for the call back (with Oliver Stone). The casting director later told her that as..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Screens Post by Joe O'Connell

W.

Oliver Stone’s Bush portrait is a tale of two movies: one a humanizing portrait of a failure as a young man, the other a damning but unsurprising look inside an administration gone loopy on ideological zealotry.

"...Directed by: Oliver Stone. Starring: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, James Cromwell, Ellen..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

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