Phantom Boy

Hand-drawn animation is the hallmark of this animated French film

"...tell the tale of Leo (D’Angelo), an 11-year old boy who miraculously escapes his hospital treatments for an undisclosed,..."

July 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Season for Scaring at Phantom Fest

With Phantom Fest, Adam Sweeney wants Austin to become Halloween Town

"...be longer than just one night, and this year, Phantom Fest presents nine events over 11 days and nights..."

Oct. 21, 2022 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Dead Boy Detectives

Vertigo's adventurous adolescent apparitions are an appealing throwback to the junior sleuths of the past

"...do the junior sleuthing thing, rather like the Hardy Boys if they'd gone to Eton ... and were dead...."

Dec. 2, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Sirocco and the Kingdom of Winds

Seussian fairy tale from GKIDS about two sisters who turn into cats

"...colors, director Benoît Chieux (who cowrote the script with Phantom Boy creator Alain Gagnol) creates a world of wonder..."

Aug. 16, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Redline

Redline dives headfirst into onanistic autoeroticism, but this exotic-car movie feels ill-lubed and mechanical all the way.

"...Bob Guccione's too-glossy latter-day Penthouse, with an archaic bad boy's eye for both T&A and automotive emphasis on the..."

April 20, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Don't Come Knocking

With its wonderful veteran cast, its heart on its sleeve, and a love for the landscape that suffuses its technique, Sam Shepard and Wim Wenders' movie is a peculiar but rewarding escape.

"...Marie Saint. Cameras are rolling on the set of Phantom of the West, a mawkish Western shooting in the..."

April 14, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Innocuousness That's Insidious

Pat Boone

"...The record's "Love Me" by the Phantom, one-and-a-half of the most insane minutes in rock &..."

Dec. 15, 1995 Music Feature

The Other Stars in the Galaxy

"...by Marjorie Baumgarten, Sarah Hepola, Marcel Meyer, and Jessica..."

May 21, 1999 Screens Feature

Roll 'Em

March

"...feature follows the misadventures of Doug Funnie, an adolescent boy caught between his civic duty to reveal the reality..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

1999 Film Critics Poll

"...5. Boys Don't Cry..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Screens Feature

Little Women, Big Games, and More Recommended Weekend Events

Get in the spirit with these arts and cultural happenings

"...Eric Stoltz, and Christian Bale as the hot, angsty boy next door.   – Kimberley Jones Ballet Afrique’s The..."

Dec. 20, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

The King

America's soul explored on a road trip in Elvis Presley's car

"...Fight) suddenly decide to take Elvis Presley's 1963 Rolls-Royce Phantom V on a road trip across the continental U.S.?..."

July 20, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Breakfast on Pluto

In this latest from Neil Jordan, Cillian Murphy plays the swinging transvestite Patrick "Kitten" Braden, who wanders through and into the pop-and-politics culture of Seventies England.

"...for one, seems to have spread and spiraled westward, Boy George is facing 40 years for (more) narcotics possession,..."

Jan. 6, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

“Cowboys in Space” Exhibit Finds the Frontier in the Stars

Exploring the infinite plains at the Bullock Museum

"...It began with a young boy and a book. When Franck Cordés was a kid,..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Avengers: Endgame

The end is the beginning is the end as Marvel's Infinity Saga reaches a satisfying, tearful end

"...at a certain level, that same vain, greedy, cruel boy from the first Thor, we'd know. If Tony Stark..."

April 26, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Jupiter Ascending

The Wachowskis' space opera starring Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum is a visual dazzler but a narrative splice-and-dice.

"...hero pales in comparison to a certain Tatooine farm boy, and even though Jupiter Jones ends up looking strikingly..."

Feb. 6, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rust and Bone

The unlikely relationship between two damaged souls is made deeply palpable by the stunning performances of Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard and rising star Matthias Schoenaerts.

"...sandwiches from abandoned train seats to feed his famished boy. Yet a vague story about the boy’s mother using..."

Jan. 18, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ten Fingers

Denny Freeman's 40-year Austin arc

"...before moving to California to work with Taj Mahal's Phantom Blues Band and then five years playing lead guitar..."

Dec. 2, 2011 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Black Lipstick (Peek-a-Boo), is a rich panoply of sassy boy/girl vocals, fuzztone guitars, and swirling biker acid movie keyboards...."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

"...before her while clouds roll ominously overhead and a phantom wind stirs the trees. The voice of God or..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Record Reviews: Texas Platters

"...Terry Allen, the Band, Bill Morrissey, Teye, Joan Armatrading, Cowboy Junkies, Semisonic, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, the Wallflowers, 81/2..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Music Review

That Old Revival Spirit

Testifying About Movies

"...Dunne. (Even Bellamy is good, though he'd reprise the mama's-boy role for the Grant/Rosalind Russell vehicle, His Girl Friday.)..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

The Austin Chronic: Crying at a SXSW Panel About Psychedelics

The power of healing evokes feelings on a trip down to the conference

"...about being “gifted” a vision of his little baby boy who’d just died during birth, and how it served..."

March 21, 2025 Column by Kevin Curtin

Recommended Events for This Week’s Cooling Temps

Fairies, succulents, and lowriders in this weekend’s suggested happenings

"...the Queen of the Hop (Diane Lane) and Soldier Boy (Michael Paré) comes to her rescue. But the look..."

Aug. 30, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Top 10 Most Read Film Reviews of 2018

Number one will shock you. No, for reals. Shocked and appalled.

"...Anderson's glorious and patiently stop-motion-animated story of a lost boy and even more lost hounds was a fluffy dogpile..."

Dec. 29, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Festival Films You Haven't Seen Yet

Fox fairies, ultra-violence, and amnesia dominated 2015

"...up like the equally lauded, quirky and charming A Boy and His Samurai (four years on, and still no..."

Jan. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...– the one that turned him into the skull-visaged Phantom of the Opera and permanently warped his back as..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Winter Classic

South by Southwest 1998

"...before exploding into their self-titled anthem's album segue, "Water Boy." Brimming with angry sarcasm and sharp, jagged riffs, the..."

March 27, 1998 Music Feature

¡game Gamexpo

"...out the rush of heat-seeking missiles launched from F-4 Phantom fighters. In a flash, cityscapes and battleships ignited in..."

July 9, 1999 Screens Feature

America Circa 1999

"...Kevin, Nick, A.J., Brian, and Howie on MTV's Backstreet Boys Live special. Later that week, those 5,000 -- plus..."

June 11, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

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