There Will Be Substrate Phantoms in Austin on Saturday

SF author Jessica Reisman releases new novel at Malvern Books

"...isn’t harrowing enough, now we’ve got to deal with phantoms in the goddamn substrate?..."

May 24, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Phantoms

"...Corey Haim would come as a relief, and frankly, Phantoms holds up pretty well as a sci-fi monster movie...."

Jan. 30, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pom Poko

"Lost" Studio Ghibli tale of raccoons in peril gets long-delayed release

"...wonder to Pom Poko, like the massive parade of phantoms the tanuki conjure up as one of their harebrained..."

June 15, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Shut In

Naomi Watts stars in ho-hum thriller

"...strange noises in the night? Or are there, indeed, phantoms afoot? Her Skype-happy psychiatrist (Platt) says it’s the former,..."

Nov. 18, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

An American Haunting

A satanic-possession thriller set in 1817 stars Donald Sutherland and Sissy Spacek – to little avail.

"...and broomsticked to bejesus and back by phantom or phantoms unknown after John Sr. rooks a witch in a..."

May 12, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Like a Hurricane

Harnessing Lauren Larson's live hurricane on Ume's new Phantoms

"...forming in Houston in 2002. With new sophomore full-length Phantoms (see "Texas Platters," Sept. 9), the band's decade finally..."

Nov. 18, 2011 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Made You Look

Austin Film Society hosts impressionist Jean-Gabriel Périot

"...Take "200,000 Phantoms," which flashes picture after picture of Hiroshima from different..."

April 16, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Writing Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror in Austin

How local authors who work beyond the world we know meet, connect, and launch themselves into the business

"...The Intergalactic Nemesis and author of the recent Substrate Phantoms. There's Tiptree Award-winning writer Eugene Fischer. There's Rebecca Schwarz,..."

July 14, 2017 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Ghost in the Shell

Scar Jo as cybernetic warrior

"...a movie with only occasional nods to the existential phantoms of Shirow’s deeply spiritual original...."

April 7, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey

We're tickled silly by this documentary.

"...dreams we have when we are young aren't just phantoms to be banished along with all those other "childish..."

Dec. 2, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ume

"...UmePhantoms (Modern Outsider)..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Music Review by Richard Whittaker

Highwaymen

He may be Mel Gibson's choice to play Jesus, but in this car-chase nightmare Jim Caviezel is on the highway to hell.

"...braces and hardware. Harmon has studied George Miller’s macadam phantoms as well; the opening shot of Highwaymen echoes Mad..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Burnt Money

"...is always just that much more difficult when the phantoms in your head won't stop telling you to kill,..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

"...practiced so well. Jam-packed with breathtaking visuals -- the “phantoms” look like the fibrillating, otherworldly critters you might find..."

July 13, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Despair's Book of Dreams and the Sometimes Radio: Grooving Among the Shreds of Shadow

Local Arts Reviews

"...and mysticism, even a scattered meditation on the tenuous phantoms of audio frequency. Or infrequency, as the case may..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, May 5-11

"...and neutralize their ill effects? We all have such phantoms at work in our psyches, corroding our confidence and..."

May 5, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

Cine Las Americas Returns

A hemisphere of new films, plus SXSW fave What We Leave Behind

"...errant old cinema … meeting, in those places, the phantoms of the people who have accompanied her in her..."

June 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Filigree Theatre's The Turn of the Screw

The carefully crafted atmosphere in this ghost story from Filigree Theatre may have you wondering if unseen spirits are lurking in the dark

"...effectively that you may wonder if there are malicious phantoms lurking in the dark around you...."

Feb. 7, 2020 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Esther's Follies Meets Scooby-Doo in The Haunting of the Tavern

In this new murder mystery comedy, chasing Emily the ghost leads to some real high jinkies!

"...this Austin landmark the same ones who've been chasing phantoms since Nixon was in office? They sure look like..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

"Heidi Pitre: Southern Peculiar" at the Butridge Gallery

In this solo exhibition, the South will rise again – not unlike a sort of puckish zombie made of cultural memories and witchy girlparts

"...Heidi Pitre – if you don't count all the phantoms of cultural memory, sometimes giggling, that haunt the framed..."

May 31, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Review: Our Town

City Theatre’s safe staging of the classic embraces nostalgia

"...than a nostalgic storyteller who gives life to the phantoms he has called onto the bare stage...."

Feb. 27, 2019 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Ume

"...through tendinitis. The trio's previous full-lengths, 2014's Monuments, 2011's Phantoms, and 2005's Urgent Sea, leaned into upbeat punk, pop,..."

July 27, 2018 Music Review by Christina Garcia

Gift Guide 2016: Haunted Holidays

A few suggestions if you’re giving your Ghost of Christmas Past a present ...

"...tale, the December air has long been "filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning..."

Dec. 2, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

SXSW Thursday handicapping by the blurb

"...Ume 8pm, Red 7 2011's Phantoms unleashed Lauren Larson's vicious guitar and roaring vocals. Last..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

SXSW Music: List No. 6

Music conference adds 92 acts

"...Phantoms (Los Angeles, Calif.)..."

Feb. 6, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Ume

"...Austin trio finally found form with 2011 sophomore LP Phantoms. Whereas the album refocused their power-heavy riffs and shoegaze..."

March 14, 2014 Music Review by Doug Freeman

SXSW Tuesday Picks & Sleepers

First night SXSW blurbing

"...dropped March 4. The Austin trio rode last album Phantoms for 200 tour stops, and true to form, they..."

March 7, 2014 Music Feature

Chronolog Radio (Feb. 17)

Just an old-fashioned love song

"...3) Ume, “Run Wild” (Phantoms, 2011)..."

Feb. 17, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Playback: T for Texas, T for Starlings, TN

Double dulcimer reunion and other musical Thanksgiving

"...these recordings sound more realistic than their 2011 debut Phantoms. "In the past, our albums have been one experience..."

Nov. 29, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Wednesday Picks and Sleepers

"...outside of Austin in its relentless tour supporting 2011's Phantoms, but the ambient-punk trio took a "break" from blowing..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

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