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Now Streaming in Austin: Attack of the Pod People!
Austin film podcasting community comes offline for one night
"...city: It's also become a center for the film podcast scene. This Friday, those familiar names step out from..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Pod
Family reunions meet gruesome conspiracy mayhem
"...Pod, director Mickey Keating's deviously intriguing followup to cultist murder..."

March 17, 2015 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Barry Jenkins and Nicholas Britell Were in a Quar-Pod Together
Filmmaker & composer pals talk creative collaboration at SXSW Online
"...duo got to experience an intense togetherness. Forming a pod, Jenkins said Britell was for a time the person..."

March 16, 2021 SXSW Post by Kimberley Jones

Peas in a Pod
Gohmert and Thombs decry LGBT rights

Jan. 16, 2014 News Post by Brandon Watson

Body Snatchers
"...Murphy and Christine Elise. In case you hadn't noticed, pod people are back amongst us. This third screen version..."

Jan. 14, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Invasion
This fourth film telling of Invasion of the Body Snatchers appears to be made by pod people themselves.
"...story that speaks more eloquently to these paranoid, fearful, "iPod, youPod, we all pod for iPod" times than Jack..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Secret World of Arrietty
This new animated film from Japan's Studio Ghibli is based on The Borrowers, a story about 4-inch-tall people who live undetected among their human hosts.
"...long, he catches sight of Arrietty. Alarmed, Arrietty's parents Pod (Arnett) and Homily (Poehler) make plans to flee Hara's..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Un-FAIR Deal
Corporate Customers Demand Cheaper Energy
"...the second formula Goodman requested, called probability of dispatch (POD). POD looks at every hour of the year, providing..."

Jan. 24, 1997 News Column by Alex de Marban

Student Researchers Test New "Air" Transportation
Possible hyperloop railway may offer easier commute
"...Musk (of Tesla and SpaceX fame) announced a hyperloop pod design competition. At the time, no one had successfully..."

Aug. 3, 2017 Screens Post by Victoria Mycue

The Challenges of Going Back to School
Parents, teachers, and students share their anxieties over starting the fall semester while COVID-19 is still rampant
"...at the Liberal Arts and Science Academy. Figuring Out Pod Learning on the Fly..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Features Feature

Darling Mickey
Prolific director Mickey Keating dials in to the Sixties
"...stunned SXSW audiences this spring with his X-Files-influenced horror Pod, he's debuting his latest feature, Darling, at Fantastic Fest,..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Invader
Chicago-set horror from the director of Offseason.
"...most minimalist work since his 2015 alien invasion chiller Pod. Since that breakthrough, he's played around with wildly varying..."

March 15, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Offseason
Coastal cosmic horror in the eerie latest from Mickey Keating
"...with classic tropes. Much as his 2015 SXSW Midnighter Pod keyed into an alien X-Files episode vibe, and Carnage..."

March 11, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Real Deal
"...POD 9 Stratus will restrict POD 9 to five single-family..."

Dec. 1, 2000 News Feature

El terror del sueño americano
Cómo Texas destrozó el camino a la ciudadanía de un residente de Austin
"...un tono más contundente. La policía le dijo que podía presentar una denuncia formal dando su información personal: nombre,..."

May 19, 2023 News Feature by Benton Graham

Election Ticker: Early Voting Begins Monday
Victory for voting rights, political parties (the fun kind), the latest endorsements
"...Pod Not God: If you haven't had Too Much Beto..."

Oct. 19, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

Sixth Street Showdown
Downtown is growing, and with that growth come rising tensions between police, partiers, and activists
"...officers assemble into three groups – DTAC calls them pods, for the way the officers arrange in a circle..."

Feb. 26, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

SXSW Film Adds Midnighters and More
Horror lineup announced, plus shorts and more
"...year, when the team scheduled the breakout trifecta of Pod, He Never Died, and We Are Still Here. So..."

Feb. 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest 2015: Darling
Madness and murder in Manhattan
"...Just as his SXSW crowd-pleaser Pod was a note-perfect homage to Nineties sci-fi horror, Darling..."

Sept. 26, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Houses of the Holy: Zeppelin Reissues Conclude
Year-long reissue campaign ranges over the hills and far away
"...seven-minute instrumental led by piano, “10 Ribs & All/Carrot Pod Pod (Pod),” thumps along like a lounge act at..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Good Eye: New Year's Resolutions
Weight, weight, don't tell me
"...Jené Gutierrez during my recent three-hour interview for her podcast, The Bod Pod. Gutierrez interviews people – writers, children,..."

Jan. 9, 2015 Column by Amy Gentry

TV Eye
This was one of those weeks when I was asked my 'expert' opinion on a variety of TV-related subjects
"...For example: What is podcasting, and will it destroy TV?..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Hightower Lowdown
The White House and Pentagon bomb us with propaganda; Enron's empire crumbles; stuff you don't need.
"...teamed up to design this thing they call the Pod, which is about half car and half pet. It's..."

Nov. 23, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

Scanlines
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
"...bodies, assuming their exact likenesses while gestating in strange-looking pods. These "pod people" possess no emotions ó they simply..."

July 31, 1998 Screens Feature

Day Trips
"...between the mainland and northern Vancouver Island chasing a pod of six or seven orca whales when the dorsal..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

MUD Wrestling
Goodman Gives Davenport the Win
"...cost of producing electricity with a Probability of Dispatch (POD) formula. The EUD already calculates cost of service, but..."

April 4, 1997 News Column by Alex de Marban

Angels, Devils, and Jim Cummings at The Last Stop in Yuma County
The indie icon breaks down his new dusty noir and its ensemble
"...only in working with his cinematographer, Mac Fisken (Invader, Pod) did Cummings realize the young filmmaker's talent. “Everything’s meticulously..."

May 17, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Death Row Inmate Preaches to Prisoners Daily. Now the State Plans to Kill Him.
Saving body and soul
"...at the age of 23. Mitigation and the God Pod..."

Oct. 13, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

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Adam Driver takes on dinosaurs as a space traveler in the wrong era
"...they want any chance of reaching the faraway escape pod. Oh, and did I mention the dinosaurs?..."

March 17, 2023 Movie Review by Dex Wesley Parra

Avatar: The Way of Water
James Cameron goes deep, emotionally and aquatically, in his sci-fi epic
"...of the film; but, like Jake Sully leaving the pod in his bioengineered Na'vi body and stepping out into..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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