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Panic Fest Review: Vicious Fun
Serial killer comedy gets to the bloody point
"...Callahan throws in oblique references to Drive alongside American Psycho, even Jaws, and somehow makes it work. There's even..."

April 24, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Music Review: Yard Act, Do Nothing, Squid, and the Art of the British Post-Punk Soliloquy
SXSW Music’s bread-n-butter: cutting edge UK rebellion
"...the keyboard sounded like the stabbing sound from Hitchcock’s Psycho. The group’s family style approach to songcraft peaked with..."

March 19, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week
What we’re listening to
"...Glitter & Gore. Taking notes from Alfred Hitchcock for "Psycho Mama," and influenced by all things spooky, the local..."

Feb. 26, 2021 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week
What we’re listening to
"...lumbering and pointedly indignant. On the flip, long-running Detroit psycho-jazz noiseniks Wolf Eyes distill over two decades and hundreds..."

Jan. 15, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Top 10 Most Read Film Reviews of 2020
The pandemic picks you wanted to read about
"...were most interested in this year was a bonkers psycho-melodrama in which Anne Heche and Thomas Jane go RVing..."

Dec. 19, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Music at the Movies With Sound Unseen
Sound Unseen Film + Music Festival becomes a virtual tale of two cities
"...of "Stayin' Alive" – a sequence he compared to Psycho deconstruction 78/52 and its revelatory analysis of Hitchcock's infamous..."

Nov. 6, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest: The Creatures of the Night Make Beautiful Music in Bloodthirsty
Director Amelia Moses on the allure of the werewolf
"...Her first feature, modern vampire psycho drama Bleed With Me, played Fantasia. Her followup, werewolf..."

Sept. 24, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Dave Franco Picks Up The Keys to The Rental
How scary hotels and Atlanta shaped his horror debut
"...just as thrilling as the fact that there's a psycho villain hiding in the shadows." Adding depth to the..."

July 24, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Robert Rodriguez Brings His Next Project Back to Austin to Trailblaze Safe Production Protocols
Troublemaking in the time of pandemic
"...by the director's use of one-word titles: "He did Psycho, he did Vertigo, and I tried to come up..."

July 3, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

What Will Local Shows Look Like in the Future?
What will shows look like in the live music capital? That's all local club owners can think about.
"...also got all new tables and bases in there. Psycho­logically, it'll show the customer that we're cleaner and, for..."

May 22, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Checking In: The Well’s Ian Graham Skateboards Through the Storm
“Only time we leave is to visit the store and we wear a mask and gloves”
"...Then the Psycho Smokeout festival in L.A., the Stoned & Dusted festival..."

April 13, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Post Malone Loosens Fireworks Fit for the Fourth of July on the Erwin Center
Dallas-reared megastar packs arena with hits, moves, and pyro
"...Now” “Saint-Tropez” “Goodbyes” “Die for Me” “Allergic” “Candy Paint” “Psycho” “Enemies” “Wow” “Paranoid"/“I Fall Apart” “Over Now” “Take What..."

March 11, 2020 Music Post by Derek Udensi

Everything I Know About Rejection I Learned From My Cats
He's just not that into mew
"...to turn sour, but I'd look like a total psycho screaming, "Love me, you asshole!" at an 8-pound tabby...."

Feb. 14, 2020 Features Feature by Kevin Curtin

Levitation Live Shot: Brutus, Russian Circles, Deafheaven
Like a hurricane
"...metal – all death defying hair whips and American Psycho screams – in closing down the Empire Garage...."

Nov. 9, 2019 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Levitation Live Shot: High on Fire, Power Trip, Devil Master, Creeping Death
Sold-out metal four stack kept widening the mosh pit
"...of it. After a handful of scattered warm-ups, including Psycho Las Vegas, the band erupted back to life Thursday..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Music Post by Michael Toland

Upstairs, Downstairs: The Visual Metaphors of Parasite
Bong Joon-ho talks stairs, smells, and Psycho
"...was a little kid in elementary school I watched Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock’s [film]. The Bates Motel is fascinating, but..."

Oct. 30, 2019 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf

ACL Live Review: Denzel Curry
South Floridian MC booms and quakes and commands
"...“Black Balloons” “This Life” “Wish” “Clout Cobain” “Speedboat” “ULT” “Psycho” “Look At Me!” (XXXTentacion tribute) “Ultimate”..."

Oct. 13, 2019 Music Post by Derek Udensi

Wrapping Up Another Year of Fantastic Fest
The Chronicle Screens staff looks at the Good, the Mad, and the Weird
"...The Wave); the damaging effects of religious indoctrination (icy psycho-horror The Lodge, end-of-life nightmare Saint Maud, and charismatic creepfest..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Interview: Recalling a Memory of Dan O'Bannon
Alexandre O. Philippe finds the myth behind the space horror classic
"...from Star Wars (The People vs. George Lucas) to Psycho (78/52). In his new documentary, Memory: The Origins of..."

Sept. 24, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: Home schooling
As Confucius says, “There is more than one way to skin a cat.”
"...Me and my brothers and sisters all went to..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

Fantasia Review: Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson
A life in the grindhouse is not obscured by a tragic death
"...(and that's after a brief run as the sexified Psycho-a-Go-Go) is a phenomenal case study. At the same time,..."

Aug. 5, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Catches Taika Waititi's JoJo Rabbit
Thor: Ragnarok director's film to open 2019 celebration of the strange
"...Texas Premiere, 93 min) Following up his deconstruction of Psycho’’s shower scene in 78/52, documentarian Alexandre O. Philippe is..."

July 30, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Terminator: The Musical at Fallout Theater
This is exactly the sort of loving parody of nuclear apocalypse and time-traveling AI everyone should experience at least once
"...of films that seem ... odd. Examples include American Psycho, Evil Dead, Re-Animator, and Silence of the Lambs. We..."

May 17, 2019 Arts Review by M. Brianna Stallings

Envisioning the Future of Austin State Hospital
What will it take to turn the former Texas State Lunatic Asylum into a world-class center of brain health?
"...the wake of crusading exposés and pop portrayals of psycho wards and loony bins, let some patients get help..."

March 22, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

SXSW Film Review: The Day Shall Come
British satirist Chris Morris takes aim at security theater
"...a mix of nonviolent black liberation, mysticism, and 1970s psycho-babble – to a congregation made up of his wife..."

March 16, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Daniel Isn’t Real
Enter the imaginary anti-friend
"...increasingly mentally unstable mother and seeing a Lou Reed-quoting psychologist (Chukwudi Iwuji) as his childhood PTSD continues to plague..."

March 14, 2019 SXSW Post by Marc Savlov

Go South of the Border With These 15 Latinx Acts
"...Flamingo Cantina, 12mid; Sat. 16, Russian House, 11:25pm Self-described "psycho-tropical" Costa Rican sleepwalkers offer an infectious, upbeat mix of..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Nicole Kidman, Still To Die For
How the Australian A-lister stays true to her indie roots
"...by a pair of memorable thrillers: the 1989 Australian psycho-thriller Dead Calm (screening Feb. 18) and the seedy 1993..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Screens Feature by Britt Hayes

Top 10 Festival Films You Haven't Seen Yet
From charming zombies to pompous actors, 10 films to seek in 2019
"...Mother is equally stomach-churning, and again deals with extreme psycho-sexual pathology, but it's also the year's most unlikely romance,..."

Jan. 11, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sniper 66 Conceptualize Austin's First Serial Killer
The street-punk vets tell the tale of the Servant Girl Annihilator
"...of Annihilator, their third full-length: title track "Servant Girl," "Psycho," and "In His Grave."..."

Nov. 23, 2018 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

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